Imo APC Leaders Demand Uzodimma's Restoration as Candidate
The 137 ward chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo West senatorial district have called on President Bola Tinubu and the party's national working committee to intervene in the recent Federal High Court ruling that declared former Governor Rochas Okorocha as the valid candidate for the Imo West senatorial election. During a press conference in Owerri, Chief Austin Onyedebelu, the Imo State APC chairman, criticized the judgment by Justice Obiora Egwuatu, labeling it a political robbery.
The chairmen argued that Okorocha, who received only 1,098 votes in the primaries, should not be favored over Governor Hope Uzodimma, who garnered 230,464 votes. They claimed that the results presented by Okorocha were forged and that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had informed the police about this.
The chairmen urged Tinubu and the APC leadership to leverage their legal and political expertise to reverse the ruling at the Court of Appeal, asserting that Abuja politicians are attempting to dominate Southeast politics.
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