Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has refuted claims that he filed a lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged plan to arrest and prosecute him after his tenure.
The denial was made by Lawal Pedro, SAN, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, on Tuesday. Reports had emerged suggesting that Sanwo-Olu, through his lawyer, Darlington Ozurumba, initiated a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the EFCC in a Federal High Court in Abuja.
These reports indicated that the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/773/2024 and dated June 6, raised several questions and sought multiple reliefs, including a declaration of his constitutional rights to privacy and personal liberty. The governor allegedly argued that any plan by the EFCC to arrest him would violate his rights under the Nigerian Constitution.
However, the Attorney General clarified that Governor Sanwo-Olu had not filed any such lawsuit or engaged legal counsel for this purpose. “We need to clarify that Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at no time, sued or briefed any legal practitioner to file a suit on his behalf concerning the above subject matter,” Pedro stated.
This clarification aims to dispel the rumors surrounding the governor's legal standing as he approaches the end of his ter