Chief Tony Anenih, Former Minister of Works and Housing and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is dead.
Anenih, died at 85 years old was a former chairman of PDP Board of Trustees. His death occured after a brief illness according to a statement signed by his son, Anthony Anenih.
The statement reads: “With a heavy heart and total submission to the will of the Almighty God, the family of Chief Anthony Akhakon Anenih, CFR, the Iyasele of Esanland, announces his passing on to glory today, Sunday, 28th October, 2018 after a brief illness.
“Aged 85, Chief Anthony Akhakon Anenih, is survived by many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Anenih, who was said to have been ill for an undisclosed period of time, was said to have died at the Cedar Crest Hospital, Abuja, at the age of 85.
Born on 4th August, 1933, in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi, Anenih joined the Nigeria Police Force in 1951 in Benin City.
He attended the police college in Ikeja, and was selected for further training in the Bramshill Police College, Basingstoke, England, in 1966 and the International Police Academy, Washington DC, in 1970.
He was the police orderly to the first Governor General of Nigeria, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe.
He worked as an instructor in various police colleges and in 1975 was assigned to the Administrative Staff College, Lagos. He retired from the police as a Commissioner, after which he joined politics.
Anenih was also Edo State Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria between 1981 and 1983
He played a major role in the early 1990’s as the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 1992 and 1993 and was also a member of the Constitutional Conference in 1994.
Anenih was a priminent member of the then unregistered Peoples Democratic Movement founded by the late former Chief of General Staff, Gen. Musa Yar’Adua.
He was also among the founding members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and was a minister under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He was also known as “Mr Fix it” due to his influence in political calculations, his closeness to the corridors of power and his political dexterity, was later made the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP.
He also a noble son of Esan land in Edo state, South South, Nigeria. He was very bold and did his little best to bring himself out of life’s obscurity and impossibility to national and global reckoning.
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