Three Nigerian-Americans, Esther Agbaje, Oye Owolewa, and Nnamdi Chukwuocha, have won their different elective positions in the United States election on Tuesday.
Ms. Agbaje, who contested to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House of Representatives on the platform of the Democratic Party, won with 17,396 votes.
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The 35-year-old Harvard law graduate crushed Republican Alan Shilepsky and Green Party applicant Lisa Neal-Delgado to represent downtown and north Minneapolis in the state House.
She is one of the nine Nigerian-Americans on the voting form in Tuesday’s election.
Destined to Nigerian guardians – an Episcopal cleric and an administrator – Ms. Agbaje turned into the main Nigerian-American to be elected to the Minnesota legislature.
With a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she had a spell in the U.S. State Department, experience working with the regional government, and honors at an esteemed law office, her profile read.
In August, Ms. Agbaje was one of four newcomers who crushed set up Democratic administrators in the essential – two in the state House and two in the Senate.
She is keen on jail change, battling racial errors, lodging among others.
Another Nigerian Democrat, Oye Owolewa, was elected as a shadow individual from the House of Representatives from the District of Columbia.
He surveyed 164,026 votes to overcome officeholder Joyce Robinson-Paul, who scored 18,600 votes, and Sohaer Syed with 15,372 votes.
Mr. Owolewa, who has born in Kwara and Oyo states, holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Northeastern University, Boston.
In 2018, he was elected commissioner of his neighborhood in SouthEast DC.
As a backer for DC statehood, he dispatched TaxFreeDC as a development to battle DC’s imposing taxes without any political benefit.
As per his site, TaxFreeDC pronounces that until DC statehood is accomplished, DC’s assessment income will at this point don’t go to the government.
“Oye accepts our cash has a place here for DC needs as opposed to heading off to an administration that neglects to remember us,” it said.
He turned into the principal Nigerian-American to involve the seat.
As the outcomes streamed on Wednesday morning, Mr. Owolewa shared the updates on his triumph on his online media.
“Hello. It would appear that we did it! I need to thank everybody, from family and dear companions to DC inhabitants.
“As a result of your commitments and penances, I remain before you as America’s first Nigerian-American senator.
“In this job, I will battle for DC statehood and carry our qualities to the lawmaking cycle. While today is the day for some festival, the difficult work additionally follows.
“Once more, thanks such a great amount for everything. I wouldn’t be here without you all,” he said.
In conclusion, Nnamdi Chukwuocha won re-appointment as an individual from the Delaware House of Representatives from District 1.
As a Democrat without an adversary, he won 100% of the votes with 7,640.
Mr. Chukwuocha was elected to represent District 1 in the Delaware House of Representatives in 2018.
With a four year certification in history and a graduate degree in social work from Delaware State University, he has quite a long while of involvement with neighborhood governmental issues in the state.
He once served on the Wilmington City Council as President Pro Tempore and Chair of the Education, Youth, and Families Committee.
In 2019, he was an individual from the Corrections Committee, the Education Committee, the Health and Human Development Committee, the Veterans Affairs Committee as a US Army veteran and Vice-Chair of the Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee
He is essential for the expressed word pair “Twin Poets” which was named as the State of Delaware seventeenth Poets Laureate.
