OBITUARY: Tony Anenih, Zik’s former police orderly who could ‘fix’ anything

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Until 2015, Tony Anenih could fix anything in politics, but the former chairman of the PDP board of trustees was on Sunday outsmarted by death at a ripe age of 85. For a man who played lead roles in installing Nigerian presidents from 1999 to 2011, he definitely earned his stripes as Nigeria’s foremost political strategist. 

From the moment he joined politics in early 1980, Anenih remained a trailblazer and left his marks. He is surely going to be remembered for many feats, but one quality stands out: delivering results whenever he was needed by his party. His only record of failure at the national level was in 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari swept the PDP out of power.

POLICE ORDERLY TO ZIK

Born on August 4, 1933, Anenih finished his secondary school education and enrolled at Police College, Ikeja, from where he was selected for further training in the Bramshill Police…



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