OBJ, Atiku, Anenih meet, trade words on corruption
At Yar’Adua memorial lecture
By LUCKY NWANKWERE and JACOB EDI, Abuja
Sunday, March 16, 2008
The trio of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Works Minister, Chief Tony Anenih yesterday turned the Ninth Shehu Yar’Adua Memorial Lecture in Abuja into an occasion for trading words as they poured venom on one another.
Anenih who was dethroned as the ruling party’s board of trustees chairman by his former boss and friend, Obasanjo, fired the first salvo during his opening prayer, when he asked God to give the incumbent president, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, the wisdom to clear the mess heaped on the country by the immediate past administration.
“Thank God for the president we have now. We pray that God will give you the courage, wisdom and political will to clear the rot you inherited from the previous administration,” Anenih prayed.
Hardly had he finished than Obasanjo, as Chairman of the Board of Trustess of the Yar’Adua Foundation, characteristically took on Anenih, and in a veiled language, accusing the Edo chief of abandoning the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (Tafidan) in his hour of need.
Obasanjo’s govt rotten – Anenih
Ex-president a bully – Atiku
Shut up, you’re all corrupt – OBJ