In a communique issued in the early hours of Tuesday on behalf of the group and signed by Ortom, the stakeholders warned that failure to meet their demands would “render any purported national convention invalid, as legitimate members of the party would be disenfranchised”.

The six demands

The PDP heavyweights insisted that:

*A fresh congress must be held in Ebonyi and Anambra states, in strict compliance with subsisting court judgments

*A new South East Zonal Congress must be urgently conducted.

*The outcome of the South South Congress in Calabar, already upheld by the courts, must be respected.

*PDP should immediately conduct the Ekiti LGA congresses, in line with judicial pronouncements.

*There should be no micro-zoning of offices, beyond the general zoning formula already adopted by the National Executive Committee NEC, to maintain peace and stability.

*The national chairmanship position must remain in the North Central, consistent with the zoning arrangement of the 2021 convention.