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British Nigerian Chi Onwurah Becomes The First Black Woman Elected As Newcastle MP
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June 9, 2017 – British Nigerian Woman, Labour Party Politician Chi Onwurah Beats Tory Candidate Steve Kyte
Chinyelu Chi Onwurah Becomes The First Black Woman Elected As Newcastle MP
Meet Chinyelu Onwurah aka Chi Onwurah, one of the pacesetters making Naija proud in Britain.
She won the first seat at Newcastle Central last night. She has now become the first woman of colour to represent Newcastle.
She took to Twitter to announce the good news to supporters few hours ago.
Her words:
Last night, the Labour Party politician won 24, 071 votes while her rival, Tory candidate Steve Kyte had only 9134 votes.
Congrats to her.
