ALGON, APC commend Osun high court for granting order to halt criminal charges against UBA staff

The Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria(ALGON), Osun State, Hon Abiodun Idowu, has lauded the State High Court for granting an order to halt a criminal charge filed against United Bank for Africa(UBA) and three staff.

Daily Champion recalls that the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo presided over by Justice Matthias Agboola on Friday in Suit Hos/M4/2026, granted an order in a Motion Ex-parte to hail criminal proceedings against UBA and its staff a the Magistrate Court.

Meanwhile, Magistrate A. A. Adeyeba, who is a party in the suit, issued a bench warrant for certain UBA officials even though a related matter was already pending before the High Court, where an application had been filed seeking to set aside the proceedings before the Magistrate’s Court.

In response to the development, the Osun ALGON Chairman, Hon. Samuel Idowu Abiodun, praised the High Court’s ruling, describing the leave granted to the UBA officials as a clear confirmation of the supremacy of the rule of law.

In his words, “it beats the imagination of any right-thinking member of the public in the fact that a whole Magistrate who is expected to uphold the rule of law would snub the same law and descend on innocent officials of the bank who have chosen to be law abiding by approaching the State High Court to vent their grievances over the Illegality being arranged at the Magistrate court.”

He therefore advised members of the public to remain calm and be law-abiding while the Illegality is being lawfully fought in the court of law.

Also, APC, through its Director of Media, Chief Kola Olabisi, in a statement on Saturday said bench warrant against UBA staff is dead on arrival and lauded the judiciary for granting leave to quash the criminal case at the magistrate’s court.

According to him, “We commend the judiciary for granting the leave to quash the criminal charges against the financial institution UBA. One would have expected Magistrate Adeyeba to await the decision of the superior court over the determination of the validity of charge No. MOS/601c/2025 once the leave had been granted but he refused to honour the ruling and went ahead to issue a bench warrant which in the eye of the law amounts to academic exercise.

“It was disheartening that Adeleke’s government could needlessly resort to celebrating failure when it is obvious even to a layman that the order of the Magistrate Court was dead on arrival.

“We, as a party, are expressing displeasure over the negligence of the Magistrate to have ignored the pendency of Suit No. FHC/OS/CS/19/2026 in which the Magistrate is also a defendant as instituted by the reinstated chairmen and councilors to challenge the illegality being perpetrated at the Magistrate Court over the purported charge.

“For the purpose of clarity and avoidance of doubt, the ruling of the State High Court sitting in Osogbo has nullified whatever the decision that might have been taken by the Magistrate Court, which by implication, is a nullity and mere academic exercise.”