Gabe Okoye is Nigerian–American civil engineer, former chair, and a current commissioner of planning in

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. On November 8, 2022, he became a legislator elect at the 2022 US midterm elections representing Georgia State and he took office on January 9, 2023.

Biography

Okoye is a native of Enugwu-Agidi . He relocated to United States in 1981. He began working as a security guard. He later enrolled in college where he became a civil engineer and eventually founded a company called Essex Geoscientist. Okoye is married with four children and has been living in

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since 1992

Political career

Okoye is a

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and he became the Gwinnett party chairman in 2016. In 2018, he recorded massive wins that captured 13 seats out of the 25 seats available in the county. This historic wins made the Georgia House of Representatives with Resolution 313 of 2019 declared November 6 of 2019 as Gabe Okoye Leadership Day.

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