Osun State Government has filed a fresh suit at the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi SAN, over the alleged unlawful withholding of statutory allocations due to its 30 local government councils since March 2025.
This move comes months after the government withdrew an earlier suit on the same matter.
In the new originating summons filed on Monday, the State through its Attorney-General and a legal team led by Mike Ozekhome SAN and Musibau Adetunbi SAN, is asking the apex court to order the Federal Government to release all seized funds.
The state also wants an end to what it described as “an unconstitutional and arbitrary seizure” of council revenues.
The State Attorney General argued that the AGF had ignored subsisting judgments of the Federal High Court in Osogbo, delivered on the 30th of November, 2022, and the Court of Appeal judgment of June 13, 2025, which affirmed the legitimacy of council chairmen and councillors elected on February 22, 2025.
