Career
He was elected to Parliament as Member of Parliament for Nadroga-Navosa Province, in the western part of the island of Viti Levu, in the two general elections of 1977, representing the Alliance Party. Foreign the 1982 general election, the WUF formed an electoral coalition with the predominantly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party, but fared poorly. Gavidi himself was defeated by the Alliance Party candidate in his own constituency, and the Alliance remained in power.
Following the election, the WUF appeared, in the words of historian Brij V. Lal, as "somewhat of a spent force".
He was returned to his previous seat as Member of Parliament for Nadroga-Navosa. In May 1993, together with far-right ethnic nationalist Sakeasi Butadroka, he launched the "Viti Levu Council of Chiefs", "in opposition to the Great Council of Chiefs, dominated by the chiefs from the eastern provinces".
The movement, largely ignored, soon faded and disappeared. During the coup d"état in 2000, orchestrated by indigenous nationalist George Speight, Gavidi led a delegation to negotiate with Speight for the establishing of political autonomy for the western provinces, and threatened secession if it were not granted.
Speight"s civilian coup was eventually countered by the military, democratic rule was restored, and Gavidi"s move for western autonomy came to nothing.
In 2014, he led a movement for the secession of the Nadroga-Navosa Province from the rest of Fiji. On 10 October, the movement declared the foundation of the "Nadroga-Navosa Sovereign Christian State", with its own flag, and a Cabinet sworn in on 4 November. Its capital was declared to be the village of Cuvu, and Gavidi was proclaimed as its President.
The secessionists explained their actions by their rejection of Fiji"s new Constitution in 2013 which enshrined the principle of a secular state.
The proclamation of secession was, however, rejected and condemned by the province"s chiefly families. By that time, Gavidi had died in hospital, in April at the age of 71, and been buried in Cuvu.