Uche Chukwumerije

Uche Chukwumerije (11 January 1939 – 19 April 2015), popularly referred to as "Comrade Chukwumerije

Early life Chukwumerije was born on 11 January 1939 in Ogoja, Faith Bible College, Sango-Ota, 1991-92. and under the Interim National Government of Ernest Shonekan.

Senate 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.

Chukwumerije was reelected on the PDP platform in the April 2011 elections. He died in office of lung cancer in 2015.

Family Chukwumerije was married to Princess Gloria N. Iweka. They had eight children: Che Chidi (1974-), Kwame Ekwueme (1975-1995), Azuka Juachi (1976-), Dikeogu Egwuatu (1979-), Chaka Ikenna (1980-), Uchemruaka Obinna (1982-), and the twins Kelechi Udoka (1983-) and Chikadibia Yagazie (1983-). Chukwumerije and Princess Iweka were divorced in 1988. In 1995,He lost his son Kwame in an auto accident.One of their sons Chika won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.