 Welcome back to The Breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. It's time for Today in History and we're going to be sharing with you a couple of things that happened on this day many years ago. I'm going back to 2010. It was on this day that for my president, Umaru Musa Yeradoa passed, the 5th of May. It was, of course, one of those moments where Nigeria was a little confused, you know, the build up to the eventual announcement of his death. There was a Nigerian politician who was president from 2007 to 2010, declared winner of the Nigerian election held on April 21, 2007. On February 24, 2010, he, of course, returned to Abuja under the cover of darkness. There was loads of conversation with regards to his health. The state of his health at that time was unclear, but of course there was speculation that he was on a life support machine. Various political and religious figures in Nigeria visited him during his illness, saying that he will make a recovery. If you remember, there was also a very popular phone call by former president of Lushegon Basinja, where he said, Umaru, are you alive or are you there or something like that? I can't remember. But on this day, 5th of May, at Asarok, he was declared dead. The Islamic burial took place on the 6th of May in his hometown in Katsina state. And of course, the federal government declared a 7-day mourning period for Umaru Musa Yeradoa. It also, of course, led to his vice president, at that time, Goodluck Jonathan, swearing in, being sworn in as a new president of Nigeria. There was also some controversy and speculations of, I can't remember his wife. Well, you know, that the wife of the president at that time, you know, was this well, just speculations holding on to power and didn't, you know, want Goodluck Jonathan to be sworn in. But of course, the Nigerian constitution had to come in play and, you know, he eventually took over. Of course, there was, you know, the talks, you know, that his health issues were kidney issues. He had kidney failures and some of all of that, but on this day, Umaru Musa Yeradoa passed. And of course, that was a president that many people have said, oh, one of Nigeria's finest presidents, one of Nigeria's best presidents, he only got three years. I mean, you'll never know. You know, you'll never really know until, you know, the end of a person's tenure, at least a couple of years into the tenure. But it was, it was a peaceful time in Nigeria, I believe. Also was one of those, I think it was a period where Amnesty for Boko Haram, not Boko Haram now, Lord of Mercy, for MEND was discussed and of course, it was given. Wow. So, we remember when, you know, back in 2009, November, when it was elifted out of the country, health issues. Who are you? What's that name? Sorry? Never mind. Go ahead. Okay. Are we talking about the wife? Yes. Okay. So, we know the agitation then people were really concerned and wanted to know what was wrong with the president. So I think this whole, you know, the secrecy surrounding his illness, how he traveled out, how he came back secretly, how we found out that he eventually passed, you know, based on history, we shouldn't be surprised when Nigerians are really interested in the health of the president because they've seen this happen before. Yeah. So when you say the president is going for a routine medical checkup, he's going to London. And the South is his personal business. Exactly. So Nigerians become apprehensive. They say, remember 2009, what happened? And you know, the presidential aides are not saying anything. We don't know the nature of the president's illness. We have no idea if he just has a headache, if it's just maybe a severe forming, she's a migraine, we have no idea what it is. So I think the president, she should better understand where Nigerians are coming from. We've seen this happen before. Yeah. So we want to know what is happening with the health of our president and we want to trust that the security and welfare of our nation is in the hands of a healthy person. Absolutely. So he passed, you know, people like you said have praised him for being one of the best presidents of the country. They talk about how few price was cheap, this, that, security was great. You know, but obviously people would always criticize you when you're there and it's when you're no more like you mentioned. People would now look back and say, oh, that wasn't so bad. Look at good luck Jonathan. He was heavily criticized. He left the country where he left the presidency and someone else took over and people were like, wow, we never knew this man was this fantastic, you know. So who knows what we might say about the president's Muhammad Buhari? Who knows what the future would hold? Who knows if it to get better or worse and you say, oh, Buhari was the best president we ever had. You can not make such. No, no. You cannot make such pretty. I don't know if that's a good prayer for Nigeria. Well, you have to understand that the times we're living is different. It keeps changing. So the economic time and the security time of Yadua was totally different than what Nigeria is now. We now have more security threats. Inflation is worse as a COVID-19 pandemic. So you can't exactly judge them on the same level because, you know, the rain or the rule in the country is in totally different, different, you know, time, different situations. So those basically are the things we need to consider when we, you know, try to assess one president on who's better and who's not. You know, we know that today in history, unfortunately passed on. We heard Goodluck, Jonathan, saying we've lost the crown jewel of the country. Condolence is pouring in from different, you know, sectors, you know, of life and so still rest in peace. Absolutely. So yes, also today in history, going back to the May 5th and 2013, still when Boko Haram insurgency was still very fresh in Nigeria, we know that it was around that same time when Goodluck, Jonathan, I beg your pardon, when Yadua fell ill that 2009, that was when we first saw, you know, any any inkling of terrorism in Nigeria with Boko Haram's attacks and all of that. So this day in history 2013, we saw that, you know, there was a, there was a, there was an attack on a church in a village in Atamar state. Six people were killed in the markets. Four people were killed around the church. You know, it was just such a dark day in history. You know, the Atamar state police spokesman at the time, Mohamed Ibrahim, you know, confirmed these attacks but said, you know, we cannot immediately ascertain the motives because, like I mentioned, Boko Haram was still just on the come up at that time, you know, just a few years earlier in the year 2009, when, you know, just started attacking Nigeria. So I did a time check and I found that just in that year 2013, when this attack occurred, in the month of January and February, there were about 23 attacks of the sorts just in two months, January and February in 2013. About 23 attacks, you either found the, you know, Boko Haram terrorist kidnapping a Chinese person, blowing up a church, you know, carrying out one, you know, evil or another, but it was just such a dark time. Like I mentioned in Nigeria's history, ten people died that day. Yeah, I mean, it was, you know, in those times, you know, that people were scared to go to church or religious, you know, buildings because you can never tell, you know, if, you know, halfway through Sunday service, there will be an explosion. You can never tell if, you know, wherever you are and been in, you know, you might just be heading home from church, you know, and you hear that a bomb had exploded in Burano or exploded in Zamfaro in Yobi. It was a terrible time for Nigeria. Those things have, you know, stopped, you know, and we no longer hear of bombings on that level anymore. We don't even hear of bombings anymore. Some people would argue that, oh, maybe because of the superior tactical, you know, power of the Nigerian government. You'll see superior firepower, that's the statement. That's, you know, why those things have stopped. Others would argue that, you know, tactics have only just changed and they've realized that they could, you know, do more damage, you know, with their new tactics now and they could, you know, create more fear with their new tactics now. Now they're bold enough to attack army facilities. They are bold enough to... Go to an army base, army checkpoints. Yes, you know, take, you know, ammunition and take, you know, gun trucks and whatnot. But it was a terrible time in Nigeria. Nobody wants to go back to those times anymore. But, you know, still, whether the tactics have changed or not, are we safer? Do we feel better now, you know, that there are no longer bombings? No. Now we're dealing with, you know, three, four, five different security threats at the same time. And we've spoken about this for so, so, so, so long. Tomorrow morning, very likely, we'll talk about security again. And, you know, I think you had mentioned earlier about the National Assembly and the parents, you know, protest at the National Assembly. We shouldn't. And I, the way that Nigeria currently is, I don't think there's any other discussion of National Assembly we should be having. Do you even know what that means, you know, to basically come together, travel all the way from Kaduna to Abuja? That journey is even a security risk on its own, because what if something happened on the way, just to protest? Yeah, absolutely. You know, and so what do you expect from the National Assembly at a time like this, to plead with parents and tell them, don't worry, we'll look into it, or to go back and have this argument. I saw PDP Kokos, you know, led by Aya Naya Baribay, speaking about a vote of no confidence in President Muammar Dabura and some of all of that. It's too much, you know, I don't think we should go into that this morning. It's no time for it. But on this day, 10 people lost their lives in a bomb blast. And of course, in 2010, Umar al-Museyar Adwanajir is president who only about three years passed. Stay with us. We have a lot more of these conversations coming your way. How much padding has gone into the 2021 budget? How much money, you know, has been duplicated in the 2021 budget? How much money has been spent on security or been allocated for security in the last, you know, couple of years since 2015? Some of all of these revelations, budget has put out a statement and we will be talking about that next with Sheyooni Bindi. Good morning and stay with us.