AGF Urges Supreme Court to Compel Osun to Refund 7 Months LG Allocation

Attorney General of the Federation says Osun violated order on LG autonomy and must refund 7 months allocations - Newsy People

Lateef Fagbemi, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has asked the Supreme Court to order the Osun State Government to refund seven months’ worth of local government allocations to the minister of finance. The request was made in response to a suit filed by Osun State, marked SC/CV/379/2025, which alleged that the federal government had withheld the statutory allocation due to its 30 local government councils for March 2025.   The suit,…

AGF urges Supreme Court to compel Osun to refund 7 months LG allocation

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has urged the Supreme Court to compel Osun State Government to refund seven months’ local government allocations to the Minister of Finance.The request was contained in a response filed through Fagbemi’s counsel, Chief Akin Olujimi SAN, to a suit instituted by the government via its attorney general.Osun had sued the AGF as the sole defendant, alleging that the Feder…