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Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Friday, said the President spoke on the issue when he received a telephone call from the US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo on Thursday.

Adebiyi said the Appeal Court verdict, delivered on Friday, has once again affirmed its position that the senator, wanted by the US authorities to face trial for drug trafficking, is “a fugitive running away from the law. It therefore, urged the Federal Government to, without further delay, bundle the Senator in question to the United States.”