Widely distrusted PDP barons such as Tony Anenih and Bode George are also jockeying for position...
He ended his speech by congratulating the PDP's National Chairman Ahmadu Ali and the Chairman of its Board of Trustees Tony Anenih - both widely accused of running a no-holds-barred campaign to push the amendment through the National Assembly...
Power struggle in Edo against PDP power-broker Tony Anenih...
There is also Equator Exploration registered in the British Virgin Islands and led by a controversial but politically well-connected management and some rather less well-established Nigerian firms including Godsonic Oil & Gas linked to Tony Anenih Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees retired police chief and former Works and Housing Minister...
Minority stakes were parcelled out to indigenous Nigerian companies linked to prominent political and business figures in Abuja including the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) heavyweight and Obasanjo confidant Tony Anenih...
He also enjoys the services of the political fixer Tony Anenih Chairman of the PDP's board of trustees...
The killing was followed by a shake-up within the PDP after which political veteran Anthony Anenih emerged as Chairman of the party's Board of Trustees pegging level with National Chairman Audu Ogbeh for real power in the party...
Many politicians regard the PDP's other leading political fixer Tony Anenih as too heavy-handed...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Works Minister and chief political fixer Tony Anenih will be a dominant figure in 2002 running the primaries and sifting party nominations...
Re-election strategy Obasanjo's re-election strategists headed by the omnipresent Works and Housing Minister and State House insider Tony Anenih are said to have a plan of which the priorities are: reforming the reviled and ridiculed state-owned Nigerian Electric Power Authority (Nepa); a new deal over oil revenue and state resources with the south-eastern states; reshuffling more effective ministers into senior positions; ensuring the PDP's national and state committees renominate Obasanjo unanimously; and countering opposition from ethnic and political associations such as Afenifere (Yoruba) Ohaneze Ndigbo (Igbo) Arewa Consultative Forum (northern) and the younger (under 50) state governors...