[1] Okadigbo, Enwerem's rival and successor as President of the Senate, was in turn removed from office on 8 August 2000.
[1] According to news reports, Enwerem expressed an interest in "good laws" whose "ripple effects on the populace would be wide, sweeping and enduring.
The two German doctors who arrived in the air ambulance refused to allow Enwerem to board the aircraft due to his "very critical" condition, insisting that he was not strong enough to make the flight and rushed him back to the National Hospital,[1] Enwerem was readmitted to National Hospital the same day, and plugged into a ventilator machine.
[1] One of his children, Mr Evan Enwerem Jr, has been appointed as Transition Committee Chairman of Ikeduru LGA.
Mark declined to formally announce the news to the Senate because most of Enwerem's family were out of the country at the time.
[1] The then Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, issued a statement through her adviser, Funke Egbemode, saying that Enwerem's death "would leave a gaping hole in the nation's legislative history.