This desire helped shape his decision to run for mayor of the largest city in the country, he tells Pasifika Editor Vaimoana Tapaleao.
Of all the significant people who have influenced his life, it is the story of a stranger on a South Auckland bus that brings Fa'anana Efeso Collins to tears.
One day, as he was getting off a bus in Ōtara, the driver stopped him, after recognising him from TV.
"He said to me, in Samoan: "O oe o Collins?" (Are you Collins?)
