Nigeria, Nov. 11 -- Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has vowed that he would never surrender his senatorial ticket to former Governor Rochas Okorocha, despite the recent court ruling.

The Federal High Court in Abuja, in October, sacked Mr Uzodimma as the Imo West senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2027 general elections and replaced him with Mr Okorocha.

But Mr Uzodimma, while speaking on Sunday after attending Mass at the Government House Chapel in Owerri, the Imo State capital, described suggestions that he would surrender his ambition to another candidate as "a lie," Vanguard newspaper reported.

"If they tell you that I will hold this ticket and somebody will collect it and give it to another, tel...