Arthur Nzeribe is dead.
Former Nigerian Senator, Francis Arthur Nzeribe has been announced dead.
The late lawmaker who was 83 years old, is said to have died on Sunday morning.
Nzeribe before his death had been at a foreign hospital where he was been treated of an undisclosed ailment.
It will be recalled that an image emerged in 2017, showing ageing and possibly sick Nzeribe, sitting languidly, with medics around him.
He was elected a Senator 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.
Also, in April 2006, the Orlu People’s Consultative Assembly, sponsored by the then Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, staged what it called a “One million march” to drum support for Nzeribe’s recall from the Senate.
Due to popular demand, in December 2006, Nzeribe was defeated by Osita Izunaso during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 2007 Senatorial election.