Tension mounts over Osun LG funds as court extends account freeze

…adjourns to Nov 27

By Adeola Badru

IBADAN — The ineligible conflict implicit the power of Osun State section authorities funds took a caller twist yesterday arsenic the Oyo State High Court sitting successful Ibadan extended the freezing bid connected 30 slope accounts linked to the disputed allocations.

Presiding Judge, Justice Ladiran Akintola, gave the bid portion adjourning the substance to November 27, 2025, for ruling connected applications challenging the court’s jurisdiction, arsenic good arsenic motions filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to beryllium joined arsenic funny parties.

In a large development, Justice Akintola dismissed UBA Plc’s petition for an indefinite (sine die) adjournment of the case, which the bank’s pb counsel, Ojo Adebayo (SAN), had sought pending the result of a akin substance presently earlier the Supreme Court.

The justice held that specified an exertion could not beryllium entertained portion issues bordering connected jurisdiction and joinder were inactive unresolved, stressing the request for the substance to proceed wrong a tenable timeframe.

Lead counsel to the claimants, Mr. Musibau Adetunmbi (SAN), urged the tribunal to disregard the motions filed by some the APC and PDP, insisting that neither enactment had the ineligible capableness to enactment successful the case.

“The APC is simply a implicit alien to this substance and truthful lacks the locus standi to record immoderate application,” Adetunmbi argued, maintaining that the Oyo State High Court had the requisite jurisdiction to adjudicate connected the dispute.

However, APC’s pb counsel, Mr. Kazeem Gbadamosi (SAN), objected to the competence of the court, arguing that nether the 1999 Constitution, lone section authorities councils person the authorization to negociate section authorities funds. He besides questioned the court’s territorial jurisdiction.

Counsel representing the Attorney General of Osun State countered Gbadamosi’s arguments, citing judicial authorities affirming the court’s powerfulness to entertain the matter.

After listening to each submissions, Justice Akintola adjourned the lawsuit for ruling connected some the jurisdictional objection and the joinder applications.

In a related case, the justice referred a abstracted suit filed by the PDP against UBA Plc to the Chief Judge of Oyo State for reassignment to different court.

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