BREAKING: Francis Athur Nzeribe, Former Senator And Lawmaker Is Dead—-The Genius Media Nigeria reports that Francis Athur Nzeribe, a former Senator and lawmaker dies at the age of 83.
TGM understands 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.
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 was in his hey days very wealthy and influential until his health suddenly began to deteriorate.
