Anthony Anenih
President Goodluck Jonathan may have made up his mind to impose the
reclusive former Minister of Works, Chief Tony Anenih, on the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) as the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT).
Anenih, who was on Monday summoned by the House of Representatives
over the sum of N2.3 billion that was purportedly disbursed for an
abandoned road project in Nassarawa State in 2006, was at the
Presidential Villa on Thursday morning where he had a closed-door
meeting with the President.
The meeting, it was gathered, involved discussions about how to make
sure that Anenih, who was known as “Mr. Fix-It” before his political
profile began to diminish, becomes the next chairman of the BoT, a
position from which former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, resigned in
April this year. In 2007, Obasanjo outmaneuvered Anenih to bag the
influential job.
Apart from Anenih, others in the race are a former National Chairman
of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali; a former Chairman of Board of Trustees of
the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Chief Harry Akande; and a former
President of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani.
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