Truth be told, his answer got me more confused, lol. Patrick Obahiagbon, the Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, in a recent interview addressed his controversial way of speaking and why he chooses to speak that way.
Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’?
I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi of our prebendal political class.

How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends?
I relate with my family and friends very warmly and in an atmosphere of camaraderie, stripped of my confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies. I am a very peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially attuned soul personality.
Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar?
Of course, the business of the day when I interfaced with my wife on matters of the heart had to be in plain Caeser’s language and you can decipher why that had to be so. The matter in view did not permit itself of sphinxian conundrum.
It’s a long time ago, so I can’t remember the exact words I used. We had a relationship for ten years before we got married. We’re looking at close to 20 years ago.
Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating
Why will I be perturbed from ensconcing myself in the palatable arms of Morpheus because people have deprived themselves of the cultivation of the regime of the mental magnitude? I read all the farrago of baloneys and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup objurgators. The spirit of animadversion remains their fundamental human right. It also remains an indubitable fact that I get millions and millions of requests daily from people all over the world requesting for my verbal mentorship which positive cosmopolitan reactions have assisted my equipoise and righteous sense of pachydermatous garb. I cannot put my nose to the grindstone daily and expect to be understood by those luxuriating in a modus vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting and isiewulising. Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that things of the spirit are spiritually discerned and that it takes the deep to call the deep? We will speak more on this matter of critiques and chichi dodo another day.
How does your family understand your English?
My family and friends understand me perfectly just the same way you understand me now though, I must admit that it depends on the issues on the piazza.
How did you start speaking in this manner?
It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of words by amassing new words on a daily basis.
Do you pray the same way you speak?
God understands all languages, my brother and I pray to God using any word that pops up. May I posit that the key points in prayers are your sincerity, purity of heart, walking within the compass and to what extent are you ready and worthy of receiving the benediction of the cosmic and the cosmic masters because as we say in mysticism- “when the students are ready, the masters would appear.”
Take my words my brother that more than seventy per cent of humanity don’t know how to pray but that is a matter for another day.
By the way, are there other names you call God?
God is variously known as Jehovah, Yaweh, The Great Grand Architect of the Universe, The Cosmic Host and several other names known alone to heirophants but which names are so ineffable for me to mention here.
Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist?
Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto. It was my own audacious statement to remonstrate against the pervasive tendency of Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of putting on trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will do it over and over again.
When you speak to Caucasians of English origin, how do they react to you?
My friends that are whites simply marvel and sometimes get maniacally bewildered when we engage, most times to my consternation.
Do you look forward to developing your own dictionary?
My own dictionary? I have never really given that a thought, but there is a young man in one of our universities who travelled all the way to meet me in Benin. His doctoral thesis is on “Obahiagbonism as a style of language.”
How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries?
I have read and still do read a vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters to Funk and Wagnalls, from Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta and from Encyclopedia Britannica to Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed my corpus of vocabulary by reading omnivorously. I have also spent nothing less than an hour daily on my dictionary for over twenty years. So, whereas the dictionary for most people is a mere occasional reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum. It may also interest you to know that there is much to learn from our daily newspapers.
You seem to mix English with other languages…
On mixing of languages; that comes with reading omnivorously. You cannot but pick these words here and there if you have an audacious reading culture.
Is any of your children like you?
My children are still growing but I petition the celestial choir and cosmic hosts to give them the gift of kissing the hybla bee.http://www.kemifilani.com/2013/09/patrick-obahiagbon-finally-tells-why-he.html

could somebody pls interprete

He should explain all these explanations

ojibijibi

honeric01: ojibijibi

Lmao

"confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies".

Which wan come be 'pepper soupism', 'isi ewuism', 'suyaism'? This is how this man forms words from everyday lexis and we clap for him like ppl that were never inside the walls of a high school classroom!

His style is his selling point , and this works for him

There is no such thing as "big words". There are words you know and words you don't know. When you take a standardized Test like the SAT,GRE and GMAT, you'll know what i'm talking about.

I was here....

INNO18: Which wan come be 'pepper soupism', 'isi ewuism', 'suyaism'? This is how this man forms words from everyday lexis and we clap for him like ppl that were never inside the walls of a high school classroom!

The English you speak, how was it formed?

That's Ma Niqqa!!

What did he say? Can somebody explainetium the grammatical oblundarism for youngaris uninfluenceable mind like me?

CFCfan:
Lmao

"confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies".

So much krinki cramkum.

If u like Fiaga Fiatable!! Everybody can't be the same! This is how he chooses to stand out. Funny enuf, when he speaks, he makes his points CLEAR so much that you know what he is talking about! He jus uses all those grammer to garnish it...

I almost had a headache.had to stop reading way before half-way....for health reasons!hehehe.
I would have asked someone to summarize but I don't think anybody understands.lol.

I understood everything he said up there jor. It is crystal clear like the biblical tekel tekel mene ufasin. It is visible to the blind and audible to the deaf.. Yes! It is!.

I posted this comment, not after reading the interview, but after reading the answer to the first question he was asked......the headache wey I get nau don do me abeg

I guess he attends Chris Okotie's church ... lol
the two Nigerians I know suffering from grammatis verbosa ( a disease that makes one to speak without communicating )
what is the use of a grandiose speech when communication is not achieved?

... mukina pls don't ban me again o, I'm not a freedom fighter ... lol ... if not I'll port to koboland

What does it profit a man that knows all the grammars in the dictionary but does not communicate/pass any message across to his people/those around him.

Smh

kunlesehan: I guess he attends Chris Okotie's church ... lol
the two Nigerians I know suffering from grammatis verbosa ( a disease that makes one to speak without communicating )
what is the use of a grandiose speech when communication is not achieved?

... mukina pls don't ban me again o, I'm not a freedom fighter ... lol ... if not I'll port to koboland

You mean you can't understand the message he passed in this article? Too bad you're among the suyaing, ogogoroing, beer parloring set he spoke about.

helle help me o. I noticed thiese after reading the interview: watery eyes, aching head and confused mind

What is the summary of what he said pls

well say anything you like but i was confused even though i tried looking up some words in my dictionary i seriously advice this man to publish his own dictionary.

I'd be happy if I could flow that way.

Blah blah blahism endtimetrosdorious thingsology.

This guy has successfully relegated Reverend Chris Okotie to the background in this field. No one is even talking about him again.

kunlesehan: I guess he attends Chris Okotie's church ... lol
the two Nigerians I know suffering from grammatis verbosa ( a disease that makes one to speak without communicating )
what is the use of a grandiose speech when communication is not achieved?

... mukina pls don't ban me again o, I'm not a freedom fighter ... lol ... if not I'll port to koboland

My guy, Okotie own still beta.

Strauskhan1: I'd be happy if I could flow that way.

I bet you'd be happier with Okotie's style. When he speaks, he commands respect and you adore him. When this man speaks, people ridicule him. I read the above interview twice because I enjoyed it and was in stitches each time. He will do better than politics if he diversifies into comedy.

3ace: I bet you'd be happier with Okotie's style. When he speaks, he commands respect and you adore him. When this man speaks, people ridicule him. I read the above interview twice because I enjoyed it and was in stitches each time. He will do better than politics if he diversifies into comedy.

So true. In fact, he may put the likes of Basket-mouth, Bovi et al out of business.

hi guys this is the meaning for some of those words. hege haga from the word hegemony ( domination of one group over another ) use ur dictionary and check that, then krinkum krankum meaning tussle, supremacy. tanx guys

I wonder how his love letter in his secondary school days looked like. I know back then in secondary school that we try to please and win the heart of babes by blowing this kind of Obahiagbon's english.