Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is a Nigerian university professor whose work focuses on African women in post-conflict contexts; African refugees, gender and politics; democracy; and African politics. She has published multiple books on women's issues in Africa, an editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and the Journal of International Politics and Development.

Quotes

"Don Urges Electorate To Vote Wisely" (2015)

"Don Urges Electorate To Vote Wisely", The Guardian (February 6, 2015)

• The decision not to vote is a decision to allow others to lead one in a direction one may not want.

• So the first thing is to be part of the process. The second thing is to vote wisely. I think for most Nigerians that is the little we can do. Once they get to government they don’t ask us of anything. They go ahead to run policies that are sometimes anti-people. That is why the person we choose must be the right person.

• Let us now look for candidates who have a clear vision, candidates we know that we can hold accountable. The roles of the citizens are to institute the leadership that we work for.