Pius Anyim Speaks On His Quarrel With Obasanjo |READ DETAILS
2023 Presidential aspirant and former Senate President, Pius Anyim Pius, has clarified his perceived rift with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Anyim Pius who featured on Channels TV Programme ‘ Politics Today’ on Friday, February 18, 2022, said though a little disagreement existed in 2003, he has no personal issue with Obasanjo.
Pius who represented Ebonyi South in the National Assembly in 1999, succeeded Chuba Okadigbo as the Senate President in August 2000 after the latter had been impeached during Obasanjo’s tenure as president.
He held the position until May 2003, but not without a disagreement between the legislature and the executive. This was said to have led to a rift between the duo.
“I did not have any personal issue with (former) President Obasanjo.”
“(Former) President Obasanjo was a very outstanding President Nigeria ever had. President Obasanjo was focused and determined in all that he wanted to do.”
“We had a little disagreement, and it was the National Assembly and the Executive; not Pius Ayim and (former) President Obasanjo. What brought about the problem was a motion moved by Senator Idris Abubakar from Gombe, it wasn’t a motion moved by me,” he explained.
“It was the action taken in the Senate that the former President was reacting to, and it was friction between National Assembly and the Executive.
“Of course, being the head of the legislature, I cannot run away from it; I was leading the legislature and he (Obasanjo) was leading the Executive on the other hand, but there was nothing personal” Pius explained
