 We're back. It's still the breakfast in Placivia, Africa, and of course time to look at what the papers have for us. Tunde Kola Wale, legal practitioner, is standing by via phone to the justice in terms of analysis through these headlines. Tunde Kola Wale, very good morning to you. Thank you for your time. Good morning to you, my brother. I'm sure you're gearing up. Thank you for having me. I'm sure you're anticipating the elections in just 72 hours from now. I'm sure you're looking forward to the elections in under 72 hours from now. Absolutely, absolutely. I'm gearing up to the people who are coming to talk about my story. And I hope that we have a full look at them. Alright, thank you very much. Let's get the board rolling with a look at stories coming on the front page of the leadership newspaper. Of course, elections are taking most of the attention there, especially with the lead stories. Leadership has this one. 2023 elections, vote where you are. Northern elders ohanese tell Nigerians, isn't it too late? Vote where you are. Right as to that, demand adequate security for citizens. INA clause 146,913 election observers once against interference. UK threatens visa ban on perpetrators of violence. So, while the Americans have already started denying visas to some persons, UK is still threatening it. More from the leadership. PMB didn't impose running mate on me, tinibu. PMB didn't impose running mate on me, tinibu. IGP has four-year term, can't be sacked, caught rules. IGP has four-year term, can't be sacked, caught rules. NNPCL confirms rise of all production to 1.6 million burials per day. I wonder if that will make any meaning to Nigerians. Naraswap, Kaduna Kogi, Zamfara, foul contempt charge against malami e mefile. Kashcrunch won't affect us, PDPLP, NNPPSDP declare. Kashcrunch won't affect us, PDPLP, NNPPSDP declare. Gunmen burn women, raise houses in imo. DMO clarifies 2.13 trillion nara boring in two months. DMO clarifies 2.13 trillion nara boring in two months. In two months, quite an amount of money. Let's move on to the next newspaper. The nation has the following headlines. Karlofu Roadshow draws curtain on tinibu's campaign. Indeed, he made his way in a motorcade on that open top bus through the streets, some streets in Lagos. It's a picture of Ashwajubola Ahmed tinibu in Oshodi. The large crowd cheering him on as he made his way to the Tesli Balugun stadium in Suruliri, where another mammoth crowd is waiting for him. President Buhari there as well. The nation put it this way. Karlofu Roadshow draws curtain on tinibu's campaign. More from the nation, Naira Crisis states foul contempt action against malami e mefile. Right. Wikei Rivers knows who to vote as president. Oni loses, oni rather loses again. That's talking about the Kiti governorship case. We have uncovered plots to cause civil unrest on pole day. Says NSA, National Security Advisor. We have uncovered plots to cause civil unrest on pole day. Says NSA, who is behind this unrest. We can read that paper for details of that. Over to the punch. Naira Crisis, cash strapped Nigerian bank or Nigerians rather bank on supreme court as hearing resumes today. Governors demand malami e mefile sanction for contempt of court. The banks extend old 1500 notes collection up to April 10. Panika in black market as dollar Naira rate fluctuates sharply. Police omoteko nab suspects with fake new notes. Karazin price rises by 136 percent. Five police chiefs posted to rivers. CPs deployed. Five police chiefs posted to rivers. CPs deployed. Interesting development in river state. Okay. Let's go on. I work for Nigeria as Buhari worked for me. Tenubu page 29 of the punch newspaper. Nigeria as Buhari worked for me. Organ harvesting. I reported a query model to police. Says victim. And Anambra killings panel begins onsite assessment. IG rejects RS. Some of the headlines on the front page of the nation. We look at daily trust. Next. And on the front page of daily trust we have these headlines. Inaik gets cash for elections. Okay. Lucky them if you're an Inaik vendor or vendor to Inaik. I think this would be a good time for you. Because they will pay you in cash. And if they don't pay you in cash ask them for your cash. Inaik gets cash for elections. Rex to collect money from CBN state branches. EFCC, ICPC, others to monitor spending. It's wrong CBN usurping Inaik's independence. Another poll, after yesterday's poll that put Tinambo ahead. Obi II. And Atiku 3. This time you have another poll. And the daily trust goes the way the punch went yesterday. By announcing that it is an advertorial. Okay the punch was the only paper to use the word advertorial in that evacuation poll today. But this is what the daily trust advertorial says. atiku leeds in Nigeria's largest pool ever, 3.1 million people sampled, okay? Congratulations. Resu asu rock, kwan kwa so, red cap revolutionist changing the tide. Please deploy AIG, 7 CP's in rivers Kano, some headlines. Now let's take a business day, quite interesting addition to a list of papers this morning. And the business day focus is on the elections as well. Of course you have an economic angle to that. It says controversy over clerics endorsement of candidates. Controversy over clerics endorsement of candidates. And there's a picture from the APC rally in Lagos with Shoa Jutinibu with the president Buhari raising the hands of Shoa Jutinibu and Governor Sao Olu as the candidates for Lagos. More from business day. The big story for today, here are gainers and losers from Naira redesign. Here are gainers and losers from Naira redesign. It's the way the paper put it as their big story, you know, which makes some interesting read and interesting read. NMPC says oil production rises to 1.67 million barrels per day. Details on page 31. Obii not is most Twitter followers since presidential race began. That's an interesting expose by the paper. You can read more about that on page two. And Naira shortage puts $220 billion in formal economy on life support. Naira shortage puts $220 billion in formal economy on life support. I think that's not a bad place to start. Tunde Kolo Walei, thank you for your time once again. I mean, for all the plaudits and support that Moewen in Nigerians have given to Mefili, the CBN Governor and the CBN regarding this Naira redesign policy and the deadline and all that. And we cannot ignore the damage to the economy. And this is what this day has come out with. What are your thoughts, what to take on this? We often promote the thing to say that no matter what the goals the central bank of Nigeria and the presidency and the government of the APK as we have wanted to achieve in this Naira design, we might not be able to go for a change. The planning, the timing and also the lack of capacity to make this concept available at the right quantity and quality and at the right time at the future of safety. What we were told in the Naira, it was meant to tackle inflation. It was meant to discourage or quack posumia for the purpose of giving it a dire vote. And of course too, it was meant to gear or to move gear. What we can play is economy, not like you have said now, the impact on the informal sector of the Nigerian economy is very, very disastrous. And you are nice to know that the informal sector of the Nigerian economy is as high or is as much as 80 percent. So if you have an informal sector that tries on doing this kind of transaction, if you give the ratio to 10 on the informal economy in which the traders are setting a disability, don't know how to use POS, don't even do banking, but if you know that, you can imagine what implications would have been of those people. There are individuals like the tokenizer, like the human that sells the donuts, coaches and workers. But if you sign on the DNA, please don't go to the market on the same duty and then are able to make a team Naira to co-send your family. They are very serious about this, these people are the ruins. And by the time this Naira is to civilize it or not, some of them are nobody cover it is. Just like we are seeing the COVID-19 pandemic, most businesses that are collapse during the COVID-19 have not recovered yet. For them, when this Naira, this design or charting or changing was carried out, I think in 2005, it also has such a persistent impact on the economy. And the economy didn't quite recover from this. So by the time you look at it from whatever angle you might look at it, whether from the angle of the economy, whether from the angle of social stability, whether it was from the angle of the politicians, whom I want to use in Naira to do whatever they want to do. It has to apply both at Naira. Everybody has been covered. Everybody has been covered. And the responsibility of government is not to bury his citizens. If there are a few individuals who have been dealing with Naira, what is not to deal with Naira? Who have been dealing with Naira and Naira and not humana? That bothers us of criminality. And the responsibility of government and this too, all the other hands of government have all the way around to use the instrumentality of the state to bring those criminals to hook without imposing the kind of ashes that we are seeing being imposed on the other hands of government. All right, quite interesting. Tunde Kolaoli, let's look at what we talked about about a lot of it, editorial, you know, yesterday's poll, some people's pointed out it wasn't an editorial, the Tindubu poll, but some others didn't. Day Trust has said article leads in Nigeria's largest poll ever. So, you know, in Christianity, we say, who's report do you believe? In this case, who's poll should we believe? Should we believe the OB poll? Should we believe the Tindubu poll? Or should we believe the article poll? This is getting a bit confused. This is honestly very difficult. If you believe in any of those polls, the truth of the matter is as they say, sometimes statistics do lie and we have seen statistics lie lot of times. We wish for the Brazilian elections that were conducted not too long ago. The polls are very conflicting. The accuracy of the polls at the end of today we let it in work out. Both scenario and Lula at the time the polls that we saw both scenarios was likely to win the elections. Another time it was said that Lula will win with a life-like margin for the other that today it was we that won the elections to a very narrow margin. In fact, it has to be a run-up between Lula and both scenarios. We have to match. Also, the collective election has brought a big deal into power. And the polls in America was just proved at the end of the day. At the time it was said that the Republicans were going to sweep all the cases and orders. But Lula and Lula it was the Democrats who had the upper hand after the final challenge Wakanda. On Nigeria you find out we have not been very honest and truthful in all the polls that have been conducted. Some of these contestants actually hire people to conduct polls for them that will favor that will give them pressure that they won't win the elections. You also find out some of those who run some of these poll houses depending on their political lineage. If, for example, a poll house or a poll if actually an organization is added by your government the possibility that will conduct a poll that will favor a community is very hard. If it is wrong by somebody from the south and you believe in the possibility the possibility that they won't run the poll that will show that the poll is missing and if it is somebody from a jamawa state who conducted the poll the possibility is that he will say it is a people that are going to have the upper hand in the coming presidential elections. So there shouldn't be too much reliance on the poll and what is likely to happen and on the precedent that we have seen in the past candidates to open a win in the areas for things in the areas of their kongu for which they come from if they win from their private base the method of placing a visual win is very little background for which they are coming from. If it is whoever who is able to match up the largest number of kajmen votes from the private is all from the private base all from the people of this area and then secondly those who are able to mobilize whatever religions that they believe in or that they are watching behind them the most likely have the upper hand in this election and of course it was out of the rules and it overlooked the issue of money money is a very significant factor a very strong factor in whether we are going to make it in Nigeria whether has the much money to spend none of these coming polls and nods would have been made over the others and of course we must not forget the occupancy power the APC are in power at the federal level at most of the local government level and also they have 27 governors behind them by the time you throw this concept of governor into the electoral battle queue and they must have the people in their states behind them and they are also mostly to use the support of the states to power this election we would want to take to also make a difference for who wins the election and of course we must not forget that the community who are some friends where the pendulum of the queue will sink I am talking about big businessmen and your center large business their general girls are Nora because of their business interests are Nora they must like it and support those who will not make any policy decision that will jeopardize their business interests so it is a lot of factors but the other thing when girls are supposed to open their eyes look at what has happened in the last 80 years look at the future the country where they want to take the country to look at the capacity background and decision of all these countries and then there are those factors most of the countries are those thank you so much and we have another related headline on the front page of leadership which they will use because of continuity talking about the labour party NMPP STP declaring that the cash crunch won't affect them where there is nobody that when the political party that the cash crunch will not affect why do I say so they have a gender woman the poor I mean the valid bosses all over the country let me honest with you all if you don't have money to pay for the transportation of those who will monitor the rise of activities in the different polyboots and others that is the minus for you as the candidate and then as the political in fact of course you have to fill the input and not of course you have to feed people of course some people would have read this in a place like in Kurochu and now it is in a place like in Lagos Island if they want to go back to where they registered before party if they don't have the money to go there each one is not as ready for them to be able to go back to where they voted and where they registered and what happened that is minus one vote now in Kurochu so by and large the turnout in this election might be affected by the cash crunch that we have in our hands and not to begin it without and we are continuing to see all of that in September 2002 alright thank you we will stay with leadership the big one on our front page of course Northern Elders and Ohanesi according to the paper telling Nigerians to vote where they are vote where you are what do you think that means and what are your thoughts on that my thinking is some time when the so much tension in the air when the policy has been heated up as much as it has happened in this in fact people might be afraid they might be scared they might be threatening they might be fighting and then want to relocate even though the mayor has registered where the ordinary lay are where the ordinary lay leave when such people move from one place to the other actually then do upon the way and then also to suffocate and work after I think the message has been sent out that people should vote here is an encouragement for people to be involved to have the courage where they have registered and vote in there it is also a way to show the demographic or the natural strength of some of these candidates I give you an example in the look at the cosmopolitan place like in Lagos for example the tribes in Lagos are all obviously distributed now to have backtracking of tribes on the different parts of the country we vote here we pull and we work if all those different tribes are to stay on ground and vote in a place like Lagos you will find out that the margin of victory for the different candidates is very minimal because of the heterogeneity because of the demographic composition of the place like Lagos so it is for that reason people may have been encouraged also to stay put here that don't matter and vote in those places because if they do so if you also give up an insight into the demographic composition of the different tribes of the different states that we do have in the country that people can talk have not been able to give up all the censors that we have conducted in the past isn't this too late of course you've rightly said that most of these ethnicities you have the egos, the houses as well northness are nomadic they move from place to place so you have a lot of egos scattered around the country in Kano you go to Sabunga there in Lagos you see a lot of them and of course those from northern part of the country travel widely as well all over the place isn't it too late to tell them to vote where they are because I mean anekas has ended as close to the opportunities they had to change their polling units you can't change it anymore so those who registered at home are going to go home isn't this call too late because the admonitions that have been given to different people you and I will know that it needs changing by a lot I mean here you registered and where you want to vote it's a very cumbersome process you have to rise to help to move from one place to the other and the capacity of anekas the accuracy the success is regards to that it is under the people here and the well known people that could easily move from one polling booth to the other without much the ordinary person usually find it difficult to change their polling booth so if you are the registered in the local example like most of the people are registered in their respective villages where they want to go back and vote when asking them to support the admonitions where they need not like I did the problem to be encouraged in the village today is that wherever people live wherever they pay their taxes wherever they end their living is their home that is here the other image to register and vote when the elections do come here they are registered in occupying of this political office the era of people moving to their villages or to their towns or to their states to either participate in politics or it has to vote or voted for to be a thing of the past look at what is happening in Luro for example a young woman and nearly became the prime minister of Britain and not till long ago was able to defeat the woman for just a slight margin during the the family that was constructed and all that you also have some women Igbo women who are political leaders in America who are political leaders in Spain and different parts of the world and now children they are migrating a map in different parts of the world you find me here in different parts of the world in Turkey in Spain in Saudi Arabia most of these people will not come back to Nigeria when they do come back to Georgia we will just come back for all these things and what happens so if our society is accommodating to people to participate in politics to vote and vote for we should not be encroaching on people to step with here their domita to particularize their politics and not to start going back to their villages and towns we have to vote also to vote the truth of the matter is that the world is on a small number of people from different parts of the world and nobody can stop that nobody can stop that any Nigerian politician any Nigerian about or any Nigerian ally who is sitting in that direction who is manually running or streaming against the calling for what is happening in different parts of the world Nigeria can not be an exception so the mass migration and participation and integration that will continue to see and will continue to see in the different parts of the world alright, so we have to go to Ndekola and I want to thank you so much for your time I think all the papers, all the stories we've looked at so far are related to the 2022 and three general elections there is a lot more to talk about but we don't have all the time so I want to wish you a very peaceful 25th of February 2023 and even 26th and next time we gather here it will be testimony, testimony, testimony that all the prediction of Anaki it didn't come to pass to Ndekola we thank you very much for your time and see you next time thank you thank you thank you sir, have a nice day thank you alright, we'll be back up to the shop break to look at the 2023 general elections and everything about the elections how prepare the Nigerians ahead of the elections calls for suspension call some talk of international government a lot of things flying around the place in these times the greatest test Nigerians face as a nation economically an election is holding at the same time we'll talk about it when we come back please stay with us