The Senate Chairman on education and a senator representing Abia North senatorial district at the National Assembly is unconfirmed dead.
Ashiwaju.org spoke to the information officer government house Umuahia, Mr. Jinanwa Azubuike, who disclosed that the ailing health deterioration of the septuagenarian political activist causes serious worry to the people and government of the state, but affirmed that the state government is yet to issue any statement to Senator Uche Chukwumerije's whereabouts..
It was last reported that the one time Igbo spokesman during the civil war health condition got worsened as a result of the shocking result of the just concluded PDP, Abia North senatorial primaires that produced a former house of representative member from Arochukwu L..G.A, Honourable Mao Ohabunwa winner, while the senator fingered the state government alleged complicity in producing an altered delegate list.
A source close to the ailing senator disclosed that the defeat he suffered at the primaries and the manner he was allegedly rigged out by Governor T. A Orji could not be unconnected with the uncertainty surrounding his whereabouts and death rumour.
“He had been sick for two weeks before the PDP primaries but the outcome of the election made is condition severe than it was, and he has being flown abroad for medical treatment,, Ishi-karaka was disappointed that governor T.A Orji could do this to him'' Source disclosed.
He had also missed some of the official functions at the National Assembly, even as the senate chairman on Education, and other political assignments, which raised the question by many Nigerians to know the whereabouts of the notable Igbo voice on the red chamber of the national assembly.
It would be recalled that senator Uche Chukwuerije, age 75, had been sick before the conduct of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) senatorial primaries in Abia North.but his whereabouts raises dust and speculation, if the senator could make it back home from his overseas medical treatment trip .
