Career
Chukwumerije served as Minister of Information and Culture under General Ibrahim Babangida and under the Interim National Government of Ernest Shonekan. In the Fourth Republic, Chukwumerije was elected to the on the Peoples Democratic Party"s platform, but he fell out of favor with the party"s leadership when he opposed the Third Term Agenda. Chukwumerije eventually decamped to the Progressive Peoples Alliance in 2006, and was reelected to the on April 28, 2007.
Chukwumerije was reelected on the PDP platform in the April 2011 elections.
He died in office of lung cancer in 2015. Chukwumerije was divorced and has 7 children.