A Nigerian, Toni Iwobi has become the first coloured senator
elected in Italy and will be the only black parliamentarian in the next
legislature, according to Yahoo News.
Iwobi from Nigeria is an IT Expert with a company that provides
assistance on hardware and software for both private and public bodies.
He has been living in Italy since the '70s, long after leaving the
shores of Nigeria. He was elected in the industrial city of Brescia in
northern Italy.
“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!
“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!”
He is a member of the anti-migrant League. He was also the
Municipal councilor of Spirano in 1995, in 2013 he failed to be elected
to the regional in Lombardy, but continued to do politics close to what
had become the League of Matteo Salvini.
A long militancy that led the party to nominate him in Bergamo in
proportion to the Senate. Third on the list, behind a historic leader
like Roberto Calderoli and also Daisy Pirovano, daughter of the former
Senator from Bergamo and former mayor of Caravaggio Ettore Pirovano. And
it was Calderoli himself, last night, who first called to give him the
news that he had been elected. "Hi Senator Iwobi" he told him.
But what does a black man do in the racist League? Toni Iwobi answers: "It's
an ancient question, which everyone makes me. And I reply with a
question: but is there a "bible", a "written code" that forbids a black
person from staying in the League? No, it does not exist. And Italy is a
democratic country? It is and I have the freedom to choose who to stay
with whom to commit. Who claims that the League is racist is a net
mistake: racism means feeling superior to others, while in the movement I
find many strong positions, decided, but also a lot of respect, " says Toni Iwobi. Pardon, the Northern League senator Toni Iwobi.
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