{"id":248592,"date":"2026-10-29T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-apc-reacts-to-court-judgement-sacking-uzodimma-as-senatorial-candidate\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:30:17","slug":"nigeria-apc-reacts-to-court-judgement-sacking-uzodimma-as-senatorial-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-apc-reacts-to-court-judgement-sacking-uzodimma-as-senatorial-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: APC Reacts to Court Judgement Sacking Uzodimma As Senatorial Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja sacked Mr Uzodimma as the APC&#8217;s candidate for the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OfficialAPCNg\" rel=\"nofollow\">All Progressives Congress<\/a><\/strong> (APC) has expressed its intention to appeal the court judgement that sacked Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State as the APC&#8217;s senatorial candidate for Imo West District in the 2027 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja sacked Mr Uzodimma as the APC&#8217;s candidate for the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The court also declared&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610290562.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja sacked Mr Uzodimma as the APC&#8217;s candidate for the district. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed its intention to appeal the court judgement that sacked Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State as the APC&#8217;s senatorial candidate for Imo West District in the 2027 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11297,7997,6185,10202,257,4687,393,9690,22738,11861,254,40293],"class_list":["post-248592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-candidate","tag-court","tag-judgement","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reacts","tag-sacking","tag-senatorial","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uzodimma"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}