Presidential poll: Jonathan will win again –Anenih

 Chairman of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, at the weekend in Uromi, headquarters of Esan North – East Local Government Area of Edo State expressed confidence that President Goodluck Jonathan would be re-elected by Nigerians for a second term.

“Don’t be deceived, if any­one tells you Jonathan will not win; that person is sick. I wanted to see things for myself. Four days ago, I was in Kwara State. As I was leaving, after sitting for five hours, I knew that we have got Kwara.

“Two days ago, as Buhari was landing in Sokoto, I was also landing in Sokoto; and as he was leaving, I was also leav­ing, but at the time I was leav­ing, I knew we have got Sokoto State. These are northern states.

“Coming back home, it will be a sad tale for any member of the South- South region to vote for APC candidates, whether in the Houses of Assembly, Reps, Senate , Governorship or Presi­dential. It will be so bad,” Chief Anenih said.

Addressing a political rally of PDP supporters, Chief An­enih blamed the military junta headed by the APC Presidential candidate, Major- General Mu­hammadu Buhari (retd) for what befell late Prof.Ambrose Alli, first civilian governor of Bendel State, who died on his 60th birth day shortly after his release from prison.

Relieving his prison expe­rience with the late Prof. Alli at the Kirikiri Prison, Lagos where both of them were taken shortly after the December 31, 1983 coup, the PDP BoT chairman recalled how Alli un­derwent a surgical operation at Bonny Camp in Lagos.

Anenih, who spoke shortly after Alli’s dayghter, Rosemary addressed the rally said:

“There is something the daughter of Alli did not tell you. Incidentally, Prof. Am­brose Alli and I were in Kirikiri prison. When they operated on Alli at the Bonny Camp Mili­tary Hospital, Gen. Idiagbon said he should be moved to Jos.

“The Military Governor then said, no, he cannot travel. Idiagbon brought a Brig- Gen­eral to sign an undertaking that the military was taking respon­sibility for him to be taken to Jos. He was moved in a stretch­er. Oh’ that is Buhari and you want this man to come back?”, Rosemary Alli had explained to the party faithful that the health problem of her father started when he fell from the double bunker in a cell where he was kept at the prison and was de­nied medical attention despite her pleas.