Dont I just
love this man? I just wonder how he brings out all these words effortlessly. I
hear some are real English words, some are Latin words and some were
formulated. I don’t know o, but I heard it. Whatever the case is I have so much
respect for Uncle Patrick and his grammar. I want to be like him when i grow up
lol.
Meanwhile, Hon
Patrick Obahiagbon paid his tribute to the late Oba of Benin with some very
admirable words.
The death of
the traditional monarch was announced by the Iyase of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe on Friday,
April 29.
Hon Patrick
said:
“You cannot gloss over the fact that Omo N’ Oba Erediauwa, Oba of
Benin, was a man of impeccable and unimpeachable integrity with the resilience
of a Royal salamander. In him you found a coruscating display of that apothegm
which holds that noblesse oblige.
“This sui generis quintessential quality of his came under bold relief
especially during the locust and philistine years of the military militocracy.
He was practically the only triton among the minnows of Royal hierarchs that
resisted and stood up to the military rascality and apacheism that
characterized the Abacha era. He stood at all times with the people, eyeballing
political and military demagogues and damning their treacherous hooey and
blarneys. It won’t be erroneous and superfluous therefore to pontificate that
his integrity was altruistically integrious if you permit me that neologism.
“Omo N’ Oba EREDIAUWA,Oba of Benin was a cornucopious emblematization
of the rich heritage of the Benin culture both in his modus vivendi and modus
operandi. He left no one in doubt that he was the spiritual and traditional agglutinating
anodyne that offers a centripetal canopy for the Benin ethnic nationality into
one harmonious and synchronized armada and of particular interest to me here
was how he was able to bring this about especially against the backdrop of
modernism and attenuating cum corrosive forces of religious petulancy and
perfervidism.
“It’s in his cosmopolitan and cerebral mien that is situated the
Alladins lamp that gave him the enablement in striking a delicate equipoise and
hence at a meeting of the ‘Benin Anglican Dioscesan Synod on June 3,1980,the
revered monarch posited thus ….’The conflict between traditional religion and
Christian religion is not supported by scriptural teaching. But must Christian
religion condemn and push out the traditional? Must traditional worship and
Christian worship not be seen as complimentary?’
Please who has the answer to his last question? Who
else wants to be like this major powerful and intelligent politician? Abi na
onle me? Lol. RIP Omo N’ Oba
Erediauwa, Oba of Benin, YOU WILL GREATLY BE MISSED.
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