Sen. Uche Chukwumerije is dead.
Chukwumerije, a former Chairman, Senate
Committee on Education, died in a Turkish
Hospital in Abuja at the age of 75.
He was a three-time senator that represented
Abia North.
Chika Chukwumerije, son of the deceased said his
father died of lung cancer at exactly 4.30 p.m.
Chika said that burial arrangements would be
communicated once it had been concluded.
Chukwumerije, elected a senator of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria in April 2003, represented Abia
North Senatorial District.
He served as minister of information in the dying
days of the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida
and later served in the same capacity in the
interim national government of Ernest Shonekan.
Sen. Chukwumerije was rumoured to have
slumped and died in 2014 after the legislator lost
his return bid to the Senate in a PDP primary
election.
The rumour was later described as the handiwork
of “a few ungodly and irresponsible individual.
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