 Welcome back to the breakfast. It's time for off-the-press and let's quickly go to the punch new supers and see what stories we can find over there Should bring your screen in just a few seconds. There you have it. It says on there's insist on slot 17 governors demand 2023 South presidency governor's fault removal of electronic Transmission of reelection results from electoral act PIB passage forum rejects 3% for host communities in strong terms Also on the punch oil hit seven seven dollars a daily petrol subsidy rises to 6.07 billion naira PFN and can tackle federal government as bandits abduct 140 students in fresh Kaduna raid a position mounts as National Assembly transmits PIB to Buhari next week Still on the punches morning Nigeria spends 60 billion our annually to repair vandalized pipelines and We can also see here My party members are Nigerians battling hunger unemployment and poverty says former president of Lushegma Bason Joe Says is done with partisan politics once again still on the punches morning if I RS secretly recruited 2,000 workers agency on the financial pressure says the NCSU and Minister slumps about event lands in trauma center Legos Maritime Union members in three-day gone battle over money Wow, and police and hunters comb bushes as gunmen kidnapped or shun and a door travelers And of course you can also see a picture from the southern governor's meeting yesterday on the punch Let's turn now to the Guardian newspaper pretty heavy stories here the headline reads sovereign governors want power shift Rejects 30% sheer for frontier basins the riders reads Order member states to promulgates anti-open-grazen law by September 1st Security agencies must inform governors before any operation in states Haneza Indigo demands presidency for Southeast a feniferead don't commission others hail resolutions also the Guardian newspaper stop pursuing Igboho Apologize to him. Sheen car tells federal government Traincouser says there will be uproar if the truth about an amdicana's arrest comes out Also the Guardian newspaper Honorable Tony adokie says why it's a bit difficult for any governor to beat governor week his achievements in reverse state Panda 6 reversal of PIB insist on 10% for hosts communities Nigeria's constitution discourages economic diversification says more galoo also Christian association of Nigeria Where you are called for a revised resignation of a kidnap of 26 students All right, and now on the daily son newspapers Southern governors draw battle lines with presidency It also says here Apply same speed using arresting canoe to end banditry and other crimes showing cartels for the government Says exposure on how IPOB leader was arrested will cause uproar Still on the daily son, of course on the same southern governor's story The southern governors insist on open grazing ban sets a set September deadline for promulgation Of course of the law in 17 states say the south must produce president in 2023 reject removal of electronic election results transmission Abbas and Judd denies forming new political party and Anambra PDP primaries or concord act supporters to wait for next line of action Again bandits abduct 140 in Kaduna school Clark inc reject past PIB describe it as satanic unjust and provocative Good morning. Once again. Mr. Chris one do thanks for joining us Morning to you. Let's start of course with the second southern governor's meeting and the reactions to its sum have described it as Taking sides against Nigeria and an attack on, you know, president Muhammad Ubario of some sort What's your reaction to their resolutions? Well, the that reaction you mentioned is narcissistic about In every sense of it and doesn't make any sense anybody's name that Doesn't know what he's saying and he's just speaking for a myopic self-centered Perspective What we are seeing is a total political realignment On the part of the southern leaders of southern governors are seen As you may see This have not happened for a long time. Don't forget that over the years what we've been seeing how effective and how unanimous United the northern governors are You always know that always have the northern governors for Meeting every now and then and they come out with all sorts of resolutions political statement economy or the economic issues social Issues and rest of them and then I don't talk about those period the body especially from this have come out to condemn the activity of the northern governors if The southern governors are not working on their So in trying to unite among themselves and saying that when there is the need for them to pursue a common good irrespective of Political leaning that to me is a work of love meant very very German So, uh, I can only commend them. I think this is the second order. I think these have taught me and that they have you didn't Within the past few months And if you look at the relations that came up and between you will realize that there are journals Some of these should be those one um, that You can see that in power shift The unanimous irrespective of the political Parties and races saying that power must shift from the north to the south And that is not saying whether it's vdp or apc abgar or any political party Power must shift to the to the south what they are saying is that if you decide to feud a Presidential candidate from the north in any of the political parties You can rest assured that the governors from the south will not support you. That is what they are saying That is one then they also spoke about the issue of pib and The 3% and 5% That is accrued to host communities and the assisting that it was 5% And that is why I will have a little challenge. What the members of this house in the house of Representative what was your thought and what's what really when we are passing the 3% For whose community good enough the senate passed 5% I was thinking that there would be a harmonizing Committee between the house and the senate to be able to agree on That 5% then also spoke on the issue of Greasing and said that effective from the first of september There is no going back. They are looking the northern governors eyeball to eyeball that irrespective of whatever you say We are going ahead to implement this and that to me is a very good There are also other issues that we are they came up with and don't forget. You should have said that before any kind of security In-road in terms of arrest and the rest of them will be making a maid in their state There as the chief secretary of officers of those states should be put in the known rather than just The gliders die way among us that them secret agents have been going about their business So for me is a positive way to go Okay So when we look across these three papers we share the Guardian daily son and the Nigerian punch We see the common thread about an interview that was granted To a news station by Professor Wally shrink and a noble laureate and he bear his mind about The issue of the raid on Sunday boohoo's house and other national issues basically saying that you know, the federal government needs to Apologize to Sunday boohoo He went on to say it's not a criminal offense for anyone to want a separate state for anyone to desire self-determination He also said it's going to cause an upro if the details of how the federal government And her security agencies arrested and I'm the canoe comes comes to light So, um, what do you think? Are you on the same wavelength with wally shrinka? regarding apologizing to Sunday boohoo and You know giving people the freedom to agitate for a separate state the noble laureate is entitled to opinion and Just like every Nigeria is rooted their opinion on issue on national that On national matter issues as it were But secondly before that, um, I totally agree with the fact that a protest or agitation is a legitimate way of putting across once views on issues don't forget that That it is gone. It has gone to be sacred court where the supreme court has ruled that Every Niger has the right to protest It has it has been decided you don't need any police permits to protest in Nigeria In fact, what the What the law says if you are going to test the Niger police should give you Protection kind of make sure that it was the that protest was not hijacked by hoodlump It is only where you're not getting violence that you cannot say Then you can be arrested So, I personally have not seen any of the protests that have been held by the whole school so It is their right to protest but don't also forget that we also have the mental issues in terms of security Um, it is the fundamental right of the government to also make sure that every life is protected in Nigeria Uh, irrespective of whoever wherever they are um, if you look at some of those catch catches of Allegedly There have been some Which were not very far to say that some of those Arms that were the excess which I leave from From an end of three years, but they say have not come back home But if you go to catch how that kind of arm from uh, Sunday, don't forget that also that He also supposed to abide by the law Did they acquire those arms legally because before you can have an arm in Nigeria? You need a permission from the Niger police So if you didn't get those arm legally then it has questions to answer There are some some instances where Uh, Sunday go have been invited current agencies, which I think it lists out there about and invited about once or twice and he refused to Um, attend to that Invitation that to me is also part of law and snippets. Generally. Um, I do I support the not already It's a large extent. So every Nigerian has the right to protest Identification is also part of our Engagements on the daily sound that same story Showing cat told the federal government that it should apply the same speed That they used to arrest an amdicano to end banditry and other crimes And how do you tie that to this breaking news that bandits has again abducted 140 students in Kaduna state Parents are angry. They're demanding the state of emergency. That's on the daily sound So showing K is saying that while this crimes fester Um, the federal government is instead focusing on on, you know, persons of interest. So how do you come in? Yes, we'll be saying that time and time again I don't forget if I that Over the years over the months being high level of banditry kidnapping, especially in the north And um, in the last country we have over for help of close to 500 students That are in in capital activity in the in bush now And I've been saying that there's need for the group The security agencies to also apply that level of swiftness in asking some of the people that have been Fingered engaging in banditry. But what are we having instead of doing that? They are engaging them and some of the leaders from the north are even saying that They are not They are not criminals. They are just bandits that need to be This is a discussed going to discussion with and the rest of them There's often a tiny video some some days back. We are one of the bandits was even boosting before I think we was deputy governor one of the top hierarchy of from the government of that he killed several Soldiers, and he was laughing about it. I'm sure he must have seen that video. Yes. So that in his Um, he tried to give some kind of imbalance We are some people see themselves as sacred cows It's when they have some from some part of the country and rest of them even a high highly placed A person like the governor of cardinal states Um, I remember he met me three days ago where he was comparing iPod and bandits and kidnappers and And Boko Haram. Some of these statements, they have not been a goomy. We were told By the DSS that he was invited for questioning and the man came out and said no, I was not invited And that was a statement from the DSS from the supposed person of DSS And since then the DSS did not come back to to reaffirm the fact that he was invited So if you look at all the language and the rest of them, let's go to show that But that's what some people feel that what we're having now is a systemic parking of the kind of Yes, it's security going on in the in the north where that of the agitations in the south has been crushed Now look at it from the world. Although we don't know how authentic it is that some parts of Bono I've been taken over by I swear who is not going to ask some people to pay taxes and the rest of them That is a big challenge for us. So I think that we should be holistic And see government should see itself as the government of Nigeria not government of any particular part of the country We are the issue of insecurity agitation and all sorts of malice that Is going on has to be handled In a more prosperous manner to make sure that nobody feels like a second-class citizen in the country We call Nigeria. All right. Let's also go back to the Resolutions, but now from a reaction rather to the PIB The bill Edwin Clark, you know, I also made his own statement saying that he they totally reject the 3% or 5% to host communities And 30% to frontier states. They described it as a satanic and provocative Um, what would you what would you say is your Are your thoughts concerning the 30% to frontier states? They haven't been clearly stated. Which states are the frontier states? But what do you think the government is trying to achieve here? The frontier states basically frontier-based state and normally The state there are certain states in the north If you go to buy you see the state I think they have a seven or there about That to me is good that don't forget the as I said earlier The southern governor service that and the reject that totally so What uh, Edwin Clark is not saying anything different for what the governors of the southern Southern Nigeria have said so To me whether 5% 3% 1% or 10% as it were for host community is not much of a concern to me Because what are the problem is that the ones that we have already given that has been Given what we're days for you have don't forget that There's always been the derivation funds that's accrued to this some of these communities Don't forget that the government also set up a ministry for for the Niger data. Don't so also forget that we have a A price data that That was also set up for this For the Niger data and what have we seen corruption and corruption out the way You see one at the Ndc the probe and the level of embezzlement have been going on and nothing practically on ground to to show for the billions and billions of nerd has been voted to Elevate these sufferings of people from this region the cleaning up of Ogoni land and most of the Niger data communities I'm supposed to have them reach a high level By now, not it seems to have been done. Don't forget also stop the The agitation or part the Yes agitation Was it Was it a very just yes in the community the issue few days ago and the threat so for me I think that The people of Niger data should raise up and make sure that whatever phone is released is used optimally and the people should also question and call their leaders and make them accountable for this fund So I said they do this if you like give 50 percent or 40 percent of whatever if the money voted is not being used Is not getting to the communities and the people that are supposed to then it will be as good as Not being there. So my own is that let us find a way of making sure that people are accountable people of this region The leaders i'm talking about now the leaders of religion who collect this money on behalf of their people All of them are stickingly rich, but if we go to the community, they have nothing to show How are we making sure that this money that has already been voted in the past? Or the water is going to is going to get to the people and that is I think those are the questions we should be asking Okay, all right. Obviously the people of the Niger Delta have a lot of work to do To also redirect their questions not just to the presidency but also to their leaders at the local and state level But I also want you to quickly speak on the Elections and of course the removal of electronic transfer of results to INEC from the electoral bill Some people have described this as dubious and you know, like they they have a sinister plan Do you agree with that or do you agree with their reasons for taking that out? I totally agree with them. I totally agree with them. They are that screen room for For rigging and I don't know the reason for that And maybe there's some sinister plan for 2023 Um Good enough the also the southern governor said that We should stick to the norm to the Transmission, the electoral transmission. What he means that once you vote your vote goes directly into the pool at INEC and hits INEC Um, we've seen that in the past. Don't forget the problem we always had in the past Where we see Ballot balls snatching as the nation you remember what what what used to be the past Yes, where people just go use talks and rest of this not ball of buses Tia papers and the rest of them. Those are all ways of getting us. We are in the 24th century The 21st century where we're even taking up electronic voting where people should even sit in the comfort of their home Um And that should just be a plus to be just really within break period. Um through progress You can just quickly log on just cast our vote and still continue with our with our job As it is done in most countries of the world nobody declares public quality because we want to go People go to work and during big time they just walk in and just vote and go Those are the issues we'll be looking at and are taking back to the KTK way of things. Oh, so I today agree That's to be really voting and traction should be the way for I also include diasporas in people in diasporas or the opportunity of voting where many people Remember in this A All right, I think we can wrap it up here. Thank you very much Chris one do for joining us this Tuesday morning We wish you a very interesting day ahead. Thank you