Highsounding, Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon, popularly called Igodomigodo, in this interview by LASISI OLAGUNJU, speaks in his unique, bombastic way and on a number of other issues.
You’ve been very quiet lately, sir. What has been happening?
Whilst it is very true that I have sequestered and cloistered myself in a cocoon of Olympian aloofness politically speaking for a period of aeon now but one has got himself cornucopiosly bestirred on matters bordering on mental edification and metaphysical ensconcement. The business of reintegration with omneity and the restoration of man’s glorious body and the lost spear has been sufficiently engaging, my brother.
Nigerians miss your peculiar way of delivering your message.
I am always festooned and inebriated in a narcissistic aqua of blandishment’s to hear such complements regularly and I thank Nigerians and my penelopic admirer’s for their love but I am supremely confident that at the aproposical time envisioned by the great geometrician of the universe, the requisite political pedestal will be provided for that much longed for mutual interface.
Who was that your English teacher from whom you got your vocabularies? Or you are a self made man?
English Teacher? None in particular. The fons et origo of my meta-panoplied idiolect is traceable to my bibliophilistic lectiophilism. I grew up as an omnivorous logophile metastizing to become a librocubicularist. All these and more conduced to what people see as my sphynxian verbalisms.
Can we know the schools you attended?
Edo college, Benin City, Saint John Bosco, Ubiaja, University of Benin, Edo state, Nigeria Law School, Lagos and Baze University, Abuja. I had my law degree from University of Benin, called to the Nigeria Bar and with three Masters degree. Masters in Public Administration, another in lnternational History and Diplomacy from the University of Benin and my third masters degree in Security, Leadership and Society from Baze university in Abuja.
The politics of Edo, your state, has been very volatile. Elections will hold soon. What advice will you give the people of the state?
It is of course a very diaphanous fact like the biblical mene mene tekel upharsin that the performance of the current government in Edo state has become a sardonic fiasco. The APC is the only political party with the alladins lamp to lift us from the bootstraps of economic phantasmagoria and socio-cultural anomie that the current government has placed it. The Edo PDP has atrophied to become a frankeinstous atomistic monster perpetually at war with itself.
What is your weakness, wine, women, or books?
I am forever attracted to books as bees are to honey. Another of my passion, if you stigmatize it as a weakness I don’t know, is to always look at the follies of men and laugh it off such as when I see men wallowing in hedonistic and epicurean bubbles as if that is as important as the progressive evolution of their soul personality or when I look at their prebendal and philistine display of vacuous megalomania as if they can create the breath of life. How foolish man can be most times.
What is the best book you’ve read?
My Rosicrucian and Martinist Monographs.
Your best food?
Auchi groundnut and ijebu garri soaked and very very soft brown bread and mineral.
Best music?
Waoooo. Anyday, anytime. It is the Abami Eda himself. The impregnable, indisputable and coruscating King of Afrobeat, the intrepid political activist, polyvalent philosopher, cultural iconic personage and the catalytic Pan Africanist and many more, Baba Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Baba ker….l hail oooooooo.
You don’t like to be in suspenders. Why?
I don’t wear suspenders ooooo. The only thing close to that I wore once was a high waist chested trouser which was a deliberate design to shock society as expressive of my rejection of trendy trousers at that time exposing anal canals.
Your advice to Nigerians as they weather these tough times?
My advice is for them to still excercise more patience as these incipient pains are necessary corollaries derivable from birth pangs before the lovely and beautiful eureka rhymes.
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