Nigerian Born PM Aspirant Loses As Tories Demolish Labour In UK Polls

Nigerian born Chuka Umunna once hyped to be the first black British prime minister turned out to be one of the biggest losers in the parliamentary election that took place on Thursday.

The British Conservative Party was being projected on Friday morning to have swept to victory in the biggest defeat of Labour since 1987.

Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is being reckoned to pick as much as 362 seats to a comfortable majority in parliament.

Labour on the other hand lost 54 seats and is being projected to get 203 seats in the next parliament, well above exit polls projections.

Umunna, born of a Nigerian father and Irish mother contested on the platform of the Liberal Democratic Party, LDP having defected from Labour owing to perceived rivalry with Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

He also changed constituency moving from the Streatham constituency he represented since 2010 – a seat which voted nearly 80 per cent against Brexit to stand for the Cities of London and Westminster in 2019.

At the end of the counting on Thursday night, Umunna lost to Conservaitve Party candidate, Nickie Aiken in the battle for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency by 3,953 votes.

Umunna has, however, vowed to remain in his new party despite popular enthusiasm for the exit of the uncharismatic Corbyn from the Labour leadership.

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