A former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon has lamented the missed opportunities by Nigerian leaders, noting that it’s time to pull the nation out of ‘marshmallow of centrifugal excrescences’.
In his message to Nigerians to mark the nation’s 59th Independence Anniversary, the lawyer turned politician added that it’s time the nation moved out of the doldrums.
“As we celebrate Nigeria’s autarky at 59, we must reflect on the urgent need to pull Nigeria out of its marshmallow of centrifugal excrescences that currently weighs against our centripetal agglutinants.
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“The Sisyphean challenge to the pax nigeriana of our dreams more than anything else still remains our malodorous, putrescent, frankeinstous and opprobrious drift into a cocoon of ethnocentric chauvinism and syphilitic parapoism.
“Until we extirpate the hereinbefore mentioned gorgon medusa, all efforts at nation-building amounts to vacuous sciamachy.”
The former Chief of staff during the second tenure of Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo State noted that there are no magical solutions to problems bedevilling the country.
“All the highlighted malaise are symptomatic and points to the cumulatively horrendous,anti-people, retrograde, philistine and prebendal governance process for a period of an aeon. There are no magical solutions to the aforementioned national ignominy other than the people been able to relate with the governance process sociologically and utilitarianly.”
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