 Nigerian students have threatened to ground activities at airports across the country and protest to add a strike by university lecturers as this move feasible and will yield any result. Also on the breakfast, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEG, has been sued for allegedly failing to give over 7 million Nigerians adequate time to complete their voter registration. We'll discuss these and what lies ahead for both parties in the case. And as usual, we have in-depth analysis of some of today's news super headlines. We call it of the press. A very good morning to you. We're back with the Breakfast and Plus TV Advocates. A beautiful Monday morning, which you live from our studios right here in the heart of Victoria La Lagos. My name is Kofi Bartels. And I am messy, a boppo, beautiful morning and thanks for joining us. Indeed, mercy has been a flurry of activities over the weekend. Indeed, we're here to begin with the action-packed trending segment and action-packed trending story. Nigerians react into the viral picture of the all-progressive Congress presidential candidate, Shuwajibola Ahmed Tinibu, over the weekend. What appeared to be Shuwajibola Ahmed Tinibu sleeping or dozing off during a meeting with the Emir of Gumbay, Shihua Bubakar. This meeting was on Saturday. And this picture spread like wildfire on the Internet, especially Twitter. Now, if you recall, the former legacy governor, Peter Katzi, visited to the Emir's palace after attending the wedding of Mizbahu Inuaiaia, who was the son of governor, Mohamadu Inuaiaia. He was spotted dozing off in a picture while Senator Ahmed Long, the Senate president, was speaking in the palace. This video got several reactions. Nigerians talking about this, Tinibu is a presidential candidate. No surprises that he's getting a lot of attention. Some issues regarding his fitness in terms of his age and stoutness health-wise for the office. And this was, of course, fodder for his opponents and supporters of his opponents to say, hey, this man is not ready to be president. The video got several reactions from Nigerians. As most of them believe that this action proves that he is not fiscally fit to be president. Some said one Twitter user put out a tweet saying, here, nature is calling Tinibu, if you're owing him, go and pay. Don't pay with my future and that of my kids. We go all sorts of comments. But some rose to his defense, you know, sharing pictures of a Shivaji Bola of his opponents, Peter Gregory, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, seemingly sleeping at one event where he had the likes of Ifan Yuba alongside him. And Ifan, I think, Raurame is his name. Another picture I saw was that of Attika Bukar, presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, who seemed to be sleeping at some campaign event somewhere in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A lot of bats flying left, right in the centre over the weekend. Mercy? Well, I actually saw that. And, you know, looking at the rundown for the show. Oh, it's shown on the screen, even the other pictures. I mean, looking at the pictures of those who were sleeping. So on the screen, you can see that Attika Bukar. I don't know at what point he was sleeping. That's also another presidential candidate. He's also a presidential candidate from a vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, from a governor of Anambra State, and also presidential candidate of the Labour Party. And as well as, you know, the flag bearer of the APC. You also have Wike on that screen sleeping. But moving away from that, you also want to look through. You would see that world leaders, I mean, there's a list of world leaders. I've actually seen a couple of persons who have been sleeping over time. Not necessarily an excuse or trying to hold brief. But I don't think that this is actually new, you know, with those who actually hold power. For instance, if you remember some time, you know, in... I can't remember the exact year, but changing Ping once upon a time was the United Kingdom. And, you know, he was found snoozing and, you know, sleeping at a time. He was caught actually. But I'm sure that those who are members of his constituency of his region and country probably would have reacted. And so we have seen pictures, you know, from very powerful and prominent persons who slept. Including the Pope at some point also slept. I mean, so for me, I don't think that this is actually new and, you know, this should actually mean anything. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Barthe fell asleep during Barack Obama's State of the Union speech in 2015. It wasn't her first time, according to her report. But the reason, because that's my question, why do people really sleep? Why do you have a lot of persons? What are prominent or common people sleep during public events? It was that for her, according to the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Barthe at the time, she said the reason was I wasn't 100% sober. She blamed her fellow Justice Anthony Kennedy for bringing a bottle of red wine to their pre-speech dinner. And in some cases, you probably say that it could be that you're not sober because of activities prior to that time or activities at that time. In different cases. Now, in another case, you would also want to say, of course, I mean, there are different pictures. I also want to say that people are overworked once upon a time. I had a prominent person saying that tired people rule the world and that's what it is. So I really don't think but not to hold brief, but I understand where Nigerians are coming from. The fact that there's a lot of responsibility when you become a public figure, especially when you vie for the position of the president and what have you. I mean, that's a serious office. There's a lot of expectation on you. People want you to be your best 100% and not to say, I mean, it could be anything. Let's not forget that he attended the wedding, you know, of Yahya Bellosan. And afterwards, it was reported that he needed to just pay a card to visit because he was in the city. You know, visit the army and what have you. It's possible that he was tired or maybe there were activities prior to, you know, that particular time. Not to hold brief for him. I'm just saying that sleeping is common. I mean, it's something that we all do. I know a lot of persons who sleep in church. You are very conversive with that. You want to give us some names? No, I can't categorically say. So that's what you do in church. No, but what I'm saying is that, you know, if you go to church, sometimes I mean you see it. Especially if you are an officer or a protocol officer, you find a lot of people dozing, snoozing at different points, you know, what happens. I mean, I think we can all say, you know, what you never can tell why Shuwaju was sleeping. It's a normal thing when you're tired to fall asleep. I mean, even I fall asleep, you know, in the daytime. I mean the vehicle going home. I'm being driven. I'm not sure you don't want to. You know, I fall asleep in the car. You know, I'm in the office waiting for, you know, some other thing. I catch a break. You know, one day I wrote something online. I said, you know, Legos would... Humble you? No, no, not humble you. No, Legos will deal with your sleep. Yeah, you know, it's just it. If you were a back-to-back, you know, non-stop ways kind of person, sometimes you just, just affects you. You don't sleep, you stay awake, you know, and I mean, we never can tell. For the picture that was shared with Peter V, someone shared a counter picture, you know, on Twitter. I saw yesterday of when he was wide awake at that same event, sitting on that same chair and, you know, listening to someone addressing them. You know, so it's not that, you know, that we don't know the full picture and context. But sometimes, Kofi, you know that some of these gatherings can be very boring. I mean, this is, you know, it could be sounding like a lullaby and it would take you to sleep. I'm just saying, I'm just saying. Even if it's boring, you are a presidential candidate. No, but Kofi, just like I mentioned. If you've been in a curtsy visit, you know, to such a public event, you know, bottom should not be, it's not even coming. This is me just saying is one out of so many. Yeah, I know. I'm just saying that, you know, if you are a presidential candidate and my opinion, you know, you attend a public function, you know, bottom doesn't count. Aha, I'm bored. Let me sleep in front of everybody. You know, you will want to do that. So it might not be the case, but like I rightly mentioned, it could be anything. I mean, we've seen a lot of persons who have slept, very prominent, powerful people, but this is not to make excuse for presidential candidate ahead of the elections 2023 to be sleeping because he sends a lot of message. Not also forgetting that there's a narrative. You also have a narrative where people are saying you are not, you're not young, right? And so, you know, age is actually not your friend. And so it might just mean that your body cannot actually carry. And that's why you have all of that. That's one narrative and that's why it was actually a big boss. But to be very honest, I know that a lot of people sleep, including the people who are talking and tweeting on Twitter. So people sleep as an excuse. But like I said, when you become as a public figure, and especially for us in Nigeria, who are moving, our democracy is, you know, is evolving. When you become an aspirant, when you become, you know, you are vying for different positions, while at a time where people are suing governments, suing government agents, suing the president, that's, you know, an area where we're at. And so it would be okay for people to say, why are you sleeping? You know, you can't be sleeping. You can't be sleeping. It means that you'll be sleeping on the job if you become, eventually you get the ticket and then you become president. I think that's what a lot of persons are saying. But we're just also saying that, hey, we have also looked at, you know, pictures of stories where a lot of persons are sleeping. I was just about to add, you know, for those who are, you know, supporters, you know, bring up the example of Robert Mugabe, you know exactly be a wise one. You know exactly be smart. Because you don't want your candidate to be compared to Robert Mugabe. You know, Mugabe was, he almost wanted to die in office. And I think when he was removed, within a matter of weeks or months, he passed on. May so rest in peace. But Mugabe is not exactly the greatest example. All right, but let's move on. Moving away from that, there's also on the top trending that please tag us, Peter Albee's supporters in a boy slate. And that's also got, you know, Twitter reacting. When we talk about social media most times, really, Twitter is always at the forefront. And that particular situation, very, some people have described it as unfortunate. And however it is, that's been, you know, on the other hand, the fact that Sarah pursuing the president, Mohammed Buhari, for the incident that happened, you have supporters. Let's not also forget that you have activities of supporters, different supporters, you know, going out to the streets in different states, taking out that rally saying, hey, we're rallying and supporting a certain kind of a boy. You know, it was quite different, as you can see on the screen, Tiagas and what have you. And the question that a lot of persons have been asking, you know, is that do people have a right, you know, to go out? I mean, at what point do you put out the Tiagas? Because everyone has a right. It's just like you're having a protest. It is expected that, you know, that the security agencies, you know, men of the Nigerian police force, among others, would be there to ensure that this actually happens and no one is left out. I mean, everyone is protected. But the incident that happened, quite unfortunate in a boy's state, Abak Lee Kay, there's been a lot that's been said about David Umay. And we're hoping that, you know, there will be a response, because in all of this, I mean, I haven't really seen a response, you know, from the state government. And really, it's quite worrisome. Yeah, well, that's just a play roll, I'd say. But, you know, members of the obedient movement, movement as they're called, we gathered at Mount 50, you know, to come back on that rally. They want to convert support for the candidate, but we stopped from going to the street. So we listened to and watched some clips and we're back. Anybody who organizes any kind of fitness, fitness movement or whatsoever in the state today. And so we peacefully, we were conducting ourselves and all of a sudden the police started shooting tear gas on us, dispersing people. So many persons have been injured. A lot are in the hospital already, but we are still here as peace-loving people and we are determined to show our solidarity to our candidate, Mr. Peter Obi. So the police officer that came didn't give us any specific reason, but I heard him very clearly quoting the governor as saying that no such movement should hold today in Abakaliki and that anybody who tries to do any kind of match in the state today would be ruthlessly dealt with. All right, at a time, you know, where the Eboni State Police was reached out of spokesman for the Eboni State Command of the Eboni Police Force was reached, there was no immediate comment. I would like to believe that there should be some comment today if he already hasn't put one out. But this is what we see. I think it was just a matter of time for something to happen because this is a situation we find ourselves in the country where people in Abakaliki protest, they stop. This is not a protest. It was meant to be just a peaceful walk, some call it fitness walk. In fact, they're having more fitness walks on 1st October. They put out a, what do you call it, a timetable shadow. I saw it online yesterday, Obidachi Obidian Fitness Walk. I do not know if Peter will be himself or the Liberal Party himself, organizers of this, but it would seem, it seems that these are individuals organizing their own things as a way of conversing support for the candidate. So, I mean, people are allowed to move around and how their fitness walks. People are allowed to have processions. I mean, I remember growing up on the streets or in the city of Kalaba, one of the popular processions was that of B.C.C.S., I think, or B.C.S., you know B.C.S., brotherhood of cross and stuff. Yeah, you remember. That's an example of a procession. Or you have the Apostolic Church, you also have your own procession. So, churches have processions. In Portugal, you have groups that do their walk for fitness, like a steady run and all that thing. So, if these groups says they want to do a fitness walk or a procession, I think they're allowed to do that as long as they're not breaking any law here. And look at the crowd there. They would have obstructed traffic to a very bad extent. So, we're waiting to hear what the police will say. But I'm happy to see that they stood their ground and that the fitness walks around the country are going on. What we don't want to see would be maybe two rival groups clashing. I hope they are aware that campaigns haven't started yet because we've seen billboards everywhere. But I think I think it's a bit loose on these things. They don't want to be too hard. So, all in the name of democracy may the best man win. No, but however, I mean, I totally understand that lots of people seem to know that campaigns have been shuttled and slated to start on the 28th of September 2022. And that's what it says. But you always say that there's a lacuna that's just a hole because you look at it, you ask yourself, everyone is saying it's a rally, it's not a support. You don't really have this candidate, those who are vying for these offices, making that presence and showing up to say, hey, this is it. I'm asking that you vote for me, making those statements the way it should be. And that's where it is. But like we would always say that our democracy is nascent. We're in progress. And we would always get to a point where we look at all of these loopholes and make some amends. And that's what it is. But you know, interestingly, David Mayer had had some kind words to say about the so-called obedient movement or the movement. You know, God of everybody said, who people are pointing at? He said that though Peter Abbey's movement is one built on equity, justice, and fairness, these were his words. Quote, it may not translate to an outright win. He was saying that he has, what he said made him look like he had a soft spot for Peter Abbey. You know, as an Igbo man, he wouldn't mind if he won the presidential election. So it remains to be seen if Umayyid ordered this. You know, in times like this, the governors would say they don't control the police. I mean, that's the point. You know, that's the point now, because if you also look at it, a lot of persons are asking why President Mohammad Bahri should be sued. You know, because the question is that the president is going to be sued or has been sued for X, Y, Z. And everyone's saying this happened, you know, in a Boeing state. Could it be that, why are you suing the president? But we understand the issue of who controls the police architecture in different states. The command, we're talking about the command now. At these police officers, do you have the commissioners of police in different states answering to the governors? Do they really answer to the governors? Do they take orders from the governors? Even though it's not on, I mean, in the books, it's quite different what the law states and what we're actually faced in reality. So will the other be coming from above, and who would be giving this order? You know, this is some of the questions that are begging for answers. And like, you know, my colleague, who he had mentioned earlier, we hope that the police will put out a statement because we say that until you become a threat to your national security and peace of the entire, you know, space or community where you are at the time, maybe that's when, you know, the police would actually act. For instance, everyone has a right to, you know, an association and gathering, as long as they're not constituting a nuisance or a problem to anyone, posing security threat and what have you. Fingers across would definitely bring you one of the developments as we proceed. Well, the last training story we have for you this morning, of course, you all know that last week, a big story right here in Legal State was the auctioning of cars that had been impounded or confiscated by the government of Legal State for flouting traffic rules, traffic regulations, if you want to call it that. And of course, some people came out saying the government has been too harsh. They saw some of the victims, those who owned cars that were being auctioned, you know, crying and willing and saying, this was the only source of livelihood, where, you know, traffic just eked out a living. And the humanitarian side of Nigerian, compassionate side of Nigerians kicked in. You can see family there. This one said that this was a vehicle they bought for over a million Naira and it was being auctioned for less than the amount that they bought it with. And this was what they were using to survive. You know, by the government of Legal State in 2018, these vehicles were impounded for violating traffic rules as well. The news that trended over the weekend got people reacting was the fact that the governorship candidate of the People's Democratic Party in Legal State, Abdulaziz Alajide Adeliro, publicly called Jando, and his running mate, Olufunka Kindele, she's an actress, publicly called Jennifer Oufunka Kindele, Vista and Miss Latif Kolakbo and Miss Ossi Nacin, two of the victims, you wouldn't call it that, victims of the recently auctioned 134 cars which were impounded, like we said, by the Legal State government for traffic offences and of course Latif Kolakbo himself had claimed that his vehicle was driven by his mechanic when he was ill and hospitalized so he didn't know anything about it and the car was just, you know, impounded. It wasn't his fault it was what he said, it wasn't his fault it was his mechanic's fault. Ossi Nacin Dukwe on his part said he was sentenced to three months in prison for driving against traffic and the vehicle was impounded and auctioned off. So he said during his three month jail time he lost his three year old daughter due to the non-availability of funds to cater for her health and after serving the jail time the bus was auctioned on his and his means of survival is gone. So you can see the pictures of Jando and Funke listening to them. There's a microphone there. Jando however commiserated with Ossi Nacin for his loss but kicked against reckless driving and violation of traffic laws. He also condemned the state government for the harsh punishment of taking offenders' means of livelihood. Alright, so that's what they are saying give them some, but what is the what did the all-progressive Congress in Negan State say? Well, they are their part in the reaction to this, condemned Jando and Funke Akinile for you know going ahead to do this, what they've just talked about, visiting those whose vehicles were auctioned by the government. They are describing the visit of these two politicians the governorship candidate of the PDP in Negan State and his running mate as a quote appalling is what the APC said as saying, alright they said quote they move of Jando amounts to turning compassion and charity on its head, is what the APC is saying quote, it was pathetic that he simply interpreted the loss or interpreted the loss of his hosts to having the means of livelihood taken away from them when in actual fact people have lost their lives to accidents as a result of driving against traffic, is what the APC in Negan State is saying. Interesting. Well, I think that at this point in time it's a political season I mean it's a period of politicking so you would have a lot of you know actions that you know in a natural and normal day these things will never happen. I mean okay so let's even look at it if these two persons I mean Jando and Funkie were not contesting for you know the office, number one office or sits in Lagos, do you think that they would have visited these persons, those vehicles were auctioned? It's one question, do you think they would have visited? They do have an interest and so it's a period of politics and anything can actually happen everyone takes advantage of any situation you know just to score points and just to make sense but I think that where the bone of contention is because you know according to that reports they are sure the residents of the state that the violation of traffic laws will not be condoned if they emerge as governor of the state in 2023 but any legislation that takes with the means of livelihood of the offenders will be reviewed so it is what you know politics okay so this policy is not favourable we think that this policy is harsh, is brash and so we're saying that this is what we're offering when we're coming I mean if you're a traffic offender you will face the law consequently I mean you'll face the law as it is but your means of livelihood will not be taken away and that's what they are offering, it's a season so let's see how all of that pans out really like I'd say politics is about you're not wrong to say this is political and it's a good question you've asked may I see why do they go visit, they are visited if they're not running I mean I don't blame politicians for being politicians if you're running this is what you do, if you are a pastor you go preachy pray when people say why aren't pastors building hospitals and schools and they're building churches but I'm like pastors are meant to pastor they're pastors, these are churches they want it to be governors who will build schools and they will do that you can't blame me, so people will do what they're meant to do it's normal, I'll do that but the thing is this here would you sit at home if you were running an election and you were on a ticket you wanted to win, you wouldn't see you go out and do meet the people, talk to people present yourself, sell your ideas show compassion play people's hair turn on the road it's normal so what I'm saying I agree with you that to an extent also if you go out there and you're telling them come to commissary with you but when we become government we will not condone breaking of traffic rules and traffic resolution so what are you saying they don't support taking away people's livelihoods, fantastic I don't want to go back to the debate but we can't help it when you say taking away those livelihoods and then the punishment not being commiserated with action I saw a video yesterday of a truck that was overtaking in some part of the world and crashed, I think it killed 21 people this is not one of those stories that people are making for instance one of the agents of the governor filmed himself he apprehended someone or caught somebody driving against traffic on 3rd Millen Bridge and forced him to reverse people were not believing him because he said you are an aide to the governor you're immediate to the governor of Lagos State so I wish this is not arranged we are arrested, people let's see we are not arrested another one we saw on the internet again they said Lagos man in pounds of blocks last month's vehicle from driving one way and then people are saying why are all these things coming up now you understand, why are all these things coming up now they feel it's made up but the one I saw yesterday I think is it in the UK where 21 people died because a tipper truck overtook without actually looking to see those an oncoming vehicle and just rammed it was speeding, rammed into the cars coming in, those people lost their lives so these traffic regulations are set up to protect lives because people have lost lives people have lost their limbs lost their source of livelihoods because one person can make a living and I think these things need to be looked into we have Lagos State traffic or transport sector law 2018 that has a list of violations and penalties and I think that negotiations need to go study these things so if you don't want your livelihood to be taken away from you then do not do the crime if you do not want your livelihood to be taken away from you do not do the crime because some people in the process of doing their livelihoods have taken other people's lives other people's lives when you go to maybe Singapore for instance or China for instance and they say we catch you with drugs even if it's just a gram or a milligram you will be given the death penalty you'll be executed if you're given just a milligram of drugs would you say it's not commissary with the crime they don't want that thing in their society they have laws, they have rules and regulations so that you will not even think of doing it so these are the issues but we have to go we'll take a short break now and when we come back we dive straight into what the papers are saying this morning please stay with us