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Timi Frank, suspended spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Tony Anenih, a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) board of trustees, is one of those who plunged the country into its current fix.

Anenih, also known as ‘Mr Fix It’, on Saturday announced his decision to retire from politics at the launch of his book entitled, ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’.

But in a statement on Sunday, Frank said the former PDP BoT chairman did not to contribute anything to the development of the country.

Frank, while blaming Anenih for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s failure at the 2015 election, said he should apologise to Nigerians for the damage he had done to the country and “even to his own political party, PDP, as it is obvious today”.

“It is high time Chief Anenih told the world the kind of legacy he is leaving behind in all his years in politics. Baba Anenih’s desperation to remain in the corridors of power made him force former Goodluck Jonathan to run again in 2015 when he knew he [Jonathan] couldn’t win,” Frank said.

“Chief Tony Anenih has lost the moral right to talk about former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or any other Nigerian for that matter seeing that he is one of the reasons Nigeria and especially the Niger Delta region  is where we are today.

“What has Anenih done for the Niger Delta where he comes from? Instead of using his position to help the Niger delta and Nigeria at large to find lasting solutions to its numerous challenges, he chose to support third term agenda.

“Under his watch as Minister of Works, N300bn disappeared into thin air. As NPA chairman, what positive contribution did he make for the benefit of Nigeria? Even in the South-South where Anenih comes from, Atiku a Northerner has touched people’s lives positively in terms of job employment more than Anenih will ever do in his life time.

“Anenih is not called Mr fixer for no reason, he helped put Nigeria and Nigerians in the fix we find ourselves today.”