No fewer than eight Americans of Nigerian background have emerged victorious in the US midterm elections that took place on Tuesday, theliberationnews reports.

Five of them emerged as winners in the Georgia State House of Representatives, one emerged as a state representative in Pennsylvania and another in Minnesota.

Adeoye “Oye” Owolewa, a pharmacist, who first emerged in November 2020, as the shadow representative of the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia was re-elected to the same position.

Carol Kazeem, who is a resident of Chester emerged as winner of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent the 159th Pennsylvania Legislative District.

Esther Agbaje another of the Nigerian-Americans who contested for re-election to the Minnesota House of Representatives was victorious. She contested on the banner of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer-Labor Party and represents District 59B, which includes portions of north and downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County.

The five other Nigerian Americans whose victory has been confirmed in the US midterm elections were in the Georgia House of Representatives and include Gabe Okoye, a former Chairman of the Gwinnett County Democratic Party, Gabe who was elected in the contest in Georgia’s District 102.

Solomon Adesanya won his poll in the US District 43, in Georgia, Tish Naghise another of the Nigerian-Americans in the US midterm elections emerged victorious in the Georgia House of Representatives District 68 while Phil Olaleye emerged victorious from District 59.

A background check on Olaleye revealed that he is the Executive Director of Next Generation Men & Women, an education non-profit closing the opportunity gap for under-resourced high school students.

Reacting to the success, Chairman of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa took to her Twitter page to congratulate the Nigerian-Americans.

“These Nigerian Americans won their elections in Georgia last night. A hearty congrats to them all #ProudlyNigerians. Congratulations to Segun Adeyina, Gabe Okoye ,Solomon Adesanya, Tish Naghise, Phil Olaleye, Carol Kazeem, Oye Owolewa and Esther Agbaje,” she wrote.