Nigeria must not be reduced to ‘parapoistic’ shenanigans – Patrick Obahiagbon speaks APC, 2015, more [READ]

by Akan Ido

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.

“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.”