Popular 'grammarian' and 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 impeachable 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.
“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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