Nigeria, June 5 -- The police in Enugu State have grilled Chukwunonye Okereke, a media consultant to a former Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, for alleged criminal defamation of a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Oguejiofo Ujam.

PREMIUM TIMES reliably gathered that Mr Okereke faced police investigators who interrogated him for hours on Monday for claiming that Mr Ujam, a professor, colluded with the then-PDP-led Enugu State Government to declare that Mr Nnaji forged his UNN degree certificate.

Mr Okereke was interrogated by police investigators at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the police in Enugu State.

This newspaper learnt that his interrogati...