[1] In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, ThisDay said that he had not sponsored any bills but was surprisingly brilliant on the floor.
[4] Adokwe ran for reelection as Senator for Nasarawa South on the PDP platform in the April 2011 elections.
[5] Adokwe contested for a third term in the 2015 Nasarawa South senatorial election on the platform of the PDP and lost the election to Arc Salihu H. Egyebola of the APC who polled 95,781 votes against Adokwe's 91,760 votes.
On 12 October 2015 the tribunal dismissed Adokwe's petition for lack of merit.
Dissatisfied by the ruling, Adokwe then headed to the court of appeal in Markurdi Benue state, the appeal court later affirmed the electoral victory of senator Adokwe.