Nigerian wins U.S. Nation Assembly race
A Nigerian, Ms. Esther Agbaje, has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. Preferred elections.
She will represent District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an associate of the U.S. Democratic Party.
Esther, 35, received by means of a landslide, polling 17,396 votes or 74.7 percent of the full ballots cast.
Her closest rival, Alan Shilepsky of the Republican Party, secured 4,128 votes, representing 17.7 percentage of the whole.
Elections to the lower chamber of the nation legislature preserve each two years, and there are not any term limits for the lawmakers.
The daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Agbaje become born in St. Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
Her father, Rev. John, an Episcopal Church priest, met her mom, Bunmi, a librarian, on the University of Minnesota wherein they were reading.
She graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., with a diploma in political technological know-how.
Esther holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and also a law diploma from Harvard University.
She currently works as an lawyer in Minneapolis with a focal point on standard civil litigation and scientific malpractice.
She once served at the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Affairs Officer, charged with dealing with the rule of thumb of regulation initiatives in the Middle East.
Her priorities as a lawmaker encompass inexpensive housing, environmental justice, police reform, public protection, and racial equality.
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