 a silver breakfast and plus CV Africa I am messy Bopu and many thanks for joining us this beautiful morning we head straight to the papers as always we have on Mondays we open up on Cotaria it's good to have you join us open up on Cotaria is a public affairs analyst good morning good morning Nigeria good morning coffee morning to you sir let's take a look at the punch newspaper this morning and find out what the punch is reporting the band of caption says APC convention talking about that convention that slated for the 26th of March Southwest Governors reject Buhari's allies as Secretary and Vice Chair that's boldly written on the punch this morning it says external forces trying to impose peasants on Southwest says Akira Dulu, Adamo, Al Makura, Musa divided as national assembly over a national assembly over chairmanship race it's still the rider underneath the board caption now federal government in Cure's fresh 950 billion error domestic borrowings in first quarter of 2022 that's what the DMO is quoted to say Syracuse Tamber well meets and plant consensus candidate to lobby at Tico interesting and Malami okay seizure of carries accomplices property and accounts that's what you also find this morning just before we move away from the punch Buhari aloof away well Nigeria bonds economy crushing that's what crashing that's what the PDP is quoted to say over 70% of drugs dispense in Nigeria substandard farmers and headers clash a fanny fairy falls planned Lord to make non-native indigens and you also find obianos water drinking video EFCC on witch hunt alleges abgar these are some of the headlines you find on the punch this morning let's move straight to the nation with these headlines APC convention APC convention Southwest picks KK Mekke or Mishore with the following riders are carried all who warns against interference as parents screening failed to hold yesterday and senators splits on Musa Adamo Al Makura interesting times in the party at the top of that front page you have these headlines unions to cripple vasties nuts as NAA T began strike Sanu Nassu warm-up that's the senior staff Association of Nigerian universities and the non-academic staff union what does the future hold for our academic system more from the nation newspaper Buhari federal government reviewing Southeast security obiozo's house attack flayed let's talk about the attack on the house of a leader of ohanese indigo policemen not authorized to check customs paper and this was also a big issue over the weekend policemen not authorized to check customs paper as they talked about also the tinted glasses as well of vehicles 700 IDPs or 700,000 IDPs in my state governor laments 700,000 IDPs in my state governor laments more from the nation newspaper Tamil Bala Sarki ready for North's consensus candidate controversy rages on over zoning in PDP share deals put 20 directors on stock market blacklist share deals put 20 directors on stock market blacklist sarkees associate 14 groups defect to APC in quara and at the bottom of that front page we have ex-agile stars on a tinnable at 70 with novelty football match ex-agile stars on a tinnable at 70 with novelty football match and vessel held over suspected crude oil theft to arrested for back his murder stories on the front page of the nation away from the nation we took a look at the leadership newspaper this morning convention APC postponed screening of aspirant of a poor preparation and you also find 2023 presidency amid Saudi and agitation tambourine Muhammad Sarki opt for consensus to make position known soon article declares on Wednesday DMO speaks on Nigeria's public debt is also another head of this morning on the leadership and COVID-19 intervention CBN extends 5% interest by one year 2023 elections will determine future of Nigeria this is what Peter obese quoted to say and president Mohammed Buhari condemns violence in the south eastern part of Nigeria it's fine to see that as well on the leadership we're a new student with sleep throat for 10 million Naira surgery abroad and that's you also on the leadership newspaper that's the much we can take on the leadership and finally the daily independent with these headlines weak oil production subsidies may erode gains of rising prices weak all production subsidies may erode gains of rising oil prices let's go to the top of that front page discordant tunes trail airlines attempt to import aviation fuel hardship may trigger nationwide agitation worse than N-SARS PDP hardship may trigger nationwide agitation worse than N-SARS PDP more from that paper anti-bounic governance a plan to revolt against Buhari at APC convention no cause for alarm says presidency I don't know what are those other Yahoo Yahoo governance that I care to do was referring to a couple of weeks ago more from the daily independent PDP presidential primary we are ready for consensus candidates are key details on page seven MPC all eyes on CBN as rate hike tops agenda that's talking about the marginal monetary policy committee and the monetary policy rate of the interest rate as it's publicly called five billion Naira investment in ruins as fun demolishes AIB regional office five billion Naira investment in ruins as fun demolishes AIB regional office and finally from that paper APC chairmanship Sharif steps down vows not to work against Buhari Sharif steps down vows not to work against Buhari these are the headlines on front page of a daily independent now to introduce our guest analyst at this time is a public affairs analyst openable in Kottariah Missing Kottariah thanks for a time let's quickly move straight to the first one on the daily independent the People's Democratic Party saying that the hardship that Nigerians are currently going through may trigger agitations worse than answers this is the case or is the PDP trying to trigger something themselves if I don't need to emphasize that I mean the economic appreciation is affecting everybody we also are talking about recent world price hiking the price of it long models and the domino effects and most times when you have this hike they never come down so you also if you're going to affect your garage it's going to affect your pineapple it's going to affect how it doesn't affect the people can't speak and if you also talk of the power there is no life of cause the standard works on the the national leader what the whatever they call it but the power situation is still very poor and there is so much that is what I will express as the real new frustration and corroding bitterness in the country another word this is another rule that just from them I know when a man is despondent bring a man in future which of winning man does not see when his hopes are dashed and their promise of a brighter future chipwreck what they are starting to do of what he resolved to bow because a hungry man they say the man the man and an angry man is for others like a mad man and that is why PDP is talking about for the possibility of anarchy in the land that does not necessarily mean that it's going to happen between now and 2023 we don't pray for that to happen at 9 Julian's I will not say as a committed or deported because none is committed none is deported but I just say that it doesn't happen between now and 2023 it is probably after 20 to the 20th situation first time that we think we should be talking about right now the molecule into the private social climate in the city means for me to look at that most highly of both where I had a smoothing was telling me of course I'll be prevented from that and I will agree that if I won't be committed I'll also enjoy Nigeria's to just be a little bit patient this is going to be a change of back and if that change of battle will bring a spring of hope to Nigeria and so I don't think it would have been my hand that it was all I did as you imagine any form of crisis they would be a patient by political crisis but not necessarily economic action all right open up on Qatari let's take a look at the punch newspaper this morning it talks about the fact that Nigeria is also dabbling into some fresh borrowings this time we're looking at domestic borrowings of 950 billion naira this is according to the DMO in the first quarter of 2022 what are your thoughts on this or capital as the issue DMO is talking about that and I'm telling us you know the facts in other words it brings down why you have to go for it are they going to buy cars for Nigeria Republic are they going to give what that takes 500 million naira as my state government is doing to borrow money and will now support other things or are they going for capital expense so it depends on why you're going so I'm not doing it like I said I'm not a vast boring at all but it has to be done judiciously and the money will be spent for them that is my own we should want to show boring so if they were even if we are only one trillion dollars why are we only one trillion dollars and what is that one trillion dollar why do we want to go to one trillion dollars now it's time for that internally so that we have voided boring and that comes to a situation where you have to go home because you want to travel abroad once they're back on medical therapy you have to go home because you want to buy new cars look at what the other state government is right now so this is really nothing and that is that way you're generating for that is internally directed where you're creating jobs and you're not you're saving our forex so you're not going to reduce the amount of it all depends on why you're boring but in this part of the world I will use this nanziga why it is an issue is because we borrow from people in this that's why it is a meeting that's all is it you're boring you borrow from me you'll see somebody boring now that's the hypothetical if the president will now say he wants to borrow let's say about the hundred million dollars now he borrows a hundred million dollars from the hundred million dollars is twenty million dollars on his medical trip abroad what is the national now you're boring because you want to buy cars on that assembly member why I don't count each of the lcd cars will probably cost about 60 million diamond or 70 million or 80 million as the case may be meanwhile if you spend half of that money you're going to get the car for innocent and that might reduce the cost of boring the amount you're going to so it all depends on why you're boring and how the money is being spent otherwise there is actually nothing wrong with boring but in nanziga here we borrow from people we borrow because we believe that we are not going to pay the country is going to pay and that is why we borrow so that is the that is my take on boring all right i'll put it work sorry let let's stick with the daily independence and um as the lead story on that paper which says a weak oil production subsidies may erode gains of rising prices and what the people are saying is this as many countries let's take advantage of current high prices of oil necessitated by the war in ukraine nigeria's case may be the opposite as this is hampered by weak oil production and fuel subsidy which will erode the positive impact according to analysts um so so what are your thoughts on this this thing oil production has been falling in nigeria due to lack of investment and continued bunkering with an estimated 150 000 barrels per day of good loss i you you're from the south south niger delta i don't know if you've seen this level of bunkering in nigeria's history but your thoughts on on this headline from from that paper this story from that paper well yes really good country has a great negative impact no doubt about that because what normally the revenue we cover with our budget has been uh um outstooled let me put it that way by oil fees no doubt about this it's good to have plenty revenue definitely the federal government for but again you also have the final shares of that now what is the final share we are talking about modernary finalists because now most of these are i read is it the guardian of mongol or something yeah they said most of these illegal uh bunkering activities the what the projects are even better than what's important and that was bustered by recently the pms that was important you know that destroyed our engines meanwhile the so-called what we call in anoka so-called a lot of us use that for fire and it i don't destroy the engine and this people from there still they improve on the illegal bunkers so uh that is one aspect of it never the less on the issue of uh this is not a hinge it on illegal bunkers anymore a major problem we have is the refineries that are not working you know you you export our group and import the group i still cannot rationalize that i still cannot come to terms i can't decipher who who i hated that and why it has been sustained it's as simple corruption you have a catholic microscope in tune that are benefiting from this and that they don't want to stop it but as if you refine how can you even talk about you get your cruise you export the cruise to refine you could yeah i'm bringing that copy oh god of using how how we created in this country yeah maybe secretary it's interesting you're calling god maybe we might need him to to solve the problems for us but um i mean how do you feel before before god will help you now you have to have to have to have to have to have any man on the street yes but but last last week last week uh tony illumino illumino no less a person and uh claimed that um even the likes of shell of course i have had to declare first major he says that uh at least at almost 90 more than 90 percent of nigeria's uh um uh oil and gas is stolen the oil record all is stolen and the companies who rely on this to to produce or to do what what they have to do cannot meet up to the demands and to their business and obligations because of that so is it do are we having just just uh militants or oil thieves stealing this 90 percent when we say when we talk of militants let us face it you know if you unless you have about um 10 militants hypothetically you have about 10 militants involved with this illegal bunker you know out of the 10 only three of them are doing that on their own that are their own masters the remaining seven are just mercenaries that's the truth about you know they work for people you know that's why i say it's a catcher you know they work for people and the truth about it is that yes we agree you have this uh oil bunker illegal oil bunker going on this is not the first time it is not me it is not novel illegal bunker has been there right from time but how come we were making profits because our refineries were working why is illegal bunker business thriving simply because you have the big weeks that don't want the refineries to work behind us so it is a complex situation you know it's like generators you can never have our past system function effectively otherwise it's going to affect the importation of generators and the extensions have such the uh games of those that are important generators. Nigerians tried it in Ghana and Ghana drove Nigerians away Nigerians were trying to import generators to Ghana somewhere back and it was a major problem so this is the issue you have a catcher and the problem is that the government is not willing to adjust it to you consult it voluntarily because you you shout before you get involved but when you get involved the catcher will come and approach you first and foremost they are even part of they are even the major sponsors of your election and after that they come and approach you then you turn a blind eye that is what is happening you cannot talk of profit where the refineries are not working it is not possible that would be a pretty delusional it is like backing on a sticky weekend i can talk of profit when you are the refineries are not working you can talk of profit you are spotting look at forex you are importing forex then there is no way people who talk of profit will just laugh how do you mean by subsidy so it's a cartel thing and if the government is to purchase you have to make sure the refineries are not working then after that you adjust this cartel it is simple you know it's like what is the drug loss in colombia and so on that's what does that mean it doesn't mean it is it is not it is not but the willingness to so do is a problem let's let's take a look at the statement that's been made by former governor of an amber state petal b he talks about the 2020 the 2023 elections and how it would be a shipping factor for the future of nigeria now i'd like to ask you know just beyond all of that are we really really in the course when you look at the stakeholders from the body that settled with the responsibility of conducting elections we're talking about the electoral empire that's aina to the political parties to nigerians themselves are we actually working towards ensuring that we're taking the right decision in order to shape our future count on 23 so i have mentioned all of this i've mentioned all of the stakeholders involved i've talked about the electoral empire i've talked about the political parties i like is i like is committed to free prayer and transfer that is indisputable that is cutting down i like is that i must comment it's committed to that now the gladiator of that day is there a compelling interest in this open concerning and completing interest and the nigerian public nigerian policy and believe that if it doesn't get the pay that's the truth about now you take the apc for example the apc is emerged in its crisis simply because of ego there is this macabre dance at the theater of ego it's the crazy spin of lunacy it has to be me if it is normally nothing even boom is guilty of that you can imagine how he did come because other lost training the convention because he wanted to pretend uh over the convention the primary solo so that you know they say who emerges as the candidate this is the issue so they play have up to the destiny of the party and by extension the destiny of the country importance that is the problem so if you ask me i say i am like but if you talk of uh the gladiators i'm talking of now the politicians i'm talking of now of course you can't talk of we can't divert the politicians for the political party the political party is not a human being it's a legal entity personality no doubt but it's not a human being to speak you know so you you you see the politicians that are members of the political party i just he said do they have the interest of the nation that have no they have the interest they have their own interest at hand and that they place a goal that of the nation and that is the problem we have and that is why the pdp is also talking now when pdp is talking of the possibility of crisis between now 2023 not necessarily because of their common there is like a people it's do or die we have to take it if we don't take it then they'll be in Nigeria so it has nothing to do with high net high net yes we must comment high net but it has shown but but how would you how would you rate and how would you describe the politicians no how would you describe the actions and the attitude of Nigerians in in you know shipping the future of our country for 2023 there is nothing there is nothing there is nothing wait talk of Nigeria unless you are a major player what role can you the only role the Nigerian the ordinary Nigerian can take is to ensure that he votes to prevent the change he wants that's the only role the next thing is what result to protest demonstration which will be like a referendum of the disapproval of the system that's the only thing is where you cast your vote and that's where we are calling on Nigerians to ensure that they can you see you cannot sit on the fence because whatever happens affects you they are not even talking of him directly because you go to the market now we are talking of uh uh uh rise in the cost of uh uh uh commodities it affects everybody it's not selected so you just have to cast your vote go and ensure that you get your pvc and on that day you vote don't sell your conscience that is the only motive role that you make the ordinary Nigerian can play what else is he going to do it doesn't have to monitor contest any election all right okay let's move on yeah let's move on to another story the daily independent has an interesting one and i think uh this is one if not the only paper one of you uh who gives a space on its front page to uh the ongoing crisis in Ukraine or the what it calls a russia-ukrainian war it tells us that uh played president Vladimir Putin of russia has agreed to face-to-face talks with the Zelensky president of uh of Ukraine um in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine it says that the two leaders have let their diplomatic teams conduct peak-to-pea talks on neutral grounds since shortly after the start of the conflict on february 24 what i thought is Putin is this an indication that that Vladimir Putin is beginning to feel the heat yeah you're talking about feeling that definitely i'm going to be feeling this i mean but i am i think uh that is how will i call it uh epibium policy i i i am not really pleased with uh Putin the president but i don't want to use certain names that man doesn't deserve to be on earth because the war is defenseless it's just a show of i am in charge i can do and i'm she's so sad that the international community is also afraid of i think if a smaller nation has don't carry down this that's that the ad ads i don't think other nations would have sat back or will judge the mountain by also relevant to get up in the morning this is wrong these are certain steps must be taken lives have been lost nation destroyed and you now talk of george what what are the steps very good to do the minority what are you going to do you know a lot of people like ukraine they are now reproducing other countries to review that country what are these relations you're talking about the uh what this uh power intellectuals this uh uh new pian all those things that have been what you did that in order to weaken ukraine now you are talking about peace the name the world pleaded with you never to commence this you refuse while they are that was the same piece that the international excuse me shortly before the date to wait you're lost now you're talking about it because you have achieved your aim there must be consequences for your action but it's the whole part it's very one of the strongest wall part the fact is that to me russia america between the other country i'm putting this away of this so it's taking a good advantage of this position and that is why a lot of people are not angry but what am i going to do what am i going to do but i think the international community the world leaders they that's why they are world leaders they can agree which are commercial but how best to deal with it because no nation can stand on this book no nation at all so they can agree on how best to deal with it but if they don't this will just be the beginning of bigger nations attacking smaller nations and all we will do after destroying the nation is to sit down and talk uh since fire do that what of the nation what of the things that have been destroyed the nation that has been destroyed what and what are the remedies what steps are you going to take to address that one that is the problem so put in definitely the world only for the last ever put in you that you are going to be very crazy for two weeks one month or two months given his military powers he knew how long you are going to take and he has achieved this and he's talking about this right that's our friend that's complicated that's college that's thank you so much we do appreciate your thoughts and time as well on the show and of course we look forward to having you maybe you need to take a glass of water after this time out thank you so much for being part of yeah I do I do thank you open up on Qatar as a public analyst and he's always with us on Mondays we appreciate you all the time and that's the size of it for of the press let's tell you what happened today in history and when we return we'll be heading straight to our first major conversation where we look at the fact that section 84 subsection 12 has been that request to delete that path from the constitution we find out what that means for us as we head towards 2023 elections