Sen Uche Chukwumerije Dies At 75 …Nwator At 74

Deputy Managing Director, Total E &P Nigeria Limited, Mr Nicolas Brunel (left) discussing with Dr Emmaunel Onu Egbogah during the Institute of Petroleum Studies of UNIPORT 10th Induction/Anniversary ceremony, recently. Photo: Obina Prince Dele

Veteran politician and media practitioner, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, is dead, his son Chika has announced.
Uche Chukwumerije, who represents Abia North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, under the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), died, aged 75.
He died yesterday at Turkish Hospital, Abuja after a battle with cancer.
A text message from Chika announced the exit of the great Biafra propagandist and orator.
The text reads: “Dear friends, my father, Comrade Uche Chukwumerije, just passed on. He has been an inspiration in ways I cannot explain. Burial arrangements will be communicated once it has been concluded. Thank you for your love and support. Warm regards, Chika Chukwumerije.”
The Senate has also announced the senator’s death, yesterday.
It would be recalled that the distinguished Senator Chukwumerije had indicated interest to go back to the Red Chamber but lost out in the PDP primaries.
Since then, the chairman, Senate Committee on Education, had been out of public view.
His death, yesterday, therefore, came to many as a rude shock.
Meanwhile, the Owiaken family of Alueken Community in Ogale clan of Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State has announced with grief the demise of their husband, father, brother, son, grandfather, uncle and friend, Arch Bishop Friday Osaro Nwator.
He passed on to glory on the 6th of April, 2015 following a brief illness at the age of 74.
Arch Bishop Nwator, a devout Christian, Philanthropist and a United Kingdom trained medical doctor, was an Adviser on Health Matters to President Shehu Shagari, National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Founder, Health Services Department, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt.
The late Nwator holds the National Honour of Order of the Niger (OON), was a member of the Constituent Assembly in the 2nd Republic, Chairman, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Rivers State.
He is survived by a wife, four children; among them Mr. Dominic Nwator, Commissioner, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), six grand children and host of relations.
A statement by the Chief Mourner, Dominic Nwator said the burial is fixed for May 23, 2015 in Ogale, Eleme.