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Addressing a press conference in Umuahia on Monday, Ukoro said: “We wish to state categorically that our great party, PPA, affirms its position on the rejection of the result of the Saturday rerun poll in Abia North, noting that the returning officer of INEC, Dr. Ojike Nwankwo, had at the Ohafia INEC collation centre on Sunday, March 6, 2016, at 7am announced in the presence of party agents and other INEC officials that due to irregularities in some wards in Arochukwu and Ohafia local governments, where election was marred by widespread rigging and violence, the election was inconclusive

The decision of some of the senators to defect to opposition parties such as the Labour Party, Peoples Progressives Alliance and the All Progressive Congress was the aftermath of the PDP primaries, which was allegedly hijacked by some state governors in conjunction with the national leadership of the PDP

But in a letter, which was signed by the Secretary to the Commission, A.C. Ogakwu, and addressed to the National Chairman of PPA, Chief Sam Nkire, INEC said the new name and acronym were similar in appearance and pronouncement to those of two existing registered political parties