The Supreme Court, yesterday, reserved judgment in a suit filed by the Osun State Government seeking to restrain the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from releasing the withheld council funds to the disputed chairmen elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Justice Uwani Aba’aji reserved the judgment after taking briefs from Musbau Adetumbi (SAN), who represented the Osun State Attorney General, and Akin Olujimi (SAN), who stood for the AGF.

Justice Aba’aji, who led a seven-man panel of Justices in yesterday’s proceedings, announced that the date for judgment delivery in the suit would be communicated to the two parties when it is ready.

In the suit, the Osun Attorney General sought an order of the apex court directing the AGF to immediately release the statutory allocations to chairmen and councillors validly elected for the 30 councils of the state.

Besides, the plaintiff, who invoked the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction based on a letter by AGF according recognition to the disputed APC chairmen, also sought an order stopping the AGF from further withholding, suspending or seizing monthly allocations and revenues standing to the credit of the councils, having elected chairmen in place.

The grouse of the Osun Attorney General was that the AGF was wrong in his letter recognising APC Local Government chairmen when the matter was pending before the court of records.

He also predicated his case on the ground that the election that brought in the APC officials as local council chairmen and councillors had been nullified by a Federal High Court and upheld by the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

However, the AGF, represented by Olujimi (SAN), raised a preliminary objection, urging the apex court to dismiss the plaintiff’s case on various grounds.

Olujimi said that the plaintiff lacked standing to bring the case before the Supreme Court, as it involves a matter between two political parties.