8. Vop Osili
Samuel Ifeanyi “Vop” Osili, Jr. is a Democratic politician from Indianapolis, Indiana.
He is a member of the Indianapolis City-County Council from the 15th district, in the southwestern portion of Center Township .
On December 22, 2011; an Indiana judge declared him the secretary of state-elect of Indiana due to first-place finisher Charlie White ‘s ineligibility, though this was later reversed on appeal. Osili was born in Lagos, Nigeria , to a Nigerian father and an American mother.
He was said to be a very talkative as a toddler, which led his parents to nickname him “Vop”–short for “Voice of the People.” The nickname stuck.
In the midst of the Nigerian Civil War , he and his mother fled back to the United States; his father didn’t follow them for another five years.
They settled in his maternal grandparents’ home in Haughville. He grew up as a Republican, but became a Democrat in the 1990s.
Discussion about this post