He kept running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) stage. His race was tested in light of the fact that he was not the legitimate PDP hopeful, but rather on 5 May 2011, the preeminent court proclaimed that his race was substantial.
Early political vocation
A report in 2001 said that Chief Uzodinma had a business domain spread the nation over.
He had the formal title of Onwa-Netiri Oha of Omuma in Oru nearby administration of Imo State. Uzodinma was a PDP boss in Imo State and companion of the Governor Achike Udenwa until late 2002.
Around then he chose to keep running for Governor himself in the April 2003 races, and deserted to the Alliance for Democracy (AD), turning into their contender for the Imo State gubernatorial race. He was unsuccessful, and in February 2004 was readmitted to the PDP.
Uzodinma was a rival in the PDP primaries for Imo State Governor in December 2006, coming a nearby second to Senator Ifeanyi Araraume Uzodinma was designated an individual from the PDP Board of Trustees.
He was among the individuals who supported the offered by Ikedi Ohakim to run again for Imo Governor in 2011 after Ohakim had come back to the PDP.
Lawful contention
In a declaration to the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Commission of the request in July 2001, it was asserted that Uzodinma had been associated with endeavors to exchange cash from the National Maritime Authority to the previous military ruler Abdulsalami Abubakar.
In 2005 it was claimed that Dere Awosika, a nearby partner of the primary woman Stella Obasanjo, had been engaged with honor of fake contracts to herself and to Hope Uzodinma, a companion of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Awosika and Uzodinma's organizations were said to each has gotten assembly charges of two hundred and fifty million nairas.
Uzodinma was said to have discounted some portion of the assembly charge because of mounting weight from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.
On 10 February 2009, the EFCC captured and kept Uzodinma. An open appeal to the PDP on 10 December 2010 for the benefit of a gathering professing to be indigenes of Orlu gave reasons why Uzodinma ought not to be chosen as a Senatorial applicant.
It said that in 2005 Springbank Plc held up a grumbling with against him with the EFCC for deceitful preoccupation and acquiring cash under falsifications.
The EFCC had documented charges, which had not yet been cleared. It additionally affirmed that his organization Transurb Technical Consult Ltd was viably bankrupt.
Senatorial race
Uzodinma won the PDP essential for the Imo West Senatorial race on 9 January 2011, increasing 2,147 votes, while the occupant Senator Osita Izunaso came next with 891 votes.
Be that as it may, on 5 February 2011 a Federal High court pronounced that Izunaso was the hopeful of the gathering for the senatorial seat since Uzodinma had not been cleared by the PDP's discretionary board headed by Orji Nwafor-Orizu. It appears that Nwafor-Orizu had been affected by the December 2010 request.
The judge requested the PDP to present Izunaso's name to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the hopeful who had gotten the most votes among those met all requirements to run.
A Court of Appeal issued a stay of execution on 17 March 2011 while the case was being chosen, leaving Uzodinma allowed to battle.
On 5 April 2011 the Court of Appeal maintained the 5 February high court judgment and announced that Uzodinma was not met all requirements to run and ought not to speak to himself as a competitor. Uzodinma offered this choice with the Supreme Court.
In the 9 April 2011 races, Uzodinma got 85,042 votes, in front of previous Imo Governor Achike Adenwa of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with 64,228 votes and Rajis Okpalan Benedicta of the All Progressives Grand Alliance with 57,110 votes.
On 5 May 2011, the Supreme Court upset the before choices and pronounced that Uzodinma was the legitimate applicant and in this manner had been chosen.
The choice was affected continuously of a 5 January 2011 gathering of the PDP's National Working Committee that was connected to the April claim to the Supreme Court.
The gathering had overruled Nwafor-Orizu's choice to exclude Uzodinma and rejected the December 2010 appeal, saying
"there was no proof that Chief Hope Uzodinma has been indicted for homicide, furnished theft, getting cash by misrepresentation as well as for insolvency".
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