President Bola Tinubu called Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on phone on Thursday to assure him that he has mandated the anti-graft agency, EFCC, to take steps to vacate an order freezing a bank account operated by
The phone call was announced publicly by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga in a post on X.
“President Tinubu in a phone conversation with Governor Ademola Adeleke on Thursday informed him about his directive to the EFCC to lift the court order on the Osun State Government account,” Mr Onanuga wrote.
The announcement of the phone conversation came minutes after the presidency announced the directive on the court order.
PREMIUM TIMES reports that the EFCC confirmed on Wednesday that it ordered a freeze of an Osun State government’s bank account over suspicion the account was to be used for illegal activities.
