PATRICK OBAHIAGBON SSG TO EDO STATE GOVT.
This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a maladorous excresence of mobocracy. With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy, our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic crinkum crankum. Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia. GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!

WHY I SPEAK BIG, BIG GRAMMAR - HON.
OBAHIAGBON

Patrick Obahiagbon, who represents Oredo
Federal Constituency of Edo state shot to
limelight the moment he arrived the House
of Representatives in 2007 with his
uncanny knack for jaw-breaking words.

For reasons he explained exclusively below
to Saturday Vanguard in his first ever
interview on his manner of speech, the
1983 product of St John Bosco Grammar
School, Obiaja, Edo State swore that he has
since cut short on the big, big vocabulary
he uses.

In this chat, the 1987 Law graduate of
University of Benin, who also holds two
Master degrees, appealed to his audience
for understanding, explaining that, “the
intention is not to deliberately befuddle or
obfuscate them” insisting that, “ I do not set
out to deposit my audience in a
portmanteau of indecipherability” Excerpts.

Why I speak the way I do
Sincerely speaking, I want to tender an
unreserved apologia to my colleagues and
all those who feel that my language is
obscurantist. The truth is that I do not set
out deliberately to mystify my audience, to
deposit my audience in a portmanteau of
indecipherability or in portmanteau of
conundrum. No, no, no, no! Far from it.
The cosmic force would not allow me to do
that. But, you see if you ask homo sapients
who have interfaced with me for close to
twenty years now, they would tell you that
I no longer speak high sounding language. I
have reduced it radically.

If you have the opportunity to listen to my
speeches or debates ten, fifteen years ago,
then it would have been a different kettle of
fish all together. So, I am convinced that
I’ve tried, I am trying and I will continue to
try to ensure that my language, or my
idiolect is as limpid and as diaphanous as
possible.

But, let me say that I am an omnivorous
reader and I put my nose on the grinding
stone to read for more than 7 hours a day
when most innocent men are sleeping, and
night marauders are doing their business. I
am on my table, in my Library for 7
hours. And that has been on for over
twenty years. And like I always tell people,
the dictionary for me is not a reference
point; the dictionary is a vade mecum, a
constant companion.

I spend on the average not less than an
hour a day referencing the dictionary for
the past twenty to twenty-five years. So
don’t be maniacally bewildered if I speak
most times, from what I draw while
reading. But, really, the intention is not to
deliberately befuddle or obfuscate my
presentations on the floor.

My Political experience
I was a student Union activist all my years
in the University of Benin. Little wonder, as
soon as I left the University and finished
my Youth Service, I dabbled into the aqua
of political arena. If I remember vividly, I
contested my first election into Oredu Local
Government Area (LGA) as a Councillor
only one year after my Youth Service.
So I have been in State and National politics
effectively from 1999. But it has not been a
bed of roses, giving the miasma, given that
convoluted phantasmagoria, given the
prependalism and all the intrigues in
Nigerian politics.

I contested several elections and lost several
elections. Some not because I lost, but
because of course, we are in Nigeria, and
the X factor in Nigerian politics is still very
important.
But, I knew right back from when I started,
that I had a date with history, with destiny.
At every time I lost an election, I would
decide to be more recusant rather than
being recumbent. I decided to be more
quixotic rather than being laisser-faire- to
challenge my destiny the more rather than
relapsing into a cocoon of levity, or into a
cocoon of political narcissisms. And I thank
the great galaxy of the universe, after
several attempts at political office in 1999,
my bread was buttered.
The cosmic afforded me the lacuna to give a
vivacious and vibrant representation to my
constituency.

And since then, it has been one political
victory to the other as ordained by God.
That was why mandate to remain the
amiable representatives of Oredo Federal
constituency was challenged very, very
viscerally, at the election tribunal, I had no
fear that at end of the day it was going to
be victory for me. this is because I am a
robot in the hand of God.
I believe that the hand of God and the
cosmic imprimaturs are in my political
odyssey. If it were by my grace or by my
powers, by my capacity, I Probably would
not have been qualified in the first place to
become a councillor in my local govern.