 It's a breakfast in plus severe Africa time for us to delve into the pages. We'll pay attention to the front pages of a national dailies. And we have our guests on standby. He joins us via Zoom. Chris came in one day. It's good to have you join us this morning. All right then. We hope that we sort that out before we have him on board. We'll start off with a nation newspaper. And on the nation, the caption might just be the same as orders. Presidential ticket. Buhari disowns Adamu over Lawan. You remember all of that that's going on. Some people have described it as confusion. We can't wait to share the thoughts of Chris Kende. President Buhari has picked Senator Ahmed Lawan as his choice. That's what Adamu Abdullah is quoted to say. Away from that, we have reaffirmed our position on power shift to the south to the president. Northern governors are quoted. Another writer says there shall be no imposition of any candidate. Nobody will appoint anybody, the president is quoted to say. We are with the governors on power shift. Chairman is entitled to his opinion on Lawan. You have the national working committee. So a different position that of the chairman, the northern governor's forum, including the southern governors. You also have Buhari and the national working committee. Nigeria gears up to begin operation. And just before we move away from the nation newspaper this morning, another interesting caption. Terrorists operated for 30 minutes at Orwar Church. Survivors recounts. That's a very sad one. My 70-year-old mum shot dead. Please recover unexploded bomb. To Nubu tipped to win APC presidential race, this is what the nation is quoted to say. But that's so much we can take this morning on the nation newspaper. Let's go to the punch, Nisrpa, with these headlines. APC presidential ticket. Adamu's consensus plot fails. 21 aspirants in battle royale. The following writers to that headline, seven NWC members reject Lawan, Tinibu or Sheba Joe, five me, others will delegates. Seven NWC members reject Lawan, Tinibu or Sheba Joe, five me, others will delegates. Presidency robbishes Tinibu's claim of helping Buhari win. Nnamani steps down. That's another Southeast candidate gone, or aspirant, rather. I won't impose anyone delegates on elect APC candidate, says Buhari. Right, at the top of that front page, COVID-19, others delay aircraft acquisition for national carrier. This is according to a CEO, details on page 17. Our massacre, survivors, victims, relatives, grown-ups, can't NGF protest. Our massacre, survivors, victims, survivors, victims, relatives, grown-ups, can't NGF protest. Crude oil exports jump 194% hit 5.6 trillion Naira in three months. Hurrah. Vacity unions, FG, renegotiation, panels sitting ends today. Hopefully we have some goodies from there. Forex crisis, FDI crashes by 78% in three months. E-payment, Nigerian's utility bills spending solves by 387%. Protesting workers, shut down national assembly, lawmakers postpone resumption in pictures of those protests going on in Abuja. Maki, they contested PDP, Gavrish in primary alone, defeated himself. This is coming from one of the aspirants, Mola Rumi, saying that lesson teacher bags life imprisonment for impregnating 14-year-old people. That's a really sad. I didn't see PDP delegates list until day of primary delay. Well, the more you look the less you see. It says you didn't see the PDP delegates list until the day of primary. Some of the things we see going on as far as politics of the day is concerned. Only 44% of Nigerians have access to smartphones. This is according to a reporter cited by The Punch. And these are some of the headlines on the front page of that newspaper. All right then. Let's move away from The Punch and take a look at the daily independent newspaper. Presidential primary APC splits over Luan as consensus candidate. Northern governor's insist on power shift to south to decide voting pattern today at convention. Presidency says Buhari has no preferred candidate. It's saggy, once again, fouled in a non-dinner. Right as you find underneath the boat caption, that's on the daily independent. You have another saying, you alone did not make me president. Buhari replies to Nubu. Interesting. Artico in dilemmas, PDP shops for vice presidential candidate. Should that be a problem? Federal government delays airport concession to tweak operational model. I take that again. Federal government delays operational concession to tweak operational model. Labor vows to counter plan gives condition. 15 abducted in Anambra as soldiers. Please battle gunmen worn nabbed. Informer APC national secretary Doms party. On though blood bath while trying to escape. I saw dead bodies on ground. This is an account of those who survived the unfortunate incident and attack that happened in St. Francis Catholic Church. But these are the headlines on the daily independent newspaper this morning. There's an attention now to leadership newspaper. Of course, they say the right stories for God and country. Let's see how that is shown in the headlines. The first one, a big one there, 2000 and 2340 APC delegates to decide presidential flag bearer today. The writers to that story as PMB throws contest open. Rules out imposition says I have no anointed candidate. At the most bid to impose law and fails. NWC disowns national chairman. South fails to reach consensus as parents go for broke. North and governors insist on partial. This I think is one of the best ways the paper any paper has put it this morning. They are going for broke. All right, still from the leadership. Lagos Oando partner on electric mass transit buses. Let's see how that works. No one can claim PMB's 2015 electoral victory presidency. The picture of Garba Shehu right there beside the word presidency. Four years after unveiling Nigeria air gets operational license. Or attack Rikindo's clama for overall overhaul of security architecture. Is another one from the leadership lockdown party. Boris Johnson survives confidence votes. Colla Biola wins PRP presidential ticket. And bandits abduct over 20 persons in Zanfarra. Of course some of the analysis from that paper. With the numbers and the figures as far as the APC presidential primary is concerned. You can get more inside that newspaper. All right. Let's have Chris came to one to share his thoughts this morning on the papers. Good morning. Nice to have me. Nice to be here. All right then. So so let's start off with it. We take a look at the nation newspaper, which was the first paper we looked at. Presidential ticket. Buhari disowned Saddam or over lawan. I mean you I'm sure that you've been following the story and the back and forth that's been going on where you have nodding governors coming to see we're insisting on part shift to the south and on the other hand the chairman announcing even there's a lot of denial that you know there's a consensus candidate which the party is not in agreement. What are your thoughts? Well what is happening APC has moved from the absorb to the bizarre as far as I'm concerned. I'm messy you as I am this morning because even the party is so confused that you don't even know what is happening. It has been from a question of everybody coming up with an opinion. The ranks of the party. Nobody is in charge. The president comes out to say the chairman comes out to say another thing. The governors also had their opinions and there are so many divisions. And the most absorbable the whole saga yesterday was when the national chairman of the party came out to say that one of the aspirants has been in goes as the concept of candidate and that is the senior president, Amir Bilawan. And that in itself brought a lot of lebanu and all sorts of industrial everything where deniers, counter-deniers here and there. Today's then that the northern governments who initially have already said that they are for the shift of power to the south came out to condemn that and also that I was not in of that nature. Members of the end of this during the messy second of the party also came out to say that such was not discussed at the end of this that the chairman only came and told them that the law has been moved. So we'll add more sort to the injury. The president through his age issued a statement yesterday that he has not endorsed anybody and that every member of the aspirants has the right to write for the people. So that is where we are for this morning. So APC is going into the primaries this morning more divided than it where it has ever been right from 2015 when it's his power completely. Don't forget that APC is made of a strange framework. Made up of CPC, the LBDP, NLBDP, APC and ACM. That's all the those are the parties that form APC as it were. But today and through the early hours of tomorrow, we're able to know who the actual candidate of the APC is going to be. But that is nowhere is going to end because it's almost certain that some NAS and some egos will be produced and they will have to do a lot of the construction in order to bring everybody together for the tasks ahead in 2023. PDPs are much better now because they had theirs and they're able to resolve their issue. The lessons have dispensable today. All right. Still more reactions coming from understaters regards that Black Sunday this time around the residents or rather a survivor recounting the experience as captured in the nation newspaper saying that the terrorist operated for 30 minutes at the old church according to the survivor. What are your thoughts on this revelation that they were there for 30-minute shootings sporadically without any intervention whatsoever? And also some people criticizing the presidency for having a dinner hours after this incident and Buhari yet to visit the town to even visit or to see the survivors. Multi-dimensional question this morning but let me take it from the angle of the survivors and the recount of the survivors that the incident happened for over 30 minutes before any. And the question I asked is that where are the security agencies within power because in every locale but may have traditional police units and apart from that in each of the 700 in the police department in Nigeria you have the TSS, you have the civil defense and other security agents. Where were they when this was happening for over 30 minutes to 30 minutes nobody came to their rescue and these people were able to engage and kill and slaughter and shot people like cows and animals and went away on challenge. That is the situation we find ourselves this is not the first time it's happened that's happened several times in the past and as we've always had it let me tell you Kofi and Mrs Dak not to come out of it. It will always look like as if nothing happened. Part of the next few days we see that before cutting this and we move on as a nation as if nothing has happened. That is the way we roll that is the way we behave. Human life is no longer sacred. People no longer think we now count numbers and not just looking at it from the point that these are human beings, these are men, women, children and relatives that have relatives but that is the situation. The police have not been able to come out of it. They've already said that the persecution is ongoing. The governor on those days said that the perpetrators will be arrested. The president has usually issued his statement to his media aid which he always with the only two, all they do is just change the dates and grab a weird event at two places. It's the same press release that we have best. To me from the feedback from some of the survivors and from the eyewitness account it's obvious that those that perpetrated it, perpetrated it the same way. I call them quotes or no quotes from certain parts of this country. And my question has always been that immediately we started that issue of allowing everybody from the West Africa region, especially from certain countries like DJ, Mali and residents into Nigeria, it's become an issue. Don't forget that the privilege of Methodist Church Bishop Uche made a statement when he was arrested and was categorical on his statement, on the state of affairs concerning certain individuals and the rules they played in trapping him and the payment of 100 million ransom. That is all fortunate. This is the way we are, the way you see it. South West Africa, the safest place in the whole of Nigeria. It is also so obvious that the narrative is a part change. Yeah, Chris, can anyone do? One question. Yeah, yeah. Okay. This is it. The vice president had visited the place yesterday. He's as good as the president. He's the president of the president and I don't think that should be an issue. All right, before basically comes just a quick follow-up. You rightly looked at the ethnic angle to this, a lot of people are also bringing up. But some have argued that we're missing the point when we look at which part of the country that these people are from, because we do not even know who they are. If the victims are given their own accounts and say what they say. You've talked about the West African South Britain and the porosity, the porous nature rather, of the borders, not just in Nigeria, but even in likes of Ben Republic came a rune and even Ghana. Are we not making a mistake and losing the point if we begin to look at the ethnic makeup of this? Is the entire country not under attack? That's the first question I have for the second one. Are we now seeing terrorism spread to the entire country? Bearing in mind the fact that there was an explosion there which led some of the media houses to announce or report that an explosion occurred and that led to death only to get to update their stories. Indeed some people came out to criticize them but we confirmed there was an explosion. Secondly, the fact that the police are saying that they recovered an unexploded bomb. What does this say about the state of terrorism in Nigeria today? I'm not profiling anybody, I'm not profiling any ethnic group or whatever. The fact remains that from when most of these people have been arrested, when you provide them, it has always been obvious from their confessional statement and press of them. Personally, I should allow the security agencies to be at your job. They will come at you to report on what happened and we take it off from there. But I still repeat that the fact that our various borders have been consul to us and we have given a new way to everybody from especially from certain areas of the West African region, don't forget that at the point we waived the issue of ZVS or whatever. I know that we didn't do West African regionally the ZVS or anything like that. But there was some kind of waiver that was given some fuel which allowed as many people as possible from West Africa to come into Nigeria. That to me is a bigger problem we're already having. Then on the issue of whether or not these people can be held responsible or not, I don't know, I'm not a secretary to say that again. But the problem now is that nowhere is safe. I said it and I repeat what the prelate of the method is said. And I totally believe him because I don't see him like that. He said that certain individuals say that they are already in certain forests in the South West and they are ready to pass on people and they are ready to attack. And just a week after that comment and that statement, there was this attack. So then the police and all security agencies, but the fact remains is that we are into something that is much, much, much dangerous that we always have. This had the roadmap of Boko Haram and that is what they are between the North East and the North West and the rest of them. To me personally, I feel that they must be a part of, this could also be a part of that group. And they have been infiltrated the South West only time we tell. Let's get to the punch and look at the fact that you have the National Assembly, I mean protesting workers shutting down and the National Assembly and you have lawmakers saying that resumption would have to be beyond hold postponing resumption for lawmakers. What are your thoughts? Now these people are saying that if you have the lawmakers implementing or making policies whereby policies are formulated and you talk about those who would help in all of this, you're looking at those who are working, they are not also being considered. What do you make of this back and forth with the government at different levels where you have no respect for the memorandum of agreement that is always signed? Now this is not the first time we are seeing this, it has happened and it's still happening in other sectors. You remember ASU, they still on strike. They worked as lecturers and the lecturers have not been able to clean down this kind of consensus and agreement with federal government and the students have been at home in the past few months. That has only been a disruption in agreements. ASU went on one strike a few weeks back, the regime had the intent to go on strike if the government doesn't meet that demand. A union of look and commitment did that a few weeks ago. It's not just the first time we are seeing this. So the National Assembly, what is happening at the National Assembly is not different from what has happened here. But my own, as soon as the National Assembly is, when you look at the use of a amount collected by lawmakers every month, which they are not disclosing, millions and millions of error, and you come to realize that they are in and also workers within the National Assembly and not even getting paid properly. It leaves much to be desired. That reminds me, I don't know when I was 15, over 15 now, I don't know whether you were doing those days, when we were growing up in Lagos. There used to be a place called Morocco, Morocco and Victoria Island. If you get to work, Victoria Island starts at 1004. All you are seeing now at Lakey and the rest of there used to be Morocco. And when you are within that point and you look at, you stay at 1004 and look for that, you see how beautiful 4004 and this for that area of Victoria Island lives. When you look for that and you see the darkness within Morocco and that they don't have goods, they don't have good goods, they don't have what and the rest of them. You continue to, as you said, is this still the same Lagos we are studying? So the same thing is happening within the National Assembly. When you see some lawmakers taking home huge amounts of money, where are they at? And don't forget, most of these lawmakers don't do anything, the practicals don't do anything. Everything that you see there present at the National Assembly as a bill or no passing because are being put together by this aid. None of those lawmakers, they only go there and read those things. And the people that are helping you to do your job are not getting what they show. I totally agree with the National Assembly workers. I hope that their class will be listening to and they'll get their dues because they don't live within the next one in there. This same set of lawmakers, over 70 to 60% of them will not return. And if this aid doesn't get their dues then that is the end of it. All right. Chris came to wonder, a couple of papers have given some space to the presidency versus Bola Me Tinubu. Of course, his speech that has received a lot of shares on social media where he said, you know, he's the one that made President Buhari president. Of course, it's his turn to be the next president. It's a turn of the year. But as a president he has replied to him saying that he did not make President Buhari president. In fact, I'll go to the Daily Independence version of this story. The headline is at the front page, top left corner of the front page of the Daily Independence. It says, you alone didn't make me president. Buhari replies, Tinubu. This is barely ours. Before the all-progressives Congress National Convention, I think presidential primary should be set, kicks off in Abuja. The presidency responded to the outburst credited to former legal state governor, Bola Me Tinubu, insisting that he alone didn't facilitate the victory of the president in 2015. Now, this is in the statement as put out by senior special assistant on media and publicity to the president, Guy Rashehu. Your thoughts on this? Is this going to really harm the party ahead of a decision on who should be as flag bearer? Okay. Do you mean the Milokon? The Milokon. Yes, so you're about the Milokon. Exactly. The Milokon. One. Two. It's a, Nigeria is just a policy. I'm sorry. But at the most, yes, everybody worked that video. And the blow point for me wasn't even the statement accreted to the leader of the APC, Bola Me Tinubu, consigning the president and how he made him bet. The great thing, nature, he referred to the governor of Abu Stil as a layman. If you are a layman, if you understand you, but very well, a layman means this one. And that to me was the height of it. Irrespective of, I think that it was a loop for me, coming from someone of Bola Me Tinubu's status. But back to your question. Yes, there is no say, there is no say in the fact that Bola Me Tinubu was part of those that were instrumental to the success of the president in 2015. Don't forget that he was able to brally his party, the AC, to join with other forces to be able to make sure that President Wari won the 2015 election. To me, he won't get that vote. But he single-handedly made Bari the president in May to be the point of high policy. Because, don't forget, five PDP governors moved from PDP to APC. They were known as the N2DP. And they brought a lot before. And there are other individuals that also have to. So, yes, Bola Me Tinubu's contribution without any question helped a lot. But to say that I made him president, for goodness sake, it's only God that makes president. It's only God that makes governor. It's only God. Irrespective of the fact that, yes, people with people with faith. If God has not said that this is what we call forgetting, coffee, messy, when you were born, God already knew that you are going to be broadcasters. What only happened is that your parents were able to have you, and were able to train you in school, and you moved towards, at the end of it all, through your own personal effort, you now ended up where you are. Where you will be tomorrow, you don't know. It's only God that knows. So, I don't like when people request too much power to themselves, and throw arrogance into themselves, that except in the essay, if there is no God, not to work, pray. And I saw the statement issued by Gropas, me and him. To me, I mean, totally in tandem with him. The president did not come out, outrightly, to attack personal empowerment. They only tried to set the issue right. Then to your question, whether it's going to affect the outcome of the primary should be, I'll tell you now. The delegates have already made up their mind. The president said that he had an anointed son, or a candidate, he told us three months back, but it's so obvious that today, he might be living with him, that for nobody, for everybody. So, to your tattoo, everybody would go there and square it out. All I really meant to get a contestant's card, nobody at the APC felt woefully. And it seems that people, as parents, except Naman, that step down tomorrow, we are going to contest, and we'll see this to the wire. And by the end of tomorrow, we're going to see the right candidate of the APC that will face the candidate of the PGP, Matic Bahakari candidate of Labour Party. Chris, can they want to move on that card? Yes, before you go, who's your money on? Sorry? Who is your money on? He's saying, who is your money on? I mean, who are you betting on to become the flag bearer of the APC? Oh, who am I betting on? Who am I betting on? You're asking who I'm betting on? Yes, who are you betting on? Go, Chris. I don't participate in that. You don't count? You're messing up. He was for the matter for me. All right. Of course. Chris came here. I wanted to ask you. You've successfully regaled your way out of that question. It's all right. There was no way he was going to ask. Let the best for me. I think we should call you Pastor Chris this morning for preaching to us and telling us that God knew who it would be before even we were born. Pastor Chris came to want to thank you very much for your time, channel mediator and conciliator. We appreciate your analysis on Off the Press today. Thank you very much. You have a wonderful day ahead. Well, that's the size of our conversation this morning on Off the Press. We'll take a breakdown when we return. We'll be looking at the first major conversation. But just before that time, let's tell you what happened today being the 7th of June in history. Stay with us.