America Decides: Nigerian Born Owolewa Wins U.S. House Of Reps Seat
Nigerian-born Democrat, Oye Owolewa, was elected as a shadow United States Representative out of the District of Columbia.
This is according to a tweet by ABC 7 News in early hours of Wednesday monitored by TheAnalystNG.
“Democrat Oye Owolewa will be elected as a shadow U.S. Representative out of the District of Columbia.”
Based on the election results, Oye had 82.65% of the votes, which represents 135,234 votes against Joyce Robinson-Paul, who had 15,541 votes, and Sohaer Syed with 12,846 votes.
The new lawmaker hails from Omu-Aran in Kwara state, he’s 30 years old .
Owolewa is one out of the nine Nigerian-Americans contesting in the U.S. elections.
He’s a PhD holder in Pharmacy from the Northeastern University, Boston.
Three other Nigerians were also elected to House of Representatives under the platform of Democrat.
