Nigeria, June 25 -- Federal High Court judge James Omotosho on Wednesday invited seven legal experts to offer opinions regarding the suit filed by the State Security Service (SSS) against the move to constitute a "shadow cabinet" in the country by Pat Utomi, a political economy professor and former presidential candidate.

The list of legal experts, invited by the judge as amici curiae (friends of the court), consists of law professors and Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs).

The SSS sued Mr Utomi at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court last month, praying that Mr Utomi's plan to establish what he and his allies described as a shadow cabinet or a shadow government be declared as an attack on the Nigerian constitution.

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