Former Minister of Works and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih is dead.  Anenih, 85, died on Sunday evening at Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment.

Born at  Uzenema-Arue in Uromi, Anenih joined the Nigeria Police Force in Benin City in 1951. He attended the Police College in Ikeja and was selected for further training at the Bramshill Police College, Basingstoke, England in 1966 and the International Police Academy, Washington DC in 1970.

Anenih served as a police orderly to the first Governor-General of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. He worked as an instructor in various police colleges, and in 1975 was assigned to the Administrative Staff College Nigeria (ASCON).  He retired from the police as a Commissioner.

Chief Anenih was a state chairman of Nigeria’s then ruling National Party of Nigeria between 1981 and 1983. He was also the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party under which Chief Moshood Abiola  won the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Anenih was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)and its erstwhile chairman. He was appointed Minister of Works in the President Olusegun Obasanjo government.