Court Determines Jurisdiction On Osun Withheld Council Funds’ Suit September 29

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has fixed September 29, 2025, for the proceeding of a question by the Osun State authorities challenging the court’s jurisdiction to perceive a suit against withheld section authorities funds successful the Abuja Division of the court.

The authorities authorities insisted that since the court’s abrogation ended connected September 16, the lawsuit should beryllium transferred to Osogbo for an due proceeding and determination of the suit.

It raised 2 grounds of objection: That the fiat granted the attorney-general of the federation for the substance to beryllium heard during abrogation successful Abuja had been overtaken connected the crushed that the abrogation had ended.

The question filed by its pb counsel, Musibau Adetumbi (SAN), besides challenged the validity of a purported missive from the Office of the court’s Chief Judge mandating Justice Emeka Nwite to find the suit successful Abuja substantively.

Adetumbi’s grouse astir the missive was that it was signed by a idiosyncratic who claimed to beryllium the idiosyncratic adjunct to the idiosyncratic adjunct of the main judge.

He contended that the idiosyncratic adjunct to the idiosyncratic adjunct of the main justice is simply a busybody and a idiosyncratic chartless to the instrumentality to motion specified a delicate document.

Insisting that the integrity of the missive is successful doubt, the elder lawyer pleaded with Justice Nwite to find its validity earlier proceeding to the substantive matter.

However, counsel to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Muritala Abdulrasheed (SAN) and that of the accountant-general of the federation, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladoja (SAN), who are defendants successful the suit, challenged the plaintiff’s application, alleging that it was a ploy to hold the expeditious proceeding of the matter.

The 2 elder lawyers told the tribunal that the tenure of the elected APC chairmen and councillors volition extremity connected October 22 and arsenic such, their lawsuit volition go world if not expeditiously heard.

After taking arguments from the parties, Justice Nwite fixed September 29 to perceive the exertion by the authorities authorities and immoderate different that borders connected the jurisdiction earlier proceeding with others.

Earlier, the justice struck retired the sanction of the AGF, who was the 3rd suspect successful the suit, pursuing the plaintiff’s discontinuance of the substance against him.