the return of politics in 1998, he became a pioneer national ex officio member of the then newly born political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, an amalgam of about 34 political groupings that came together in June of that year at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, to become a formidable political platform that went on to succeed the military administration of General Abdulsalami Abubakar. When the new party began to form her state structures, Sen. Eze moved down to his home state of Enugu, in Nigeria’s south eastern area, to join hands in midwifing the party in the state. He contested and won the position of state secretary, becoming the party’s pioneer state secretary. The PDP won the election in Enugu as in many other states in the country in the 1999 general election. The new governor, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani appointed Sen. Eze into his cabinet in 1999, making him the commissioner for Information and Culture. In 2001, he was redeployed to the newly created Ministry of Culture and Tourism but after his heroic effort in the governor’s successful reelection bid in 2003, the new ministry was remerged with the Information ministry to create yet a new Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism. In another cabinet shakeup in 2006, he was dropped from the cabinet but was called back in 2007 to serve as Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Affrairs, a position he held till he was elected to the Nigerian Senate in 2007. In the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate. For the eight years he spent in the senate, he was a member of the Constitution Drafting and Amendment Committee that made some novel changes to Nigeria’s 1999 constitution. After his reelection to the senate in 2011, he was appointed chairman of the committee on works. Eze also served as a member of committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs. In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, ThisDay newspaper said that he effectively manned the information machinery of the Senate, and he was articulate in debates in plenary motions, particularly on the collapse of the road infrastructure. He has been described as one of the most powerful of the senators. Eze competed successfully to be reelected Senator for Enugu North Senatorial District on