Sonala OlumhenseChief Anthony Anenih, one of the most influential chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party from 1999 to 2016 who was widely-known as “Mr. A patriot loves, asserts and defends his or her country passionately; Anenih’s passion was the PDP, right or wrong. Through the 16 PDP locust years, Anenih was also the Chris Uba—or the Jagaban, if you like—of Edo State politics. In Anenih’s PDP, Nigeria became the epicenter of human greed and official impunity and duplicity. Perhaps, then, we should be grateful Anenih chose to die in Nigeria; our slave-masters normally prefer to die anywhere else.

Source: Punch November 03, 2018 23:12 UTC