A second Second Republic lawmaker and billionaire businessman, Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe, is dead.
The Oguta-born international businessman died on Sunday in a foriegn hospital where he was suspected to be undergoing medical treatment.
He was aged 83.
Many Nigerians believed Nzeribe was used by the military government to derail the 1993 presidential elections won by business mogul, M.K.O Abiola. He’s famed for creating the Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), a group of private citizens said to have sponsored a campaign calling for General Ibrahim Babangida, the then military head of state, to remain in office for at least another four years. The group would late institute a court case, stopping the conduct of the elections and the counting of results. However, Nzeribe had repeatedly denied claims that his group was sponsored by the military junta of Babangida.
The deceased politician hailed from Oguta in Imo State.
Nzeribe was a Senator from October 1983 to December 1983 and May 1999 to May 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
