DSS Tackles Utomi Over Shadow Government Activities

The Department of State Services (DSS), has started to tackle outspoken technocrat and proprietor of Lagos Business School, Dr Pat Utomi.

This it has begun to do by seeking to restrict him from making public comments or engaging in any form of rally, in relation to his shadow government campaign.

Utomi was candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2007 presidential election and has remained critical of the current administration, making moves to set a shadow government of like-minds to show how genuine governmental affairs should be run.

In order not to have any of that, the DSS has now approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, praying it to restrain Professor Utomi.

It particularly is praying the court from stop him from making public comments or engaging in any form of rally, relating to his announced plan to establish a shadow government in the country.

The DSS sees Utomi’s move as attempting to illegally usurp the powers of President Bola Tinubu as the executive president of the country, and has approached the high court to stop him.

This it did through a fresh application filed today, through its team of lawyers led by Mr. Akinlolu Kehinde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).

In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/937/2025, which has Utomi as the sole defendant, DSS told the court that it got an intelligence that the defendant, Dr Pat Utomi, who is currently outside the country, has concluded plans to return on June 6 to engage in protests, road shows and media interviews.

It is praying the court for an order of interlocutory injunction, restraining Utomi or anyone acting on his behalf from

1. From staging road shows, rallies, public lectures or any form of public gathering,
2. newspaper publications, television programmes, jingles or any other public enlightenment programme (s) aimed at sensitizing, instigating, propagating or in any way promoting the purported ‘shadow government/shadow cabinet’ or its objectives or goals, with the view to establishing the said ‘shadow government’, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.”

The applicant said that such planned activities were aimed to instigate citizens, in furtherance of the defendant’s bid to establish an illegitimate government, an issue that is the subject matter of a suit that is pending before the court.

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The Applicant identified itself as the agency statutorily empowered to safeguard the internal security of the country and prevent threats to lawful authority of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its constituent institutions.

According to the suit, Utomi staging the alleged road show is capable of drawing a large number of Nigerians with intent that will cause huge disruption of peace, breakdown of public order, enable riots and violent protests just as the recent ‘End SARS’ protests in 2020.”

In an affidavit attached in support of the application, the DSS told the court that: “All the planned protests, riots and agitations that will ensue, if the purported actions of the defendant/respondent are not stayed, may lead to mayhem with a potential for anarchy, toss of lives and property.

“The proposed allies, road shows and actions of the Defendant/Respondent constitutes a serious threat to the public order, safety and national unity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Stating other implications of the said protect, the applicant added: “It is in the interest of justice, national security, and the rule of law for this honourable court to grant this application”.

the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho has fixed June 25 for hearing.