The former Senator Representing Orlu Senatorial District in the National Assembly Arthur Nzeribe has died.
A source who confided in the Network said that the maverick Senator from Oguta died in an Abuja hospital.
The Source said that the news of his death filtered into the State in the early hours of the morning on Sunday.
He was aged 84 years.
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 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 controversial Senator 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.
The Network gathered from his men that the family will issue a formal statement on his death soon.
