Nigeria, Oct. 30 -- A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has criticised Governor Hope Uzodimma for seeking to contest the Imo West District election despite serving as governor of the South-eastern state.

Mr Okorocha spoke on Thursday night when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV's Politics Today.

The former governor was responding to his earlier victory at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja sacked Mr Uzodimma as the APC's candidate for the district and then declared Mr Okorocha as the winner of the party's primary for the district.

Mr Okorocha argued at the Channels TV programme that Mr Uzodimma ought to have resigned as governor before seeking a return ...