{"id":77489,"date":"2022-12-05T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-why-i-may-not-use-nigerian-hospitals-if-elected-president-atiku"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:55:17","slug":"2023-why-i-may-not-use-nigerian-hospitals-if-elected-president-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-why-i-may-not-use-nigerian-hospitals-if-elected-president-atiku","title":{"rendered":"2023: Why I may not use Nigerian hospitals if elected president \u2013 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has said he may not rely on Nigeria\u2019s healthcare system for his personal use if elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku explained that health facilities that cater for his health may not be available in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Arise TV Townhall debate, Atiku lamented that Nigeria\u2019s healthcare system has limitations.<\/p>\n<p>The former Vice President was asked if he would use Nigeria\u2019s medical establishments as president to de-emphasise the use of foreign hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe have limitations; we know we have those limitations, health facilities that cater to my health may not be available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atiku resides in Dubai, and only comes to Nigeria for important holidays and political activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has said he may not rely on Nigeria\u2019s healthcare system for his personal use if elected president. Atiku explained that health facilities that cater for his health may not be available in Nigeria. Speaking at the Arise TV Townhall debate, Atiku lamented that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":77488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14],"tags":[1571,1570,2140,316,254],"class_list":["post-77489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-1571","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-atiku","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023: Why I may not use Nigerian hospitals if elected president \u2013 Atiku - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-why-i-may-not-use-nigerian-hospitals-if-elected-president-atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Why I may not use Nigerian hospitals if elected president \u2013 Atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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