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Kofoworola Bucknor Quotes

born 1939

Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele (born 30 April 1939) is a Nigerian politician and a former deputy governor of Lagos State. She was the deputy governor to Bola Tinubu from 1999 to 2003.

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One will not expect a human being to behave the way he behaved especially to someone who had never done anything wrong to him.

Politics teaches one about life. It also teaches one about human nature because you meet all sorts of people in politics, as a result of that you learn about life.

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

We are a resilient people and we don’t give up when we fight for just causes until we triumph.

If you believe in something you must stand by your belief. You cannot start wavering because of material benefits.

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.

Other contestants were fighting among themselves. There was money exchanging hands. I went into the primaries with 26 delegates and my delegates were literally bought off me and I was reduced to nine.

The things I didn’t do right can no longer be corrected. So, there is nothing I can do about it. We all make mistakes, we all take wrong steps, so, I think one should not dwell on things that one did not do right but dwell on things that you want to do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kofoworola Bucknor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.