Nigeria must not be reduced to ‘parapoistic’ shenanigans – Patrick Obahiagbon

Former House of Representatives member, Patrick
Obahiagbon has, in his grammatically unique way given
a critical assessment of the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) describing it as a “apple of Hesperides sitting
atop a perilous precipice.”
Obahiagbon, who is currently the Chief of Staff to the
Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said all that is
needed to see the back of thee PDP is for the opposition
to get its act together and be selfless.
He said
“The formation of the APC is a salubrious political
intervention in the polity. That the PDP behemoth has
led the ship of state into avoidable economic cataracts
and political ox-bow lakes is a fact too glaring and
indubitable to be contested. Nigerians do certainly
need an alternative credible political platform to
checkmate the power megalomania of the PDP. The
merger would work if its prime facilitators vigorously
resist the temptation to be detained by their
presidential calculations and allow the more sublime
sentiments of enthroning the Nigeria of our dreams to
propel the process.
“You will agree with me that the PDP is just now like an
apple of Hesperides sitting atop a perilous precipice
and Nigerians are ready to embrace the APC as a
veritable battle axe for their freedom from the political
jobbery and carpet-bagging of the PDP. It is only now
left for the opposition to show discipline, vision,
altruism, patriotism and an historic commitment to
revolutionary change. The leading luminaries in this
effort to cleanse the Nigerian Augean stables must
resist the temptation of selling out and disappointing
Nigerians at the end of the day.
Reports say when asked if President Goodluck Jonathan
deserve a return to power in the 2015 elections, he said:
“I have consistently held the view that poverty is
poverty whether it resides in the North, South, West or
East and it is for that reason I thought, during the last
presidential election and still do think, that the
Presidency of Nigeria is too serious a subject to be
reduced to ‘parapoistic’ shenanigans. To answer the
question if the Jonathan administration has met the
goodwill with which it rode to power must lead to other
epiphenomenal questions such as, what has improved
today in the material conditions of the ragtag and
bobtail since the president’s emergence and how has
he deployed his powers in aid of the utilitarian matrix?
It does appear to me that Nigeria is still a sleeping
giant standing on spaghetti legs even today.”
We take it that you understand the general thrust of
Obahiagbon’s argument.