 Welcome to the breakfast and plus TV Africa is time for off the press. We have a zika. Yeah, I took a public affairs analyst He joins the conversation in no time the Zico. Thank you for joining us this beautiful festive morning Thanks for having me We appreciate your time. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning and as always our attention would be on the top stories PDP discard zoning and throws ticket open very interesting and party primaries and electoral acts Stabbing off litigations President of Muhammad the Buhari acts Malami. I'm a Chi to me purse silver five orders to go Like how, you know, the captions are being put out and You have riders underneath on certainty trills. I'm a Chi's resignation. I will Consult with mr. President and my people in gigae really a few cuts sets aside judgment on Section 84 subsection 12. It will stop impunity and illegality says CSO's APC Adjust timetable and governorship primaries now on May 20 National Assembly May 24, but I'm just hoping that this also It's in tandem with I neck not forgetting yesterday. We talked about this and You know, I neck is saying that the timetable has already been printed the time that was submitted There will be no review of the timetable. We're hoping that I neck does not make I mean the stand by their words are not going to make an exception for a certain political party and Security mastery shots Batsari Jabi road APC presidential forms, I did not collect 200 million from Jonathan Find who's saying all of that and you find I shall be hurry once and boys support for women's in politics as to strike as to federal government meets in Aso rock today or as a vealer and bandits kill Connell seven soldiers in terrible the headlines on the leadership this morning Away from the leadership will move on next to the punch newspaper The lead story for this morning will hurry boss to pressure APC panel may demand resignation letters Majuba Arnaud Appabio tender resignation Malamie in gigae retain sits Action belated could have saved nation from drama as essay and spirit Buhari above the must-head one 19 days after Simban and I in registration hits 80.7 million I net plans three weeks suspension of online voter registration Asu reps intervene students shot down Lagos Abel Kutang road 2023 elections unlikely Nigeria progressing to on a key that's according to Falai It's we could own us pensions protestant civil war veterans lament Lagos to demolish 10 more distressed buildings before Sunday hoodlums invade Lagos hotel kill guard Rob Jump officials banks assets rise by 19 percent heat 62.01 trillion narrow that's according to the central bank of Nigeria Our own according to rules says to the Bakery Football triers for Lisa Wren suspect Olympian denies the fraud in business woman AKT driver marks life jail for raping student passenger twice those are The stories on the front page of the punch newspaper Away from the punch newspaper the daily independence is before us this morning primaries appeal caught in cis political appointees won't vote Says there won't be voted for can't be candidate for elections That's the writer says there won't be voted for and can't be candidate for elections Set aside judgment voiding section 84 subsection 12 sees provision as illegal There's a lot going on and strike. Buhari see as all holds meeting with Asu Nassu orders today at the villa and you have the NJC issues policy direction and handling political and election related cases Another header this morning on the daily independent underneath that caption recommends appointment of 49 judges And just before we move away absus set to go on strike gives federal government two weeks Ultimatum reps amend electoral act to allow statutory delegate vote at primaries event row the session rejects Propose amendment to section 29 I will support whoever measures in fair primary. That's what the former governor of Lagos said well I'm not a squatter to say and Cognolifies Malamese committee on sale disposal of recovered asset 2023 elections on new Majoba a Fabio quits cabinet after Buharis directive These are some of the headlines and one dies as gunmen attack jam officials in Lagos hotel Very sad on the daily independence this morning the headlines and finally We will review the Guardian newspaper the electoral art is just taken front page across some various papers this morning three ministers are resigned others In a fix several captions of several writers there Pew court knocks lower court on section 84 subsection 12 at Babio all know media aid of Babu Haris Directive resign Education junior minister resigned April 28 And I will consult my Constituency before I resign late resignation may hurt ministers ambition Stares up legal debate over 30 day ultimatum before primaries Reps align with Senate and meant electoral act for statutory Delegate Senated joint sitting to allow lawmakers participate in party primaries away from that NJC issues policy directions on election-related cases Now also vast to disrupt party primaries 2023 elections is evasio strike persist PDP flees and that foundation of a survey report on a kitty gubac poles Don't drug us into parties and politics cross river Monax one self-determination group seeks cancellation of 2023 January election other stories on the front page of the Guardian tenor extension call Unconstitutional tenor extension call on constitutional threats to democracy or Lannick McCorme wants PDP nomination crisis deepings in south-souths it will won't complain if we can make you I may feel it emerges President says group Let's see you can take one or two more gunner kill six soldiers abduct commander and to rubber Tortive alleges herders plots to seize ancestral lands 47 days after here our task Buhari on free and abducted a bogey Kaduna train Passengers and a whole lot more making front page of the Guardian newspaper this first day morning. We have Is it coming? I took who joins the conversation this morning. It's a delight to have you join us Good morning Thanks for having me as always To delight to be here. All right, then let's start off with the proclamation of the president asking that members, I mean those of the members of the federal executive council resign If they have any political ambition now we have seen a pub you among orders Heading that direction Yeah, there's something about leadership you you to be a leader you must be on top of the game You must be constantly briefed and you must direct and drive the processes It's not enough for you to say I've delegated and that is enough No, no, we need a president who is on top of the game as soon as this law came out What I had expected was mr. President and to ask for a legal opinion Two ways one from within another from outside He sits down looks at the whole, you know Implication the import and the prognosis of the whole law and then takes a proactive decision If mr. President had done this there was a law that says don't do this It's always better to err on the side of caution now He had an option which was Malami attack this get a supreme court there We know interpretation and let me know where I am early enough. He left it to linger right now technically even if they resign The 30 days before the primaries Would have elapsed. I don't know how this is gonna work out. So giving the law now of the instruction now I do not know what serves him at the end of the day I think that I'm still concerned that we need to understand what leadership is in Nigeria And as we try to you know elect the next president or choose the next president We like you should have a conversation on what should be expected the leadership Criteria that we must look at before we go so that even when they start campaigning They are setting parameters that we have as Nigerians and again. I wish the media will be able to like Give us that direction, you know that compass that will guide Nigerians Which is one of the the responsibilities of the media Which is why they are called the fourth estate of the realm and also not just the media But we that call ourselves are elders or the elites or the enlightened You know, we need to also know that in recruiting a CEO for this country There must be a profiling criteria and we should make that available to the public who are going to be the people to choose So I think that Mr. President Instruction or Yeah, instruction has come maybe a little too late, but Better than never you may say All right, let's take him all those stories You know making headlines staying with the God in his paper A lot of people or some groups are calling for the you know cancellation of the 2023 January elections Now this self-determination group six cancellation of the election is he can enter this is not the first time There has been a call for the cancellation or the shift for of the 2023 January elections But should this be what we should be looking at right now? You see, there's the word anarchy another word confusion Are two words that we really need to look at very well because you don't just talk we run a constitutional democracy What that means is that there's something called rule of law and processes Can they tell me what they have put in place how we intend to do this or put away? Are you trying to talk in terms of tenor elongation if that is to be done? Are you aware that it is a constitutional matter? Where it is one of those areas that the national assembly cannot just pass a law and that is it It will have to go into you know changing the Adjusting the constitution which will have to not only go through the two arms of the National Assembly But also at least two-thirds of the state assemblies. How many days? Why are we talking about this now? I think that what we need to do if you mean well for this country is To say in the next dispensation This is what we want to achieve on account of that These are the sort of people who commit to this that we should bring into the house So that when they get in there'll be a legislation that alters and gives us a sort of governance that we want a lot of these, you know things or Agitations which are not really are contrived There are people who have been on the seat of power and suddenly they are seeing themselves getting out of power That they thought was they are all for life They didn't know that it's a ten-odd stuff and it's a job that you leave. It's not your company Now they are seeing that they are not looking for ways to you know go behind and cause all manner of confessions We must have our eyes on the ball and I want to tell Nigerians. Please ignore these people Make sure you look for credible people to vote for Make sure you give them an agenda to use as their manifesto if what you want is a referendum Start to sell that agenda that if you commit yourself to this at least say it The Bible says that a man is ensnared by the words of his face on his mouth So let us you know get the people to say this is the agenda We want commit yourself to that agenda and we will vote for you and them I think that's a better route to go down for you to say, okay Let's do that government of national unity eternal elongation. All those things are distractions not for now and Secondly politicians are also in it. Politicians who know that they're not good enough know that if you set up the real Recruitment criteria they will not fit into it So they bring a counter narrative to distract you and get you to start to talk and before you know it's election time It's okay. It's not too late. Let's go and then they come back to power I think that we must have our eyes on the ball. Let us seek the night Gia we want paint the picture and make sure that we enlighten the people enough or the sort of people they should elect into the house or the Governance system so that we can have a focused governance come 2023 But let's continue on this particular notes the issue of self-determination Groups the king cancellation of the 2023 elections. I mean, shouldn't we pay attention to all of these thoughts that are Been put out first. We actually had these elder statesman Affable Balola who was suggesting that it would be okay to have an interim government So we don't recycle the same leaders and now we're having people saying You know, let's cancel the elections for 2023. Should we not pay attention to this? Thought pattern that as you pay attention the question is how It's a very it's a very simple. It's not something that is complicated at all. How do you want to do it? You want to suspend the Constitution? How do you want to do it? Please tell the people to elect women and men of character Competence capacity, that should be your campaign Don't tell me we should what how do you want to do it? How? And and the the revered a legal luminary Balala, I mean he knows too well How come he did not tell us how we should get about it? Are you telling me that we should go to national assembly now and tell them tell them what how do you want to do it? It doesn't make sense So so the question here is should we maybe would rather say should we not be worried but not worried in that particular sense I mean, this is in the speculative. There's been a lot of speculation about whether or not, you know We're going to have the 2023 elections and then you have different groups and peasants who are postulating and Suggesting that we cancel the elections. Should we not be concerned? Should we not be meeting with these groups and We should understand what distraction means We shouldn't even continue with this discussion. I shouldn't even spend one more minute of my time on this discussion I'm a very by the grace of God cerebral person and enlightened and I'm asking you a simple Why should I be what election is around the corner? Election is around the corner They are about to choose the people that are going to be on the ballot and you want to tell me now is a time that should be worried Before you can say Jack parties have elected the people that will be on the ballot and you are confined to those people and This is a time for you to have a conversation of how I should be worried about what Could be maybe When there is what is and what is that that is it is that we have an election and parties are choosing They are representatives now What should bother us is who am I going to see on the ballot? Who am I because the moment you have candidates does it forecloses everything you can either choose between Six and have a dozen or you have a fresh option Alternative or you put pressure on the two main parties to ensure look at what PDP is doing now Look at what a piece is doing They've taken also granted that whoever they give to us is what we'll take because the media is like a piece of PDP A piece of PDP they've already bought us so they have no business trying to impress us But if they knew that there is a third force Nigerians have a choice which is what the press should have been on who are the options a Man like mohan who cannot be treated as somebody that's a non-entity You compare him to some of the names that you call in a PC on PDP and I just feel insulted You know as a personal thing a man like Kachiku. These are people money These are young people who have made a mark who are visionary because we have not Profiled the criteria for the recruitment You know when you profile the criteria for the recruitment you discover that you want don't want to be a boxer at 70 years You don't want to be a boxer and if there are no things, you know You just look at yourself you look at the criteria you tell yourself and of it look at the 27 people that bought 27 the what they call it 100 million 27 people put those people call it the body like KPMG to bring out a profiling criteria for the CEO for Nigeria Over 90% of them wouldn't even bother to buy a form but because we do not have this recruitment criteria Everybody just coming in When will we have a Criteria that the parties will use to bring out the candidate that must be you know There's a way the party can even say bros leave this thing. Don't worry. Don't worry. It's not that we want money Don't win. All right, so mr. And I talk we need to move on and move away from that particular one Let's slide on to the leadership and newspaper. You know this issue of Jonathan contestant Jonathan not contestant seems to be Linguin for quite too long, but the way the leadership captioned it for this morning a PC presidential Forms I didn't collect 200 million error from Jonathan. That's according to governor But let's get your quick opinion concerning that It's all the distractions. I have stated Yesterday I was on this station, you know Plus politics I made a very fundamental statement after Mandela Arguably President former president Jonathan is one Nigerian that has enjoyed global acceptance Respect honor and that is good for the image of Nigeria. That's number one number two The south will feel short change that Jonathan comes back to collect the presidency That cannot stay for eight years in the south then for four years and then back to the north They will hate the man no end Thirdly the current situation that we are in Needs a leader that is charismatic That is visionary and we cannot forget too soon how Jonathan was painted with all the terrible No paint has been clueless as being immoral as being all sorts of things We can't forget too soon the moment the campaign starts these things will come back I do not know what the advisors of Jonathan are telling him But my honest opinion is that for the love of country for the love of country Let us have one Nigeria and that is respected OBJ is another man The more that is added if they're as soon as president Buhari gives us free free play Let's show he will join that class of people and Nigeria can say this are one two three Global citizens that can speak for us if we need dead reliever forgiveness or no voices Let's not bring president Jonathan back and Robby Shane, please I hope this matter just dies away whether somebody bought or collected money is not important eyes on the ball means President Jonathan, please remain that our shining star to the global community a good name for Nigeria And please just leave this presidency alone Okay, and quickly it talks about the online voter registration that has been suspended according to INEG They have actually put out the reason for all of that suspension. It's supposed to allow time for Physical registration at designated centers taking place at the same time Yeah, they've been making a lot of effort down here where I am you know I'm contesting the government about five on set and right down to my ward The INEG people are bringing their people down to the world to do the physical registration. I want to Appeal to the young people. It's good that you go down to get physically registered It's not like registration is suspended it said look just come to where we are and if you go early enough the pressure is not mounting right now and my neck maybe gets as much Decentralized as possible They actually came to my world and they know spent number of days trying to get the people to register I think that this is good It not only helps you to to to get to meet them. It helps to kind of Acquaint yourself, you know start to have these of just sitting in your room and getting it done. It is good, but Early enough, let us start to get to the world get to know where your station would be It's an animation that I think makes sense I I I tend to agree with INEG But maybe they should also be doing not to fix on it after the primaries They could have another little window so long as it is something that they know They can meet the timelines that they've set but it's better They follow their timelines than try to impress people and then get it to trouble on the long run All right 19 days after seam and ban NIN registration hates 80.7 million. That's according to the punch newspaper Nigenta seemingly registering so much now. It's been 19 days and over 80.7 million have registered What does this tell you is it kill? Yeah, two things is that If you want to do something do it Nigerians have a lot of thinking oh, it won't happen and they will shift it They will postpone it they will shift it they will postpone it I think that when there's any blocking lines and They will know you can receive calls cannot make calls people now started taking really serious So I think it's good enough so long as the registration is put to good use and not Politicized I think I think it is good. We are making progress All right. Thank you so much. Is he getting a talk? My pleasure. Thanks so much for having me. We look forward to sharing more of your thoughts on the breakfast We appreciate you always And so do I All right. That's the size of off the press for this Thursday will be taking a creep break and see what happened Is the in history and when we'll come back we'll be talking about him the president's directive to He's fake members and the implications of all of that in a moment. Stay with us