Legislative Assembly of Samoa
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 1979 election. He was one of the founding members of the Human Rights Protection Party, and following the 1982 election was appointed to cabinet in the first HRPP government as Minister of Lands Survey, Post Office and Broadcasting. He subsequently served as Minister of Education, Youth, Sports &amp; Cultural Affairs and Labour in the government of Tofilau Eti Alesana. As Minister of Education he established the National University of Samoa with an initial budget of $5. After the 1985 election he was not reappointed to Cabinet, and in December 1985 he joined ten other HRPP members in crossing the floor to support Vaʻai Kolone as Prime Minister. He was re-elected in the 1988 election, but subsequently convicted of nine counts of personation and lost his seat.