 Protesters set to heap the streets again to demand better governance today will bring you live updates and also dissect the anatomy of protest. Clamor for restructuring continues. What kind of restructuring do the Nigerians want? And what is true for drowsy? We'll talk about all that much later. And also, Miquel Obie meets with the Kogi State Governor, Ya Billu and promises to support whatever future political position he wants to go. Very good morning to you and thank you for joining us here on The Breakfast on Klaus TV Africa. We're hoping that you had a swell weekend. Welcome to the programme. Good morning Aneta. Good morning Esarrage. Good morning. It's the 14th of June 2021. Funny enough, I was even going to say May. I was like, no. We just crossed that ridge. And it's a public holiday also. So there's going to be a lot of people sitting at home this morning. We hope that you can make the best of it. I saw a little accident, actually two accidents around phase one yesterday. One of them on Freedom Way, another one just on the way to the tour gate. I'm not sure why people were out late last night, maybe intoxicated or driving that rough. But we hope that you get better soon. Whoever the victims are. Good morning once again. There's so much that we will be talking about today. Yes, we know that over the weekend there was the whole protest because of the junta of democracy today. So we're talking about that in detail later on on the show. Talks of federalism as well. But really for our top trending, we're still talking about politics but how politicians are joining influencers across multi-sectors to just plead their cause for their political ambition. We know how politicians use the influence of musicians who pull massive crowds by the million to say vote for me or vote right. We know that Too Faced has been one of the prominent voices campaigning for, you know, free election, fair elections as well. And footballers are not exempted from this. Over the weekend, Miquela B visited Governor Yahya Belo of Kogi State at the Government House and he's made promises to support Yahya Belo in whatever future ambition or whatever future political position he wants to go into. Now, nobody's talking about money. If he received any money for that, we can see pictures of Miquela B there shaking hands with Yahya Belo. But we do know that, or be saying, he would like to be there to support Yahya Belo, be by his side through this journey and help him achieve whatever he wants, which is for the betterment of Nigeria. And we know that there are talks about Yahya Belo contesting in the 2023 presidential elections. There are lots of groups who have come together. According to, you like to say, two, three, seven people come together to say we stand for Yahya Belo. But we know how it works in Nigeria. So there's been clamors allegedly, supposedly, for Yahya Belo to run for president in 2023. So the questions that have been raised is, is this another case of footballers just blindly supporting politicians? Is this for money? Is this just to use your influence to say, let Nigerians vote right this time? So there's just lots of questions for this. Is this about whoever pays the highest endorsement fee or just love for the motherland? Oh, well, I think even on a public holiday, on a Monday, halfway through the year, should never forget what is most important. And that is the fact that Nigeria needs something different. Nigeria needs to change. Nigeria needs fresher minds. Nigeria needs totally breath of fresh air with regards to whoever runs for the presidency. And of course, even in the state level and on the local government level. So that's very, very important. There is never going to be a lack of people trooping into one government house or the other to pledge support. And I personally don't think that these things should be allowed to be distractions about what exactly the goal is. We as Nigerians, and I believe that the whole of the electorate already know who might be a good candidate for that position. Some people would support based on financial gains. Some people would support based on tribes and people would still support based on religion and some of all of that. But in the deepest part of you, you would still know whether you're supporting the right candidates that will make your country better or not. I tweeted something yesterday or I posted something on, I think it was on my Instagram story that whatever it is that you collect from a candidate for whatever level of support that you can give would only last a week or two weeks, no matter how much it is. Maybe two weeks, maybe a month, maybe five months. But the disaster that that candidate can cause to the lives of millions of Nigerians would last for four years and maybe also eight years. And so when we're doing the things that we're doing today when whoever it is decides to go to any government house to go to any politician to claim support, the person should be reminded that whatever it is that you do to allow the wrong candidate to get into that position would cost and of course would affect the lives of millions of people for four or eight years. There is never going to be a lack of groups going to pledge support to a candidate that they know has no chance or they know would never be a good candidate. There would always be that, even on the state level. Michel Obie, of course, is within his rights to go to whichever government house or not and of course rumors would have it. Be a part of discussions would always say that once you enter a government house, you're not coming out empty handed. There's always going to be one thing or the other. We would expect that Michel Obie is rich enough to not be doing stuff like that so maybe it's not about money. Maybe he truly sees the Hayabellu as someone who should go for presidency or who should run for a higher position than governor. It's within his rights to do that but I feel some of all these things should just be ignored. No matter how many people go there and come out, no matter how many people troop in there to claim support, I think we as Nigerians and the electorate already should have a very, very faint idea of the people who should get to that position and who shouldn't. I personally don't think that people should let themselves get robbed in the mud politically because of that little financial gain that they could get. I'm not saying that that's what Michel has done but of course you just mentioned Too Faced and what he's been saying but in the past there's been other artists who have been called out because they supported one government or the other and this is a disaster that government brought in. So how much did they pay you to write this campaign song? How much did they pay you to be a part of this youth campaign when you knew that this thing was not going to be good so you collected so-and-so amount of money or whatever it is. And this is where we are today. So it's going to be bad if eventually in the future Yahya Bello gets there and doesn't do well. Michel will always have his name in the mud as being one of those people who went in there. Another question really is how much weight can Michel pull? None, to be honest. And that's why I said some of all the things it's fine that we ignore some of all these things. Michel can't convince five people in his local government to vote for anybody. He doesn't have that level of political relevance. Not even in the football world. You cannot transform the presence that you had as a Chelsea player, as a Nigerian soccer player to convince anyone to vote for anybody in the Nigeria to wear today to vote for anybody that Nigerians do not see as a good candidate. The only way is if there is some financial gain, which is sickening, but it's stuff that we should ignore. So these politicians need to actually show their work if they want the votes of the people. Absolutely. Not give money to influencers or invite them to the State House for presidential handshakes. He may not have invited them. He may have just visited him as a friend. Possibly. As someone who was in Kogi State that weekend and thought, let me stop by and see the governor. It could be anything. What's his name again? Kamaru Usman, Ultimate Fighting Champion, Waterweight Champion. Ultimate Fighting Championship Waterweight Champion. Also visited when he came to Nigeria. This was about three days, three days. He's been around. I think he's having a little tour. They have an event. I saw Charles O'Pallike put something like that. They have an event in Nigeria. So he's been in Nigeria. He also visited the League of State Governor and took pictures with him. But I don't think that has a lot to do with politics. I've just been in the country. But Michael O'Bee's statements clearly made it obvious that he was going to support Yahya Bello in whatever politics. This is quoting him now. That he's going to support Yahya Bello in whatever political position he's running for. It's all just mouth. I've said it before that. Any five, six people can form any group and call it... Coalition of Subwaters. Coalition. And go to a government house and form support and get something that... I've seen these things happen. And it's very, very true. Eight out of ten times that any group or a person of some tiny relevance walks into a government house to pay a visit or to go say hi and say, oh, I support you. You're such a great governor. Even if you know that the governor is trash, you would always come up with something. Still talking about politics and support, so to speak. Did you see the video over the weekend during the June 12 protest and those counter-protests, the Ice Standard Buhari group, and then the video that went viral with the lady saying they just give them shirts and ask them to come stand here and we're going to give them 1,000 Naira. Did you see that video? Absolutely, I saw that. 1,000 Naira. And most of the comments there have been to point out how you weaponize poverty, how you can convince 100 people, you can convince 1,000 people with 1 million Naira, share 1,000 Naira. There's poverty in Nigeria. And that level of poverty stops people from thinking they want to eat today. They don't care about what the next four years will bring. They don't care about what the next three months will bring. Today, they need to eat. And even if it's just one pack of noodles, they will take it and stand in line with you. They don't care what your views are, what your political stance is. They don't even care where you're coming from. The devil can bribe anybody that is poor enough with 1,000 Naira to support him. Hitler would have gotten followers, would have gotten a huge fan base. If you had 1,000 Naira to share to people who are really, really poor and need that money. Those people who are in those crowds... His propaganda was enough. Yeah. Those people who are in those crowds absolutely aren't there because they know what your message is. If you notice some of all those pictures sometimes, the whole placards are upside down. They don't know why they're there. They're there for money. Yeah. Give them 1,000 Naira or 500 Naira. You would gather as many people as possible. There was a 10 million man march for Abacha in this same Nigeria. So nothing would shock me. Okay, so next up trending. This just goes to show the power of publicity no matter how negative or positive it is. Yeah. And it's because of a popular Yoruba. Well, not necessarily popular. She's getting or getting into the limelight now but her name is Adeyinka Alashiori. Apologies if I butcher that. But she just released a song called Onidurumi. And she released a song. It's a gospel song. Listen to it. And in the song she's basically eulogizing God and calling him names and saying, this is what you are to me. You're my guarantor. If a man would stand as a guarantor for me, he can always bail out. He can always support me. But you stand by me through thick and thin. Just praising God in the song. And popular Yoruba Nigerian singer, Tope Alabi, shaded Adeyinka over the song saying she tried to sing the song many times but the Holy Spirit cautioned her against singing the song saying that God is more than a guarantor to her. Now, when she put this video out, you know the way she has so much influence Tope Alabi, she has a massive following, massive audience. So she put that video on her own social and people began to show support for Alashiori and criticize Alabi for her song because obviously you had to go listen to this song that Tope Alabi was criticizing. So they say, wow, the song is actually great. And they even started to do an Uniduro challenge. And they won't play other songs from this Yoruba gospel singer, Adeyinka. So she wasn't much known before Alabi's shade but now she's been thrust into the limelight and people have been commenting, just criticizing Tope Alabi for her words saying even in the Bible they say come let's reason together. You could have done this privately. You could have called Adeyinka. If you felt you had things to say to her you didn't have to do that in public. Embarrassing her but now it's been turned around for her good. You know, people are quoting the Bible talking about how people thought this was going to ridical people or something that was planned for you God is not turning it around for your good. So it's now giving Tope Alabi a bad rep and positive publicity. Lots of positive publicity for Adeyinka because personally I never knew of this artist but I've streamed her song even this morning. So that's basically where it stands right now Uniduro challenge until she made it and lots of backlash for Tope Alabi. Well, I've known her for a bit. I have actually listened to the song a million times. It's not so new except for two different songs but there's a song that she has about nine or 12 minutes long it's probably the same song that I have well done my morning devotion with many many many many times. Yeah, it's about 14 minutes. I'm trying to find it. Yeah, that's the song. So it's not a new song. It's called... Arrogingly? Yes. It's called Arrogingly. It's on Apple Music. So it's a song that I've had from close to a year or even more and when I don't understand Yoruba I can still feel what the song is saying. So I'm not sure where Tope Alabi is coming from and I try to follow the story but because I don't understand Yoruba well enough I wasn't sure what her challenge was with it but like you said from criticism you might eventually become more popular than you were initially. I've also seen conversations concerning how Christians should behave. I've seen people post videos of Tope Alabi when she of course was dancing to secular music and some of all of that and stuff. So she was wrong obviously. Like you said she could have called her personally and had this discussion but I still don't even feel it's any of her business because nobody's criticizing Tope Alabi for the kind of songs or the lyrics they're saying. It's none of your business. Put out your own music. You've been popular because of your music for many many years. You've been a mega super Christian gospel artist for many many years and nobody has called you out to say we don't understand this particular lyrics or your lyrics don't really sound really really good. So do your thing and leave Adeinka to do her thing. Let her worship God and it's one of the things that I've always found difficult with Nigerians trying to teach you how to worship. Worship is personal. She was praising her God. So I don't know why even if the Holy Spirit criticized you for doing that that's your own personal criticism maybe you have erred in a certain space and God is telling you maybe based on whatever it is I don't know just conjecture right? So why do you have to come out and put that out there? I don't know. The great thing is it's not returned into Adeinka's favor and if you say the song has been out for over a year maybe God said this song isn't getting as much traction as it should. Who which person has enough rep on social that can drive all the engagement that I need. There's been out for a bit. I can't remember who it was or which platform that I heard it on. It sounded really good and so I had to go search for the lyrics. That thing you type the lyrics on Google and then it refers you to the song and I got it on... And if you listen to the song you can feel how genuine it is because it's not spurring you to dance it's just worship. So anyway. But Nigerians will always like to teach you how to worship in your own way and always be judgmental in their own way on how to praise God the God that everyone should have a personal relationship with. God means different things to different people. Are you jumping on the challenge by the way? No I'm not. I sing the song myself. I don't understand you but it's a song like I said I've played it so many many many many times. It's a long song and so there's a time I used to do like a one hour worship in the mornings or at night. Before of course we got really really busy with work and so once some days they help me pull through that one hour because they tell me I must do one hour. So when I play that song I know I've done 14 minutes let's go again. You're trying to scam God. Before you know if I play two times I know I'm doing good 30 minutes 30 minutes. Let's go. Before you know one hour is done I'm like yeah Praise Jesus. Alright praise God this morning. We'll take a break here and return with more worship or We're getting into off the press you know what major stories I'm making headlines this morning we'll share with you stay with us.