HOW PAEDIA FOUNDER VOTED KOWA PARTY FOR PRESIDENCY

PROFESSOR MRS COMFORT OLUREMI SONAIYA CASTING HER VOTE DURING THE ELECTIONS RECENTLY IN ILE IFE,OSHUN STATE
HOW PAEDIA FOUNDER VOTED KOWA PARTY FOR PRESIDENCY
Amidst a lean security in place at the Independent National Electoral Commission Zone

E.C.30B in Ajillete Ward at Ifako -ijaiye in Lagos,Nigeria,The Founer of Paedia Express

Multimedia ,Mr Abdulmumini Adeku voted and endorsed the Presidential Candidate of Kowa

Party,Professor Comfort Shonaiya for the plum job of The Nigerian Presidency.
While discussing with bemused voters who accused him of throwing away his vote,the reporter

turned business man said that he will never be a party to the endorsemnt of fraud and this

is why he has not allowed the bandwagon effect of both Peoples Democratic Party and the All

Progressives Congress to sway himn.
He explained that only a psychatric patient will not be able to discern that both P.D.P and

A.P.C were actually one and the same in character and in philosophy.
His words:"it does not really matter to me if Comfort Oluremi Shonaiya loses,the fact isi

have read his interviews in the newspapers and i think that she is intelligent and will make

a good leader"
"i will rather die than cast my vote for those looters in both P.D.P and A.P.C though am

sympathetic to Buhari but his involvement with all those thugs inside A.P.C is scary but i

wish them well all the same"
Prof. Comfort Oluremi Sonaiya of Kowa party is the only woman contesting for president in

march 2015 election in Nigeria. She is contesting alongside her running mate, Saidu Bobboi.

Prof. Sonaiya is a former Professor of Foreign Languages at the Obafemi Awolowo University,

Ile-Ife, Osun State.

In 2008, she was named an International Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt

Foundation, and until recently, Sonaiya was the National Public Relations Officer of KOWA

Party.

KOWA was registered as a political party on July 16, 2009, by a group of Nigerian Civil

Society activists, professionals and technocrats.


Remi Sonaiya was born on March 2nd, 1955. She began her schooling in 1961 at St. Luke’s

Demonstration School, Ibadan, from where she proceeded to St. Anne’s School, also in Ibadan,

for her secondary education. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in French from the University

of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1977, graduating with the best result in her

faculty, did her Youth Service at the Nigeria Military School, Zaria, got married, and

proceeded to Cornell University, USA, from where she obtained an M. A. in French Literature.

Back in Nigeria, she enrolled for another Masters degree program, this time in Linguistics,

which she obtained in 1984, and immediately returned to Cornell University for her PhD

studies in Linguistics. She graduated from Cornell in 1988 and returned to continue

lecturing in the Department of Foreign Languages of the Obafemi Awolowo University which she

had joined in 1982 as an Assistant Lecturer. She became a professor of French Language and

Applied Linguistics in 2001.

Among Remi Sonaiya’s academic and professional distinctions are the following:

- Member of the Project Drafting Committee for the Establishment of the Nigeria French

Language Village, Badagry;

- Member of the executive committees of some of her professional associations and of the

editorial boards of several local and international journals;

- Conference interpreter since 1989 (including for ECOWAS);

- Recipient of various international research grants and fellowships, including the French

Government Grant for Advanced Researchers and the German Alexander von Humboldt Research

Fellowship;

- First Nigerian to be appointed as the Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt

Foundation, a position she occupied from 2008 to 2014.

Apart from her academic pursuits, Remi Sonaiya is active in and supports several church and

para-church organisations, including the Nigerian Fellowship of Evangelical students

(NIFES), the Nigeria Bible Translation Trust, Calvary Ministry, Great Commission Movement of

Nigeria, etc. She has been a bible study teacher in her church for many years and is on the

international faculty of Haggai Institute, Hawaii, USA, where she lectures on Stewardship.

 Remi has always been interested in public affairs and is passionate about issues of

justice, equity, and African development. She is touched by the plight of all who suffer

exclusion and other forms of injustice: children, women, the disabled, the poor and the

unschooled. She is concerned that the young people of Nigeria have to bear the brunt of the

prevailing culture of corruption and pay for it in mass failure in their educational

pursuits, very high levels of unemployment, and feelings of anxiety and hopelessness

concerning their future. She therefore seizes every opportunity for engagement, for example,

through the conduct of her “Life Skills” Seminar.

Remi’s interest in public affairs and development issues influenced her decision to retire

voluntarily from her position at the Obafemi Awolowo University in 2010 in order to devote

more of her time and resources to those pursuits. She joined KOWA Party and was elected its

National Public Relations Officer, a position she still occupies. She is KOWA Party’s

candidate for the 2015 Presidential elections.

Remi contributes regularly to Nigerian media discourse. For example, she was a blogger for

234 Next until it stopped publishing, and she is currently a columnist with The Niche, a

weekly (Sunday) newspaper. She has published three books on the Nigerian (and African)

condition: A Trust to Earn – Reflections on Life and Leadership in Nigeria (2010); Igniting

Consciousness – Nigeria and Other Riddles (2013); and Daybreak Nigeria – This Nation Must

Rise! (2014).

Remi Sonaiya is married to Babafunso Sonaiya, a professor of Animal Science, and they have

two grown children and two grandsons. Apart from English and Yoruba, Remi also speaks French

and German (as well as some smatterings of Portuguese). She loves to sing, cook, write, and

travel.