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OSUN LG TUSSLE: SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT

Ratio 1.LG statutory allocations to be paid directly to LGAs

Lg Autonomy has come to stay.

Ration 2:Each 3 tier of Govt in Nigeria ,Federal, State and Local is autonomous and independent of one another.

Ratio 3: LGAs have exclusive power over their fund without interference from the State Government.

Supreme Court:

If any entity has grievances on the non release of the local government, it should be local government councils and not the state. The local government has right to sue and be sued as provided by the constitution.

On the ground, the plaintif case is hereby dismissed and it is struck out.

Ratio 4: The Plaintiff, AG of Osun lacks locus standi to institute the action to invoke the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as there is no dispute between the Federal Government and the Osun State Governmt. The case is incompetent and hereby stuck out.

Adeleke's counsel has lost their case in the Supreme Court of justice

Ratio 5: Osun LGAs are autonomous entities that ought to have filed the case themselves in an appropriate High Court. AG of Osun is a meddlesome interloper and lacks locus standi to invoke SC original jurisdiction. LGAs are autonomous and Osun State Government and its AG cannot file this action.

Ratio 6: The Federal Government is directed to remit all LG funds throughout the Federation to all LGAs nationwide—failure to do so amounts to disobedience of the rule of law. The case is hereby struck out. 6 of 7, the full Panel agreed, and only one dissented.

Dissenting judgment by Hon.Justice Agim being read now. Note,a dissenting judgment is not a biding judgment and has no force of law.

LGAs have exclusive power over their fund without interference from the State Government.

BREAKING!

Supreme Court strikes out Osun AGF suit in the Local Government allocation matter for want of jurisdiction.

According to the Supreme Court, "The attorney General of Osun state lacks locus standi to institute this case on behalf of Local Government councils that have exclusive powers to sue".

Congratulations 🎉 to Apc Family

So, Osun state can be singled out of all the other states to implement local government autonomy? Why isn't this the case across all 36 states where allocations still go to their governors? This isn't governance, it's impunity and desperation.

AMINDA:
So, Osun state can be singled out of all the other states to implement local government autonomy? Why isn't this the case across all 36 states where allocations still go to their governors? This isn't governance, it's impunity and desperation.

This is worrisome

AMINDA:
So, Osun state can be singled out of all the other states to implement local government autonomy? Why isn't this the case across all 36 states where allocations still go to their governors? This isn't governance, it's impunity and desperation.

You didn't follow there tussle from beginning.

Finally, Osun State ALGON won the prolong legal battle against Gov Ademola Adeleke.

In the final analysis,suit SC/ CV/ 277 /2025 BTW AG OSUN V AGF is hereby struck out by the Supreme Court.Osun AG,Osun State Governmt and Governor Ademola Adeleke lost out in the Supreme Court over LG tussle.

Breaking

Supreme Court Strikes Osun’s suit on withheld Local Govt funds over jurisdiction

In a split decision of six Justice to one, the Supreme Court on Friday struck out a suit filed by the Attorney General of Osun State against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), in relation to the dispute over the withheld allocations due to local governments in the state.

The Apex Court held that the Osun state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice has no legal right to have instituted the case on behalf of the 30 local governments in the state.

That Court held that those who won the local government election and having been inaugurated are the jurisdict persons that can sue and be sued directly.

In a judgment on Friday, the Supreme Court held that the federal government was wrong in withholding the local government fund adding that the action was in grave breach of the 1999 Constitution.

Justice Mohammed Baba Idris who read the lead judgment said that the hand of the federal government was soiled in its decision to unjustly seize fund and admonished it to strictly ensure that the funds are directly channeled to local accounts.

The Court dismisses AGF's contempt allegations against Osun adding that he was in more contempt than Osun by not paying the fund as required by law.

Justice Idris however said that since there was no evidence that Osun Attorney General was briefed by the local governments, he ought not to have filed the case on their behalf.

In a minority judgment by Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, he disagreed with the six other justices, holding that Osun Attorney General has the right to institute the case.

Justice Agim said that the action of the federal government in withholding the local governments funds was in bad taste because it was capable of crippling the activities of the Councils.

Details later....

Adeleke have been taking loses lately, I have one correct jazz for this to stop...

Local Government autonomy has come to stay in Nigeria

Seems like the stage is finally being set for the uprooting of Jackson from the government house. This Tinubu regime can't be beaten in their cunning cunning ways for a thousand years to come.
For him, 2027 is done and dusted as the remaining voices of opposition have been bought over.
Some will still betray, but it changes nothing.
ABAT has got to be the greatest wily Nigerian politician ever

Adeleke should be preparing his handover notes, he's a goner. He's not needed in Osun State again.

Go to court, to challenge the governors

AMINDA:
So, Osun state can be singled out of all the other states to implement local government autonomy? Why isn't this the case across all 36 states where allocations still go to their governors? This isn't governance, it's impunity and desperation.

AMINDA:
So, Osun state can be singled out of all the other states to implement local government autonomy? Why isn't this the case across all 36 states where allocations still go to their governors? This isn't governance, it's impunity and desperation.

You have a point. But note that this judgement is bound to benefit all local governments in Nigeria. Being a Supreme Court judgement makes it a law on it's own and a standard that must be applied across board.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out a suit filed by the Attorney General of Osun State, Oluwole Jimi-Bada, against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, in relation to the dispute over the withheld allocations due to local governments in the state.

AMINDA:
So, Osun state can be singled out of all the other states to implement local government autonomy? Why isn't this the case across all 36 states where allocations still go to their governors? This isn't governance, it's impunity and desperation.

The LGs in 36 States have autonomy but some are loyal to their governors. But now that Osun State case has open more legal understanding, I will see some LG chairmen standing Thier feet.

Sensiblerealist:
Seems like the stage is finally being set for the uprooting of Jackson from the government house. This Tinubu regime can't be beaten in their cunning cunning ways for a thousand years to come.
For him, 2027 is done and dusted as the remaining voices of opposition have been bought over.
Some will still betray, but it changes nothing.
ABAT has got to be the greatest wily Nigerian politician ever

The court must deliver judgement that would make any opposition to Tinubu handicapped, be it state government or party affairs, the one they can't outright deliver, they wont hear the case until, it becomes academic (supreme court on Rivers State of emergency), and the one they hear, they will deliver it, in such away, it would bring confusion (PDP & LP party affairs)

Court had never been crippled like this in the history of Nigeria, not even during inglorious days of Abacha.

LivingEarthMan:
You have a point. But note that this judgement is bound to benefit all local governments in Nigeria. Being a Supreme Court judgement makes it a law on it's own and a standard that must be applied across board.

Is it a new judgment? The supreme Court already ruled on local government autonomy more than two years ago. Instead of Tinubu to implement the judgment, he used it to negotiate with the governors to decamp to the APC. Why is the judgement only being selectively implemented in Osun state? This isn't governance.

phemray:
The LGs in 36 States have autonomy but some are loyal to their governors. But now that Osun State case has open more legal understanding, I will see some LG chairmen standing Thier feet.

Mention any other state in the federation where local government allocations are currently being directly paid to the local government chairmen.

OSUN LG MATTER! HEAR WHAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO SAY:

"If any entity has grievances on the non release of the local government, it should be local government councils and not the state. The local government has right to sue and be sued as provided by the constitution

"The attorney General of Osun of Osun state lacks locus standi to institute this case on behalf of local government councils that have exclusive powers to sue.

"On the ground, the plaintif case is hereby dismissed and it is struck out.

"In conclusion, the attorney General of Osun can not sustain this.

"Abuse of court process, attempts to review our judgement and is an academic exercise.

"The plaintif suit is hereby struck out for want of jurisdiction".

The Supreme Court Holds in the lead judgment.

Credit: Jare Ismahil Tiamiyu

This is what we want
Supreme Court set the law in stone

We go do them back soon

Next is Fubara case

Remove Lagos governor on suspension
Conduct LGA elections
Pay funds directly to LGAs

Return the governor

This judgement has not awarded victory to any party since the main issue was not determined

The judgement did not give the legal control of local govt to APC nor PDP

Cases are lost or won in Supreme court today based on who brought them to court and the interest involved.


People will cry in coming years because of this bad records set today.


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press9jatv:
Supreme Court:

If any entity has grievances on the non release of the local government, it should be local government councils and not the state. The local government has right to sue and be sued as provided by the constitution.

On the ground, the plaintif case is hereby dismissed and it is struck out.

This SC is the most inconsistent and unserious in our history
Who brought the LG funds autonomy matter to the SC? Was it the LGs or the FG? Were they sleeping then when they gave judgement in favour of FG in a matter it clearly had no locus?
They should keep embarrassing themselves