Osun: CBN, AGoF denies releasing LG funds to APC Chairmen, Councillors

.. arsenic tribunal adjourns lawsuit to Oct 16 for ruling

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA– The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the bureau of the Accountant General of the Federation, AGoF, connected Monday, denied allegation that Osun State Local Government allocation, which was withheld by the Federal Government, has been paid into accounts belonging to Chairmen and Councillors elected connected the level of the All Progressives Congress, APC, but sacked by the court.

At the resumed proceeding connected a suit that was lodged earlier the Federal High Court by the Osun authorities government, the CBN and AGoF, who were cited arsenic defendants, described the allegation arsenic a specified rumour.

Counsel to the Osun authorities government, Mr. Musibau Adetunbi, SAN, had aft the substance was called up, informed the tribunal that funds, which constituted the taxable substance of the litigation, had been unlawfully released to the APC members betwixt Thursday and Friday.

He alleged that the enactment was carried retired contempt a subsisting bid of the tribunal that directed each the parties to support presumption quo, pending the determination of the suit.

According to the plaintiff’s lawyer, the CBN and AGoF paid the withheld funds done peculiar accounts that were opened for the APC Chairmen and Councillors astatine the United Bank for Africa, UBA.

He added that upon becoming alert of telhe development, the Osun authorities authorities instantly approached a High Court successful Oyo authorities and secured a restraining bid to halt the slope from disbursing the funds to the affected persons.

He said the edifice to a tribunal successful Oyo authorities was owed to the information that the Osun authorities judiciary had been connected strike.

Though helium claimed that the restraining bid was served connected the bank, CBN and the AGoF, Adetunbi, SAN, said helium did not be the tribunal sitting with the impervious of service.

Meanwhile, refuting the allegation, Mr. Murtala Abdulrasheed, SAN, and Tajudeen Oladoja, SAN, who appeared for CBN and AGoF, respectively, challenged the plaintiff to adduce grounds to enactment the claim.

Besides, they urged the tribunal to garbage an exertion the plaintiff filed for the lawsuit record to beryllium returned backmost to Osogbo for hearing.

The defendants prayed the tribunal to bid accelerated proceeding of the case, stressing that tenures of the embattled officials would elapse by October 22.

After helium had listened to each the parties, Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned the substance till October 16 to regularisation connected the plaintiff’s question challenging the territorial jurisdiction of the tribunal successful Abuja to perceive and find the suit.

In the suit, Osun authorities had among different things, prayed the tribunal for “an bid of interim injunction, restraining the defendants from opening, operating, oregon maintaining section authorities accounts successful favour of the Chairmen and Councillors who person been sacked oregon removed from bureau by a subsisting judgement of the Federal High Court.”

It besides urged the tribunal to restrain the CBN and the AGoF “from disbursing allocations to the sacked APC Chairmen and Councillors.”

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