Nigeria, Sept. 22 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, struck out the name of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from a suit regarding the withheld Osun State Local Government funds. This was even as the Osun State Government asked for the return of the case to Osogbo Division of the court, where it was originally filed.

Judge Emeka Nwite dropped the AGF, originally the third defendant, from the suit after the plaintiff opted to discontinue the case against him.

The plaintiff's lawyer, Musibau Adetumbi, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), told the court on 8 September, when the case first came before Mr Nwite, that a similar suit was already pending against the AGF at the Supreme Court.

The Osun State Government, thro...