A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has issued an order restraining the Accountant-General of the Federation, the Central Bank of Nigeria, Attorney General of the Federation & Minister of Finance from opening LG Accounts for Sacked Yes/No Council Chairmen.
The Court further ordered that status quo should remain which implies that no account should be opened for the Yes/No Chairmen whose sack by the Court remains subsisting.
The order also implies that the local government fund should not be released to the illegal invaders of the council secretariats as there is no court order reinstating them.
The sacked chairmen had approached the Central Bank of Nigeria asking for the opening of accounts in their names even when they had acknowledged their sack by appealing the earlier Court judgement.
The CBN being wary of the situation asked the sacked chairmen to provide a court order reinstating them into office, a request they failed to fulfil as there is no such reinstatement order.
The desperation displayed by the sacked Yes/No Chairmen to access council funds prompted the state government to approach the court to restrain the federal officials.
Aside from their sack by a subisiting court order, the state already has a set of newly elected council officials who stayed away from the council to forestall violent clashes by illegal occupants of the council secretariats.
Rather than confront the illegal council chairmen, the duly elected council chairmen have approached relevant courts to flush out the impostors.
