First Nigerian Born Democrat, Owolewa Wins U.S. Rep Seat
A Nigerian-born Democrat, Oye Owolewa will be elected as a shadow United States Representative for the District of Columbia.
This development was revealed by ABC 7 News on their Twitter account..
The tweet reads, “Democrat Oye Owolewa will be elected as a shadow U.S. Representative out of the District of Columbia.”
APC United Kingdom also congratulated him writing;
The first Nigerian-American to be elected to the US Congress emerged early on Wednesday morning with @followKWSG State born, Mr Oye Owolewa (@AdeoyeOwolewa) being elected as a Democrat to represent Washington D.C.
CONGRATS
The results show that Owolewa scored 164,026 votes representing 82.84 per cent of total votes cast
