Imo West: APC breaks silence after courtroom sacks Uzodimma's candidacy

The Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has damaged its silence over the Federal High Court judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to publish former Governor Rochas Okorocha because the occasion’s candidate for Imo West Senatorial District.

In a press release by the State Publicity Secretary, Onwuasoanya FCC Jones, the occasion vowed to take rapid authorized motion to put aside the judgment.

It insisted that Governor Hope Uzodimma stays the genuine and rightful candidate of the APC for Imo West, describing the judgment as a short lived distraction that won’t stand.

According to the occasion, Governor Uzodimma emerged via a authentic and duly monitored major election of the occasion and his identify was duly submitted to INEC because the senatorial candidate.

The occasion maintained that at no level did Okorocha emerge because the candidate of the occasion for Imo West and due to this fact the courtroom was misled.

“Imo APC will take legal action over Imo West Senatorial candidacy. Governor Hope Uzodimma remains the candidate. Okorocha cannot and will not be allowed to fly our flag for Imo West,” the occasion acknowledged.

The occasion urged its supporters, stakeholders and members in Orlu zone to stay calm, law-abiding and to not be distracted by the event, assuring that its authorized workforce is already working to attraction the judgment and restore Uzodimma because the candidate.

DAILY POST reviews that the Federal High Court had earlier ordered INEC to publish Okorocha because the rightful APC candidate for Imo West, displacing Governor Uzodimma.