Tinubu Ignites Crises
OpenLife Nigeria reports that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ignited fresh crises in the campaign council by contradicting his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga.
Problem, however started when Tinubu spoke at a business summit organized by the Kaduna State government.
At the event, named Kadinvest 7.0, Tinubu applauded the governor, Malam Nasir El Rufai for being able to turn a rotten situation to a bad one.
What the former Lagos State governor said became a subject of discuss especially as lots of individuals could not comprehend what the APC presidential candidate meant.
To douse the tension, the spokesman of the APC presidential campaign council, Mr. Bayo Onanuga issued a statement describing Tinubu’s utterance as “Slip of tongue.” Onanuga 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. 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.
But while voters were beginning to accept the Kaduna speech as a “Slip,” Tinubu, in Monday came out to tell Nigerians that it was not a “Slip,” of tongue after all.
Tinubu heaped the blame on the citizens who do not understand the analogy of”Rotten situation to bad” from idiomatic perspective.
He said:
It was not a slip of tongue. Some people don’t understand idioms and synonyms.”
He explained that he meant what he said saying that governor El Rufai has managed rotten situation in Kaduna State to a bad.
He stated that the situation in Kaduna was rotten. Now, it is only bad which means there is improvement.
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