Samuel Udo Bassey dan kungiyar kwadagon Najeriya ne, ya kasance memba na masu tsattsauran ra'ayi amma yanzu ya daina aiki a kungiyar 'Yan Kasuwan Tarayyar Najeriya. Tare da, Michael Imoudu, Gogo Chu Nzeribe da Wahab Goodluck sun haɗu da ɓangaren masu gwagwarmayar ƙungiyar ƙwadago a Nijeriya a lokacin Jamhuriya ta Farko ta Nijeriya. Ya kasance tsohon sakataren kamfanin sayar da kayayyaki na Najeriya da Amalgamated Associated Company. A shekarun 1950, a matsayin sakataren kungiyar kwadago ta kananan hukumomi da kananan hukumomi (National Union of Local Government Maigirma), ya kasance mamba a kungiyar kwadago ta tsakiya, All-Nigeria Trade Union Federation karkashin Imoudu. Raba tsakanin jiki ya haifar da fitowar wasu masu matsakaita kuma Bassey daga baya ya zama sakataren tarayya.A 1959, da m reshe garwaya da National Council of kwadago a Najeriya ta samar da Najeriya da Kungiyar Kwadago Congress, kuma a karkashin jagorancin Imoudu, da majalisa da aka daga baya da alaka da Pan Africanist All-African Trade Union Federation, kafa ta Kwame Nkrumah . Rashin jituwa tsakanin masu tsattsauran ra'ayi ya haifar da bayyanar Goodluck a matsayin shugaban NTUC da Bassey a matsayin babban sakatare.