 As of the breakfast in Plastivia Africa, like we mentioned, we'll be back with the papers. At this point we go through the pages of the National Dailies and bring you great insight, courtesy of our analysts or guest analysts. We'll have Tunde Kualawali who joins the conversation. But also, I have Kofi Battels who joins also the show this morning as we proceed. Kofi, it's good to have you join me. Fantastic. Also to have Tunde Kualawali on the line with us and as we go through the pages of the National Dailies. Mercy, it's quite interesting what's been happening. You've been away for some time. But the national discourse has been of an interesting note, on an interesting note. We'll look at some of the papers. Let's start off with a story coming from the leadership newspaper. The story is coming on the front page of the leadership newspaper this morning. And there, with a kicker, Fiori of our APC running mate, Muslim-Muslim ticket recipe for more crisis, Northern Christians won. I mean, the Northern Christians, especially those in the APC, 19 states, government APC have said that they will not campaign for the presidential candidate of the party. They're not happy. And a kicker to that headline, demand immediate replacement of Shatima, vow not to sell, same-faith ticket to constituents, let's shun religious ethnic politics. Till we campaign group replies and more APC members resign in protest. It's quite interesting. In River State, one of them resigned. Tonya Princewell, he's a former government candidate of the Labour Party, switched to the APC and became a lawyer. He said because of this whole thing of Muslim-Muslim ticket, he's leaving the party, interesting times for the APC. More headlines from the leadership. FG orders contractor to complete 194 km Yula Mubi Road project. So now they've told him, I'm sure he will complete it. Voluntary asset declaration, FG goes after tax defaulters. Low remittances, Mar-State's enactment of pension scheme. Oshun Poe, INEC issues 1.5 million PVCs as IGP, deploys 21,000 officers. Northern Youth opposed sale of five power plants. The terrorists we pamper today will kill us tomorrow. Remember Dumebe Kachikou, the presidential candidate of ADC, I hope we've not forgotten him. He's also still in the race. 61,000 Boko Haram Suspects. Suspects rather detained in North-East, Aregbe Shola. 61,000 Boko Haram Suspects detained in North-East. He is in charge of the Ministry of Interior. Prison Service is one of the parodies of state under him. It's in response to the Kuji incident. Photo story of Governor Ozo Dima's designer watch. It's an interesting one. I'm sure people would like to really can find details in the leadership. Alright, let's move away from the leadership. Quickly, turn our attention to the punch newspaper this morning. On the punch, Ogun governorship elections, please declare war on vote buyers and deploy dictators. Sometimes you begin to wonder what is going on with the country in Nigeria. I mean, is that the approach? If you understand the reason why a lot of people engage in vote buying, then should that be really, really the approach in tackling the situation? As much as we say, hey, those who are involved in buying vote and selling vote should be apprehended, but don't we think that we need to move beyond the level of arrest and threat to making the people understand the essence and the need for, you know, not selling their votes? We have mobilized FIB operatives against vote buyers. FOSSPRO is quoted. Over 23,100 security officials are deployed as Oshun prepares for governorship polls. And some people ask where, I mean, this personnel, I mean, where you're talking about 23,100 security officials when the Kuji Correctional Centre was attacked. Vice President Yemo Shibajo, Arabashola absent. Tunubu APC governor's governorship rally support for Uyitola. You have this person's not present there. Away from that Muslim-Muslim ticket, disastrous error. XSGF Lawal is quoted. Oil falls below $100. Nigeria's production heat 1.158 million hours per day. New Peng threatened Solidarity Strike with ASU just as you, you know, some days back, you also have the health walker saying that we'll embark on Solidarity Strike if the government fails to get into that implementation of the agreement with ASU. Blames or blame Nigerians for voting bad leaders. Goats don't vote. Senator, that's good to say. Find out which of the senators is speaking here. And just before we move away from the punch newspaper this morning, you find Stop Lobbying for Posting, National Assembly One's workers. 18 Catholic priests kidnapped three killed in 2022. 18 Catholic priests kidnapped and three killed. Really saddening. Nigeria records 27 cases of vaccine-deprived polio. And you find Christian-Christian tickets would have set the Nigerian fire. I take that again. Christian ticket would set Nigerian fire. That's what you find on the punch newspaper this morning. And federal government plans 3,863 megawatt boost for power greed. So we're going to add 3,000 plus. How many are we generating? Mercy, mercy, mercy. I want to ask you, have you been having consul electricity in the past few days? I have been having electricity supply but not constant. But more than usual, right? No, I think it's reduced. Usually because for where I live, the access that I live. It's okay, it's okay. I don't want to say anything. Before they realize, let's just keep it under wraps. But I think in some parts of the country it's been improved, especially where I live. I hope you're not watching. I don't know which one. I hope you're not watching. But where I live, it's been almost constant. Especially with these rains. Let me keep quiet before so much changes in my mind. We need to move away now because we have Tunde Kola with me on standby. Tunde Kola, good morning to you. Thank you for your time. Good morning. Hope you had a lovely night. Fantastic. We tried our best. Thank you. Let's start with... Very well, thank you for asking. Let's start with the stories coming from the leadership. It's been in the papers. A lot of papers carry this story. Throughout the day, the latter parts of yesterday online and now in print this morning. Some group in the APC saying, the Christians in the All Progressives Congress are withdrawing their support for the party's presidential candidate on account of the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party. Apart from that, of course, the Tinnable Campaign Group is saying that they should show religious and ethnic politics. What are your thoughts on this? Well, honestly speaking, if a political party had decided to choose the Babalawu and the Marabouds to fly tickets and those people are able to deliver to our people the difference, the dividends of democracy that throughout our body has been at all. Well, the truth of the matter is, in the last seven years, since the advent of... especially since the advent of the Mohammed of Gwali, the Nigerian society, the Nigeria of the country has become my percentage to religious issues. So, any political party that want to ensure inclusiveness must be sensitive to this high sensitivity to the religions that we claim in the society today. You must also remember that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria emphasizes the federal character principle. It also says that the resources of the nation, whether woman or material, is going to be equally and equitably distributed among all the considered parts of the country. But because of this, I would have thought that the ATC, why not that political party for that matter, will not have gone to a mostly Muslim ticket because it is a recipe for disaster. Not just that it is making it difficult for the party to win the next election, but also that when they win the elections, it may be a recipe for political instability in Nigeria because whatever actions that the government might take, whether the action is positive or negative, whether it is meant to benefit people or not, people will always with meaning into it that they are taking such position for the impact on such actions simply because it is the Muslims that are in charge of the running of the country. Furthermore, and this could be very important, is that you will remember that there was a time that a Bukwaram commander was arrested in the permission of the governor's laws in Nigeria. And after he was arrested, he was handed over to a deputy commissioner of police who went there to release him. Who was governor? At that period in time when this Bukwaram man finally says in the governor's laws in Abuja, how did they have access to that governor's laws? If we are able to unravel this, it might be a pointer. Now, some of these people that we think are not having anything to do with this Bukwaram people might actually in fact be the ones that are given audited support, financing, supporting and shielding these Bukwaram people from persecution or from punishment that the laws have prescribed for the activities. So, and also important too, the decision to choose a Muslim-Muslim ticket in my own blue opinion is contemptuous for the Christian community in Nigeria. Before the choice, all the Christian associations that are not have insisted that there must be a balance for them to have peace of mind, for them to be able to get the assurance that Christians in the country will not be victimized from 2023 elections. So, when the political party basically decides to discourage them the sentiment for the millions of Christians that will have all over Nigeria, for me, I think that is not too good enough. It's contemptuous, it's impunity, it's a recipe for disaster in the near future. More than more. Let's just move away from that and pay attention to the Oshoon governorship elections. Now, the police is declaring war on vote buyers and has deployed dictators. We understand how this has crippled the electoral process and our democratic setting as a country, vote buying. This does not happen with the other party. Those who are inducing voters to actually buy votes. But do you think that this is going to put an end to vote buying as we especially with your Oshoon state elections? Look at the matter of security forces that were deployed during the recent confining the way around the voters and purchasing their votes. The answer is no. The truth of the matter is when politicians want to compromise the integrity of the election, they will first buy the security forces and then they will also unleash their military group on the voters before they think about buying the voter. If the voters refuse to be portrayed then their military group will be unleashed on the people either to start planting the ballot boxes or either to start distorting the processes of election where they think their political opponents have massive support or they make the whole process very ungovernable as we have seen in some parts of the country and the past. More importantly I am of the opinion that even the vision of the APC so choose a movement in a syndicate is because they don't know that the voters don't matter when it comes to electioneering in a voting winning election in Nigeria. If you see that the elections are portrayed in the batter or military group are compelled to vote for a particular political party or a political party or the security people will turn their blind eye when representatives of this political party will write back all the ballot boxes and sit in the corner where the voters will be taking place and turn print all the ballot papers and throw into the ballot boxes and then also compile in a official to count those ballot boxes and request it as victory for whatever political party has the most dominant enforcers and military group around that voting environment. So I don't whatever I next plan might be as soon as they take one step forward those who don't want a free and clear election because they know any day we begin to have a clear election in Nigeria they will be out of business they will have taken 5 steps a step of my next to make sure that the voters don't count that the voters are not left behind that you can decide the direction with the pendulum of victory will shrink no matter what the voters might be thinking no matter whom the person they might want to vote for so I don't think I don't see how true will be different from the Kiki stage so that will be money that's interesting analysis from you back to the leadership newspaper the Minnesota Interior Raul Fahrabeshola has been speaking and I'm sure it's not unconnected to what recently happened under his watch in Kuji prison the leadership newspaper front page at the bottom right corner it says 61,000 Boko Haram suspects detained in northeast Raul Fahrabeshola a few lines from that Minnesota Interior Raul Fahrabeshola has said Nigeria is on the path to totally defeating Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals in the country he said many of the terrorists have been arrested especially in the northeast zone the minister made the claim yesterday when he visited Kirikiri maximum and medium security custodial centers in Appapa Lagos state he said quote today a call of the criminal elements in the surgeons across the country are on the path to defeat and they have been heavily degraded over 61,000 of them are in our custody in the northeast he said you think he's feeling the heat from what happened in Kuji that's why he has to say this and honestly speaking I will take with a pinch of salt whatever the minister of the Interior Mr. Raul Fahrabeshola says I take him with a pinch of salt for so many reasons if you look at him without being told he is one man who is also or who can be described as a criminal who is a criminal or who can be described as a religious fundamentalist instead I think he belongs to the tablique group those who saw us had nearly reached their anchor and also remember when he was in our custody it was all his governorship that the issue of the job became a fundamental issue and the beef that was necessary for good education and good governance became to a legal stage when such a man talks about the Boko Haram and then they need for peace and whatever they are making to reign in the Boko Haram I don't believe him I never believe him for the more not too long ago when we had this past which is now which is leader remember what we said in some of the papers that when the leader began to massage him or something we spoke with Allah and Allah began to disgrace or embarrass the man with some of the health challenges that he had so for me he hasn't shown any inspiring leadership look at ordinary passport that is I mean that the immigration is the custom issues to people not too long ago some Nigerian protesters have brought that since he became minister he has not been having access to passport here in Nigeria too I have tried several ways passport in the last one year they are about it's not been easy the cloud is something else when you go to each of the passport office and I don't see myself subjecting myself to the kind of immigration that you go through when you go to get the passport or you go to the needed passport for me now the question is not neutral when it comes to the visuals of how this Islamic issues whatever it says with regard to Pukwara I take it with a pinch of salt and if I shock it to me then Mr. President would appoint such a policy as minister of imperial let's move away to the past sector where there has been a lot of talks as regards generation and distribution and who should be blamed and who should be in control but also see that the federal government is saying on the punch that it's making plans of 3863 megawatts to boost power greed this is according to the report and that's going to be the next 24 months if we look at the capacity currently producing now what we produce is about 4000 megawatts 4000 plus megawatts that's what we're talking about and what we have as a capacity to produce more than 8000 megawatts and the government is saying in the next 24 months we're going to ensure that there's capacity additional 3800 but do you think that this really stops the situation Kofi actually asked me a question of whether I've had constant power supply do you think that this would address the issue of epileptic power supply across the entire country ladies and gentlemen I have you and my brother there exchanging banter with regards to the improvement in power supply in your respective areas and I just laughed why did I laugh it is a Greek gift they wanted to use it to surprise people so either keep you silent with regards to the Muslim Muslim tickets or support coming elections in a huge case so that people will not go to the polls and vote against them and then for the month you will recollect that a few weeks ago the National Electricity Authority has revoked the license of the total power generator and the distribution company I think they have also taken over for modern companies in other parts of the country it is not impossible that that will be a very big fix may have sent details than the spine of some of these other distribution companies that they have now decided to be a little bit more effective in the distribution of power in the last few days furthermore they have been talking about this megawatt 11 megawatt isn't that what they have been talking about in the last 7 years for God's sake isn't that what they have been talking about and what is it 1000 megawatt or 11,000 megawatt in the country that is about 200 million people what is it on there 11,000 megawatt I was watching television because the german people thought they are thinking that Russia may cut off their gas supplies which is going to affect electricity supply they are going to revise all their coal-fired electricity generation plan they have resuscitated them but you know what happened in Nigeria when we built the kanji power dam and shiroro power dam some of these other dams are not that our air life went and cut our coal-generated electricity plan and shiroro there and then what, they want other ones or other parts of the country a nation that has supplies will never do that and it needs a gas supply in the country needs a dam in the country has not been able to guarantee state-of-the-art electricity supply is this 22 years of democracy in Nigeria not enough to resuscitate the coal plants to supply energy to do some of these other alternative energy sources like solar and water I was reading some papers the other day that within three months you can get solar energy to supply you megatons of power you can also use the wind and so many other alternative sources of energy why are we not looking at that direction we are not looking at that direction simply because those who import generators in this country will not want us to have state-of-the-art electricity supply we are not looking in the direction of state-of-the-art electricity in the country simply because when we stop it the consumption of petroleum products will drop and this people will not be able to import petroleum products which they used to do money on the Tokali money approach to pay their clearance fees and buying houses in Monaco in Miami as some of these I have brought to buy countries of the world the Nigeria and the like the political parties whether the PVP or the APC are not interested in resolving the electricity crisis that we have in our house the electricity crisis is not rocketing it's something that can be resolved within one year or two if it's not rocketing you can get energy supply from so many sources coal wind gas hydro and water so don't fall for the great gift this is an improvement in power supply in the last few days it is a great gift either to compare to both of them in Osu state or to overlook their Muslim-Muslim tickets are simply to also divert attention from the onga you're certainly not buying it you're certainly not buying it but maybe this may be an indication your words or comments that maybe the power supply has improved in your part of the country I don't know if you see that it's usually like that also don't forget that during rainy season most of the dam there is improvement in water connection in there and when there is improvement in water connection it's usually translated into improvements in power supply that may be what we are saying all in has been falling for some few weeks now which would have improved the power supply in the water connection in all the dams that we have in the country and which would enable these dams to generate more electricity which could be distributed to different parts of the country okay, okay let's go back to the punch we still with the economy of business stories now this one is talking about the oil price look at the top of that front page this headline oil falls below 100 dollars Nigeria's production hits 1.158 million barrels per day the paper says a Brent which is the international benchmark for crude fell below 100 dollars per barrel on Tuesday as the latest figures released by OPEC shows an increased in Nigeria's oil production from 1.024 million barrels per day to 1.158 million barrels per day of course to remember that this administration from time to time would always to tell you that oil was 100 dollars per barrel in the time of Jonathan even with this also talking he has been saying when the promise to also was made for that 1.3 trillion era oil was 100 dollars per barrel sometimes we forget that it had gone back to 100 dollars per barrel what are your thoughts on this falling below 100 dollars per barrel up in its production to 1.158 million barrels per day I think the world between Russia and Ukraine is in rather some impact on the supply and demand for oil all over the world that may have had some significant implications for the rise in the prices of petroleum products or crude oil around the world but you and I would know that that is a temporary thing it is not something that will last forever a nation which allies are diligent a nation which allies are pudding a nation which allies ambition would when they have this kind of 1.4 or improvement in in the prices of crude oil around the world they will save whatever effect that they are having they will cost their goods accosting to the size of their clothes but that has never been our attitude as the people when we had the 1.4 era monies were simply made available to the state government to the local government and what did they do with the money rather than invest it the state government bought cars for wives of local government to a man for their supporters and also the bulk of the money for 5 funds are brought to invest in the money in infrastructure in industry in solving the electricity that we have in the country in improving the educational sector the health sector which have become comatose in the recent over a long time now so I am also shocked that in Nigeria continue to talk about petroleum, petroleum, petroleum when the rest of the world is no longer looking in the direction of petroleum most of them are talking about the energy now very soon and you may want to take this down petroleum project will be like a quo most of the advanced countries of the world today what they have been is driving electric cars which doesn't use the petroleum product even if you don't know as non manufactured hydrocar a car that uses very water to power it there are solar cars around the world now and not too long ago I was also living some research being done in South Africa in which the ocean waves are used to power vehicles just like we now use cars to power some of these vehicles and household items but our allies they are indolent they don't have vision they are greed are kind of blinded to the reality so stop thinking about petroleum and look at alternative sources of energy to meet the challenges that we have not just in electricity supply but also in developing our infrastructure I continue to say education is a major cause of development if we want to develop we must invest massively in the educational sector especially the tertiary education because it is from those places the solutions is a fund for the challenges that society is facing whether it be in the health sector whether it be in the electricity supply or whether it be in the area of the infrastructure say for example this is a knocking stone that people now use in their houses it's not this on people in the civil engineering sector that came up with the idea that look if it is difficult it will not last in turning roads or in paving in the access to healthcare and all that why don't we use it a knocking stone and that may have come from many of the investors many of the polytechnic that is what those institutions are established so do provide solutions anytime it's right it's facing challenges the educational sector will rise to those challenges and provide solutions to it but here for us education could as well go to rough it doesn't matter so long as our allies are able to get to their own children that are brought to go and school and then they take photographs of those children when they graduate and start it in our family and ask us to go to health you can do what I advise just before we move away from the paper looking at the big stories this morning just a quick thought on this one on the leadership terrorists we pamper today will kill us tomorrow kachukku is quoted on that if it's like the egyptians you see today you'll see them no more somewhere from the scriptural but does this really mean that anyway indicts the government does he tell that as the government and the people were pampering and harboring this terrorist well it is obvious it's very very obvious I give an example when we began this program that at the time a bookworm commander was arrested in the polluted governor's lodge in abutia after he was apprehended he was handed over to deputy commissioner of police who also released him it was when there was so much pressure on that commissioner of police that this bookworm commander was recalled back and brought him to custody I am sure I think his name was Kabilis Okoto Ozealabao I am sure he would have also escaped running this Kujajel break look at what a batch of a former military officer said one time that anywhere in the world that in security passes for so long for more than one week you could be less assured that some powerful people are aging and have less energy I mean each time this people are arrested rather than bring them to justice in accordance with the law we say we are re-educating them we say we are re-educating them a paper done in this Kujajel break also reported that one bookworm man got recruited into the Nigerian prison service and that bookworm come passing may have facilitated or provided a logistics that made it possible for this Kujajel break or attack to have taken place I have not seen any decisive action in taking against the bookworm or the part of the government there isn't any serial political will with these insurgencies that we have all over the place furthermore when people behave they were allied behave in which they form private armies in which they have military groups with which they compromise the integrity of elections how can they have the security most of the people you find in bookworm especially the ones who left Kujajel who broke out of Kujajel prison and were literally arrested about two of them who have been arrested they were all found with drugs either in climes tramadol or some of these other narcotics if they were religious people if they were just files would they be engaged or indulging themselves with drugs you see they are not simply because they were used as tools in the hands of the politicians we have to bring it to an end now thank you Tunde Kola Walee great insight you have brought this morning as we look through the pages of a national dailies to be precise the front pages we appreciate your time Tunde Kola Walee thanks for having me alright Tunde Kola Walee is a legal practitioner and has been guest this morning and off the press we take a break when we return it will be time for us to head straight to our first conversation but just before then let's tell you what happened today in history