[1] Brume was exceedingly bright, inducted into the oldest engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi,[2] as a junior at University of Maine in 1963.
[6] After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 Brume founded and became president of the Urhobo Leadership Forum in Abuja.
[6] He was appointed to committees on Science & Technology, Establishment, Niger Delta (chairman), Privatization, Tourism & Culture and Economic Affairs.
[9] Brume had accused supporters of impeachment of evil intentions for the country, saying they were not comfortable with having a Southerner as president.
[6] However, Brume's moderate position on allocation of revenues from oil produced in the Niger Delta to other regions of the country earned him unpopularity in his home state.
[11] After the Delta Central Development Coalition passed a vote of no confidence on him in September 2002, Brume did not succeed in getting the PDP nomination to run for a second term in the Senate.
[18] Brume was chairman of a committee that screened candidates for governor of Delta State in the 2007 elections, selecting Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru as the consensus candidate accepted by Urhobos, Ijaws, Itsekiris and other tribes for the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP).