Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja has dismissed a libel suit filed Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman of the HEDA Resource Centre, against former Attorney-General of the Federation Mohammed Bello Adoke.

Mr Suraju had instituted the libel suit, accusing Mr Adoke of defaming him in a petition he sent to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in 2021.

The petition published by media outlets at the time requested the police to investigate an alleged forgery of an email and stage-managing of a phone conversation aimed to be tendered in the OPL 245 criminal trial in Italy and civil proceedings in the United Kingdom.

Mr Adoke said in his petition that the exhibits were meant to implicate him in the proceeding...