Nigeria, Sept. 29 -- Justice James Omotosho-led Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, and his associates from setting up a shadow government in Nigeria.

Omotosho, while delivering judgment in a suit instituted by the Department of State Services on Monday, held that the creation of a shadow government or cabinet is unconstitutional and alien to the country's presidential system of governance.

The court order effectively restrained Utomi and his group from pursuing the initiative and upheld the arguments of the DSS that Utomi's action portends danger to the peace and security of Nigeria.

The judge said he had perused the country's constitution, and there was no part that supports the formatio...