The
Chief of Staff to Edo State Governor, Hon Patrick Obahiagbon, has
described the late Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba Erediauwa, as a man of
impeccable and unimpeachable character.
In a tribute to the late Oba, the former
lawmaker said the late monarch always stood on the side of the people
when confronted by the military and politicians.
He said: “You cannot gloss over the fact
that Omo N’ Oba Erediauwa, Oba of Benin, was a man of impeccable and
unimpeachable integrity with the resilience of a Royal salamander. In
him you found a coruscating display of that apothegm which holds that
noblesse oblige.
“This sui generis quintessential quality
of his came under
bold relief especially during the locust and philistine years of the military militocracy. He was practically the only triton among the minnows of Royal hierarchs that resisted and stood up to the military rascality and apacheism that characterized the Abacha era. He stood at all times with the people, eyeballing political and military demagogues and damning their treacherous hooey and blarneys. It won’t be erroneous and superfluous therefore to pontificate that his integrity was altruistically integrious if you permit me that neologism.
bold relief especially during the locust and philistine years of the military militocracy. He was practically the only triton among the minnows of Royal hierarchs that resisted and stood up to the military rascality and apacheism that characterized the Abacha era. He stood at all times with the people, eyeballing political and military demagogues and damning their treacherous hooey and blarneys. It won’t be erroneous and superfluous therefore to pontificate that his integrity was altruistically integrious if you permit me that neologism.
“Omo N’ Oba EREDIAUWA,Oba of Benin was a
cornucopious emblematization of the rich heritage of the Benin culture
both in his modus vivendi and modus operandi. He left no one in doubt
that he was the spiritual and traditional agglutinating anodyne that
offers a centripetal canopy for the Benin ethnic nationality into one
harmonious and synchronized armada and of particular interest to me here
was how he was able to bring this about especially against the backdrop
of modernism and attenuating cum corrosive forces of religious
petulancy and perfervidism.
“Its in his cosmopolitan and cerebral
mien that is situated the Alladins lamp that gave him the enablement in
striking a delicate equipoise and hence at a meeting of the ‘Benin
Anglican Dioscesan Synod on June 3,1980,the revered monarch posited thus
….’The conflict between traditional religion and Christian religion is
not supported by scriptural teaching. But must Christian religion
condemn and push out the traditional? Must traditional worship and
Christian worship not be seen as complimentary?’
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