By Kamsi Anayo, Awka
The Federal High Court, Abuja, will on June 25, 2025, commence hearing on the suit filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) against Pat Utomi.
Utomi is the Convener of the Big Tent, a conglomeration of integrated platforms currently supervising the recently launched “shadow government,” to serve as alternative to the government of President Bola Tinubu.
The presiding judge, Justice James Omotoso, took the decision after Akinlolu Kehinde, lawyer to the DSS, moved a motion ex parte seeking to serve court documents on Utomi at his Lagos address through courier service.
Kehinde had claimed that DSS had been unable to serve the court documents on Utomi, political economist and politician, currently in the United States, and asked for the extension of time to enable the Service to effect the service, a plea which the court granted.
The secret police had declared the move launched by the Professor of Political Economy, and teacher at the Lagos Business School (LBS) on May 5, 2025 as illegal and capable of causing chaos in the country, urging the court to stop it.
