When do we begin to understand that we need a fundamental change in our political structure? - Remi Sonaiya

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.

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.

I would tell my 20-year-old self… To read much more widely. Being a student of the Arts meant that I read a fairly decent amount of literature, but I could have ventured more into other areas – philosophy, biographies of great people, etc. Of course, I’ve done a bit of catching up, but there’s no doubt that some ground was lost.