Tinubu’s rotten situation comment was slip of tongue — Campaign council

Spokesman of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement that Tinubu’s comment was a slip of tongue.

By Jeffrey Agbo

The Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council has described the “rotten situation” comments of Bola Tinubu in Kaduna on Saturday as a “slip of tongue”.

Tinubu had said at Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit tagged KadInvest 7.0 that the state governor and host of the summit Nasir El-Rufai knew how to turn a rotten situation into a bad one.

“El-Rufai, we will not let you run away. Your vision, creativity, and resiliency in turning a rotten situation into a bad one is necessary at this critical time,” he said.

His statement has since been greeted with criticism.

A professor of journalism at Kennesaw State University in the United States, Farooq Kperogi, reacted on Twitter: “Na wa o. Tinubu said El-Rufai has the capacity to turn “a rotten situation into a bad one.” Was that a Freudian slip, a targeted missile, or an innocent verbal mishap? I see why Tinubu avoids the media like the plague.”

However, the spokesman of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement that Tinubu’s comment was a slip of tongue.

The statement said, “Earlier today at the Kaduna State Investment Summit, All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu while commending, Governor Nasir El-Rufai for his transformational leadership in the state had a slip of tongue that is common to every human being and even great leaders.

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“The APC leader inadvertently said Governor El-Rufai ‘turned a rotten situation’ he met on ground in Kaduna into ‘a bad one’ whereas he meant to say ‘to a great one.’

“It was a mere slip, that is not unusual in life, even among leaders of nations.

“We recognise we are in political season where everything is latched on for deliberate distortion and twisted mischief.

“While mischief makers went so low, we noted that the audience at KadInvest 7.0 followed Asiwaju Tinubu with rapt attention and knew he only had a slip.

“We can only tell mischief makers to look for better and productive things to do with their time.”