2007 SSouth has machinery to capture Presidency Okonny



In spite of efforts by other geo-political zones to capture political power, the South-South has already deployed a machinery to capture power in 2007.

A chieftain of the South-South Peoples Assembly (SSPA) and former director of campaign, publicity and protocols to former President Shehu Shagari, Dr Monday Okonny dropped the hint in an exclusive interview with The Tide , last Monday.

The SSPA chief also deplored arguments that power should rotate between the North and South and not the six geo-political zones.

According to him committees and 'sfoot solders's were already working hard to ensure that any obstacles in the way of the emergence of a South-South president were removed.

He said that the strategy involved getting people into the big parties to convince them on the need to adopt South-South candidates as the presidential candidate.

Okonny, a two-time commissioner in the Old Rivers State, observed that the South-South problem of unity stems from its diversity but said the rallies and other efforts by the SSPA was geared towards ensuring the unity of the region.

On the issue of declaration, he dismissed the view that South-South candidates were slow to declare, maintaining that other things come before declaration, which actually depends on the political parties.

Okonny, who also lectured in the state University of Science and Technology and in Togo averred that those insisting that power should rotate between the North and South instead of the six geo-political zones were living in the past, as the geo-political zones are now constitutional.

's8220;Whoever made a pact that power should rotate between the North and South certainly did not involve the South-South, nor did they have interests of the South-South,'s8221; he maintained.

He explained that the world is dynamic and people cannot be insisting on an arrangement that was operational in the past, even as the Niger Delta was not lacking of the caliber of people that could be President.





2007 SSouth has machinery to capture Presidency Okonny