The President, in a statement issued on Thursday, said he was informed that the anti-graft agency secured a court order on August 5, 2026, authorising the freezing of the state’s accounts. “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,” the President said. The directive comes amid heightened political activities ahead of the Osun governorship election, with stakeholders calling for a peaceful, transparent and credible electoral process. “I feel 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,” the President said. He said the circumstances surrounding the freezing of Osun State’s accounts warranted presidential intervention in the overriding public interest.