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Why I Speak Big Grammar..patrick Obiahiagbon. by misreal(m): 4:23pm On Sep 14, 2015 |
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. |
Re: Why I Speak Big Grammar..patrick Obiahiagbon. by dangote7510(m): 4:30pm On Sep 14, 2015 |
my man |
Re: Why I Speak Big Grammar..patrick Obiahiagbon. by OVI75(m): 4:41pm On Sep 14, 2015 |
'Who represented'poster you ought to have edited that befr postin. back to topic-i share same taste with him. |
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