{"id":56465,"date":"2018-10-29T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=56465"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:36:09","slug":"oshiomhole-reacts-to-tony-anenihs-death-reveals-how-pdp-chieftain-endorsed-him-as-apc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=56465","title":{"rendered":"Oshiomhole reacts to Tony Anenih’s death, reveals how PDP chieftain endorsed him as APC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the death of Tony Anenih, a former minister of Works.<\/p>\n

Report of the death of Anenih, a founding father of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, resurfaced yesterday.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Anenih\u2019s passing, Oshiomhole described the PDP chieftain as \u201ca political colossus.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement signed by his spokesman, Simon Ebegbulem, Oshiomhole recalled how he reconciled his difference with Anenih on a church altar.<\/p>\n

He also recounted how Anenih endorsed his candidature for APC chairmanship.<\/p>\n

The statement reads: \u201cPolitics may have separated us, but nothing affected our personal relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever public disagreement we might have had, I am consoled that we both reconciled at the church altar after he announced his retirement from partisan politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a measure of his generosity of spirit that when I announced my interest in the chairmanship of APC earlier this year, he wrote a letter of endorsement expressing absolute confidence in my ability to inspire APC to greater heights.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis explicit support was not just in an objective appreciation of my ability but also in solidarity as fellow Edo man.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may have disagreed in terms of methodology, but there is no denying that deep in his heart was a commitment to see the progress of the nation at large and his native Edo in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the death of Tony Anenih, a former minister of Works. Report of the death of Anenih, a founding father of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, resurfaced yesterday. Reacting to Anenih\u2019s passing, Oshiomhole described the PDP chieftain as \u201ca political colossus.\u201d In a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6934],"class_list":["post-56465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-tony-anenih"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}