SOUTH-EAST/SOUTH-SOUTH UNITED

ASSEMBLY IN NIGERIA.

 

Why we formed SESSUA?

 

Well, South east, South south United Assembly is a political association of South east and South south indigenes living in Lagos State. Our principal objective is to deliver Lagos State in particular and South west to president Goodluck Jonathan in next year’s presidential election. You are aware that the merger of ANPP, ACN and CPC is a gang up against President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition. In the same vein, South east, South south United Assembly is also a merger against those who ganged up against President Jonathan. In the association, our slogan is two nations one voice and that is exactly what we are  because culturally and otherwise, there are no much differences between the South easterners and South southerners. Our similarities by far out number our differences. But one thing that oligarchies are adept in doing is promoting the differences in every association more than their similarities. That is what is causing trouble in all parts of the world. But this is the age of enlightenment and we now know better. South-east and South-south are one. The Nigerian state fooled us in the past, but we are now wiser. In the South east, South-south Assembly, my vice president is HRH, Dr Charles Ogodo, that is the Osu Urhobo. We also have people like His Royal Majesty, John Jacob Asoki, the Olotu of Ijaws in Lagos State. So it is a very formidable association.

 

How do you see the coming together of APC members?

 

Well the purpose of their coming together has collapsed because one thing is very clear, darkness cannot contend with light. Once light appears, darkness will varnish. The merger is never in the interest of the country. It is the coming together of very extreme bed fellows. The only thing that is common among all of them is ruthlessness for power and we know that God is a Nigerian. That is why they have snapped even before the election.

 

Please explain what you mean?

 

Well, every of their permutations for the success of the party in the 2015 presidential election has fallen apart. APC is a dying breed, conceived prematurely, but could not survive in the incubator because of genetical disharmony. The key states in the north  they were banking on to make meaningful impact in the presidential election, states like Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Bornu, their chances of winning even majority votes  are now very slim. The dumping of APC  by Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau with his teeming supporters to the PDP  was a sucker punch. They never in their wildest imagination thought that would happen. As a two time governor and currently a serving minister, the presidential election in Kano is 50/50. Adamawa is now out of their reach and PDP  will win Sokoto with Bafarawa. Votes in Bornu would be split between the  current governor and his predecessor who is now in PDP. So you can see that their perceived strong holds have been balkanized. In fact, President Goodluck Jonathan will win convincingly in five geo political zones and compete in the remaining one.

 

How confident is SESSUA in delivering Lagos to Jonathan in 2016?

 

Well, we have no iota of doubt about that, because South-east and South-south indigenes constitute over 60 per cent of the total population of Lagos. But even at that, we are not leaving anything to chance, and that is why we have begun mobilization in earnest. Right now, we are in all the nooks and cranies of the state. We have two coordinators, one from South-east and another from South-south in each of the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas in the state.

 

In the LGAs or LCDAs, the coordinators are also appointing sub coordinators in all the wards in their locality. In 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan polled one million, two hundred thousand votes in Lagos State. But next year, he will get more than two million votes. Apart from Lagos, he will also sweep the polls in Ondo, Ekiti, Ogun and Oyo states. The only state that we have doubt in the whole of Southern Nigeria is Osun because it is tailored along Sudan. Of course, you know that he will win hundred per cent in South-east and South-south, win  majority states in North central and North west. From available statistics, he will win more votes in 2015 than he won in 2011. The reason is because Nigerians prefer to let moderates run the country than to hand over power conceived prematurely but could not survive in the incubator because of genetical disharmony.