President Bola Tinubu has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to withdraw the court order freezing an account belonging to the Osun State Government.
In a statement personally issued on Thursday, the President said he was “deeply embarrassed not by the EFCC’s exercise of its mandate backed by a court order, but by the timing of the agency’s action”.
Tinubu said he had instructed the anti-graft agency to immediately take steps to reverse the court order and discontinue all related actions against the Osun State Government.
“Accordingly, I have directed the EFCC to immediately proceed to the court to vacate the order and discontinue whatever action it has instituted against the Osun State Government in this regard,” Tinubu said in the statement.