New Jersey: What to know about Nigerian-born Lieutenant Governor Shirley Emehelu

A Nigerian-born American, Shirley U. Emehelu, has emerged arsenic Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey successful the United States.

With the swearing-in, Emehelu becomes the archetypal idiosyncratic who came from different state to inhabit that spot successful the state.

Governor Mikie Sherrill made the assignment public, making Emehelu the 5th idiosyncratic to service arsenic Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey.

According to the announcement, isolated from her caller office, Emehelu volition support her occupation arsenic Secretary of State.

It was gathered that she had been doing that occupation successful an acting capableness since September. The relation places elections, concern services, tourism and taste programmes nether her watch.

The swearing-in took spot astatine the New Jersey Statehouse successful Trenton, wherever Chief Justice Stuart Rabner administered the oath portion her husband, Ikenna Emehelu, and their children stood by her side.

Speaking aft taking the oath, Emehelu said, "As a Black pistillate and Nigerian American, I'm arrogant of what this assignment represents for our state, and particularly for the communities that stock my heritage."

Emehelu was calved successful Nigeria and near for the United States erstwhile she was conscionable 3 years old.

She aboriginal went to Yale ...