Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Anthony Anenih is dead.
Anenih died at a private hospital in Abuja on Sunday at the age of 85.
He was appointed Minister of Works and Housing by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.
Born in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi, in present-day Edo State, Anenijh joined the Nigeria Police Force in Benin City in 1951.
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 served as a police orderly to the first Governor General of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and worked as an instructor in various police colleges.
In 1975, he was assigned to the Administrative Staff College (ASCON), Lagos and retired from the police as a Commissioner of Police.
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