On behalf of the government of Nigeria, the President also commiserated with the family of the former President and the Algerian people as they mourn the loss of the remarkable leader who ruled the country for 20 years.
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The President gave his condolence message in a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in Abuja on Thursday.
Medical students and specialist doctors in several hospitals on Tuesday joined a strike by family doctors that has already been weakening health care in Algiers and other major cities for the last four months.
Ouyahia will likely be seen as a steadying influence as Algeria tries to carry out economic adjustments to cope with a fall in oil prices that has slashed state revenues.
Bouteflika, 79, has been hospitalised numerous times in France over the past 11 years. In 2016, he went to the French city of Grenoble for “regular medical tests”