15th December, 2010
Sometime in 1993, senior editors of TheNEWS magazine met Chief Anthony Enahoro in a  suite at the Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos.
The editors had come to keep an interview appointment on the political situation in Nigeria and expectedly, the editors had a good session with him. As interviews go, Chief Enahoro was every editorâ€
“How old are you?â€
Interestingly, Chief Enahoroâ€
Born 22 July,  1923, Enahoro was eminently one of Nigeriaâ€
Chief Enahoro became the editor of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiweâ€
Chief Enahoro became a foundation member of Chief Awolowoâ€
During the 1962 crisis in the old Western region, he was detained along with other Action Group members. Accused of treason during the alleged coup trial, Chief Enahoro escaped to the United Kingdom in 1963. He was extradited from the UK and imprisoned for treason. In 1966, he was released by the Military Government.
During the Nigerian crisis that followed the 1966 coups, Chief Enahoro was the leader of the then Mid-West delegation to the Ad Hoc Constitutional Conference in Lagos. He later became Federal commissioner (Minister) for Information and Labour under the General Yakubu Gowon Military Government, 1967-74; Federal Commissioner for Special Duties, 1975.  He was the president, World Festival of Black  Arts and Culture, 1972-75.
When the soldiers returned Nigeria into presidential democracy in 1979, Chief Enahoro stunned observers when he joined the conservative National Party of Nigeria, which later won the national election and became the ruling party between 1979 and December 1983. Political observers thought then that Enahoro should have joined his political soul mates in the Unity Party of Nigeria, led by Obafemi Awolowo or even the more radical, Peoples Redemption Party, led by Mallam Aminu Kano. Enahoro tried to respond to his critics, but his explanation did not really jell with a lot of his admirers. When military rule came back again in 1984, Enahoro gradually rolled back to his familiar turf: leading a groundswell of vocal opposition against the debasement of the values of our country by the military rulers. That role reached its peak in the Babangida years.
Under the Babangida transition programme, Chief Enahoro supported the candidacy of Moshood Abiola for the 1993 presidential election. Although Abiola won the election, the military rulers annulled the election, to the chagrin of many Nigerians. Chief Enahoro and his bosom friend, Pa Alfred Rewane stood ramrod behind the agitations for the validation of the election. It was a campaign that led to the establishment of the  National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), a pro-democracy group, which Enahoro chaired as the agitators took on the Sani Abacha dictatorship, that had ousted the shaky contraption left by the Babangida regime.  It was a bloody war: for a while, Enahoro was arrested and locked up for months in jail. And Alfred Rewane was assassinated. Chief Enahoro went on exile again, upon his release.
Chief Enahoro was honoured the Adollo by his hometown of Uromi. He was also  conferred with the national honour of Commander, Order of the Federal Republic, CFR, in 1982, and is the chairman of the Movement for National Reformation, MNR; as well as the Pro-National Conference Organisation, PRONACO. He was awarded honorary DSC by the University of Benin in 1972. Among his publications were the treatise Fugitive Offender. Chief Enahoro played golf and followed  cricket ardently.
Chief Enahoro was  married to Helen née Ediae, and had five children- Kenneth, Eugene, Bella, Victor and Gabriel.