On Wednesday, April 27th, 2022, the South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (S.E.A.M.A.T.A), the umbrella union of traders in all markets in the South East Geo-political Zone and all traders of South East extraction doing business across all states of the Federation and in the diaspora, held their general meeting in Owerri, Imo State.
The Association critically and thoroughly evaluated and assessed political trends in our country as they effect the South East Zone at this conference, and most cruelly emphasized the Zone’s untold political, infrastructural, and administrative marginalization.
The zone continues to have the fewest number of states (5) and Federal Civil Service posts in the country.
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The Zone is also among the worst in terms of road infrastructure degradation, with all federal highways in the zone in a state of disrepair.
The South East of Nigeria is the only zone in the country that has yet to produce a President.
The Association through the President, Chief Gozie Akudolu (Iroko) said that, behind indigenous people, persons of South East extraction had the second biggest population in all of the Federation’s remaining five Zones.
South East Asians continue to contribute the most to the development of the state in which they dwell, particularly in the fields of infrastructure and commerce, while simultaneously being the most vulnerable.
The Association noted that this glaring marginalization and neglect of the Zone is contributing immensely to the youth agitations in the zone.
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In the light of the foregoing, the Association unanimously resolved as follows:
(1) To call on all political parties in the Federation, in the interest of equity, justice, fairness, and balance of power, to zone the 2023 presidential candidacy to the South East.
(2) To continue with her advocacy and aggressively sensitize our members to register and collect the INEC permanent voter’s card at centres close to their respective residences and ensure that the members of their households who are 18 years and above are also registered.
(3) To continue to encourage aspirants to the office of the President of Nigeria who are from the South East not to relent as we are mobilizing full support for them from our members.
(4) To commend the groups from the South East and all the ethnic nationalities who are throwing their un-alloyed support for the President of South East extraction. Together,we shall succeed.
(5) To vote only for candidates of South East extraction with track record of outstanding achievements in private and public service whose character and integrity is without blemish,whose performance in the office shall be the pride of every Igbo man.
(6) To call on all persons of South East extraction both at home and in diaspora to use all legitimate means within their powers to support and push for this all important project.
(7) To appeal to our customers from other Geo-political zones as well as party delegates to see the urgent need of collectively ending the marginalization of the South East Zone.
Finally, to very strongly appeal to those still challenging the right of the South East to produce the President in 2023 to please have cursory look at equity, justice and fairness and withdraw their aspiration for posterity and his shall be fair to them.
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