Other contestants were fighting among themselves. There was money exchanging hands. I went into the primaries with 26 delegates and my delegates were… - Kofoworola Bucknor

The greatest lesson life has taught me is to fear God. Once you fear God you will approach everything in life with the fear of God, therefore you wouldn’t do what you are not supposed to do.

Mandela was a unique human being, you don’t have many like him; I think he was like a ones-in-a-lifetime person. I must say I am very happy to have lived during his lifetime. He was a marvelous person, very courageous, he had vision for his people and he carried that vision through. I only pray that we have somebody like Mandela in Nigeria to lead us to the promise land.

Being a woman, I wanted to be one of the first in politics to make a mark in Nigeria.