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Nigerian Man Elected First Black Senator in Italy

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Nigerian IT entrepreneur, Toni Iwobi elected as first black senator in Italy

A Nigerian IT entrepreneur Toni Iwobi who has spent 38 years in Italy, has become the first black senator in the European country.

Iwobi, who is the chief immigration spokesman for the far-right League party expresssed his happyiness after the  Sunday’s elections. Naija News  Gathers

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“It is with great excitement that I can tell you I have been elected senator… A new adventure is about to begin,”

“Friends, it is with great emotion that I inform you that I was elected senator of the Republic!” he said in a statement.

“After over 25 years of battles in the great family of the league, it is about to start another great adventure! My thanks go to Matteo Salvini, a great leader who led the league to become the first centre-Centre force of the country!

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“I have to thank then my National Secretary Paolo Grimoldi, my now former provincial secretary and new Congressman Daniele Belotti, the whole team of the department for work done over these years, the great league militants and all facebook friends for their support.

“I can’t forget my family, without them I wouldn’t have come here today because they never stopped supporting me and being close to me!

“Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m ready, friends!”

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Toni Iwobi, before running for senator, according to the Local, had been a municipal councillor in Spirano, and more recently headed Salvini’s national committee on immigration.Naija News Learnt