By Tunde Olamilekan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a suit between the Osun state government and the federal government over the state’s local government allocations.
The Osun government, through the state Attorney General, filed a suit seeking to restrain the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from releasing the withheld Local Government funds to the Local Government chairmen elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Osun Attorney General had, in the suit, sought an order of the apex court directing the AGF to immediately release the statutory allocations to Chairmen and Councilors validly elected for the 30 Local Government Areas of the Osun state.
The state government had told the court that the AGF was wrong in his letter recognizing the APC Local Government chairmen when the matter was pending before the court of records.
Represented by Musbau Adetumbi, SAN, the state Attorney General, pleaded with the seven Justices to uphold his arguments and grant all the reliefs sought.
However, Akin Olujimi SAN, who represented the Attorney General of the Federation, urged the apex court to dismiss the case of the plaintiff on various grounds.
Justice Uwani Aba’aji, who led a 7-man panel of Justices, after listening to arguments from the counsels, announced that the date for judgment delivery in the suit with Number, SC/CV/773/2025 would be communicated to the two parties when it is ready.
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