Nicely written @gloglo, this reminds me of my days back in school while i was the Student Union Government Electoral Commission (SUGECO) General Secretary at Olabisi Onabanjo University - 2015, it has been known year in-year out that election rigging is an order of the day by past SUGECO members deployed to oversee election process in the Ayetoro External Campus thereby amounting to alarming election results where number of electorates are somtimes more that numbers of eligible voters, but 2015 general election took a different turn when Comr. Adekoya Adesegun (aka Comr. Geezee) was posted to conduct the election at the campus, monitoring and inspecting every voters vibrantly along with my team, lo and behold no form of corruption or malpractice was recorded, the election was ranked one of the most free and fair elections in the history of OOU and also produced the first President from an external campus (Ikenne/Sagam Campus) Comr. Sofoyeke Adeniyi (aka Rx-neyo).
My little experience confirms your saying that
What ever you have a chance to influence will never be done better by anyone but you.
Kudos.
Am happy to have you visit me here comrade. Often tines we never know what we have to offer to the world until have no other choice. I am also proud of the decision you took and today you are looking back with so much hope and happiness in yourself. I am proud Nigerian. God bless you sir!