 It's the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's off the press and we have G.D. Johnson, a chief lecturer and Nigerian Institute of Journalism. It's good to have you join us this morning, G.D. Johnson. Good morning, M.E.C. and thank you for having M.E.C. and me and M.E.C. to our viewers. I look forward to your pleasure and to once again to prove it here. Alright, so let's also make this very public congratulations once again and wish you a blissful married life. Thank you very much, M.E.C. Thank you very much. I appreciate this. Thank you very much. So thank you. Thank you. Alright, then we take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning. As always, our attention would be on the big captions or the top stories. If you'd like to say both stories on the front pages of our national daily spot, we'll set off with the leadership. On the leadership newspaper this morning, the captions or the bold captions are really, really interesting. And you find this one saying, So a lot's been going on, but I definitely leave that to G.D. Johnson to react. It feels like your choice of becoming anything is to become a delegate in Nigeria. And just away from that, A.P.C. primaries. Not so much on the leadership. But moving away from that, you have the punch newspaper. And on the punch newspaper, Governorship primaries, Fresh Crisis Heat A.P.C. Factions, Boycott Polls, Thirteen Suits, Legos Asperin Protests Exclusion, Sungolu, Abiodu, Omoagigi, Matawali, Others Wien, Abe, Ogun, Sokoto Asperin, Allege Ford, And Threatened Suites, Keamo, Others Absent, The writers you find underneath the bold captions on the punch newspaper this morning. Tunubu, Kwan Kwaso, Ekorumadu, Me Lid Regional Parties, CBN defends Naira with $3.4 billion in two months. That's what you find. There's also an editorial this morning. I'm sure you want to check that out. But away from the editorial, Manufactured Good Trade Deficit Heads 2.6 trillion Naira, Despied Forex Shortage, 63 million technology devices sold annually in Nigeria. This is a report from the NCC. 63 million technology devices sold annually in Nigeria. PDP gets Parallel Governments Candidates in Ogun, Kano, and Aqaibom. I will ensure Nigeria exports fuel in two years. Bakery is quoted. One of the presidential aspirants, Tunde Bakery. Buhari attends AU Summit in Malibu, and you find APC Primary Court decides Jonathan's fate today, ex-president gets Weaver. And I can't share money like other aspirants says Umahi, maybe just like Shea Husani, who said, you know, he got just two votes because he didn't share dime. Even to the two votes, he didn't really give money to anybody. Jam with Ho's 69 UTME results screens 27,105 again. PDP gets Parallel Governments Candidates in Ogun, Kano, and Aqaibom. I feel like we took that already. And police arrests 43,329 kidnapped robbery suspects in one year. Bakery seeks fresh bail and claims threat to life. But you also have a report saying Bakery is doing very great and there's no threat to his life. Well, that's the much on the punch this morning. We move our attention from the punch. And let's take a quick look at the Daily Independent. Ongoing party primaries, a mess. Good luck, Jonathan is quoted. Says they can't be used to elect president. Governors, senators, orders. Okay. A Bakery alleged threat to life and six bail. Section 84, subsection 12, Supreme Court reverses judgment on Buhari AGF suits. FCT minister orders reopening of the DEADM building material market. APC governorship primary skewed. Shared aspirants say. Abiodun, Kohle, and Yahya, Omoa, Gege, Zulem. So we will be able to pick other tickets. Federal government and state local government share 656.602 billion narrow for April 2022. Abacha clinches canoe PDP gubernatorial ticket. You also have bandit skewed, three Niger PDP delegates as Kattinger emerges party flag bearer. Federal government mount surveillance to prevent outbreak of monkeypox. Okay. You also, we also have the nation newspaper this morning just before we have G.D. Johnson share his thoughts on which of the headlines interest him. On the nation newspaper, how Sonwallu, Abiodun, Abdurozak won ticket. Clean sweep for governors, APC holds. Governorship primary, INAG only result of monitored polls accepted. So you have two riders underneath the board caption that talks about Sonwallu, Abiodun, and Abdurozak winning ticket. Underneath he says clean sweep for governors, APC holds. Governorship primaries and INAG is saying only result of monitored polls are acceptable. And just before that or after that you have man laments effect of interest rates hike manufacturer's association of Niger and Sultan. Fresh out and prosecute or fish out, I beg your pardon and prosecute unknown gun men. I did not abandon youth service or do I insist in primary monetize a mess says Jonathan. Primaries monetize a mess says former president of the federal republic of Nigeria. Well that's the much that we can take this morning on the front pages of a national dailies we turn over to G.D. Johnson who joins us via zoom this morning to bring in depth analysis to the big stories. G.D. Johnson, it's good to have you join us this morning. Thank you, let's have a zoom. Thank you. Okay. The deadlines are interesting and 99% of the data is centered around them. The party panel is going on but with particular emphasis on PGP and APC's power is positive. These are the two major parties that will likely come through most in government, local government and federal government contrary. However, both are be devil with the same crisis. Let's start with the headline in the leadership set out 14 hours for instance. It's 11 PDP delegates. It's 11 people. What you call delegates determine who become the flag bearer of PDP and likely will become the flag bearer of APC. Come to 8 less than a thousand. They are the defeat of hundreds of millions of Nigerians are placed in the hands of and this is one of the major problem created by the national assembly. The process of trying to fight other interests, particularly the goblins, they succeeded in shooting themselves in the foot. And they forced this type of system on Nigerians and it has turned to caching actions whereas the teaming members of the party are still delegates. Let's continue with the conversation. This time we'll look at the daily independent and on the daily independent there's a concern, a serious concern. It's a global concern as a matter of fact. As regards monkeypox, this outbreak, the fact that we're still dealing with COVID because COVID has not left us. And so the federal government mounts surveillance to prevent outbreak of monkeypox. What do you make of this situation? It's important for us to take proactive action. I don't know what level of surveillance. I don't want to put it as even monkeypox. It's a physical thing that can be added. It's actually physical. Judy Johnson, the federal government. We've been hearing. I hope you can hear me loud and clear. We can hear you loud and clear. So I think what government needs to do is to educate my children with what is really happening. As knowledgeable as I am, I don't know what monkeypox is all about. So what Nigerians needs to know is to understand for government to go about an aggressive education and communication with respect to this outbreak so that Nigerians can know and what are the steps we can use to deal with it. So Nigerians can know how to deal with this issue. Not about mountain surveillance. Surveillance via a fierce airport or there are many points of entry into Nigeria. You can't see and hear. How many surveillance do you want to mount? I think what we need is education on how to deal with this. And that's my take on that. But just like you had mentioned, the surveillance is physical. The government is saying that at different entry points of the country the amounting surveillance will ensure that we don't experience this monkeypox. You are arrested. Just like you are arrested for COVID. Wonderful. Gideon Johnson, we need to move away. Very comical if you ask me. Well, you still have other interesting conversations this morning. The issue of Section 84, Subsection 12 is still begging for a lot of answers and generating different reactions as we speak. So the Supreme Court has reversed judgement on Buhari and the Atoni General, the Federation suit. And that's what you find this morning on the Daily Independent Newspaper, Section 84, Subsection 12. Yeah, you said the Supreme Court ruled that we should stand. Supreme Court has reversed the judgement on Buhari's or Buhari and the Atoni General's suit. Was the decision of the Appellate Court of Health or was it reversed? Can you play messy? Yes, I can hear you. Messy. Yeah, was the decision of the Appellate Court of Health or was it reversed by the Supreme Court? Well, it was actually upheld. The decision of the Appellate Court that the section should stay. What was the decision of the Supreme Court? Was it reversed? Well, the details are not very clear. It's still very sketchy at the time. Well, as far as I'm concerned, I think that section should be upheld in the interest of Nigerians, in the interest of, like I was seeing before, we had the network issue. How can 811 delegates decide to become the presidential flag bearer of any party, of both parties, 811? That is already monetized. And that's why I could look at it, and I said something positive cannot come out of it. It's heavily monetized. So if I give two million to each of the delegates or someone gives a million to each of these delegates or someone gives a million dollars to each of these delegates, that means that anybody can buy himself or herself into the presidency so there is a need for us to uphold that section that gives room for statutory delegates of the party to party. You should have closed to about 3,000, 4,000 or 5,000 delegates in the national election having just 811. Even these 811 delegates were elected in mysterious circumstances. They were just elected just last week and the party just did some, what we call, Ururu to the answer. And the elected candidates, we should cannot achieve to even know the profile of these 811 delegates. Nigerians know the profile of the 811. And ordinarily we should know these delegates should have been known at least a year before the election. Even if you are going to, even if you are going to use this on a level, you will have known them at least a year before the election. We know their profile. We know everything about them. I'm sure we checked the profile. Until now, most of these delegates are unknown because the list are not yet out. You could see from even from the humanitarian permits that we have now was held yesterday. We are having in Kano, in Aqwaipom, in Ugun. We have parallel, parallel, parallel government candidates. Imagine. And in some states, in Delta, some withdrew from the process. We saw a situation whereby presidential aspirants, withdrew from the PDPs, PDPs conversion. We are a gubernatorial aspirant. Said he's not ready to give any delegates money and he got two votes. So is this the process we want to use to bring in place the next level of public administrator come 2023? So that's right. That's sexual. Means in the interest of Nigerians, the Supreme Court needs to work in the interest of Nigerians, not in the interest of the attorney general. We have to market his own presidential and his own gubernatorial mission because he didn't want to leave the office of the attorney general of the Federation just for one year. And in the process, another person as a match as a general candidate of APC in Kerby State. Well, let's move away from that. You have on the punch in your sweep of governorship primaries, fresh crisis, heat, APC, factions, boycott, polls and threatened suits. We're talking about the ruling party now. And if we're having this, this level, it becomes, you know, of the elections in 2023. Your thoughts. I shouldn't be surprising to you. It's not only APC that was there with the function. You will see that there in, in, in, in, in any of those state equipment was shot out in Abia State. Abaribi was shot out in many states like that because it's the election of delegates. And it is the, it is the delegate list that national working committee of the party. Let me tell you for a fact, the elections are already determined before you can go to the polls. One, because there's a list that comes from the national working committee. And wherever the national, whichever function, whichever function the national working committee works with, the time actually wins the election. So the election has already been determined for you to go to the polls. If you know how delegates election works, if you are in the political circuit, you know what we call delegates. We call it delicate. In legal state, yeah, whereby some, some, some functions are claiming that you are shot out, out of, out of the primary. So it is what characterize delegate election compared to, even if you have open primaries, because our parties themselves are not democratic in nature. When did APC had its national convention? When did PDP had its own convention? Its convention to elect its national leaders. PDP had theirs last year. APC just had theirs just about a month or two months ago and expecting something positive to come out of it. It's a charade what we have. It's not democratic, it's a charade because the party themselves are not democratic in nature. So what we have, what is foisted on us is not democratic but autocratic rule. And that's why when they come into power they become more autocratic and despotic because they came in through autocratic and despotic means. How can you explain to me that we are less than, less than 600 or 700 people will gather to elect to become the governor of country. And then the list, nobody's aware of the list until the day to the election. And the list is given to the National Working Committee to the electoral panel to come and elect the governor or what have you. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's basic. Look, there will be a lot of litigation concerning this election. Because I need this power. There will be a lot of litigation. And I'll tell you for effort. All right. But, but, but what do you make of the fact that, you know, you also have on the nation that, that's the governor of Lagos State, Abdu'l-Rizak, winning the ticket and it captions that this might just be a clean sweep for this governor's as APC holds the primary. It feels like it's going, you know, very soft on the other side, you know, for the APC. Well, um, um, well, in the narrative of the nation, if you check the headline of other party, called up NISRIPA competition, the narrative of the Nation NISRIPA will go in the direction of APC for now. Hopefully if the principal did not get the ticket of PDP presidential ticket, you'll see that the narrative of the APC will change. They'll become more combative and more aggressive in their, in their, in their approach. So that's how they will be favorable. Disposed to us reporting APC in the, in the positive, in the positive light now. There were three governoral candidates in Lagos. So only was not the only candidate. It was the only candidate that was allowed into the convention center. For, for Zulu, we knew he would return on opposite. For some of the governors, they return on opposite. Well, it was not the same in Delta. It was not the same in Kano. It was not the same in, in, in, in, in, in Enugu and, and the rest of it. So let's wait and see what comes out of the parameters, but I can assure you there will be a lot of litigation, litigation. You will see that in one of the sub, in one of the riders of the NISRIPA, I said that in APC functions trading suit because they were shut out of the parameters. So what do you also make of, you know, the thoughts of the former president about the ongoing party primaries? And he's saying that it's a mess. That is a mess. Yes, it's a mess, but there's, there are also speculations and, you know, conversations saying that he, he might just also be, you know, on the table for the APC. How do we explain his comment? If he's, if he's, if he's, if he's, if he's as APC candidate, he will lose hopefully. It's like a dog going back to his mom. He will lose, I can say it for a fact. He will, Jonathan will lose the election, main election, hopefully. Because a lot of Nigerians, all toward the position is to, is to recreate the APC campaign of 2015 against it. It's just very simple. Elections are one based on, not based on programs per se, they are one based on set, because the mass, it is the mass that determines the election and is, they are voting the election, but the mass does not have the mind of its own. You have the, you have the opinion leaders that shape the thoughts and the direction of what the mass will think about. And the mass will think in that direction. But I can tell you for a fact, the APC should try that. The APC has succeeded in shooting them seven full. Because they are the ones that dug the grave of Jonathan and Nigerians, we have them to push him further into the grave. But indeed what he said is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The palmaries is a mess. It's a mess. And nothing good can come out of it. So you're looking at the front page of the Daily Independence this morning. You have Abercari alleges a threat to life and six bail. Some people are saying that it might be a trick. As always, when you have just peasants, you know, in custody, I mean, trying to find a way or probably just find an escape route. And so this is also an excuse. But we can also take out the fact that, I mean, he still has a right as a human being, you know, to life. And so he's saying that his life is being threatened. Don't you think that there should be some consideration? Well, mess is in protective custody. That's why it's protected. If he slept in the open to go on the street, that's when his life is more threatened. Sometimes these people don't think they think we are fools. So someone that is in protective custody is in detention. He's claiming to his life. Now if you live in the open, what happens to his life? He's just looking for an excuse to leave detention. That's just my own thinking. Because he's in protective custody. His life is even more secure in that protective custody compared to when he slept when he's granted bail and slept to wander the street. Where his life will be in danger. If you don't listen to his sleep, his sleep should be taken to death years. All right. Moving away from that, you find on the punch newspaper this morning, manufacturers or manufactured goods trade deficit hits $2.6 trillion despite forex shortage. And this is according to this report that you have here on the punch. What do you make of this, G.D. Johnson? Unfortunately, we do not have G.D. Johnson on phone, but we call it a wrap at this point. Thank you so much G.D. Johnson for being part of the breakfast. We do appreciate your time as always. We look forward to sharing more of your thoughts. So, you know, next week, thank you.