 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa time for the paper review We'll take you through the pages of a national dailies as always. We have open up on Kataria who joins the show He's a public affairs analyst. It's good to have you join us open up on Kataria Good morning. All right, let's start off with the leadership newspaper and as always we will pay attention to the board Headlines or the banner caption if you like to put and looking at the front story this morning federal government states deplete excess crude accounts by 37 million dollars Despite all price above $40 benchmark in 2021, but nobody's talking about the fact that we're looking at $90 recently How come there has not become some kind of news because a lot of persons have been saying this would actually be a great move for us 2014 so was you know depreciating and 2022 we're making that and that's a good one. So if we have they all I mean the price at $90 per barrel, that's a good one for economy I hope we can make sense of it before, you know, we crashed down away from that You also have only thirty five point three six eight million left That's million dollars left Government not saving excess crude sales That's another one. You find a why president Muhammad Abouhari did not go to Zamfara by road That's what the president's is quoted to say Igbo presidency will settle Biafran agitation finder who's saying all of that Nigeria targets 141.250 billionaire from sugar tax on soft drinks and orders Pressure mounts on a PC to throw out party chairmanship rays open and Just before we move away from the leadership newspaper You also have 28 killed scores abducted in Kaduna Niger attacks 1.74 million malnourished children in North East according to UNICEF and vice president you must see ban draw tax Traditional rulers on ethnic religious tolerance. These are some of the headlines on the leadership this morning All right, let's move straight over to the punch newspaper today And of course some very interesting stories are coming in the punch newspaper And I cannot wait to take up on a bonka terrorism thoughts on this Let's start with the the punches of course presidency a PC in Dalima Over zoning may throw race open a PC in Dalima over zoning may throw race open with the riders APC considering best options for winning presidential poll source another rider there Parties free to pick the presidential candidates from any zone says ACF that's the area constantly form And then last rider a PC keeps INEC waiting on convention Bouchie awaits peace panel at the top of a Front page of the punch newspaper. It says a banned customers transferred 278 trillion narrow via e-channels in 2021 and I bb s report amazing amazing Wow Also the top you have federal government must justify fresh Three trillion Naira vote others for fuel substance in it. I hope they mean what they're saying or You know that it's not something to just print and put on national dailies Another one 24 gun down as killings rise in Kaduna, Niger It was also in the leadership is remiss you talked about and it's really sad refineries rehabilitation gulfed 100 billion Naira in 2021 refineries rehabilitation gulfed 100 billion Naira in 2021 says NNPC. All right, and We I'm sure we were going to expecting, you know, lots of fuel coming from refinery very soon without such amount of money Transport first jumped by 28.3 percent or 283 percent. I mean rising fuel subsidy and I NBS report. That's in Nigeria birth statistics and the L. E. A. Ceases 48,000 tramadol tabs 22 UK France Portugal Passports at the bottom of the front page of the punch newspaper You're a champion come work with us law and tells Acquirable governor. You're a champion come work with us Some inter-party wooing if you want to call it that Boyfriend fleeing after killing beheading girlfriend arrested in Oregon state That's a good one that he didn't get away a kitty a PC primary didn't hold We will challenge outcome by medallion. So we see what we talked about on Friday Playing out at the bottom of the front page on one assembly alleges graft summons local government Chairman three arrested as a shoe vows. Calm down on Elisha killers and fire. She only Clash alleged sellout rigging in a pqt PDP primary. There you go. There you go. We'll see what happens over to you mercy All right, let's take a look at the Guardian newspaper this morning and the board caption reads only 2.5 million motor is captured as insurance plan 7504 third party Stakeholders agreed to review the 18 years after policy was pegged at 5,000 naira inflation jacks cost of vehicle repairs industry operators are Crying out away from the board caption or Hanei's a once of danger if not succeeds Buhari in 2023 concerns a cyber crimes unleash SMS SMS based Android Moway on Nigerians and Tano gives federal government February deadline to settle minimum wage and IPP is issues Movement demands information on three trillion narrow fuel subsidy in Fresh attacks bandit killed dozens in Kaduna and a Niger state now the issue of security Will always be you know parity. I mean a major concern for us in our country Well, that's the much we can take on the Guardian newspaper this morning. Yes indeed Let's go back to the nation is Europe and this one has got me laughing I don't know if I guess upon a boncoteer is laughing But the electoral Act amendment bill the reworked electoral bill and we are being told from the Nation is from maybe headed back to the presidency with this headline from the nation newspaper Governors lead opposition to reworked electoral bill Governors lead opposition to reworked electoral bill the riders to that story have also got me laughing Resonation before primaries unworkable Consensus causes in Contention resignation before primaries on a workable consensus clauses in contention and the word can workable is put in quotation Max there lobby begins to stop president presidential ascent as Buhari gets bill today My my word tax returns if iris begins probe of big companies At the top of the paper if the state in focus Post-primary crisis rock APC PDP in a kitty state the session on petitions today Only slums are you fire she doesn't write us to that story another one from the nation? It's about how CBN is battling rise in food prizes by me and may feel it should they be doing that or give us a stable narrow GAC we have not Decided to replace solo the JC means the governor's advisory council here is a thing as far as APC legacy is concerned at the bottom of that that paper the front page of 29 killed in Niger cardinal government attacks and police arrest five over illy fair elicia unrest and gunman kill soldier have a picture From those attacks of a burnt. He looks van there All right, those are the papers we have this morning. Let's delve straight Into the analysis of those papers with open up or in cotaria Missing Cotaria, what are your thoughts on the fact that even before the new? Electrical act amendment bill is passed on to mr. President. We hear him that the governors are already making some noise All right, while we try to get a open up on the chair back with us We know we've been talking about this mercy and it's been an ongoing conversation The fact that we're looking forward to having this bill or miss a president's table So he can do this take a pen and just with that green pen sign embo harry and So of the CS you sound like you know what? Yeah, you know what the green pen green pen. Okay, so, you know the green pen Yes, the fact that you know how the president will sign his signature You know it should be just remember one of this as the guests we had Last week or so was talking about delay tactics delay tactics, you know delay tactics and then the INEC officials have been saying oh When we are racing against time the 360 day requirement for us to announce this Election time table, it's very important First of the coil last week saying we need this bill signed We don't have time if we don't have the elections hold on February 18 not February 14 of February 14 2022 23 we need to have 306 is this is time is ticking mercy time is taking the clock is counting, you know, and yeah again we see the the The politics politics, you know the political battle between the governors and the national assembly members You know playing up the national assembly members put that close there The conventional clause for direct primaries so that the governors won't have the power to remove them You know cause governors can see okay direct primaries means everybody has to work from the lowest level to the highest level of The party if it's a national election National if it's a state election state so internal district and then federal constituency and so on and of course They didn't have the way even though Ahmed Lamar went to see the president as usual hard discussions And they came out through his usual path to stand where normally starts dr. The press nothing happened and they have to work it and it's so interesting to see that they Smartly now said because I didn't know this before this money now said you have to resign before primaries So probably the power will be taken away from you So as an incumbent so you can't determine the outcome of the election So so that starts really controversial. That's really controversial So so like you know a lot of political pundits have actually put out that this might just be a delayed tactic You know to ensure that because at the end of the day if you look at the electoral act amendment bill as 2021 You will find out that the major ingredients that a lot of persons are looking out for is the fact that elections will be transmitted Results will be transmitted and electronically. I mean let's have the backings of the law We understand that some people will say oh, yeah the server and all of that that has happened over time But you know what has happened with some of the elections that we have experienced in Nigeria and the court cases And so that's the reason why a lot of persons are bent on saying let's have the president assented this bill But you know with all of this clauses now you won't even you want to agree with me the fact that this is politics And that's what we talk about politics is an interest is interest So you will always have people agitating when their interest and lobbying for their interest to be represented And when their interest is not represented, that's what you have But this is that the detriment of national interest and democracy at the end of the day because with the back-end photos going on It just shows that the lawmakers the governors and all the stakeholders at the center stage are not even considering the fact that We're running out of time. Yes, we understand also that when we spoke with the commissioner for information and don't vote our education versus Okoye he talked about the the issue of having internal mechanism by the Electro-Umpire itself which would allow it go ahead But you it would also bring us back to the fact that some of these issues at the end of the the outcome of these elections will be Contested because you would also want to begin to make reference to the fact that all the laws didn't give backings to XYZ The law didn't give backings and these laws were not sufficient enough, you know to ensure that these actually happened So we already know that it's impossible to have You already know that's impossible for you to have that clause that they would not accept it So why did he even introduce a clause in the first place? We do have our guest back Before our intimate correction, you know and or point out rather that you know and the the clauses in contention are resignation by appointed political Office holders including who's asking? Yes. No, this this is what the we hear the clauses are in the bill resignation by appointed electro Political office holders number one number two including ministers commissioners and others before 2023 primaries So that's the first one and of course the the provision for You know consensus candidate which means that every candidate must sign. Yes, and I agree Yeah, and if they're so like you said is about interest and then they need to put national interest Well, we have upon a bone Kutariya back on the line Mr. Kutariya, are you there please? Okay, we're still trying to get open up on Kutariya back on the line But you talked about interest and I think that in national interest and that's a very important point Mercy the fact that you know, it shouldn't be about what do we need to do to protect ourselves It shouldn't be about what do we need to do to keep ourselves in in in power, you know And the governor should also not be thinking about what do we need to do to continue to control the status quo and control The outcome of our party primaries in other words, these guys are just you know concerned about what happens to them You know, when was it you see the National Assembly members fight? You remember Why'd you say that no, I mean because I want to I want to understand when last did you see the National Assembly members? Maybe tear shit or jump gate So I think that we have open upon Kutariya back on the line on the line, you know, can you hear us? I Okay Well, so we seem to have some kind of disconnection right there But it's good to have you back and just like Kofi had posed to you What do you make of the fact that the governors are actually, you know Leading the opposition to the fact that they need to rework the electoral bill There's also a press that people have to resign their position before the primaries actually take place And we're talking about time now time is of the essence. What are your thoughts? Yes, we can hear you Because this government are tremendous are our sources are that this program to influence election ensure incredible And it's our strength election the thinking of a lot of people is that this government should revile in order to be shared their influence Inflate I have but I don't think it's right because That would be contradicting traditional You're swimming on the 29th of May 2000 Resignation before that time Yeah, Mr. Kutariya Yes, so it interrupts you Mr. Kutariya, and so so we just have to make the correction that this this Close sort of is for resignation is for appointed electoral a political of his holders not Okay No So Is with you Sometimes Okay, Mr. Kutariya interesting unless with political stories now and on the top left front page of the nation you super you have A report on the post primary crisis rocking the APC and the PDP in the kidney state last week we had You know politicians from a kidney state on this program, you know, and they the talk was all basically nothing was wrong You know everything was was good and all that but now we see that you know The expected has happened with your thoughts on on the problems of internal democracy in our political parties As as shown probably in the security state affair Candidates on the people and most of them are resisting this imposition There is no internal democracy in APC or in PDP Democracy Or Those In the party You are this kind of issues coming up So you will all about this entire argument. It is not by selection, I'm not a lecture. Alright, let's also look at the leadership newspaper this morning, despite oil price above $40 benchmark in 2021, the federal government state depletes excess crude accounts by $37 million. And we only have $35.368 million left in the excess crude accounts. Let's share your thoughts on that. What do you think? Are we going broke? The day after we have just $37 million, the debt has decreased, the excess crude accounts by, which means what was deducted was $37 million. I don't think it depends what is left. What is left? They are saying that what is left is $35.368 million left in the excess crude accounts. Okay, okay, $35. Alright. So what is your question? Sorry. I would like to share your thoughts on that. Do you think that we're having more money? Are we going broke? As a country? Of course we are going broke as a country. Our assumptions have been, God said, mismanaged by this administration. We have been borrowing, we have been taking from our accounts. Even the government are struggling to also get their own share. So that we are getting broke in Nigeria is no news. The only time I can tell you that Nigeria could, like you say, it was financially accountable was under the, or back in the administration. We have debt, we are looking up. And our problem demands went up. Aside from that, we're under the government because of this bank. But under this government administration, this is a war. This is what administration, when we're in the balance of history, shall be found wanting in terms of our finances and a lot of other issues. It comes from why we are getting broke. If at all we are not broke at the nation. In fact, I believe we are broke at the nation. At the nation we are broke. And it's quite common us. The figures you see there is quite some of the deduction. And what is left is quite common us. Considering the attitude of this government to go and go and go. The nation has been shown. We've been shown this nation because I wonder when we can, not to talk about debt, not to talk about betrayal of debt. I wonder if we can ever stop with the debt. Ok, Oknabar Kataria. Do you also think that with the global oil benchmark that tops $90 for the first time since 2014, do you also think that this might just be a good one for us? Just as we are getting broke, what do you say? Of course, of course. For those countries that is financially poor debt, it's a good sign. But I tell you, for a country that is properly debt, it really makes no sense. A man who cannot manage $100,000 cannot manage $200,000. So why is there a lack of development? Why do we hope to make more money? But the management of the resources is going to be a problem as always. Especially with this administration. It's quite wasteful. It's an extremely wasteful. And really does not have a bearing on what to do with the funds. I think this goes out. Alright, Mr. Kataria, we have to pull the plugs at this time. We want to thank you very much for your time. You're saying that, you know, even if we get up to $90 a barrel, it may not mean much because of spending habits as a country. Thank you very much for your time. And Kataria has been a guest of the press right here on Plus in Africa. He is a public affairs analyst. And we have to go on a short break today. And history is up next. And let's take a look at some of the activities or events that took place years ago on this particular day. Where we come back, we have interesting conversations right here on Plus TV Africa, especially the role of citizens in Nigeria's democracy and something to do with urban farming. If you're head of that term, never head of it. You'll learn some more when we come back.