Remi Sonaiya

Oluremi Comfort Sonaiya (born March 2, 1955) is a Nigerian politician, educationalist and writer. She was Nigeria's only woman presidential candidate in the 2015 general election under the platform of the KOWA Party.

Quotes

• It is time to step up the game. For a country that has 70% of its population as young people, that 70% has no business being quiet.
  • [1] Prof Remi Sonaiya at TEDxLife.

• I decided to run for office because the people who were running our affairs over several decades were not doing a good job of it. We were living through a shameful and incongruous situation where we were known to be a country with huge resources, but where the overwhelming majority of the people lived in abject poverty... It weighed on my heart that the students I was teaching could not enjoy the same standard of education I had.
  • "Prof Remi Sonaiya: Why I ran for office of the President of Nigeria", SheLeadsAfrica

• "In the next couple of years, if the young people of Nigeria decide that something will happen in this nation it must happen, because the number is overwhelming, there is too many of you."
  • Prof Remi Sonaiya at TEDxIfe, OAU.

• "I really don't believe that money should be wasted, not in a country like ours where we are told that so many live below the poverty line."
  • Prof Remi Sonaiya in an interview on Channels TV.

• "When do we begin to understand that we need a fundamental change in our political structure?"
  • Remi Sonaiya on why she is running for presidency again.