 Welcome back. We're now going to what is happening, you know, the newspaper headlines that we call Off the Press. So what are we getting off the press? We're starting with the leadership newspaper. A major headline in the leadership newspaper is Labour Party crisis deepens as a burry a proper renew hostilities. And then when you go down, you will see that this wrangle over alleged plot to derail obese case at tribunal. And there's also the other party refuting it. It's a lie. We didn't file suit to withdraw a petition, and that's what they're saying. We also have this story on Malaria Day, World Malaria Day, Nigerian children to get vaccine in April 20, 24. That's when it will be ready for us. Renowned journalist Pita Inahoro dies at 88. We've talked about that governor's Sultan Klak Adebanjo headline Enugu Unity Summit. Tenth national assembly leadership, APC leaders, lawmakers, strong Shinobu's house. We knew that was going to happen. This is where the major headlines in the leadership newspaper, okay, we have some other ones as well, where Anzaiti Mounts federal government releases emergency lines, that is Sudan, about Sudan. Quarter one cash crunch to weaken Nigeria's growth in 2023, that's according to some experts that they call Fitch. Those were the headlines on the leadership. All right. From the leadership, we'll move to Nature News, which leads with Nigeria gets Malaria vaccine April 2024, that's according to the federal government. And in front of that, you'll see the picture of the Minister of Health, Saigea Henry. On top of that, you have a rider, African governments to explore ecosystem to finance SDGs, and that's from the AFDB. And going down, you see some of the stories that will be found inside the newspaper. World Malaria Day, what Malaria vaccine means for Africa, that's on page six. Three men arrested in South Africa for stealing large crocodile, that's on page 22. And Nature Care, 10 superfoods for your health, your heart health. And that you will find on page 15. And on the side, you have something on the vice president, Yomeo Shibajo. Energy poverty has to be tackled headlong, and that's according to Yomeo Shibajo. And climate activists paralyze Berlin traffic. Now this is a major issue in Berlin, Germany. Activists, they are not joking. When it comes to climate change, they are very, very serious, and the police have had to dismantle so many of the roadblocks that these activists have put on the road, and they are still dealing with that. Okay. We have, from this day newspaper, we have Adamu, APC leaders visit Tinobu, consider South-South for Senate President and not West for Speaker. Other interest also pushing North-Central for Speakership, another opposition party asks court to stop Tinobu swearing in 33 days to inauguration. U.S. grants Nigerians permission to protest against presidential poll. We have the report also that NDDC, U.S. firms seal $15 billion deal for construction of mega-real line connecting Niger-Delta states about time. Oshimole Pertaside, Wabote, others charge commission to entrench sound corporate governance to attract private sector financing. Buhari, Nigeria spent $195 million to fight piracy in Gulf of Guinea in 2021. Interesting. And we also have WHO urges Nigeria to commit 80% health sector budget to Ph.C. That's the primary health care system in the country. So we already know that 2023 World Malaria Day, poor use of local content poses challenge in combating disease lawmakers lament. So we are still celebrating World Malaria Day, those are the headlines from this day. These days we'll move over to the daily trust which is leading with 96% of female candidates crash out and you have riders there. One of them is 1,553 viper position, 72 win, women clinch three senate, 14 reps and 48 state assembly seats, money, culture, religion against us, candidates. And it is a disaster for political inclusion, women they are giving reasons why they are having problems moving strongly into the political foray. And then going down you have 29 abducted as kidnappers invade FCT village. Going down you have also on page 20, May 29, Kano Kaduna FCT others get new CPs. That story you find on page 20 and on page six you have EFCC arrange on those speaker to others over 2.4 million error fraud. When I saw this headline I was expecting to see billion because people don't still have million. So I was shocked to see 2.4 million, I said really because the courage when it's hot in billions. And so you have on top of it you have FG yet to begin evacuation of stranded Nigerians in Sudan and that is alarming isn't it because we had an interview yesterday with Neema who told us that evacuation where to begin yesterday. You have another headline here sub headline Malaria Nigeria faces 2.8 billion dollars economic burden and that's according to the federal government. You find the stories, the details of that on page 27 and another sub headline senate presidency Barau Akbabio others intensify lobby visit to Nubu. That story you'll find on page 11 of the daily trust newspaper. Okay we have an analyst that's joining us today. He's a lawyer here in Lagos state and his name is Tunde Kolaule. Tunde Kolaule will be helping us have insight into some of these headlines. Tunde good morning and welcome to the program. Good morning my brother. Okay. Thanks for having me. Yeah. You're welcome. I love immediately with the headline from this day Adamu APC leaders visit to Nubu consider south south for senate president not west for speaker and then under that we also have other interests also pushing not central for speakership and okay so now everybody is clamoring for speakership every every every how do they call them? Every part of Nigeria so to speak is clamoring for speakership we already know the president elect is from from the south west now they're talking about south south they're talking about not west not east and all that so what do you make of all that? Honestly it just shows you the chaos and lack of planning that will find the most of the political parties and especially the parties that has won the presidency. Honestly speaking immediately they have decided that the president was going to the south west all the other offices to have been kind of they are located for the different intersections of the country in such a balanced manner that you know that when the president comes from here the senate president is going to come from there the speaker will come from the other places and what I know but that's just not to be the case and that's not if you say you are doing what we call a kind of a quota system and then a kind of an aspect of distribution of some of these offices and what are those? This is what we expect of them doing after and the second issue I want to raise is between 1979 and 1983 when we had the second republic it was the political parties that determined who is going to hold what they are. It wasn't the president, the president was for that the party was to please. The president has to take a decision of the party but to pay what we see in all the political parties and especially in the absence of the republic is that the president has to come the other and not make a decision everything has happened whether in government or in the political party and also in the area of the country where that is not supposed to be in the place where it is visible in the country. The chance is not right at all. The state what happened is the government. The state what is the country is turning the party right. We have a way of putting squad pegs in our hands and we also have a way of putting things on their heads instead of allowing them to walk on their legs and for me that is not too good for us as a nation. So if the president is coming from the south way you now have the same president again coming from the south south and northern and then the sticker coming from the south and northern. The partners that we have always talked about within the political zone of the country are looking to achieve that. That could be a recipe for for instability for the incoming president and I'm also like I said I'm not too confident in which is the president that would have to take everything that happened in the economy in politics and what happened. He doesn't want to go away for a nation that desires a lot more. But today today is that is that a party a party thing or is it a tinnable thing? Why I'm asking this is that even when it took more than six months for the Buhari administration the first in his first coming to constitute a the house or you know get ministers get everybody that needs to be there. People didn't seem to go to his house to ask for those kind of favors. I can't also remember people going to Jonathan's house to ask for those kind of favors. These things were decided by the party but it is it is it is said that in Lagos because I've never been in one of those meetings but it said that in Lagos a lot of things are decided in Bordelon. So could this not be a tinnable thing you know or rather than a party thing? Why this is happening? Well it is natural for the president to like only president for that matter it is also natural for the governor elect any governor for that matter to want to dominate the environment to want to be able to have control over what's happened in the national assembly and what's happened in the respective state of assembly but it is for the party to insist on its own supremacy for the stability of not just the political party but for that of the nation. Let me also emphasize that it is natural for some people to be able to love this for whatever position they want within a political party or even within the Nigerian state. You talk to your friends, you talk to your relation, you talk to people who do you think can influence things for me but what is most important is that we must set the parameter to which people can get some of these things if you fit into the parameter that has been set by the political party by the constitution and also maybe the Nigerian society as a whole, whether fitting to that there may be more than one or two persons or even three or four who will fit into the parameter that the party has fixed. Anything fits into that parameter and many of you fit into that parameter and you are coming from the same political group. So if you go to a lobby, the president is next to get the position or one or two positions or a particular position there might be nothing wrong with that but we have a situation in which the party should have determined or should have allocated or should have insisted this is where all these different positions or offices are going to go when we are eventually falling down. But from the way we are seeing, it appears to me they haven't planned for that, it appears to me that the president who doesn't pick me, never he wants to work with and I say that doesn't all go well. Stop the policy. Okay, we'll watch and see how that plays out. They have 33 days to go. All right, what Labour Party, let's go to leadership where the headline there is that Labour Party crisis depends as a borough, a papa renew hostility and you have wrangle over a ledge plot to derail obese case at tribunal. Well, it's a lie, we didn't file suit to withdraw petition. Let's look at this crisis rocking the Labour Party. Tunde, how do you see papa and what is going on there? Him and five others have been suspended from the party and he's kicking. Tell us your thought on what's playing out with that party. Actually, I think very sad that the party like the Labour Party that is enjoying so much good work among the Nigerian youth and the second number of Nigerian adults is going through this kind of crisis. The question they have raised in Nigeria will be asking themselves now and even they have raised Nigerian youth, these people have been put into power and they are already doing things the way the old parties used to do it. They are already at each other's foot. If they come to power, what is likely, what way will they have to get different place from the old political party? And this is like cutting one's nose in order to inspire it. They are in a way undermining the good way that they enjoy among the Nigerian youth and the Nigerian people. Yeah, when you talk like that, Tunde, because it is six people here that have been fingered out and the party has quickly done what they showed and that is to suspend them. There are feelings and thoughts in some quarters that these people may have been sponsored to go cause crisis in that party. Do you share that thought? Where it is not impossible, politicians like I always say are very incorrigible people. They could find a way to throw some spanner into the wills of the labor party so that they will not do crisis and they will not be able to put, I mean to fight the cases that they have been caught and also to be able to pose a kind of active position to the party that has won the president and the others is dominant in government. Nigerian politicians will be too eager to do that kind of thing. But it is not for the labor party to know what it has taken because like I said, part of the challenge that we have in Nigeria up till now is that there has not been very vibrant and strong position party. If you are very strong and viable position party, the party that is in power will be too reluctant to impose on Nigerian people some of the political programs that we begin to see. Look at a place like a British, the prime minister and the president of Etika or whatever they call him there, near and near made a project which didn't work out, which didn't work out for the people. And the prime minister and the president of Etika and all of them, they have to quit just because. Tunde, all right, we do not like it when this happens. I hate it when this happens. I hope we get reconnected with our guests who has just been giving us very strong opinions on issues of the press and very valid points he is making. But you know the crisis is rocking the labor party. It's something I'm not excited about because this is a very critical time for that party. Yeah. And for Nigerians, if I may, because whether we like it or not, if you love democracy, you would love what has happened, what labor party did in the 2023 election. They opened the eyes of the people to the fact that the people still have strength, the people still have the power to change things, to change the narrative. And if there's a third party, political party that will give opposition, it will mean that the party in power cannot be arrogant for life. Exactly. The parties that have come before now have been very, very arrogant. Very arrogant. We're glad to know that we have Tunde Kola Waliback. Hello, Tunde, you were talking about the crisis in the labor party. Let's continue from where you stopped. Where the crisis in the labor party that is going to, this is eventually going to win their case at the election tribunal. They will be able to offer a credible and viable to share parties to the issue when the election is going to come. Furthermore, party politics is not just about the policies. It's not just about holding positions and war action. If we are not cohesive now, if they become fragmented, and they are able to put their house in order, how will they be able to strategize for the next election? Because the parties will always remain there, and it is when you are well organized that they will be able to prepare very strongly for the coming election. So my prayer is that the labor party people will be able to put their house in order, and this is a kind of forcing. But at the end of the crisis that we are seeing, because it is not beyond the Nigerian position, the labor party should report all the kind of things that are going to delay whatever, whatever programs, whatever plan, the main half for the future and for the Nigerian society. But you are a legal practitioner. Perhaps you can tell us what you make of whether or not Abura remains with regards to some of the cuts, injunctions that we have come out, Abuja, Benin City, if it remains the chairman of that party or not at this point? Honestly speaking, this is one of the tragedies that we have found not just in the area of policy, but also within the Nigerian division. I was reading the newspaper from a few days ago and I read the Lannister, Mr. Alitha, saying that he knows the law, he knows the facts, but he knows one that crossed in a grand court. Why is he saying this? It is because of some of these things that we see happening within the labor party, and which for Christians now shop around for favorable orders and injunctions from different courts. The kind of unity, the kind of question, the kind of uniformity that we used to see among, I mean from the different courts and all that are no longer there. Simply because the politicians have given their left-hand into our judicial system and they are corrupt and privatizing the judicial process. The dangers indeed are too many because law tries only when you can predict what the court will say on the basis of precedence, on the basis of the similarity of facts. If a court in one particular place is giving another a court of same jurisdiction, a court that is on the same level, and not supposed to be this is that, if it is only a higher court that can review what a lower court has done. But in Nigeria today, we have a situation in which courts on the same level, courts of the same jurisdiction will be busy completing all that and injunction among the church. This is destroying the judicial process. But thank God, I have found that the federal court in particular now have a process by which when you file a case in the court, they will have to file an application that you have not engaged in multiplicity of a case that you have not filed different cases in different courts in order to show an injunction on what appeal. So if what a court in the country can do that, both the federal court, the court of appeal and what action, it will help us a great deal. The challenge we are also having that area is that we haven't developed a system in which a court in Lagos will know what decisions and what the court in Abuja are doing. A court in Abuja might not know what the court in Potakot, what cases is there, but if we have a network of appeal, a court, I mean a computer networking among the federal court, among the court of appeal, among the court and what action, and the federal court and what action. Some of these challenges that we are facing, with regards to multiplicity of injunctions and other actions, it probably is minimize because the charges and the court will not be giving any other based on information that they don't know, based on a very blind eye and knowledge. But more importantly too, the court ought to begin to reach very big stakes, especially the superior court, with regards to those politicians who go to court to show for different injunctions and what appeal. As it were, my opinion of the lawyer just like he said exactly, the effect of that was given by the court removing the chairman of the Labor Party asking him not to further parading the chairman of the Labor Party to assist every other, given by a court of the same jurisdiction or so to say in the name as long way of the same level, is not avoided as being a show. But if I were the chairman of the Labor Party and we are not status quo, I mean I will abide by the other that was also given by the court, with regards to the chairman of the Labor Party to stop parading himself as the chairman of the party. Oh well, we had so many other things that I would have loved you to talk about, but our time is up unfortunately. I would like to thank you for coming on the show today and giving us your thoughts on some of the headlines. Thank you so much for being a part of the program. Thank you for having me. Thank you. So we were talking with Tunde Kolaule, a legal practitioner here in Degas State and right now we're going to take a short break. When we return, we'll be taking on our first hot topic. Stay with us.