She has been endorsed by Chicago born rappers Chance the rapper and Kanye West who paid the debt of $73000 which she accrued during her last campaign.

She was born in Baltimore, Maryland by Igbo parents who migrated to the US in the 70's.
She has a law degree and a PhD Educational Policy Studies where she specialized in evaluation methodology. She is fluent in Igbo, Spanish, French, and Portuguese and maintains reading and writing proficiency in Italian.

Kanye West gives $73K to Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia, who is backed by Chance the Rapper

When Chance the Rapper endorsed little-known candidate Amara Enyia for Chicago mayor last week, she had just $67.54 in her campaign bank account and faced tens of thousands of dollars in fines from the Illinois State Board of Elections.

Chance’s backing has appeared to pay off with at least one donor for Enyia — Kanye West, who has contributed $73,540 to her campaign, records show.

The donation is the exact amount in fines Enyia faced from state election officials in connection with her brief 2015 campaign for mayor, and the West Side activist’s campaign confirmed she used West’s money to pay the penalties.

Enyia dropped her bid for mayor four years ago after the petition signatures she collected to appear on the ballot were challenged, but she never closed her campaign account and was fined by state election officials for not filing quarterly campaign finance reports as required by law. Illinois State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich told the Chicago Tribune last week that in order for Enyia to run for mayor she would have to have the fines paid by Dec. 20, the day the Chicago mayoral ballot is certified. Dietrich confirmed that Enyia had been in contact with state officials and was expected to present a settlement offer to resolve the fines at the board’s November meeting.

West’s contribution eased the situation. Enyia’s campaign released a statement saying “the $73,540 debt to the Illinois State Board of Elections has been paid in full.”

“The Amara Enyia campaign thanks Chicago native, Kanye West, for his generous action,” the statement read. “Amara’s campaign is energizing people around the city with bold ideas and solutions that move Chicago forward. We are excited to engage people of all walks of life as we focus our efforts on getting on the ballot.”

West’s contribution could present some political land mines for Enyia to navigate in a race where many candidates, her included, are jockeying for the progressive mantle. West has not been shy about his ardent support for President Donald Trump, frequently sporting the Republican’s red trademark “Make America Great Again” hat — including during a trip to the West Wing earlier this month. West appeared in an Oval Office meeting with Trump where the two discussed Chicago violence, among other issues.

Before Mayor Rahm Emanuel made the stunning announcement last month that he would not seek a third term, he had launched attacks against former police Superintendent Garry McCarthy for the self-proclaimed conservative Democrat’s ties to Trump. Emanuel released a web ad featuring a clip of Trump speaking glowingly of McCarthy, although without mentioning him by name, while highlighting ties to Trump’s ally and attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Enyia could face similar criticism from other candidates for West’s status as a top celebrity Trump booster. It wouldn’t take a political strategist long to imagine a mailer or video featuring a photo of West hugging Trump, a flat-billed MAGA hat placed firmly on his head.

However, the famous hip-hop artist and designer also has done charitable work in Chicago separate from his political support of Trump that Enyia could highlight. And with less than $100 in her campaign fund, Enyia also could not afford to be all that selective at this early stage in the campaign.

How exactly West came to agree to pay Enyia’s election board fines in unclear. Enyia could not be reached for comment and her campaign said she was unavailable Monday for an interview.

The donation from West comes after Enyia received the Chance endorsement last week. Chance and West are friends and collaborators, two Chicago natives who have enjoyed a meteoric rise in the music industry and beyond.

Last week the 25-year-old star rapper, who was born Chancelor Bennett, said he was backing Enyia, a policy consultant and director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, because they shared a vision on how to better Chicago and lift up its most economically challenged areas.

“I want to work with somebody who is about change, somebody who is about our community, somebody who is about equity, somebody who is about fairness,” Chance said at the City Hall news conference. “And the one person in my research of this wide-open race that’s views align with me would obviously be candidate Amara Enyia.”

Enyia promised Chance’s backing would have staying power.

“This is not your typical flash-in-the-pan endorsement,” Enyia said. “Today represents a commitment, the commitment that Chance and I and the hundreds of people that we’ve organized with, advocated with and worked alongside. Today is the beginning of Chicago’s next level.”

And on Monday, West delivered.

Source: https://www.google.com.ng/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-kanye-west-amara-enyia-chicago-mayor-20181022-story,amp.html

Truely, America is a theater of dreams. You simply Chase your dreams based on personal conviction and believe you can Excel. Before you say jack, prominent people surrounds you based on the fact that they believe you.

Unlike in Nigeria, it is purely business. I support you with 1 million you pay back with 500 million. Who's fooling who?

mehn, this is the real definition of slay queen.


She is beautiful and intelligent.



shout out to the real slay queens out there



Igbo Amaka!!!!



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choi

Here in Africa your parent or someone close to you must av held that position before. Or you have to be just filthy rich. It's more like a monarchy in Africa for the rich and powerful. That's why we still have dictators who have ruled for 35 years and more still ruling in Africa. A giant black shithole it really is. Hope she wins.

Commendable coming from Kanye

All this people don't see themselves as Nigerians again...........I wonder why we're (Nairaland especially) trying to form attache by force..



What has Nigeria done to epp her

America Is the best country in th world, once you're living legit. It's truly the land of opportunities.
Amara bu nke anyi!

U have my go CHIC

Igbo amaka

I want to get that lucky too.

I don't mind using what I have to get what I want.

Pusssy is available here

Cheking names....

Igbo mere kini?
Igbo Amaka

Learn this today if you haven't...


25 Facts about Nigeria:
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1. There are 196 countries in the world and Igbo people from Nigeria can be found in every one of them.
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2. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin.
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2. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/
Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina.
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3. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war
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4. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41 Secondary Schools in the North and 842 Secondary Schools in the South.
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5. In 1973, the Federal Government of Nigeria considered officially changing the name of “Lagos” to “Eko”. Regarding “Lagos” as a colonial name but the bill failed.
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6. The geographical area now referred to as Nigeria was once referred to as ‘Soudan’ and later ‘Nigiritia’.
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7. Offences punishable by death sentence after the 1966 coup included embezzlement, rape and homosexuality.
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8. MKO Abiola was named Kashimawo (Let us wait and see) by his parents. He was his father’s twenty-third child, but the first to survive infant hood.
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9. At the point of death in 1989 green eagles player who slumped and died during a match, Sam Okwaraji was a PhD candidate and qualified lawyer with an LL.M in International Law (University of Rome)
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10. When British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank) opened a branch in Kano in 1929, Alhassan Dantata (Dangote’s Grandfather) opened an account depositing 20 camel-loads of silver coins. He was the first person to deposit money into a Bank in Nigeria and the richest man in Nigeria at the time.
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11. At least 55 women were killed in South-East Nigeria, in 1929 when the women tried to force the Umuahia warrant chiefs to submit to their rule. Which is known today as the Aba women's riot.
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12. Agbani Darego was the only one to wear a maillot as opposed to a bikini during the Miss Universe contest in 2001 which she won.
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13. Justice Aloma Mukhtar is the first female lawyer from the North and went on to become the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
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14. George Goldie, who played a major role in founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who attempts to write his biography.
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15. Hausa Language indigenous to Northern Nigeria is spoken in 11 African countries. Germany, French, U.S., and British International radio stations broadcast in Hausa.
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16. The surgeon who accidentally ‘killed’ Stella Obasanjo was sentenced to 1 year in prison, disqualified for 3 years and fined €120,000.
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17. The word ‘asiri’ means ‘secret’ in Hausa, Yoruba, Nupe and Igarra. It also means ‘gossip’ in Igbo.
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18. Igbo-Ora in Oyo State is the town that produce the highest number of twin births in the world.
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19. Today, only Nigeria has a larger black population than Brazil in the world which is because More than 3.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved and transported to Brazil.
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19. The first aircraft to land in Nigeria landed in Kano in July 1925. It was a British fighter jet which flew from Khartoum (present day Sudan).
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20. In 1895, Koko of Nembe (now in Bayelsa) took 60 white men hostage. When the British refused his demands, more than 40 of those men were killed eaten by him and his men.
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21. The pilot (Francis Osakwe) that flew Ojukwu away from Biafra (1970) was the same pilot that flew Gowon to Uganda in his last flight as Head of State.
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22. In 1986, former President Shehu Shagari was banned from participation in politics for life by Buhari after the coup that removed him. The ban has still not been lifted.
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23. As the wife of the deputy Head of State (Vice President of Nigeria) in 1984, Biodun Idiagbon personally ran a small ice cream shop in Ilorin where she stayed and served customers by herself.
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24. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) when the inhabitants were discovered by a NYSC member in 1986, they were observed to engage in the practise of borrowing wives among themselves.
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25. Nigeria has more English speakers than England, and more Muslims than Saudi Arabia and Syria

- Kelly Hassino

Igbo AMAKA...

Gem

#NameCheckersAssociation are surely coming for this threat,just check the next 15 comments below me....

Igbo ama

Come, let me pray for you.

I still choose you over Buhari

Buhari has been rejected by all

Buhari don't have first school leaving certificate

Buhari uses nepa bill receipt as certificate

does she smokes......any way igbo amaka, bt ds gurl nor fyn

IGBO AMAKA �

Because she was born to Nigerian parents doesn't make her Nigerian. Read her bio. She is American. She was even born there. She is a full American citizen! Not everyone wants to associate with Nigeria and that's ok. No be by force to be Nigerian!

I pray she win.Not like the useless terrorists Pigs we have back home disturbing us wit their ATI-KU nd Obi,No lefledum No erection nuisance.

Best of luck dear

Fake news.
She is not a Nigerian.