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Two Nigerians Oye Owolewa, and Esther Agbaje were some of the victorious candidates in the general elections in the United States of America.
Owolewa a Nigerian-American was declared winner of the shadow election in the District of Columbia (DC).
Owolewa, a PhD holder from the Northeastern University, Boston, scored a total of 164,026 votes, which represents 82.84 per cent of the total votes cast in DC for the 2020 election.
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Esther Agbaje won the Minnesota House of Representatives seat in the election on Tuesday.
Agbaje won a total of 17,396 votes to defeat her Republican Party opponent, Shilepsky who scored 4,128 votes.
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Agbaje would be representing District 59B in the Minnesota House of Representatives on the platform of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFLP), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party.
The 35-year-old daughter of an Episcopal priest and a librarian, both Nigerian immigrants, defeated longtime state Representative Raymond Dehn in the party’s primary in August
