Prof. Anaya O. Anya has urged voters in the coming elections to cast their votes for President Goodluck Jonathan for another tenure of four years in office.

Speaking at the unity rally organised by the South-east/South-south United Assembly (SESSUA), Anya said the president had performed well and needed another four years to consolidate on his performance.

A mammoth crowd of people from the two regions resident in Lagos expressed strong support for the president, saying their support for him is purely based on merit.

The people defied the rainfall in Lagos to attend the rally held at the training pitch of the Nigerian Institute of Sports, National Stadium, Surulere Lagos.

The Professor of Zoology said it was important to return the sitting president to ensure that his milestone achievements are taken to a logical conclusion.

More important reasons, he gave for his preference for Jonathan is the need to give
him chance to implement the outcome of the National Conference, which he was a member.

He expressed strong fears that if Jonathan is not returned, the resources expended on the National Conference would have been wasted, stressing that his successor may not implement the resolutions at to the letter.

He reminded Nigerian voters that the foundation for the future of the country has been laid by the Jonathan’s administration and ought to be allowed to consolidate the transformations he has committed himself to in the last four years of his first tenure.

“We need to decide whether we need change that will take us back to the regrettable past when Nigerians could not afford essential commodities, or the future of Nigeria,” Anya stated.

He warned against the kind of change that Nigerians will opt for whether it is one that will usher them to the past that filled them with lack, want, and regrets.
Addressing the large audience drawn from all the local governments in Lagos, the President General of SESSUA, Oliver Akubueze, urged the gathering to drum up for support for President Jonathan for a land slide victory in the South West during the polls.

“For the 2015 presidential election, we have unanimously adopted our son and brother, President Jonathan, as our candidate and our choice was strictly based on merit,” Akubueze stated.

He urged people of the two regions to embrace the similarities that bind them together rather than the negligible differences which enemies of the regions play up to cause division.