You must have heard about the man on a business trip who sent a message to the wife back home describing the fun he was having – and concluding: “Darling, I wish you were her.” He meant to say: “I wish you were here.”
Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo state, committed a similar slip on Friday when he issued a statement paying tribute to the departed Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Erediauwa.
“Edo people will miss our ICONOCLASTIC royal father of the great Benin Kingdom. Nigerians and Nigeria will miss this great exemplar of a Royal Father, an Oba of distinction and integrity,” he wrote.
Iyemwen! Iconoclastic? What’s kind of english is that? The statement is goddess..

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, iconoclastic means “a person who criticizes or opposes beliefs and practices that are widely accepted”.
God forbid! We reject even under the mango tree.! Kai..
You can accuse the Oba of Benin of anything – you can even say that he passed on a year before it was allowed to be officially reported – but you can never accuse him of being “iconoclastic”

The Oba was the embodiment of cultural beliefs and practices. In fact, the Bini Kingdom is one of the few in Africa where the advent of Christianity and Islam has not obliterated long-held beliefs, traditions and practices.
So what did Oshiomhole mean to say? According to Peter Okhiria, his chief press secretary, the governor wanted to say “iconic”.

Let’s consult the Merriam-Webster dictionary again. Icon means “widely known and acknowledged especially for distinctive excellence”.
Osaruese! Thank God! That is more like it.

Read the statement he made below..
Our attention has been drawn to the use of a word which many believe denotes a totally different meaning from the word we could have used in a tribute of Governor Adams Oshiomhole to the Oba of Benin.
While we inadvertently used the word “iconoclastic” instead of “iconic”, the outrage it has generated is totally misplaced, especially when the context of the usage: “Edo people will miss our iconoclastic royal father of the great Benin Kingdom. Nigerians and Nigeria will miss this great exemplar of a Royal Father, an Oba of distinction and integrity”could not have been negative.

Yeah he meant to say iconic but he just tried to make the word complex, gone are those days when nigerians just keep absorbing everything they hear,now we go into the dictionary to check every grammar except of course those spoken by Patrick Obahiagbon

Dats what happens when u try to imitate Obahiangbon, knowing fully well dat there's only one

That is as a result of too many grammar.

That's the result you get when you claim English than the English man,Oshiomole and Patrick una doooooo

Edo state again? everybody wan turn grammarian by force, following Patrick's footsteps .

Lol. It sounds geological ;DLol. It sounds geological

nobody is abov mistake