El-Rufai: Freudian Slip Reveals Hidden Thought – Farooq Kperogi On Tinubu

Bayo Onanuga, a storied journalist who’s now Tinubu’s presidential campaign spox, said Tinubu’s description of El-Rufai as some1 who “turned a rotten situation into a bad one” was a “Freudian slip.” 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!