Uche Chukwumerije was elected a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 in April 2003, representing Abia

Abia State

Abia State is a state in southeastern Nigeria. The capital is Umuahia, although the major commercial city is Aba, formerly a British colonial government outpost. The state was created in 1991 from part of Imo State and its citizens are predominantly Igbo people...

 North Senatorial District.

Chukwumerije served as minister of information in the dying days of the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida.
Chukwumerije served as minister of information in the interim national government of Ernest Shonekan.

His son Chika

Chika

Chika is both a Japanese and Igbo name. It means 'God is supreme' in Igbo.-Possible writings in Japanese:Chika can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:*千佳, "thousand, excellent"*千夏, "thousand, summer"...

 won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Uche funded his training.

Senate

In the Fourth Republic

Nigerian Fourth Republic

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, Chukwumerije was elected to the Senate on the Peoples Democratic Party's

People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the right wing of the political spectrum. It has won every single Presidential elections since 1999, namely: 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011, and is the dominant party in the Fourth Republic.-History:In...

 platform, but he fell out of favor with the party's leadership when he opposed the Third Term Agenda

Third Term Agenda

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. Chukwumerije eventually decamped to the Progressive Peoples Alliance

Progressive Peoples Alliance

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in 2006, and was reelected to the Senate on April 28, 2007.

Chukwumerije was reelected on the PDP platform in the April 2011 elections.