Enyinnaya Abaribe

Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe (born 1 March 1955) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the senator representing Abia South senatorial district since 2007.

[1] He previously served as deputy governor of Abia State from 1999 until his resignation and subsequent impeachment in March 2003.

From 1993 until 1995 he was the CEO of Integrated Mortgage Co.[10] Abaribe became Abia State's Deputy Governor after Orji Uzor Kalu's 1999 election to the Governorship.

[13] The House of Assembly formally voted him out of office several days later, in a move Abaribe called "medicine after death".

[10] In October 2007, as Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the banned secessionist organization Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), was on trial for treason, Abaribe and six other southeastern senators protested at the Federal High Court in Lagos to demand his release.

[21] On 22 June 2018, Abaribe was arrested by the Department of State Security Services (DSS) at his barber shop located at Transcorp Hilton Hotel,[22] Abuja for his alleged links with the Indigenous People of Biafra being one of the sureties to their leader Nnamdi Kanu, he was taken to his house for a search and was later taken to the DSS detention in Abuja.