National's Hamilton West candidate says winning next month's the by-election won't be easy.
Tama Potaka hopes to take the seat made vacant when the independent and former Labour MP, Gaurav Sharma resigned from parliament.
Mr Potaka is the chief executive of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki.
Before that he worked for the New Zealand Super Fund and spent seven years as General Manager at Tainui Group Holdings in Hamilton.
Tama Potaka declined to be interviewed on the programme this morning - we wanted him to appear alongside the Labour candidate Georgie Dansey.
But he spoke to reporter Andrew McRae yesterday.
