Thu Jul 08 2021
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, on Wednesday, cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship and councillorship candidates for the July 24 council polls against making “empty promises.”
The governor, at a meeting with the party’s 20 chairmanship and 236 councillorship candidates at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, said the “electorates are not expecting much.”
“Do not make promises you cannot fulfil. Our people do not ask for too much. What they ask for is, when you make a promise, make sure you fulfil it”, the governor said.
In his remarks, chairman of the party, Yemi Sanusi, while congratulating the chairmanship candidates, noted that the meeting was to interface with all the candidates and fashion out winning ways in the coming local government election.
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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, flagged off full commercial operations on the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line project, describing it as another milestone in revitalisation of railway projects to boost economic activities in Nigeria.
The authorities argued that if Rufai escapes to Nigeria, extradition will be extraordinarily difficult or impossible because of his ties to the Nigerian government.
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Abidemi Rufai, an aide of Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, could be facing a fresh charge after federal prosecutors in the United States alleged he also sought to defraud the Internal Revenue Service of nearly $1.6 million.
The 42-year-old has already been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his scheme to steal over $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department.
Prosecutors, on Friday, filed a letter with US district judge Benjamin Settle, saying that in the last few days, IRS criminal investigators have revealed that they have been investigating an email account associated with Rufai for years.