Four Nigerians Wins UK Parliament seats

Four Nigerians contested for, and won Parliament Seats in the Just Concluded 2015 UK Elections.

Chuka Umunna

Chuka Umunna

Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British Labour Party politician who has served Streatham as Member of Parliament(MP) since 2010. Umunna is the current Shadow Business Secretary since 2011.

Chuka Umunna won the elections to represent Streatham.

Helen Grant

Helen Grant

Helen Grant is a British Conservative Party politician and solicitor. She is the current Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald in Kent and the current Minister for Sport, Tourism & Equalities. 

She was elected at the 2010 general election, replacing the constituency’s previous incumbent, Ann Widdecombe, who had decided to step down as an MP. Grant was the first black woman to be selected to defend a Tory seat and her election made her the Conservatives’ first female black MP. Grant received her first government appointment in September 2012, when she received the dual roles of Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Under-Secretary for Women and Equalities. Grant was born in Willesden, north London to an English mother and Nigerian father.

Chi Onwurah

Chi Onwurah

Chi Onwurah  is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, replacing the previous Labour MP Jim Cousins, who decided to step down and left the seat. She is Newcastle’s first black MP. Her father, from Nigeria, was working as a dentist while he studied at Newcastle Medical School when he met and married her mum in the 1950s.

Kate Osamor

 

Kate Osamor

National Health Service (NHS) manager Kate Osamor is the Labour Party’s parliamentary candidate for the Edmonton constituency in London after beating diasporan Kate Anolue in a stiff contest.