AUCKLAND’S MAYOR-IN -WAITING ‘MY WIFE SAVED MY LIFE!’
When Fa’ana- na- Efeso Collins announced in January that he’d be running for Mayor of Auckland City – a role regularly described as the second most important job in New Zealand – it was after seeking advice from his most trusted team members: his wife and daughters.
“This is a decision we’ve made as a family,” the Labour-and Green-endorsed candidate says. “We feel it’s a way of contributing back to a city that has given so much to us.”
If elected, 47-year-old Efeso, who is of Samoan and Tokelauan descent, will be the first-ever Pasifika mayor of the largest city in Polynesia – and his family is behind him every step of the way.
The Auckland councillor lives in O-
