Onanuga Says Tinubu Really Thinks El-Rufai Turns Rotten Situations into Bad Ones!

By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi At the Kaduna State Investment Summit in Kaduna on October 15, 2022, APC presidential candidate Bo...

By Farooq Kperogi

Twitter: @farooqkperogi

At the Kaduna State Investment Summit in Kaduna on October 15, 2022, APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu said Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai's “resiliency in turning a rotten situation into a bad one is necessary at this critical time.” 

In a tongue-in-cheek social media post shortly after the video emerged, I wrote: "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."

Within hours of my post, Bayo Onanuga, a storied journalist who's now Tinubu's presidential campaign spokesman, said Tinubu's description of El-Rufai as someone who "turned a rotten situation into a bad one" was "a mere Freudian slip." Ha!  Does he not know what a Freudian slip is? 

A Freudian slip is a mistake that unintentionally reveals an uncomfortable truth. In other words, Tinubu actually secretly thinks El-Rufai turns rotten situations into bad ones but only unconsciously revealed it in an unguarded moment. 

So, he's apologizing for betraying the negative thoughts he has about El-Rufai that he'd successfully suppressed before now! Hmm.

And Atiku, too!

PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar had his own "emi lokan" moment in Kaduna today🤣. He reportedly told members of the Northern Elders Forum in Kaduna that northerners need him, not a Yoruba or Igbo candidate. That's reckless ethnic baiting. They're all the same.