Osun LG Funds: Court Fixes September 29 To Hear Motion On Jurisdiction

The Federal High Court sitting successful Abuja has fixed September 29 for proceeding connected a question by the Osun State Government challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal to perceive a suit against withheld section authorities money successful Abuja Division of the court.

The authorities authorities insisted that since the abrogation of the tribunal came to an extremity connected September 16, the lawsuit should beryllium transferred to Osogbo for due proceeding and determination of the suit.

Osun State Government 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 has travel to an end.

The question filed by its pb counsel, Musibau Adetumbi, SAN, besides challenged the validity of an alleged missive from the bureau of the Chief Judge of the court, mandating Justice Emeka Nwite to substantively find the suit successful Abuja.

Adetumbi’s objection against the missive was that it was signed by a idiosyncratic who claimed to beryllium Personal Assistant to the Personal Assistant of the Chief Judge.

The lawyer described the Personal Assistant to the Personal Assistant of the Chief Judge arsenic a engaged assemblage who is chartless to instrumentality to motion specified a delicate document.

Insisting that the integrity of the missive was successful doubt, the elder lawyer pleaded with Justice Nwite to archetypal find the validity of the missive 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 were defendants successful the suit challenged the exertion of the plaintiff, 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 All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen and councilors successful the authorities volition travel to an 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 Osun State Government and immoderate different that borders connected the jurisdiction archetypal earlier proceeding to immoderate different one.

Earlier, the Judge had struck retired the sanction of the AGF, who was the 3rd suspect successful the suit pursuing the discontinuance of the substance against him by the plaintiff.