The death has been announced of former Nigerian senator Arthur Nzeribe The NewsGuru.com can confirm.
According to the source, Nzeribe was declared dead at a foreign hospital after being diagnosed with undisclosed ailment.
He got elected into the Senate to represent Orlu first in 1999 but in November 2002, the then-Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim suspended Nzeribe indefinitely over an allegation of N22 million fraud.
In addition, the Orlu People’s Consultative Assembly, sponsored by the then Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, called a protest to drum support for the recall of Nzeribe from the senate.
Nzeribe lost re-election bid when he was defeated by by Osita Izunaso during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 2007 Senatorial election.
Francis Arthur Nzeribe was a Nigerian politician who was Senator for the Orlu Senatorial constituency in Imo State from October 1983 to December 1983 and May 1999 to May 2007 on the People’s Democratic Party slate.
Nzeribe was aged 83 years