An Oyo State Excessive Court docket sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday prolonged its earlier order restraining the United Financial institution for Africa (UBA) Plc from paying, releasing, or tampering with funds belonging to the 30 native governments of Osun State.
The court docket was presided over by Justice Ladiran Akintola. The order will stay in pressure till Friday, October 10, 2025, when the matter is scheduled for additional listening to.
Justice Akintola mentioned the extension grew to become needed to make sure that all events within the case have been granted the precise to honest listening to according to Part 36 of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
“The case is adjourned until Friday, October 10, 2025, for additional listening to, whereas the interim injunction shall proceed to subsist,” the choose dominated.
Earlier, counsel to the plaintiff, Chief Musibau Adetunmbi (SAN), knowledgeable the court docket that the Folks’s Democratic Social gathering (PDP) had filed an software in search of to be joined within the swimsuit.
He, nonetheless, disclosed that his crew would oppose the applying.
“Although the PDP has a constitutional proper to honest listening to underneath Part 36, we will oppose their software for joinder. The case is slender and simple; there is no such thing as a want for a number of events,” Adetunmbi mentioned.
The senior advocate additionally famous that Mr. Kasim Gbadamosi (SAN), who holds the transient of Kunle Adegoke, SAN, for the APC ex-council chairmen, had filed a contemporary software along with an earlier one on the identical matter of joinder.
In his response, Gbadamosi said that he supposed to withdraw the brand new software, arguing that the difficulty of jurisdiction didn’t require a proper software.
“I’ll withdraw the applying. The problem earlier than the court docket is jurisdictional, and as such, it doesn’t require a proper software,” he mentioned.
He argued that the case earlier than the Excessive Court docket amounted to an abuse of judicial course of since an identical matter was already pending earlier than the Supreme Court docket.
“The matter is premised on a case already earlier than the Supreme Court docket and will subsequently be struck out,” he added.
Additionally addressing the court docket, counsel to UBA Plc, Mutalib Adebayo Ojo (SAN), aligned with the argument, urging the court docket to adjourn the case sine die (indefinitely) pending the willpower of the matter on the apex court docket.
“We observe that this swimsuit is based upon a case already earlier than the Supreme Court docket. Consequently, it needs to be adjourned sine die till the willpower of that matter.
UBA is just not a celebration to the Supreme Court docket case; we’re merely a impartial social gathering on this course of,” Ojo submitted.
After listening to all arguments, Justice Akintola adjourned the case until Friday for ruling.
It is going to be recalled that the court docket had earlier granted the next interim orders as sought by the claimants: An order of interim injunction restraining UBA from paying, releasing, disbursing, or tampering with funds within the disputed native authorities accounts; An order of necessary injunction directing UBA to put a “Publish No Debit” (PND) restriction on all affected accounts pending the listening to of the substantive movement on discover.
The affected accounts embrace these of the 30 native authorities areas of Osun State from Atakumosa East to Osogbo every recognized by title and account quantity with UBA.
The swimsuit, filed as Swimsuit No. 1/1167/2025 earlier than Court docket No. 5 of the Ibadan Judicial Division, is being dealt with by Olalekan Adeoye, Esq., on behalf of the claimants.
A second case on the identical matter filed by the native authorities chairmen elected underneath the PDP was additionally adjourned until Friday for listening to.
