Gabe Okoye is NigerianâÂÂAmerican civil engineer, former chair, and a current commissioner ofàplanning in Gwinnett County. On November 8, 2022, he became a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in the 2022 election representing Georgia's 102nd House of Representatives district and he took office on January 9, 2023.
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 Atlanta since 1992
Okoye is a Democrat and heÃÂ became the Gwinnett partyÃÂ 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 theÃÂ Georgia House of Representatives with Resolution 313 of 2019 declared November 6 of 2019ÃÂ as Gabe Okoye Leadership Day.