Tinubu under fire for fatal gaffe in Kaduna
Sen Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has come under fire over his gaffe at the Kaduna State Investment Summit on Saturday.
Tinubu, who was one of the guests at the event, had hailed Kaduna Gov Nasir El-Rufai for his developmental strides in the state for nearly eight years.
While appealing to El-Rufai not to pursue his PhD at the end of his two terms next year, Tinubu had mistakenly said the governor “turned a rotten situation to a bad one.”
“I am openly begging Gov El-Rufai not to run away for additional degrees like PhD or others. There are educated derelicts. We are not going to let you run away.
“Your vision, creativity and resilience in turning a ‘rotten situation to a bad one’ are necessary at this critical time and that is why we are here,” he had said.
The statement, which elicited mixed reactions in the hall, generated a storm on Twitter.
Tweeting via @iamadonisa, a social media user said, “It must really be boring sitting there to listen to this man. It takes so many seconds to put words together. Did I hear ‘turning a rotten situation to a bad one’?”
@Rich_D_Guy: “Turning a rotten situation into a bad one? 🤦🏾 God may this thing never happen to Nigeria again.”
But responding in a statement, Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity, Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, said the issue was blown out of proportion because it’s a political season.
He said,“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.
“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 to be proud of today. It was a mere Freudian slip, that is not unusual in life.”
Periscope International recalls that Tinubu has made so many similar fatal gaffes in his public speaking ever since he declared his interest in contesting for president which put in the spotlight of public criticism and scrutiny.
The development has made many people to question his mental state and state of health generally in relation to the hectic task of ruling Nigeria if he wins the 2023 presidential election.
