How I Acquired My High-Sounding English Grammar – Obahiagbon

Former Rep Patrick Obahiagbon has given an insight into how he acquired his mastery of high-sounding English grammar.

Speaking in an interview, the former Chief of Staff to Governor Adams Oshiomhole also said that Nigeria would continue to languish until the advent of philosopher kings who would be able to navigate the country out of the present primitive accumulation of capital and its polyvalent gorgon medusa that is a corollary of national tension

Noting his fluency in the use of high sounding English grammar, Obahiagbon said:

“What has been referred to my high-sounding use of the English language has its fons et origo in a multiplicity of factors,” he told Nigerian Tribune.

“Growing up, I agglutinated my nose to the grindstone and was an avid reader of various literature and magnum opus. My father also played a role when he rammed me through Francis Salome’s narrow path, he himself being an uncompromising martinet.

“Another factor was my reading the dictionary for a minimum of one hour daily in my formative years. I am not so sure that I had any favorite secondary school teacher whose modus-vivendi was propitious to my language predilection,” Obahiagbon said of his English language.

On how the nation would escape the present predicaments, he said:

“We are still on the threshold of transiting into a democratic nation. Until we have philosopher kings in various portals of governance, I am afraid that we would continue to be buffeted with leadership failure and its concomitant, debilitating and asphyxiating backlash such as weak institutions, prebendalism, state capture, malversation, primitive accumulation of capital and its polyvalent gorgon medusa that is a corollary of national tension.

“Simply put, the problem of Nigeria over the years has lugubriously been failed leadership,” he simplified.

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