Hon Patrick Obahiagbon says:
September 6, 2009 at 2:21 am

No No No.Let somebody tell me this is a huge joke.Am in tears.The grand initiation of Chief Gani Fawehinmi has since brought me emotional laceration and thrown me into a state of utter catalepsy.This was a man who inured himself in the aqua of self abnegation and immolation just to give justice to the down-trodden.Can there be another GANI in Nigerias legal firmament?I dare say i have my doubts.Chief Gani Fawehinmi was simply inimitable,puritanically committed,inscrutably remonstrative,ideologically transcendental,quixotically cosmopolitan and a ready conveyor-belt of legal tomahawks which he intrepidly deployed in his cascading fulminations against our philistine military and political class.His transition is not just the fall of an Iroko but indeed the grand initiation of an iconic legal salamander.We only hope that we didactically learn herefrom that its not so much our sybaritic life styles that matters more than the quality of service we render whilst we sojourn on this earth plane.

LWKMD
I saw the piece in vanguard news. . . . . the man is really made of excess verbosity.

This guy is a joke on the Naija polity; some please tell him we ain't interested in such big big gramma.

I think he needs psychiatrist help!

Gani was the poor man's sword!

Hon. Obahiagbon recognizes the healing powers of humor, even at a time of mourning.   If the words quoted here were in fact uttered by The Grammar Man himself, then he at least conformed with most of the laws of the English Language this time, and in doing so conjured up once more for old time memory's sake, the trademark spoken and written cadences for which Gani himself was renowned.

Is this congress man deluding himself or does he think he is deluding others?

Am seeing one word "quixotically" for the first time in my life and am over 30 years of age. The word quixotically means caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.

z-murda:

This guy is a joke on the Naija polity; some please tell him we ain't interested in such big big gramma.

I think he needs psychiatrist help!

Gani was the poor man's sword!

He is not a joke. I have it from strong sources that in his time, no one could move Uniben to riot better than him.

otokx:

Am seeing one word "quixotically" for the first time in my life and am over 30 years of age. The word quixotically means caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.

fair enough, the word 'Quixote' has its origins in the main character (Don Quixote) in the novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes ::The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha published  between 1606 -1615  (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha) .

Sunny_bobo:

Hon Patrick Obahiagbon says:
September 6, 2009 at 2:21 am

No No No.Let somebody tell me this is a huge joke.Am in tears.The grand initiation of Chief Gani Fawehinmi has since brought me emotional laceration and thrown me into a state of utter catalepsy.This was a man who inured himself in the aqua of self abnegation and immolation just to give justice to the down-trodden.Can there be another GANI in Nigerias legal firmament?I dare say i have my doubts.Chief Gani Fawehinmi was simply inimitable,puritanically committed,inscrutably remonstrative,ideologically transcendental,quixotically cosmopolitan and a ready conveyor-belt of legal tomahawks which he intrepidly deployed in his cascading fulminations against our philistine military and political class.His transition is not just the fall of an Iroko but indeed the grand initiation of an iconic legal salamander.We only hope that we didactically learn herefrom that its not so much our sybaritic life styles that matters more than the quality of service we render whilst we sojourn on this earth plane.

Is this one mourning or showing off?

Wow!

Now, I do not get what Mr. Obahiagbon is trying to pass across.Most dictionaries have new vocab or simple english.Can someone please interprete.Thanx

He is a crazy lawmaker,how he got there is nigerian magic.

huh?

@ IFELEKE

Is this one mourning or showing off?

if he was, he would have long stoped.
he has been into grama for the past 10 yrs. he is more funny than basket mouth, the only problem i have with him, is that he has never passed any message in his entire adult life.

Lol.

Language is all about communication, i dont think this man did that.

IFELEKE:

Is this one mourning or showing off?

He might have started as a show-off years ago, but it's now part of him. His colleagues in the university attested to it.

@patrick obiahon
, our philistine military

Hilarious quote from a comical being

the poor boy is trying to copy his dad. his dad speaks better english than this though. dont know if NTA benin will still have archive of his dads debates and programmes.

kosovo:

@ IFELEKE if he was, he would have long stoped.
he has been into grama for the past 10 yrs. he is more funny than basket mouth, the only problem i have with him, is that he has never passed any message in his entire adult life.

LWKMD

He might have started as a show-off years ago, but it's now part of him. His colleagues in the university attested to it.

I guess so too.

;DIwish I had a collection of his speeches or better still,a DVD of him deliverin those speeches.At least,I'll put them to use by readin or viewin if I'm unhappy.I'm sure it'll restore my mood WITH ALACRITY

9ijaprince:

Language is all about communication, i dont think this man did that.

I think he communicated, we are just not educated enough to understand.

Sunny_bobo:

Hon Patrick Obahiagbon says:
September 6, 2009 at 2:21 am

No No No.Let somebody tell me this is a huge joke.Am in tears.The grand initiation of Chief Gani Fawehinmi has since brought me emotional laceration and thrown me into a state of utter catalepsy.This was a man who inured himself in the aqua of self abnegation and immolation just to give justice to the down-trodden.Can there be another GANI in Nigerias legal firmament?I dare say i have my doubts.Chief Gani Fawehinmi was simply inimitable,puritanically committed,inscrutably remonstrative,ideologically transcendental,quixotically cosmopolitan and a ready conveyor-belt of legal tomahawks which he intrepidly deployed in his cascading fulminations against our philistine military and political class.His transition is not just the fall of an Iroko but indeed the grand initiation of an iconic legal salamander.We only hope that we didactically learn herefrom that its not so much our sybaritic life styles that matters more than the quality of service we render whilst we sojourn on this earth plane.

E wooooo chineke *shakes his head in embarassment* Wetin be dis? Is that una peeps dey learn for naija skools now. Han han which kain english be dis ooooo. Shey him think say he dey speak queen english. Kai wetin person no go see for naija sha. See Big Big grammar. Where was he educated? Shey na Eton college & Oxford university?

Folks,

Please compare this lawmaker with Pastor Chris Okotie; his majestic verbotism

i ask for proper documentation of his speeches. we miss him.

Legal salamander ko, legal komodo dragon ni.

Hon Patrick Obahiagbon
On losiing his primary election,
Hon Patrick Obahiagbon:
"This has made me suffused with emotional narcolepsy that The homo sapiens in the metro-political geographical enclave of Edo have opted for Owanbe-ing over legislative Quomodo dicis. Such a reckless display of narcissistic and flamboyant hedonism is capable of encumbering our nascent democracy with insidious, repercussive and cataclysmic exigencies."