Senator Arthur Nzeribe Representing Orlu Senatorial District in the National Assembly has been reported dead. There are indication that his family members have kept his death away from the public for three days.
A reliable Crossfire Reports source said that the controversial Senator from Oguta died in an Abuja hospital but did not indicate when.
The Source said that the news of his death filtered into the State in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Nzeribe became the Senator representing the Orlu Senatorial District in 1999 until he was defeated by Osita Izunaso in the primaries of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2007.
The Senator was defeated for the first time when former Governor Achike Udenwa moved against him.
The two prominent politicians from Orlu had a clash when Udenwa who was championing the proposed creation of Orlu State was opposed by Nzeribe who was the arrowhead of the demand for Urashi State.
On June 10, 1993, the Senator Nzeribe made an unpopular attempt to stop the June 12, 1993 election, by relying on a court order which his group, Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), got from a midnight ruling from late Justice Bassey Ikpeme of Abuja High Court.
He was aged 84 years old.
The family is expected to issue a formal statement on his death soon.
