Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator Uche Chukwumerije is dead.He died on Sunday in a Turkish Hospital in Abuja at the age of 75.
Chika Chukwumerije, son of the deceased told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview that his father died of lung cancer at exactly 4.30 p.m., on Sunday.
“We are trying to organise some things; he died at exactly 4.30 p.m., this evening. He died here in Abuja and was surrounded by his friends before his last breath.
He has been an inspiration in ways I cannot explain’’.
