Chima Nwafor

{{Short description|Nigerian politician (1948–2006)}}

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| name = Chima Nwafor

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| office = Deputy Governor of Abia State

| governor = Orji Uzor Kalu

| term_start = March 2003

| term_end = March 2006

| predecessor = Enyinnaya Abaribe

| successor = Eric Acho Nwakanma

| governor1 = Ogbonnaya Onu

| term_start1 = January 1992

| term_end1 = November 1993

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| birth_name = Clement Chima Nwafor

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|06|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Umuojima, Osisioma Ngwa, Southern Region, British Nigeria (now in Abia State, Nigeria)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|03|21|1948|06|10|df=y}}

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• National Republican Convention
  (1991–1993)
• Peoples Democratic Party
  (1998–2006)

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| children = Enyinnaya Nwafor

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Clement Chima Nwafor (10 June 1948 – 21 March 2006) was a Nigerian surgeon and politician who served twice as the deputy governor of Abia State from 1992 to 1993 and from 2003 until his death in 2006.{{cite web|url=https://abiastate.gov.ng/ten-years-after-dr-chima-nwafor-lives-on/|title=Ten years after, Dr Chima Nwafor lives on…|date=17 December 2016|website=Government of Abia State|access-date=6 March 2022}}{{cite magazine|title=The Fixing of Kalu|issue=18|year=2004|magazine=Tell Magazine|editor=Nosa Igiebor|publisher=Tell Communications Limited}}{{cite magazine|title=The Face of Shame|magazine=TheNEWS magazine|page=34|volume=25|publisher=Independent Communications Network Limited|year=2005}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vYKEQgAACAAJ|title=Transition Without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida |editor=Diamond, Larry |editor2=Jay Diamond, Larry |editor3=Hamilton, Anthony |editor4=Kirk-Greene, Millard |editor5=Oyediran, Oyeleye|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|date=1997|isbn=9781555875916|pages=515}}

He is the father of Engr. Enyinnaya Nwafor, the founder of Tunnel End, and Rock Waters Integrated Services Ltd., two construction companies headquartered in Aba.{{Cite news |date=2020-06-25 |title=Breaking: EFCC Storms Premises of Son of ex-Abia Dep. Gov., Enyinnaya Nwafor |pages=1 |work=Independent |url=https://independent.ng/breaking-efcc-storms-premises-of-son-of-ex-abia-dep-gov-enyinnaya-nwafor/ |access-date=2023-11-23}}