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In 1989, as an undergraduate at University of Lagos studying Accounting, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, having satisfied the requisite conditions and scaled through the final hurdles. In 1990 he was elected an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA) and in 1998 an Associate of Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (ACTI) and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) in 2000. Out of these number of years he presided over the affairs of the 5th Abia State House of Assembly as the Honourable Speaker for four years with an enriched working experience in both the public and private sectors, Chukwu also served as the National Vice Chairman Conference of Speakers (South East Zone) from 2012-2014. Given his pedigree, outstanding political antecedents and administrative sagacity, Chukwu was nominated by the Peoples Democratic Party Abia State as the running mate to Governor Victor Okezie Ikpeazu, the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 general elections.