Account Freeze: Adeleke withdraws suit against EFCC

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed the state Attorney-General to withdraw the lawsuit filed against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the freezing of the state government’s bank account.

Adeleke announced the decision in an interview with Channels Television shortly after he was declared winner of the August 15 Osun governorship election.

The governor said he ordered the withdrawal after President Bola Tinubu intervened in the dispute, adding that the President personally contacted him.

“I’m putting them behind. What else do I want? I have instructed my attorney general to drop it. Mr President has done well. He called me. What more do I want?” Adeleke said.

The governor had previously challenged the EFCC’s decision to freeze the state’s statutory allocation account at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1762/2026 and filed on August 5, sought to set aside the EFCC’s freeze order and demanded N2 billion in exemplary damages against the commission.

The EFCC had said the account was frozen as part of an investigation into alleged fraudulent handling of state funds.

Tinubu subsequently directed the anti-graft agency to lift the freeze order.

Speaking on reports that some members of his administration had been invited by the EFCC for questioning, Adeleke said he had instructed his lawyers to assist them.

“Well, we have been talking. I have been calling all my lawyers to go there,” he said.