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Buhari jailed me for 18months because I was wealthy and respected – Anenih

ByOgbodo

Posted on November 28, 2016

 

 

 

 

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Chief Tony Anenih, the former Board of Trustees Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that between March 1984 and August 1985, President Muhammadu Buhari jailed him for 18 months because he was a rich man.

Buhari came into power in December 1983 through a successful military coup to become the Head of State. According to Anenih, Buhari was just arresting politicians and he was also arrested since he was the Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria in the old Bendel State.Anenih, who was a minister under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo stated this in his book launched in Abuja on Saturday titled; ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’.

“The military regime of General Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon threw me into detention for 18 months on the basis of an anonymous petition that as a prominent and wealthy politician and leader of the NPN in Bendel State, the military administrator would not find his footing unless I was removed from the scene. He saidPOLITICAL NEWS

Buhari jailed me for 18months because I was wealthy and respected – Anenih

ByOgbodo

Posted on November 28, 2

 

 

 

 

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Chief Tony Anenih, the former Board of Trustees Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that between March 1984 and August 1985, President Muhammadu Buhari jailed him for 18 months because he was a rich man.

Buhari came into power in December 1983 through a successful military coup to become the Head of State. According to Anenih, Buhari was just arresting politicians and he was also arrested since he was the Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria in the old Bendel State.

Anenih, who was a minister under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo stated this in his book launched in Abuja on Saturday titled; ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’.

“The military regime of General Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon threw me into detention for 18 months on the basis of an anonymous petition that as a prominent and wealthy politician and leader of the NPN in Bendel State, the military administrator would not find his footing unless I was removed from the scene. He said

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“I was sent to Kirikiri Prisons where I spent three months before I was transferred to Ikoyi Prisons.”

 “I must emphasise it again and again that I did nothing wrong to anyone, the government or the state to merit a detention. My crime was that I was a wealthy, influential and highly respected politician.” He noted

Anenih said that while he was in detention, he met other prominent Nigerian politicians who were also jailed by Buhari. He met people like; former Governor Lateef Jakande of Lagos State; former Governor Olabisi Onabanjo of Ogun State; former Governor Bola Ige of Oyo State; former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme, ex-Governor Ambrose Alli of old Bendel State, Chief Solomon Lar and many others.Some of the criminals who were condemned to death by some governors were locked up in same cell with them.

“We were transferred to Ikoyi Prisons because of the riot that took place while we were there. The condemned prisoners whose death warrants had earlier been signed by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he was governor of Lagos State, broke loose on sighting him as one of the detainees.

“They broke out of their cells and headed towards the building where Jakande and the rest of us detainees were kept. As the prisoners were attempting to force the iron door open, mobile police were called in to quell the riot.”

Anenih described their poor living condition in prison as hell.

“Where we were staying, the bucket latrines or toilets had opening to the rooms. These buckets were emptied maybe once a week from behind, and if for any reason the buckets were not emptied once a week as the rule, you lived with the stench.“At night, cockroaches, rats and lizards passed through these holes housing the bucket latrines into our cells after crawling on the buckets to disturb us. So, you could really not sleep for one hour without getting cockroaches perch on you.