Nigerian Man Who Contested on ‘Yoruba Party’ Platform in the U.K. Loses Parliamentarian Election in Peckham

Olusola Oni, a Nigerian man who contested on the platform of the ‘’Yoruba Party in the U.K.” has lost the parliamentarian election for Peckham.

Olusola who took the second to the last spot in the election, garnered 261 votes while the winner of the election, Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh, garnered 22,813 votes.

Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh, a Liberian-born British economist won the seat in the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Until December 2023, she was the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.