Osun LG funds: Supreme Court reserves judgement in suit against AGF

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has reserved judgement in a suit filed by Osun State Government seeking to stop the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from releasing the withheld local government funds to the disputed chairmen elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

A seven-member panel of justices led by Justice Uwani Aba’aji reserved judgement after taking arguments from counsel to Osun State, Musbau Adetumbi (SAN), and counsel to the AGF, Akin Olujimi (SAN).

The panel announced that the date for the judgement would be communicated to parties when it is ready.

Justice Aba’aji, who led a 7- man panel of Justices in the Tuesday’s proceedings announced that the date for judgement delivery in the suit with Number, SC/CV/773/2025 would be communicated to the two parties when it is ready.

In the suit with number: SC/CV/773/2023, the Osun Attorney General sought order of the apex court directing the AGF to immediately release the statutory allocations to chairmen and councillors validly elected for the 30 local government areas of the Osun State.

While arguing the case of the state government, Adetumbi pleaded with the panel to uphold his arguments and grant all the reliefs sought as the election that brought in the APC local government chairmen and councillors had been nullified by the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

Objecting to the submission, Olujimi asked the apex court to dismiss the Osun case for lack of jurisdiction to entertain the matter as the matter was between two political parties.

The senior lawyer argued that, the suit did not disclose any cause of action, adding that the tenure of the disputed council chairmen is still running till October 22 and that, the proper thing was for the statutory allocation to be be released to them to run the councils.