‘Congratulations To Our Ekiti Daughter’ – Gov Fayemi Celebrates Nigerian Lady Who Won An Election In The US
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state has congratulated a Nigerian lady, Esther Agbaje, who was elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 4.
In a tweet shared on his handle on Thursday, Governor Fayemi congratulated Agbaje, saying she is a proud Ekiti daughter whose parents are from Aramoko Ekiti.
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He wrote;
Congratulations to our Ekiti daughter and Harvard graduate for winning a landmark legislative seat into the Minnesota state assembly. I just spoke to her proud parents from Aramoko Ekiti and extended the best wishes of all our people. JKF.
Congratulations to our Ekiti daughter and Harvard graduate for winning a landmark legislative seat into the Minnesota state assembly. I just spoke to her proud parents from Aramoko Ekiti and extended the best wishes of all our people. JKF pic.twitter.com/kXhfuDdBXI
— Kayode Fayemi (@kfayemi) November 5, 2020
Agbaje will be representing District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party.
She won by a landslide polling 17,396 votes or 74.7 percent of the total ballots cast to defeat her closest rival, Alan Shilepsky of the Republican Party who polled 4,128 votes, representing 17.7 percent of the total.
The 35-year-old woman graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., with a degree in political science, holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and also a law degree from Harvard University.
Agbaje once served at the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Affairs Officer, charged with managing the rule of law projects in the Middle East.
She currently works as an attorney in Minneapolis with a focus on general civil litigation and medical malpractice.
