Seun Lari-Williams

Seun Lari-Williams (born 1987) is a Nigerian lawyer, poet, and academic. He is known for his poetry collection Garri for Breakfast, which was longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2017. He is the son of the late Nigerian actor and playwright Lari Williams. Quotes Im ashamed to say this, but since there’s no Law society election coming up soon (laughs, at least for him), i will admit it now that it wasn’t exactly an overly joyous win for me…I was happy i won the election Yes, however….i knew it was work, alot of work. That’s why one of the things that slowed me down in campaigning is; in actual trying to convince somebody to vote for me and they say No for example, i felt bad because im like ….”Why am i suffering to get into office to suffer again” it takes a lot of work. Leadership according to some very wise people is sacrifice and lots of hardwork, you know..lots of discipline involved, so i didn’t see it as something i should really be joyous about…That’s why i don’t like the way its done in Nigeria, where you win an election and they throw a big party for you as though you’ve won a big Jackpot. All these are signs that they just going to embezzle stuffs or do something wrong. Sounds like a few words but its a very big one, i wil try and put everything in a few words. The administration has been wonderful, u know…everything i expected and much more. Alot of things were unseen and not reasonably forseeable as Law Students would put it, I was very happy at first that this is something new and its another stage of my life and then suddenly, i started seeing a different aspect to life. I started seeing that those people who claim to be busy might actually be really busy, i had to attend many issues from issues of …..bad state of toilets to bad results to illnesses, there are lot of things, infact witchcraft issues come to me, people tell me i think that girl is a witch (All laughs)…different kind of issues come up, and they take these things seriously and its been lot of work, buh am happy because its teaching me how to balance stuff, its been hard to balance with school and academics, but if we don’t get trained here about balancing school and work, how do we balance Family Life and Business eventually when we leave school? So am happy its a training ground and i will forever be grateful for the opportunity. Well, I can’t say its far different from what i hoped for, it is actually…but not extremely so different. I had hopes that when i get in here, I learned to be a better person – I learned to be a better listener, learned to serve better and learned how to sacrifice my time. It has given me so much more actually, e.g the experience of meeting with adults, meeting with professionals in the Industry, the legal Industry, meeting with the School Authority and having to talk to them and communicate the various demands and wishes of the Law Students. As you may already know, I happen to be the Chairman of the Council of Faculty Presidents, and in that capacity, I have to represent the school as what the School would not like to call Student Union, but when the situation demands, the School sends me outside to represent the School and that itself is another Office to run and it has been a lot of work. we are not done yet…I”ll like to rate myself like that when I’m done. We still have Big Events like the Career Day, The Sports Week, the Dinner, a lot of others things this semester. I’m very Practical or will like to consider myself as a very practical person. Before i even set out things on that which you call a NoticeBoard,which i call a To-Do list (its merely a To-Do List). Luckily, I have learnt from being the Head of Taslim Elias Chambers to Delegate, Nothing on d board would be done exactly by me, I have committees, I have friends who are devoted to helping us. I told them while we are campaigning, that ‘Hey, You are gonna volunteer and help in some way that you can’. Alot of them are ready to work, so those things are not too big, I didn’t put mighty Big Projects there ; Ladies Day ( I am not even in the Ladies Day Committee), I put something about Publishing a book for Sen. Udo Udoma, we contacted the Senator and he’s interested…He’ll Sponsor it, the Printer is ready to Print. So these are not like exactly what I would do, I just think it and I have a very powerful Excos….The FLYTEAM that helps make these events come true, So I’m the Dreamer if you wanna call me that. Overly Capable, Overly Capable. I have People who are very interested in working like Tolu (Swaggertols),Sifer, Sogo….u know these guys (Dare) wake up in the morning and the first thing they will say is “Law Society”, I got a phone call exactly 6am in the morning from Esther on something concerning Ladies Day, and I was like “Couldn’t this Wait, esther?”. That’s how Passionate she is, I have Tolu who is supposed to be here attending a conference in Calabar sending me mails every hour. We are communicating every single hour, that’s how passionate he is. Right now, Sifer is in the Office and i’m here (and this is past working hours) ,but he has passion about making the ‘Dream’ to come true. So, i can’t expect more than that, I have been Blessed with them (x2).