BREAKING NEWS: Athur Nzeribe dies at 83

Francis Athur Nzeribe, a former Senator and lawmaker dies at the age of 83, ENigeria Newspaper reports.

ENigeria Newspaper reports that family sources confirmed that Chief Athur Nzeribe died on Sunday morning in a foreign hospital.

Athur Nzeribe was in 1999, elected to the Senate to represent Orlu, but in November 2002, then-Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim banned Nzeribe indefinitely over a N22 million fraud charge leveled against him.

In April 2006, the Orlu People’s Consultative Assembly, chaired by Imo State Governor Achike Udenwa, launched a “One million march” to rally support for Nzeribe’s recall from the Senate.

He was in his hey days very wealthy and influential until his health suddenly began to deteriorate.