The 2015 election season is undoubtedly an interesting one,
as people from different walks of life vye for public office.
People like Remi Sonaiya , female presidential candidate
running on the KOWA party platform, is one of such
individuals that makes this period enthralling.
Sonaiya intends to change the face of Nigerian politics
without help from a godfather and without spending millions
on campaigns, CHANNELS reports.
“I have a stake in Nigeria. I am qualified to run for the
presidency of Nigeria…Like what Barack Obama said, he
thought there was a skinny little black boy who thought that
America had room for him. Well, this not so skinny woman
thinks that Nigeria has a place for her, at the leadership
level also,” she said.
She also stated that she had avoided joining one of the two
major political parties, because she did not agree with their
ideologies, internal lack of democracy, and godfatherism.
Sonaiya, who reportedly holds a doctorate in linguistics,
decried the culture of spending millions of Naira on
campaigns, stating that such funds could be channeled into
developmental projects for building the nation.
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