Ekens Foundation Canada Urge All The Ethnics Voters in the United Kingdom to Support the 7 Nigerians elected into UK Parliament Irrespective of Your Political Platform

A total of seven Nigerians have been elected into the UK parliament after Thursday’s election

Most of them retained their constituencies, having secured victory in the 2015 general election.

They are:

1. Chi Onwurah: The 52-year-old has been the Shadow Minister (department for business, energy and industrial strategy) (Industrial Strategy). She contested in 2010 under the Labour Party and got elected as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, replacing the previous Labour MP Jim Cousins, who decided to step down. She is Newcastle’s first black MP.

2. Kate Osamor: In 2014, the 48-year-old was elected a member of the national executive committee of the Labour Party. In June 2016, Osamor was appointed shadow secretary of state for international development.

3. Kemi Badenoch: She has been a member of the parliament since September 2015. Badenoch, 38, is the GLA Conservative’s spokesman for the Economy and also sits on the Transport Committee and Policing and Crime Committee.

4. Chuka Umunna: He has been a member of the Parliament for Streatham since 2010. The 38-year-old was adopted as the Labour party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Streatham in 2008 and polled a majority of 3,259 votes at the 2010 general election, to become an elected member of Parliament for Streatham.

5. Bim Afolami: A conservative politician in the parliament and works as a corporate lawyer. Winning the election, Afolami told Comet: “I’m feeling completely over the moon to be the new MP for Hitchin and Harpenden. It’s such a great feeling. I’m completely honoured. I would like to pay tribute to my opponents who fought a fair and democratic fight.

6. Fiona Onasanya: She ran on the platform of Labour Party and beat Stewart Johnson of Conservative Party to Peterborough seat in the election. Until her election, she was the deputy leader of the Labour group on the Cambridgeshire County as well as its councillor.

7. Helen Grant: She has served as the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald since 2010. Grant, who is 55, is the first black woman to be selected to defend a Tory seat and her election in 2010 also made her the Conservatives’ first female black MP.

Born in the city of Gusau in northern Nigeria, an Igbo descent. He is one of 11 siblings in a Roman Catholic family. He attended Catholic schools. His mother tongue is Igbo and English He completed a degree in economics with specialization in marketing and business management in Manchester, England. He came to Italy on a student visa in 1976, and obtained a degree in accounting in Treviglio. He also has higher degrees (laurea) in computer science from USA and Italy CAREER Iwobi is the founder and since 2001 managing director of Data Communication Labs Ltd. Previously he worked for AMSA (Azienda Milanese Servizi Ambientali) and has worked for a company in Roveredo, Switzerland. A supporter of federalism, which he knew from Nigeria, he became a member of Lega Nord, where he was particularly inspired by Gianfranco Miglio.In 1993, he was elected municipal councillor for the party in Spirano, a position he held until 2014. From 2010 to 2014 he also served as assessor with responsibility for social services. Iwobi was in 2014 selected by party leader Matteo Salvini to draft Lega Nord’s new immigration policy which had a hard stance against illegal immigration and played a big role in the party’s campaign in the Italian general election, 2018. In the 2018 general election he was elected to the Italian Senate, becoming the first black person to take a seat in the Senate. He is general counsel of the Italy-USA Foundation