Breaking News: Senator Uche Chukwumerije Is Dead

by Perkins Abaje

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, is repeated dead.  

Sources close to NewsWireNGR said he just passed on. Until his death, Senator Chukwumerije, born November 1939 was elected a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in April 2003, representing Abia North Senatorial District.

In the Fourth Republic, Chukwumerije was elected to the Senate on the Peoples Democratic Party’s platform, but he fell out of favor with the party’s leadership when he opposed the Third Term Agenda. Chukwumerije eventually decamped to the Progressive Peoples Alliance in 2006, and was reelected to the Senate on April 28, 2007

This was disclosed in a statement by his first son, Chidi Chukwumerije.

The statement read; “On the evening of Sunday, the 19th of April, 2015, surrounded by his family, Comrade Uche Chukwumerije passed into the open arms of history, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, after a long but gallant battle with lung cancer.

“His life is many volumes, which can only be told with care and time, of dedication and focus, integrity and discipline, and an unbroken love for the highest ideals of our shared humanity.

“Details of burial arrangements will be announced in due course. We ask only for your prayers and good wishes.”

Senator Chukwumerije served as Minister of Information during the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida.

Chukwumerije is divorced with 7 children. Chukwumerije studied economics at the University of Ibadan. He was reelected on the PDP platform in the April 2011 elections.