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   State House, Abuja, has planned to spend N1.37 billion in 2021 to construct a Presidential wing at the State House Medical Centre, where President Muhammadu Buhari and subsequent presidents can receive medical treatments. The State House in its budget for the medical centre also planned to purchase medical equipment worth over N237 million for the hospital.  " the funds budgeted for the clinic over the years might have been embezzled, as the medical centre remained in a pathetic situation and the President would not risk being treated in the facility for his undisclosed ailmen t" A voice from the street said. According to the 2021 appropriation for the State House Clinic, the construction of the Presidential wing at the State House Clinic would gulp N1,374,416,876. The State House did not give a breakdown of how such humongous money would be expended to build the wing. The budget reads, “ERGP16132281 – construction of presidential wing at the State House Medical Centre...