 Welcome back to the breakfast here on Plos TV Africa. It's time for us to go through the major stories making headlines across Nigeria today. Well, starting with the Nigerian Tribune, and we'll get to share with you a couple of them. There are plots to incite war in the southeast, and that's from the Abominable State Governor, Devu Mahi. Also, over 1.2 million children yet to be immunized in Nigeria, says UNICEF. Police storm forest in search of kidnapped women in Oyo, and Jussoon vows to sustain strike until 36 states comply with financial autonomy. Buari APC's misrule caused Twitter to choose Ghana over Nigeria. That's from the PDP. And also, 60 billion Naira not printed to support march allocation, federal government replies of Baseki. We can also find on the Pontius morning, Makin Day, Akire Dulu, Morna's ex-Milad Ambed Osman dies at 70. And also, Jam lost over 10 million Naira to fraudsters in 2020, says the registrar. These are the big stories that we can find that spawned on the Nigerian Tribune. I've got the nation here. Major headline, fire she, how South West PDP Congress pool was rigged. He's not letting up on this. Well, we've got a couple of writers today's story. I'll just reel them out. Ex-Governor alleges violence manipulation. Or your PDP, he should act. This is coming from the PDP in your state now, and fire she should accept defeat. We also have this one. Baseki's claim on revenue, debt, sad, and untrue. Right? This is coming from the federal government. And we also have Lager's predicts 261 days of rainfall, holding on to vehicles. My ride, that is coming from Aja'i. And this is Akire Dulu he's talking to now. This is all happening in Undo state. Then we have this one here also. Southeast Governor's alleged plot to incite war in that region. You have to go to page four to find out details of that story. Last but not least, let Supreme Court justices stay for life. That's interesting. Say for life? For life. Well, I hope that, you know, as I can talk, we'll be able to share his thoughts on that one. Let's get to the punch these whippers next. States face... I thought you already did the punch. No, I did the tribune. States face cash crunch, salaries, swallow revenues. Federal government seeks more funds. We need more money for debt servicing, a day-to-day run of government that meets the federal government. AKT spends 93% of allocation on workers, receives 3.1 billion nair on the average, says the state. And also this morning on the punch, Jusson strike courts remain short. National Assembly plans talks with governors. Federal government approves 14.55 billion nair operational vehicles and boats for customs. And Lagos expects 261-day rainfall in 2021, says the government. We can also find on the punch this morning, the vice-president to Shimpadro criticizes vaccine politics, exports ban on developing countries. And federal government fortifies security at Abuja, Lagos and other airports. Senate alleges 7.6 billion naira secret withdrawal. Someone's Ahmed and A.G. Those are the big ones on the punch this morning. So I've got a Guardian and it's packed. It looks loaded from page here. You see this picture, the major one, the only one actually, the Minister of Finance and the governor of the state side-by-side and I think it's tied to the whole thing about printing money. So you have this major headline, avoid reckless money printing to fund deficits, expats won. And then we have also this one, red flags over AstraZeneca deal new blow to vaccination drive. Okay. We have this one here. Over 20 cheaper parents died waiting their girls. This is coming from the BBOG. We also have reps, speakers beg governors to grant financial autonomy to judiciary and legislature. Also, we have 19 die in Gombe communal clash. That's a very sad one. All right. Miss Danyi, I talk over to you now. Good morning once again. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning. Really good to be here. And the special good morning to be here. Thank you. You've had enough of my good morning so you don't need any more. Thank you. Thank you. One or two seemingly minor things really stand out for me as far as I'm concerned. And one of those is the, I don't want to call it feud. I don't know what to call it between Governor Obaseki and the CBN governor, not CBN, the minister of finance. Governor Obaseki is saying that so much money about 60 billion is being printed and then being used to augment what's going on in terms of sharing money to the states. And the CBN minister of finance is saying that that's not true. Two things stand out for me. I listen to the tape very well and I listen particularly to the context within which he was saying. He was not really so much about the fact that things are going south at the national level but the fact that within the state they ought to be able to brace up themselves for what is coming. And it's so easy to see what is coming. How does Nigeria make the money? Basically two areas. One is resources from oil which is the main thing and then the second one is internally generated revenue. We all know that internally generated revenue is not being sold. It's not being linked. It's no rocket science and it's so easy to know why to understand why because you get revenues when people are being well paid and either the direct payers you go stuff in terms of the personal taxing that's paid or the profits that the companies make that is being taxed. When companies are not operating where are you going to get the taxes from and when the people are being laid off where are you going to get the income taxed from. These are no rocket science and he's saying look if we are going to be sustainable as a state we need to start to look beyond this feeding bottle approach to governance every month we go to Abuja and I really love that because that should be the conversation amongst all governors at this point in time and I think that the electorate we need to sit up and realize that this issue of how much money does he have how much money does he have is no longer what you want our election what you want our election should be how resourceful is this person does he have the mental capacity does he have the heart for governance does he understand governance what it is and what is expected of a governor I think the time has come when we as citizens need to start a major enlightenment campaign of the citizens on what government and governance is all about I think it's a major tragedy that is coming and we need to sit up so I want to say that two things have come to me on that number one is that if the federal government was thinking that as much as thinking they know that the cat has been laid out of the bag and if they've been doing that instead of thinking of how to cover it it doesn't really make sense if anything they should come clean with the plan and say look times are hard like all this we wanted to go on strike they need more money that's because the federal government is still having this body language of oh no problem no problem but if Mr. President comes clean with us and addresses us you say don't let people make the party feel bad all this issue of living politics or living governance and concentrating on politics is running this country on ground and I think the time has come for you and I forget this ruling government to sit up and start to enlighten our people on what government is all about the government says they didn't print any money but of course the conversation is also very important at a time like this I'm really not interested in all those things I want them to tell me don't tell me you're not printing money tell me how you are coping with the situation and what the facts are absolutely let's move to two other issues one other issue now and that is the former governor of the state Ayudhili Fireshe saying that the south-west PDP congress was rigged this is a couple of days after the congress was held and Taufiq Arakpaja was declared winner after Fireshe had also congratulated Shaye Makhinde and the winner and of course declared Shaye Makhinde the leader of the south-west PDP what do you think may have changed? I listened to him again and two things also jumped out at me the first is that what he said about the congress being rigged I don't know why we should find that as news it's like wow that's the stocking trade of the two parties they either rigged it directly or they employed talks to scatize the thing is not going their way so this is no news but for me what made news and I actually took time to listen to him and I really get him a lot of respect I would say so the first is that he was saying that he stood as a one-man riot squad against several governors from past and present against the national assembly member senators and everything and yet out of a total vote of over 900 or 900 or there about he only lost by 13 votes and for me that was wow forgetting I understand politics have been in the PDP at one of the highest levels you could imagine in the PDP and become non-parties and so to speak so I know how these things are and for him to have achieved that feat it means that if there was a level playing ground brothers that guy would have killed I think that PDP should hold him here so it still doesn't I'll just weekly share it still doesn't in any way prove that it was rigged these are his allegations do you think it's also important that what I'm saying is that the rigged is really not the substance it's not the story the story is that he was able to stand alone as a one-man riot squad and nearly upset the system losing by only 13 votes the second news is that that notwithstanding he was able to put personal hurt and grievances behind him and look at the larger interest of the party and he kept saying the party is bigger than my personal interest so I have let go I've congratulated them we're not going to let this house that I built to fall and crush I think that's that's magnanimous this is where I have a this is where apologies for dragging this for so long but is he really putting personal issues aside and as accepted the party is bigger than his personal wishes if days after the election has been held days after a winner has been declared days after he claimed to have congratulated the winner he goes on TV to say that it was rigged and since then they haven't called him and since the election held that nobody has rigged out to him isn't that still making it personal it is making it personal politics is personal no matter how you look at it politics is personal interest I've contested twice as a governorship candidate so I can tell you that politics is personal and he's coming out to let Nigerians know in all the states I file a check as a one man I stood against the whole of the machinery of government all the commissioners all the governors and the assembly members and everything so he's trying to tell Nigerians I am forced to break on with com 2023 he's not going to keep quiet and just say ok yeah yeah yeah and everybody will say ok he lost he lost no the conversation now is wow you mean that guy was going to pull that sort of weight you mean this guy still that relevant that's the politics aspect of it he's a politician so he's playing politics you are doing cerebral analysis of the situation he is doing politics and this is exactly what he wanted he needed people to talk and people would start to bring up the fact that you know he lost only by 13 votes and in fact those 13 votes I only lost because of 123 but that said it doesn't matter let's move on all them have congratulated them and he also said publicly I am not leaving this party I think that he's a good politician I would not fit that to him let's move on to other things I wish that other politicians when they play their politics they will also you know end on a note of let's move on yeah sure let's move on right let's do an about turn right now so babalola says that supreme court justices to be allowed they should be allowed to serve for life what do you think about this you know maybe for life has a certain legal definition understanding ramification that I don't understand because I know that there's a lady in my city the wife of the first local government chairman in British West Africa ok in fact some people say British Africa she is about 108 years ok she is alive I'm wondering if a supreme court judge or whatever is blessed with such long life whether such a person will be allowed to be holding a working stick and going to see so for life I don't understand what it means for life maybe there's a technical definition of for life which means for as long as there's a level of sanity and capacity ok and then the question is how do you establish that in a country like ours where the rule of law is not respected you know instead it is concept of pre-bendalism and the rest of like this is my first thing let him be there for as long as he is there I can always be seen as the brother the uncle the sister the friend of the man in power so I really don't want to go into that thing that for as long as they are cerebral for as long as their faculties and senses make them their wealth of knowledge at the highest echelon of you know legal expertise we should use them because even this issue of retirement my classmate my classmate I mean I know who I am and my classmate just turned 60 and he's retired and I'm just wondering how could how could Tonya leave office it doesn't make sense because this guy is sharp he has such wealth of knowledge and everything so as much as possible I think he let them leave so that you know opportunities can be created for other people to come in but I'm asking yourself can we start to run governance where the opportunities of employment is not in civil service alright let's let's quickly talk about the statement by the PDP it says Buhari and APC's misrule caused Twitter to choose Ghana over Nigeria and that is coming from the PDP there's also something on the daily independent saying the federal government is mute over the president's return date from the UK two things number one I agree with the PDP me and them we don't always agree but sometimes I agree with them and I think that we really need to look at this concept of politics of ourselves and we need to understand that the global the global community operates on setting basic fundamentals which is being able to sit down and analyze the situation and say if I go to this country what do I gain what do I lose it's true that Nigeria has an amazing market as far as Twitter is concerned much much better than that of Ghana but the question is if I go to Nigeria because of the market now what's their policies like what's their capital repatriation policies like what's their city and policies like will I be able to get my money out will I have getting today and tomorrow there's a new policy that makes it difficult for me to operate or do I go close enough to them to a more stable a more stable line where I can still poach the market without the risk of my losing my business these are the ways businessmen think and these are business people with no sentiment oh we have the largest market so you must come here no it's like the oil drilling companies when the oil communities were becoming very very responsive unfortunately then I don't need to go into tip see you know Nigeria whatever drilling they still get their oil but they get to come to your ground from far away so they don't have to interface with you these are the things that businessmen think and that's the way it's going to be if we want companies to start coming to Nigeria we need to be very very consistent and stable you know the central bank the central bank I don't know how I can say this enough I really don't understand what is going on now agriculture the central bank is happening now there's a bank of agriculture small scale industries the central bank is happening now there is you know what is this other bank and all that is there so the issue is I really don't understand the role of the central bank the role of the ministry of finance the role of other agencies the time has gone when we need to have a new set of people that come into government and leave this politics aside and face governors go into what you call the best practices so the issue of twitter I really don't blame them they have business people and they are smart and on your president if you can squeeze out it in 30 seconds yes Garubashe who told us that mr president was as fit as a fiddle he was just going to have a little bit of medical tourism right now there's a lot of very very very worrisome silence why is a man fit as a fiddle out when the country is burning from all sides I think mr. presidential please come back home we are missing him we are missing him please tell him we are missing him let him come back home alright thank you so much for your time and for speaking with us this morning always very interesting listening to your take on these issues thank you thank you sir stay with us this morning of course the 15th of April we are going to be 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