 This is all the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Thanks for staying with us Let's quickly take a look at the pages this morning and see what's making the rounds on the page on the front pages of a national dailies I mean to be very precise GD Johnson joins us Right here. GD is good to have you join us this morning Messy we want to talk to us all over the world. It's a pleasure to be with you. I'm just writing money And you you look great in your attire. I Am the I'm the October plus TV kingdom All right quickly, let's take a look at the Daily Trust newspaper this morning It talks about the MBS reports in security energy crisis plunge 133 Nigerians into poverty Insecurity energy crisis plunge 133 Nigerians into poverty 60 or 86 million in north and 47 in south Results with influence allocation of resources. That's what Buharis quoted to say skill acquisition not cash distribution will end Poverty that's what exporter quoted to say very interesting You also find another caption stash cash more governors on the radar EFCC chair I managed quoted to see and There's been a lot of whether or not, but we move on we'll move away from that parties Filed only 10.1 percent women candidates according to reports Yet, we still have several promises about the national gender policy and of course inclusive You know Projects of women in governance Bandits killed chief Imam to farmers in Sokoto very saddening governments intolerant Ordering disruption of campaigns IGP or Governors intolerance, of course seem to be an abbreviated one ahead of the 2023 elections Senate committee on covers 9.8 billion narrow in session in defense ministry budget Pt ad recovers 26.5 million pounds Colonial pension fund from the United Kingdom and there's also a pictorial representation you know of the MBS reports that talks about Nigerians in poverty 130 others saying 130 we million 63% there you have Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor very very very unfortunate 65% that's that graph you find right there at the front page of a daily trust board Let's move our attention from the daily trust and quickly take a look at the punch newspaper hood looms attacks federal government soldiers DSS in INEC office nationwide I'd like to take that again hood looms attack federal government deploy soldiers DSS in INEC offices nationwide Security team to be drawn from army. Please DSS NSEDC fire service First rider you find another rider says governor's using thugs state security outfit to cost violence IG cries out US threatened to sanction candidate and politicians sponsoring violence campaigns quite interesting and This is right as you find now just poverty exceeds World Bank projection five states lead and 133 million Nigerians ranked poor in federal government leaders poverty index Economist slam government and demand effective policies Nigel narrow depreciation inflation erode workers of 25 trillionaire salaries and just for move away obese supporters protests alleged underage registration and vote buying plot. Well that has might also be confirmed by the former commissioner and Rec personal right there Egini Mike Egini 1 billion addition to defense budget uncovered minister query and You find looted funds EFCC puts more governors on the watch How delays costly-caught processes for straight families access to deceased savings More like an editorial, but that's the much we can take on the punch. We quickly turn our attention to This day newspaper Bauer says narrow redesign significant step to economic recovery Abdur-Shidh Bauer says more governors being monitored for stashed cash ICPC recovers 117 billion narrow in eight months Arraigned former customary court of appeal judge CBN directs banks to work on Saturdays to beat deadline for return of all the bank notes This is a right as you find right here underneath the caption of this day newspaper Moving away from that Another caption says South East businessmen support tinnables presidential bid with 1 billionaire More troubles for P&ID as firm owned by Danjima drags ex-partner to court over 40 million dollars loss Well, that's it on the this day newspaper and then we just look at the nation Before we have G.D. Johnson share his thoughts security chiefs we K attacks a Tico for criticizing Buhari Revers governor vows to remain in PDP fight vultures and scavengers or be outlines plan Another header says IG blames valence tension and governors Tinnable to make south east industrial hub first lady governor's wives rally for tinnable shatima in Ellori that choir state and Nigeria faces debt servicing challenges DMO weren't What I said this morning on the Nation newspaper less quickly have G.D. Johnson share his thoughts now and G.D. It's good to have you join us Well messy once again, it's nice During the platform with you this morning as well as with our peers over the world All right, the daily trust says that the insecurity energy crisis Plunge 133 million Nigerians into poverty. That's the latest report from the NBS quickly. We'll like to share your thoughts on that Well, it's that's just the Scott card. What ever spin The president administration wants to put on what it has done That is infrastructure over that they are winning the world the security and the rest of it It does not translate to human capital development of Nigerian writers for a push Nigerians into poverty because it's very if you have a situation where by 100 extreme million people are into poverty as a result of Pillar of government to do the needful to address two critical sector one the energy sector which is the main state of the Nigerian economy and two the security Sector which is what gives confidence hope to the people as well as to good local and foreign investor So that's just the Scott card of this present administration. There's no spin that can be put to it. They themselves have a knowledge They are failure with respect to that because whatever Policies they've done it has not translated into moving the people out of poverty that I have succeeded in pushing them Back into poverty if you see a story that is related to it when this government was embarking on this jump ring of sharing money bring to dust money of being all of this Donations and the vice president was busy John Kenting that he almost lost his life in the process Going to different markets and to different states giving up money or What the minister of monetary and services engaged in during the cove it thereby she herself was vertically and personally involved in the sharing of Financial resources as part of parcel of Kobe to leave when we have seen what it has done in terms of contributing to the inflation That we have I've also seen according to a spot that the skill acquisition is the only thing that can Stop the forwarding problem not cash distribution and when these are just basic EBC of economics. They are just the simple aspect of economics that we all learned why we are in secondary school So please is just clear that And I think these are the areas in which the media should set agenda in This code card of the present administration Is showing that one 32 million are pushing to be on the rhetoric is beyond populism Because why was elected on populism? Other presidents were elected on rhetorics. Do not and I have no shoes. We put into the story worry on populism our five poverty Beyond all of this because we have seen is the same style they will package themselves. Just like you package Products with our consumables or utility products. That's where we package the candidate So the same style they've used to package utility products and consumable products It is in their packaging all these candidates. They have using those strategy to package that beyond that we must ask them What are you going to do? These are facts. They are what are the three million people Nigerians in poverty? What are the things you are going to be doing to move that you have to poverty one to Two of the major causes of this particular issue is security. I want you going to address the issue of security What steps are you what's your blueprint three? What's your blueprint to solve in the energy crisis? These are the question we should be accent this presidential candidate But I've told people it doesn't matter where the president come from. I have gone beyond those a percent tweak sentiment Where ever the president come from? I Don't care. Where ever the president comes from as long as the president is doing the needful and is provided Unfortunately, in fact it is people who are the People of the president that suffered most under the presidency Go and ask Cassina people ask me who you know who state ask me point by us a state and let them tell you the experience of having the presidency coming to Biasa or coming to a state or coming to Cassina Well, I'm still on the daily trust newspaper That's also a report where the IG is concerned about the actions of the governor saying that they are intolerant and and Responsible for the interruptions of campaigns in various states They did he has police commissioner that reports to him that if police commissioners are practically the security officer In practical terms, but on paper it is the governor. That is the chief security officer. Now, what I see what I see He's a police commissioner doing for him. Then he has the IG's then he has the IG's in various zones Then the IG's for differences. So what are they doing? What intelligence are they getting? Now if the governors are using their thoughts because I know People reported that the governors are using their thoughts and they are using their state security to form in trouble This if the governor is not Prosecutable these individuals are prosecutable these individuals can be arrested. So beyond these two who should just signals these rhetorists That's just man enforce your law. We are not lost that these with this issue There's no doubt that the governors have demonstrated some level of entrainments And I think that there's a need for us to insert some certain process in our constitution I will be state Governor denied the opposition party the opportunity of making use of state utility. It is not his father's property It is not it is not his father's property. It is not his personal property It's not his personal company. He should have access to it is a public is a public property And this thing needs to be inserted if he's not inserted We need good lawyers to challenge these actions and that the courts will rule that on no account On no circumstance will the governor sitting of no deny the citizen of Nigeria the opportunity of making use of public utility It is a religious and if they are doing this They are there are officials of the state that are civil servants that can be arrested I'm persecuted But you should just see those of calling press conferences and telling us This the governor's there are people that can be arrested and there are people that can be prosecuted I mean there are cases there are cases where the governors some governors have made an excuse or have said that in order to use a public facility in a state they are Procedures I mean there are orders that need to be followed or requirements that should be met and in in in that situation What what do we then say? We need we need a protocol we need a protocol to put in place during compensation There should be a protocol a Protocol should be put in place during compensation and I think that this is where others take orders next to come in What the party should do is for them to come to the timetable Probably some distance people to I neck Which happens to be federal agency? I neck last is with Last is with the various other agents of government in August it's a PC. We'll be doing their own Rally also so so date a PDP NNPP and water so once you have that no govno can use an excuse to do that There is there's no govno. There's no sitting govno of the major parties that is not copybook There's no former govno that is not copybook of committing this NOS crime against the state and humanity Well, um, did a less let's look at the nation on the nation newspaper reverse governor vows to remain in the PDP and fights That's to fight the vultures and scavengers How do you describe this statement? especially when some persons are saying that you know governor yes, I'm we K is acting contrary to the party Ethics for instance, you want to describe his action over time as anti-party. You know what they have done to him They've just left him alone to continue dancing a smack macabre dancing in the in the as a particular saying Either does not know how to treat retreat But that doesn't want to retreat and went to advance will be consumed by war So that's just reality is Is the reason why we can still live on this because it's government. There have been many governors of river state That are larger than life and whoever is close to him needs to advise him The woman he loses the office of the government becomes irrelevant. That's reality There have been governors and governors in Nigeria, but generalists know as governors So it is is is using the platform of the state to do what he's doing And there's a saying that There's there's a level to which um, you can you can You see he's dancing like that center and those he has insulted is defending today those He is defending to do what those he insulted yesterday And those he's insulting to do what those he defended yesterday So he's just look I don't know those that are advising him In the I don't know those that are advising him I don't know do whether he seems to counsel But the reality of the marker is that by may 29 2023 it becomes irrelevant Whatever they have come of the presidential election if he does not know how to play the games You see there have been many there have been many governors even before him in river state pita of the lake Celestino mayor So you let him continue because as far as I am concerned What is the direction if you don't want to be part of a party you leave the party and go to another party And then if you want to be part of the party you become part of the party If if you have succeeded in winning the presidential candidate the presidential ticket of the party What would you see After that I watched the drama which he did I could recall that I must have invited them to To to a blector to talk about the PD when Peter of you was still there that he should support Peter of you We all knew the role he played So letting continue dancing is macabre dance is just that people that has people that are healing him They are healing him because it's the governor that's the reality They are not telling me to to let him listen and listen to the they are healing him because he has the Of the office of the government the man that is not there. He becomes irrelevant If they go to the new kids of luck I mean if we case involving Anti-party politics the fact that he's still in the pdp He has not He has not campaigned for any political for other political party one He has not voted people use this word anti-party loosely. He has not voted for another party So they use it. There's no doubt that is is not demonstrating Party loyalty. There's no doubt about that But what I want him to understand is very clear If you ask if you look from if you look from within I mean lots how many times have you seen fire me in the news again when he left the governor of akiti state Cardified how many times everything is about the eban g in ikitina How many times have you had anything about my malabuni? The moment he left the national chairman Of apc. Where is my my malabuni was the afan omega apc when he was the chairman of the strawberry conversion So wiki is just playing to the gallery. He's just dancing in a kaba dance. He's playing the host switch If they don't be they don't know his head is buried under the santa and he said that body is exposed Is that this even himself? You don't have people that to advise him This is a candid advice. He's not paying me then to give him counsel. He will become irrelevant mark my word after he leaves that office Nigerian politicians have no relevance the moment they live on is because they don't build structures They build structures around themselves Apart from wiki, who do you know in river state politics? For example in last eight years Can anybody mention the name of the deputy governor of river state? Okay Who is the deputy governor of river state? He was the state what he accuses people is what he does Like most governors are in Nigeria So the issue is because he has the resources and then he has the platform Then he invites all the media when the commission people are not asking what are the resources of the state They are using to pay for all the life transmission of those commissioning You spend no money on commissioning projects Than the one even used to to do the money they use for life transmission and life feed of all of those things people means to look at it is using State resources to promote and propagate his selfish agenda. That's the reality There's enough to which you can fight a cause And there's a there's a level and there's a limit to it He's using his personal resources once the state resources not there. He will not be relevant mark my word And he wants to engage in debate We could have the debate if he's interested I like how everyone just you know Trows that challenge to having public debates but It's so much to grapple with because at the end of the what happens at the party level trickles down You know to the entire country and so we begin to see the impunity We we say Right here that Even at the party level democracy should be respected there should be You know some form of Respect for lore and what of you and we've we don't entroned those tenets then what do we have? You know at the largest space when you say you become a governor from such a situation But quickly on the punch newspaper Quickly on the punch newspaper And hoodlums attack the federal government deploys soldiers dss in inac offices nationwide And some persons have described this action and response are very reactive Saying that the government has always been reactive to you know situation rather than being proactive But what are your thoughts especially when there are reports that 41 offices have been on have been attacked so far You know within the period of time Last week we discussed this if you recall And we discussed it last week Friday And save your seven coffee when we are reviewing this particular issue This is this should it will make news Because this should have been what government should have done in the first instance without letting anybody know that it deployed security What security agencies to protect critical infrastructure the critical infrastructure of democracy Is the election and the body that is charged with the responsibility of conducting the election It's who determines who governs the state zone Well, it's it's a step To too late but not too late is a step in the right direction Which could have been taken earlier and we hope that that Will be further reinforced and that will protect the critical infrastructure relating to the election as well as i'm concerned When we pointed issues for government to address and they take step to address it They should be they should be commended corresponding to to public opinion to To to public Suggestion so we we've all said it that there's a need for the military And then other security agencies to protect the critical infrastructure relating to to the to the election Not only that and those that have done this we need to arrest them and prosecute them No, but but jidya johnson Yeah, that's that's that's also. No, I mean no one is actually saying that the government should not be commended for all of her Response and our actions to some of the issues or public outcry But you know, this is not the first time this is happening We've had cases of attacks on The offices of the umpires sat with the responsibility of conducting elections And if we sit back and begin to think as people then we'll understand that the the polity is heated in security Seem to be a major issue that has trickled down to affect every order sector of the country One would expect that we should be on top of the situation Reacting before those elements non-state actors begin to take action. We should know what to do So, I mean you are talking about defense now So in football you say the best firm form of, you know attack is defense. So you you you probably I hope I got that correctly So you you should we should be able to be able to put our acts together Rather than waiting for things to happen and then we'll respond We need something I agree with you. I agree with gene brutality Now when you respond you also need to take steps to To prosecute those that have committed infractions. That's just it. That's that's that's That's my take all the ones that all the attacks that have been carried out. They were not carried out by ghosts. They were not carried out by Indians They were carried out by human beings and these human beings can be trapped And they can be trapped and they can be located and if they are trapped and they are located they should be prosecuted Now the IG said Governors are using their talks and state security are to format violence. That means that they have intelligence to that effect Why don't you process the intelligence and enforce the law with respect to those that you have captured in the legends report Which you have why why if you can if for example, you can't prosecute Governors Because they have they have immunity, but you can you can you can't publish them You take them to the court of public opinion Let court of public opinion judge them That's simple. If the court of law cannot deal with those ones Let the court of public opinion. You have them. You name the governors. They're governors. Who are the governors? You name the governors of these states that are involved And probably after the leave office Just like EFCC goes after them after the leave office You can go after them after the leave office and prosecute them We have a situation of a senator A sitting senator who happens to be a governor sitting governor and his election result was declared under duress Till date is still a sitting senator That election was not modified. Well, GD we have to go now. Let's do this next Friday GD Johnson Yeah, it's a pleasure to be with you Always a pleasure to be with you As long as you are interested in us doing it we keep doing it all the time And that's the size of our conversation this morning and after press with GD Johnson We'll take a break and when we return we'll just be looking at the first conversation on the show Beautiful Friday morning. Please stay with us