The Master of the Game

by DAVID LEPI

Behind this charming and unfailing gracious persona lies a shrewd and unflinching calculative mind. A mind of a brilliant and accomplished political tactician the country has ever seen.

Peter Parre O’Neill is the maker and breaker of political parties, a mover and a shaker of political will and even those whims of titanium craftily engineered by the seasoned and well-placed hands that many thought wouldn’t stand the test of the boy from Ialibu/Pangia’s political ingenuity.

Born to Brian O'Neill, an Australian-born magistrate of partial Irish descent and local mother Awambo Yari, from Pangia Southern Highlands. In Parre’s veins run 'Kamari'- the blood of those destined for higher callings. O'Neill was educated at the Pangia Primary School, Ialibu High School, and Goroka High School. After leaving the school he was educated at the University of Papua New Guinea, graduating with a Bachelor of Accountancy and Commerce in 1986.

O’Niell's tentacles are everywhere, woven into the woof and warp of every corridor of power. He speaks several languages fluently even his local vernacular, Imbonggu and Wiru with the perfection of a local raconteur. He is a charismatic man, with a brilliantly incisive mind and has a swarthy complexion. He has the face of a hawk, a predator.

When he chose to take the trouble, O'Neill can be extremely charming. He enjoys the challenge of figuring out what it is that people are really after, for it is rarely what it appeared to be. His analytical mind is always skeptical of surface truth, and as a consequence, he believes in nothing he is told and trusts no one. His motto is "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

If our Grand Chief Sir Michael is the father of our nation, Peter O'Neill is the epitome of Papua New Guinea’s modern-day politics. He perfected an imperfect system to continue a colorful reign. And now he is rightly on a path to re-write the country’s history as the longest serving Prime Minister.

He had already pulled through some of the smartest political coups, government formations and events of national and international grandeur with the ingenuity, grace, and ease that always make it look so simple like a child’s play. This is the master at work. He just smashed the country’s oldest political party and made mincemeat out of it to state his governments crave for stability and long tenure.

The reporters who chronicle Parre’s life are permitted to see only his geniality and charm, the sophisticated, urbane man of Papua New Guinea. They have no reason to suspect that beneath the amiable façade is a lethal machine, a gutter fighter whose instinct was to go for the jugular vein. He doesn’t like loose ends.

He remembers every affront he had ever suffered in his political game and those who were unlucky enough to incur his enmity are paid back a hundredfold. They are never aware of it, for O’Neill’s mathematical mind makes a game of exacting retribution, patiently working out elaborate traps and spinning complex webs that finally catches and destroys his enemies.

Now there is none left, only S.Basil whom many think that he slipped into the camp as a Trojan horse. But that again is an old trick and old Parre is ready for it for he also knows 'timeo Danaos et dona ferentes' and what it means.

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  1. David lepi!! Salute you for posting this...power pow one ..

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