Toni Iwobi, originally from Nigeria, says his election for the League shows far right party has no problem with ‘legal migration’Italy's first black senator: my election shows far right is not anti-immigrationItaly’s first black senator has said his election for the League has proved that the far-right party, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric helped it to its best ever result on Sunday, has no problem with legal migration. “It’s an incredible honour for me to be Italy’s first black senator,” he told the Guardian. Iwobi, who owns an IT company, came to Italy in the late 1970s to study in Perugia. “Salvini appointing me as the head of immigration shows that he knows exactly what he is doing,” he said. Kyenge suffered high-profile racist attacks during the brief tenure, including having bananas thrown at her and being likened to an orangutan by a League senator, Roberto Calderoli.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2018 04:52 UTC