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The Vanguard newspaper has published a brief biography about the late Senator Uche Chukwumerije, describing him as a 'rallying point' during the country's Biafra crisis.
His voice, we read, was one of the strongest, serving to strengthen the demoralized Biafran soldiers and compatriots.
After serving as Minister of Information, Vanguard writes, the controversial man disappeared from the political headlines to resurface 13 years later when he became senator under the PDP in the Abia North Senatorial constituency.
The National Assembly 'built the real Chukwumerije' a strict man who left no room for idleness.
"His defining moment, however, was in the period between late 2005 and 2006 when the plot to enact a third term for the president and governors reached the National Assembly. Chukwumerije and his ideological partner, Senator Ben Obi were the first to rouse the nation to the third term plot in a joint press statement on December 18, 2005.
"Chukwumerije became the ideological rallying point for the anti-third term coalition as he defied party and geography to marshal opposition to the third term plot. Nigerians who had in the past regarded him as an obtrusive clog to the free flow of democracy now saw him in another light as an angel of freedom."
His was so strong a voice against a third term bid that Vanguard says "his unflinching opposition to the third term amendment and his organisation of the coalition won him plaudits from far and near and he easily won re-election to the Senate in 2007 on the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA."
Then the paper adds, a bit disappointedly: "He, however, returned to the PDP before the 2011 elections and won a third term to the Senate during which he served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Education. He vied to go for a fourth term in the Senate but at the time of the PDP primary contest he had already been ravaged by complications of the lung cancer that eventually killed him yesterday."
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Source: #Vanguard
His voice, we read, was one of the strongest, serving to strengthen the demoralized Biafran soldiers and compatriots.
After serving as Minister of Information, Vanguard writes, the controversial man disappeared from the political headlines to resurface 13 years later when he became senator under the PDP in the Abia North Senatorial constituency.
The National Assembly 'built the real Chukwumerije' a strict man who left no room for idleness.
"His defining moment, however, was in the period between late 2005 and 2006 when the plot to enact a third term for the president and governors reached the National Assembly. Chukwumerije and his ideological partner, Senator Ben Obi were the first to rouse the nation to the third term plot in a joint press statement on December 18, 2005.
"Chukwumerije became the ideological rallying point for the anti-third term coalition as he defied party and geography to marshal opposition to the third term plot. Nigerians who had in the past regarded him as an obtrusive clog to the free flow of democracy now saw him in another light as an angel of freedom."
His was so strong a voice against a third term bid that Vanguard says "his unflinching opposition to the third term amendment and his organisation of the coalition won him plaudits from far and near and he easily won re-election to the Senate in 2007 on the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA."
Then the paper adds, a bit disappointedly: "He, however, returned to the PDP before the 2011 elections and won a third term to the Senate during which he served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Education. He vied to go for a fourth term in the Senate but at the time of the PDP primary contest he had already been ravaged by complications of the lung cancer that eventually killed him yesterday."
Click here to read full story
Source: #Vanguard
