Former Nigerian Senator, Francis Arthur Nzeribe is dead.
Nzeribe died at a foreign hospital following an undisclosed ailment Sunday morning and was aged 83.
“He died this morning in a hospital abroad. The family will soon release a statement,” a source said.
In 2017, the photograph of ageing and possibly sick Nzeribe, sitting languidly, with medics around him went viral on social media.
He was elected a Senator to represent Orlu, Imo State, 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.
He also be remembered for being the arrow head of the discredited Association for Better Nigeria (ABN) which played a major role in the events that led to the annulement of the results of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by Chief MKO Abiola.
