The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo state, Senator Hope Uzodinma has described his expulsion by the state chapter of the party as an exercise in futility.

The state Chairman of the party, Hon. Daniel Nwafor who announced Uzodinma’s expulsion on Thursday over anti-party activities said the action became necessary to save the party from disintegration.

According to Nwafor, Uzodinma was found guilty of sponsoring opposition candidates against the party’s candidates in the state, stressing that such actions were capable of ruining the chances of the APC in the elections.

“Senator Hope has been sponsoring the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Senatorial candidate, Senator Osita Izunaso as against the APC Senatorial candidate in Imo West, Governor Rochas Okorocha. He has also been running parallel Exco in his Omuma Ward and issuing party cards without recourse to party Exco,” Nwafor said.

However a statement made available to the media by Uzodinma’s spokesman, Hussaini Bukar said his expulsion from the party was null and void and of no effect as Prince Marcellus Nlemeigbo remained the recognized Chairman of the APC in Imo State.

The statement read: “The purported suspension of the APC governorship candidate is an exercise in futility and therefore void and of no effect whatsoever. There is only one APC in Imo State under the chairmanship of Prince Marcellus Nlemeigbo.

“That is the party known at the headquarters in Abuja. There’s no APC faction in Imo State. So you cannot act from a void.

“Okorocha and his infantile boys brigade can deluded themselves to high havens but they cannot change the facts .They are not members of APC and therefore as far as APC is concerned and cannot act from a void because they don’t belong to APC.

“So the so called suspension or whatever of anybody by the Okorocha gang is of no effect because it’s void and none existent.”