Anthony Obi

Anthony Obi (13 January 1952 – 1 January 2022) was a Nigerian Lieutenant Colonel who served as Military Administrator of Osun State from August 1996 to August 1998, during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. He then became Military Administrator of Abia State in August 1998, handing over power to the civilian governor Orji Uzor Kalu in May 1999.[1]

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Anthony Obi
Military Administrator of Osun State
In office
22 August 1996 – August 1998
Preceded byAnthony Udofia
Succeeded byTheophilus Bamigboye
Military Administrator of Abia State
In office
August 1998 – 29 May 1999
Preceded byMoses Fasanya
Succeeded byOrji Uzor Kalu
Personal details
Born(1952-01-13)13 January 1952
Nigeria
Died1 January 2022(2022-01-01) (aged 69)

Life and career

Obi was born on 13 January 1952.[2] He inherited problems in Osun State with conflict between the Ife and Modakeke people, which periodically erupted into violence. A crisis was triggered when his administration decided to move the local council headquarters from one town to the other.[3] Anthony Obi set up a Royal Committee to make recommendations on resolving the crisis, and declared a seven-day fasting and prayer program in March 1998 concentrating on peace in Ile-Ife.[4]

During his administration of Osun State he commissioned a water corporation office in Ifetedo, but did not provide adequate water supplies.[5] When two factions of the union of Local Government Employees began publishing two rival newsletters, Anthony Obi banned them both.[6]

In September 1998, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Obi told reporters that the 31 members of the Provisional Ruling Council and all 36 state military administrators would declare their assets, in line with General Abdulsalami Abubakar's intention to hand over a clean administration to civilian rulers in May 1999.[7]

As administrator of Abia State, he built Camp Neya, a government retreat and golf course in undulating country in Igbere, commissioned on his last day in power on 28 May 1999.[8]

Obi died on 1 January 2022, at the age of 69.[9]

References
  1. "Nigeria States". WorldStatesmen. Archived from the original on 23 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  2. Obi, Anthony (1997). 365 Days Ago. p. 14. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  3. "IRIN-West Africa Update 138, 98.02.04". United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  4. Oladoyin Anthony Mayowa. "State and Ethno-Communal Violence in Nigeria: The Case of Ife-Modakeke" (PDF). Africa Development, Vol XXVI, Nos 1 & 2, 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  5. "Ifetedo Residents Lament Water Problem". Osun Defender. 15 March 2009. Archived from the original on 26 June 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  6. "Two Union Publications Banned In Osun State" (PDF). Media Rights Monitor, April 1998. Vol. 3 No. 4. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  7. "World News Briefs; Nigerian Leaders Ready To Declare Assets". New York Times. 1 October 1998. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  8. MIKE AWOYINFA (16 February 2008). "Fire on Kalu's mountain". Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  9. Ex-Osun Military Administrator dies, Oyetola, Speaker mourn


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