An Abuja High Court on Wednesday recognized Senator Hope Uzodinma as the candidate of the party for the 2019 Imo governorship election.

Presided over by Justice O.A Musa, the court said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must also recognize only Uzodinma as the governorship candidate in the 2019 election.

The court also restrained INEC (2nd Respondent in the case ) from processing or publishing the “name of any other person other than Senator Hope Uzodimma from the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the gubernatorial candidate for Imo State Governorship election for 2019” pending the determination of the substantive suit on the matter.

Hope Uzodimma through his counsel, Joe Agi (SAN), had approached the court seeking an order to restrain the All Progressives Congress (APC) from conducting a fresh or re-conducting another primary for the Imo State Gubernatorial election and INEC from monitoring or purporting to monitor any fresh primaries or re-conducted primaries by the APC in Imo State gubernatorial election pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice before the Court.

The Court fixed October 16, 2018, for the hearing of the substantive suit.