The family members of former Information Minister, Uche Chukwumerije, has explained how the ex-Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District died on Sunday.
Uche Chukwumerije
According to a statement by a family representative, Chidi, the Senator died on Sunday at the Turkish Hospital in Abuja after a long but gallant battle with lung cancer.
“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,” the statement said.
“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.”
A statement by Senate Spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, described the lawmaker who until his death was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education as political giant and one of the nation,s finest legislator.
Abaribe said the lawmaker who represented Abia North Senatorial District of Abia state in the current senate easily passes as a repository of legislative tradition and practice.
“The Senate will surely miss his erudite contributions on the floor of the chamber and his painstaking approach to committee work. Chukwumerije was indeed an embodiment of legislative tradition and consummate activists democrat who loved his people passionately”, he said.
Uche Chukwumerije was born November 1939. The Senator until his death was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education. He was elected a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in April 2003, representing Abia North Senatorial District.
Chukwumerije served as minister of information in the dying days of the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida and in the interim national government of Ernest Shonekan.
May his soul rest in peace.
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