 And we're back with Off The Press with Tunde Calawale. Tunde, it's good to have you join us this morning via phone. Thanks for having me, my sister. Thank you for having me, my sister. Very well, thank you. Kofi is also here with us. I am Kofi, my brother. Hope it wasn't too hard to get into the office this morning. Well, we think that we're here. Thanks for your time, sir. Alright, Tunde Calawale, let's take a quick look at the leadership now. Leadership amongst other papers. Federal government chides the United States Embassy, United Kingdom, over security alert. That's boldly written on the leadership. Underneath it says it's attempt to disrupt Niger's peace and stability. Really. Service chiefs revives joint operation, dismantle roadblocks, increase presence on highways and streets. UN lets off plot to abduct humanitarian workers in Boronu. And we know that there's been an attack on the humanitarian, the United Nations facility at the FCT. So I really don't know how and why, but of course Tunde Calawale will be here to share his thoughts. Atom Dam Satiku as Tunebu tackles Obasake over breakup comment. Power disruption looms. The federal government directs Gensko to reduce generation. And just before we move away from the leadership, we'll have more interesting headlines on the leadership. And it says, like in 2019, Coq nullifies all APC primaries in rivers. Senate to name women's center after Mariam Babangida. Of course, you want to remember the better life. Vice President Yemosibarjo Jonathan, Ganduja moved to strengthen office of deputy. Central Bank of Nigeria targets 100% cashless economy and flawed 1.4 million displays, 612 dead, very saddening. 21 states get relief materials. These are some of the headlines you find this morning on the leadership. Let's take the stories on the front page of the nation. Scarcity, petrol, ex-depot price rises to 178 Naira per litre. With the riders there, Q's spread in Lagos filling stations are stock sufficient for 24,000, rather 24.82 days. NMDP RA will sell fuel for 200 litre Naira per litre in southwest as Ipman, NMPCL depots empty the riders to that story, like we said during the top trending segment. Otom Benwe Elders withdraws support for Artiku. He's following the footsteps of his political leader, Jens Omeke. Kogi by Elza Imo, governorship polls fixed for November 11, 2023. Flooding, climate change hurting Nigeria, says Puhari. All right, then the AFCC go to go after lawyers and bankers for aiding financial crimes. Agency plans upward salary review for Puhari governors, CJN and others. That's should be talking about revenue, mobilization allocation and fiscal commission. Court nullifies reverse APC primaries. Here we go again. Three in race for a kitty speaker. OE students death or show CJ fumes over dead OE's absence in court. And Oye Tola leaves supporters in 9.2 kilometer walk for Tinibu Shetima, headlines on the front page of the nation. Well, we will move away from the nation and that's because we have the sound newspaper this morning. The sound or the daily sound, I beg your pardon, says fuel scarcity spreads and transport fairs soars. That's a boldly written Lagos, Abuja paralyzes, Ipman blames depot. Federal government names building after late Ikea zoo, S.A.N. Kind of why we transfer 21 justices, appeal court is quoted to say and you find we won't support same fate ticket support groups declare. Nigeria ready to become global vaccine production distribution hub. That's what our president, Mohammad Abouhari is saying. I'll resign if anyone can prove I promised to make him my successor. Weak eh? Federal government deploys security alert by foreign embassies for fortify your environment, cantiles, churches, Senate federal government clash over multi-billionaire employment scheme. Some of the headlines you find this morning on the Daily Sun newspaper. Moving on from the Daily Sun, Newstripper has a message just right there. Let's go over to the next one, which happens to be the punch. Jumbo severance package, Buhari or Sheba, your others, to get 63 billion Naira. Pensionist kick. It's a front page lead story on the punch. Write us to that. Ministers, Governors, Commissioners, National Assembly members, special advisors to benefit. It's inhumane, or inhuman, pensioners who worked for 35 years, not paid for 10 years, it's according to the union. Economist slam politicians say the RM sensitive, the RMFAC to review remuneration. Tinibu OB unfold agenda for women. Atiku absent. Flooding, FG plans, intervention funds, 612 kill. Right, so how many weeks since the flood started? British PM Sunak sets economic stability agenda. He has his work cut out. Duchess of Sussex excited over 43% Nigerian ancestry. This is a Meghan Markle, they've already started giving her Nigerian names on social media. Fios Kersi grounds Legos Ogumabuja commuters stranded. Legos Ibarra Bridge joins reopened. Diverslam Julius Berger, maxed gunmen abduct Legos motorists in broad daylight. And Bayosa, Imo Kogi, governorship polls hold November 11th. That's something for INEC to do ahead of the general elections next year. That's the juncture we'll bring into the Tunikola Wale League of Practitioner and I'll list this morning. Mr. Kola Wale, let's start with the general public official for the aforementioned public official starting from the president and the vice president. Total package of 63 billion narrow. It really is one to ask the question are these guys even listening to Nigerians at all? I mean we see the minutes of finance usually on the papers or on television all she does is to read to Nigerians how much is being owed and to read to Nigerians how much a country is going to borrow from Nigerians. But it seems that Nigerians are not being heard. We seem to be having some network issues at the Tunikola Wale League right there and I will try my best to get back to him as soon as possible. Thank you for this particular story. It's not just in the punch, so our viewers can see what we're talking about. It's not just in the punch. Also it's contained in the other papers as well. The nation put up a different slant to it upward salary review. It's just a few months ago. The judiciary is not left out as well. What do you say this is insensitive to Nigerians in the light of the economic times we're in when we should be cutting down? So we have Tunikola Wale back with us. Barista, are you there? Can you hear us? Yes, please go. As I was saying Nigerians have been crying a lot because many of the politicians are watching them. They don't believe that before they get this money they prepare for themselves and then pay into their respective accounts. Whereas those who have worked for 35 years or they are a bank as a civil servant they never get paid even sometimes 10 years after they have left office. And you will recollect that the Court of Appeals is a ruling against getting the politicians for the mongos amongst the mongos to do very little at most they work about this year before they get this money. Now the truth of the matter is that no matter how much we cry or no matter how much we make about these things the laws are amended because the politicians have codified these mongos a month of money that they get we do have it in the constitution we do have a pension a law in some of these states of defedition so the indigene people and the other pensioners in particular are able to compare the different houses of assembly and then the national assembly to amend the constitution and then some laws of the law the politicians will continue to pay and search these mongos a month of money until such laws are amended. I beg your pardon today just as a follow-up to this you probably took out the question out of my mouth already or my thoughts exactly that this is actually constitutionally guaranteed and don't you think that it's time that we change the structure that the political elites inherited from our colonial masters for instance or from a prime minister is very able to claim public duty cost allowance which is currently set at a maximum of 115,000 pounds annually and we understand that shortly Listros has resigned her position as prime minister is entitled to it and that's it so is it not high time we renounce some of these structures look for structures that suits our country what is doable what is applicable to the Nigerian society what that has always been my call I have 30 times the cost number that this democracy that we purchase that it is expensive and that it is color and that it is not sustainable and that it is a movement that if you are like less than 1% of the population who the corner to themselves are very rich sums of money for maintenance for civil and packaging and for all men of entitlement that we do get and that is some of us have been advocating that the National Assembly for example does one National Assembly both the Senate and the House of Representatives will be matched together and that there could be just one Senate or party and maybe two representative parties and then when you come to the state level you could have just maybe one representing about two or three local governments and then you also make those in the part time affair because when you look at the work of the legislator which is the oversight function which is to represent their constitution which is to make laws for the federation and for the state and law these are not the laws that are required as they should 624s have not been offered 365 days of the year they are just those that could be done as the part time basis and in fact in the past it has been done on the part time basis in Nigeria before especially in the first republic and then before the first republic not because politics is not taken as a vocation and not something to do as public service they have gone into the laws embedded some of these GC packages to the constitution and also to the determined laws of the respective state and laws that it is not difficult for them and even for the Nigerian people to get them to amend those laws besides you will agree with me the resources of the different states are not the same like for example developed policies to get more further allocation and also able to raise more money and internally generate resources and then you compare states like Kichiyankuara state which are not too much in doubt some of the things that are mentioned this is the out of breath people in the nation in the house of ourselves in those states are not in states that want to take the same money that the people in Lagos for example for Oribas for even in Kaduna and the resources available to the different states are not the same I have also been advocating for example that we need to do a way with all these multiple party system let us have just one party state which you can even call Nigeria's Yuku's Congress in which people were major leaders in the labor union in the students movement in the market association and so on we have the representatives in the out of assembly in the state assembly and even the army and the police and other representatives so that they would really want to see them and decide how the resources of the nation is going to be money and then the laws are going to be promulgated or whatever is going to become for the country with these circumstances the problems of these different circumstances already know where the students are painting their different conditions furthermore they are experts in their different areas they will be able to advise either the national assembly or the other assembly on what is to be done especially when projects are being prepared for the different sectors and segments of society but just like you said we have copied all line and finger in the United States of America what is happening in the briefing when our environment in fact do different from those places say for example in Nigeria today the monarchy which is now a ceremonial institution to me we pay them salary on the monthly basis in fact the monarchy take 10% of whatever location is given on their jurisdiction but you and I will know that the monarchy as of today is a very important institution even though we are following the monarchy but we find a way to incorporate them into governance so that the amount of money so that the money of the public allow us and the movement that we invest to them will not just be a mere budget or a waste on the tax payers of this country that what I end this politicians I end this historians, human rights activities and economies and dollars needs to feed them and work out a political paradigm that is to put our environment instead of this wholesale importation of western democracy Alright thank you very much Tunde Kuala Wale for that let's move on to some other stories the situation with the peoples and credit parties well captured by the nation Nisipa today was Rike saying he would not campaign for Atiku and today is Otom who is saying that he is withdrawing himself and also Benway Elders withdrawing their support for Atiku Abu Bakar I mean all the man is taking a leave of absence from the country going abroad and some suspect he is going to treat himself what is your take on the latest twist in the peoples democratic party ahead of the next general elections particularly the presidential poll that Stalagia Atiku Abu Bakar has played into the hands of his enemies you know he went to the north recently he does canoe work as you know where he made the statement that there is not enough that he is a full and a person and that there is not enough only that he is a good president that he don't need to use bad presidency that it is him Abu Bakar that he should vote for being a full and a person that he presented their interest he also added that he is a full and a person he has a children who have been who blows in them he has children who have been who have been blows in them and war as well that statement has gone down two ways with the Nigerian people because ethnicity tribalism can be demon and regionalism has been led into it I will not have made that kind of statement especially when I do know that the party on whose platform I am running he is already not too compatible with him coming from the north to aspire to lead the country again after another nizana who have kind of an ATF that may be the reason why Wichain and also Ottoman are now saying ah about this man being an ethnic region this may be true with that Allah Jatik Abu Bakar would appear to have shot himself in the foot but again, I want to appeal to the other members of the PPP Ottoman and the report said govna wiki they should think in the overall interest of the Nigerian people not whatever or mistakes Allah Jatik Abu Bakar may be making today like I wanted to say it is too dangerous to have just one party to choose from country that is the election and the question in the PPP if the PPP is in this area like all the other parties in this area are not there Nigerians electorate will be met with a complete in which they will have only the APC to choose from and when you have only the APC to choose from as an electorate of the people are not there that means we have no choice that means we are back to square one that means we may only represent all that the APC has done in the last seven and years or years and you and I do know that the performance of the APC in governance in the last seven and a half years are not there in my opinion it is mediocre it is defecating it is irresponsible and that they have refused to give to the government that the good governance will only be about that is security and peace physical security and good representation employment and proper management of the resources of the nation look at what is happening with the rest sector look at the discovery that has been made of people creating their own pipelines and then taking a lot of the country to sell that is the number of the finalists illegal finalists that have been decoded in Nigeria and look at the parallel state of our infrastructure where? I say this it has to go back to the proposal which is to have a one party state in Nigeria because congrats and everybody in every segment deciding to represent that they have made the police the market women the students and all that they have presented all the political parties like the PDP the ESPC so that Nigeria will have a choice if they are not comfortable with the character that one party is putting them as a government candidate as a government candidate then you have some other finalists to choose from and that will also end their competition the second one is public it always look a little bit of a government with all that I have seen on ground today the other parties are in disarray the ESPC seems to be the only party that is probably ready for this election and you must add to this that the ESPC has the resources of the nation at its disposal to fight that election they also have the security forces the police, the army, the DSL they are also in command of the critical aid of the government by the time they deploy all these things all these resources again the PDP that is in disarray then Nigeria will have more time to end up with the ESPC as the next government come 2023 again Tunde Kola Waleas we course the conversation down let's quickly take a look at the leadership newspaper it talks about the federal government's disapproval has expressed strong disapproval of the security alert recently issued on Nigeria by the United Kingdom and the United States according to them on verified your thoughts well my thought is that if I were the federal government I would listen to what the American people are saying the American people are not alumni they hardly would raise that kind of an alarm if they haven't got some security skills then certain people are planning where it's in the time they have to lay a tax on the Nigerian people they collect that immediately the American people raise this alarm one of the security officers also take that look they are on top of the situation they are monitoring that they themselves are in the path the police are also raising an alarm that they are suspecting the American people in Nigerian groups, during Christmas or during one event of Georgia certain people are planning an attack so if the American people who have more resources to gather intelligence information and raising this alarm what I would expect the federal government to do is to lay with the American counterpart and get them to follow them with the details of where this alarm where this attack is likely to come from and probably go to the city to enjoy the action against those who are planning the attack look at the owner of West Africa today Mali, Senegal J.A. Nora the J.A.D., the Islamic Fundamentality are killing and memeing those American people and the government in all those cases have not been able to do much about it even though I will concede the spread of attacks spread of kidnapping the country and we give them a little work we give credit to the people in government but we also say that when the counterpart government like the American who are not giving it a priority raising this kind of alarm it is advisable that the Nigerian government should listen to them and act and get the team accordingly alright, interesting there's a lot to look at this morning Tunde O'Kola Ola including the fate of the AAPC in River States for them a case of affliction rise in the second time we don't have all the day but just in the sentence from your point of view as a legal practitioner if a court is barring a party or nullifying the primaries is that the end of the road for the party in as far as this next general election is concerned very shortly and very quickly please what is there it might not nullify whatever the media apply with the electorate or the leading candidate to supervise another there's always an option to go to court to satisfy whatever decisions that the newer court may have made so the people in River States or the other who rush to court and file an application for those to satisfy and then for the court to give another for their candidate to be able to run alright thank you so much for your time and we look forward to having you again next week thank you very much it's a pleasure taking with you and being on this department with you you have a great day we will take a short break when we return we dive straight into our first major conversation and of course we have two very important topics ahead on the breakfast stay with us