 Welcome back to the breakfast in plus TV Africa time for what the press is always we take you through the pages of a national dailies We have to make color willy who's at standby. It's good to have you join us this morning to do Thanks for having me. Good morning to all of you. All right Let's quickly look at the leadership newspapers always attention would be on the top stories on the paper this morning the banner caption says Senate ignores caught ruling and Begins at amendment of new electoral act The server ride is undenated. Let's see if we can go through them says judiciary must respect principle of suppression of powers direct INEC to register Inmates to vote in 2023 Constitute committee on sexual harassment bill and reps pass 56 constitution amendment bill Reconcedor rejected gender bill Bills, that's what you find underneath the caption APC crisis drama as Akpan Udor Dagesh Tom's out of the committee meeting. I have some quotas saying his tendered his resignation caught Vedic PDP names replacement for my and his deputy Burnu stick to didn't whose throat was slit undergoes 2.5 million surgery and Ukraine war Nigerian student gets Romanian study offers That's very interesting business groans as diesel price heat 615 hour at depot and terrorist kills cause of vigilantes in Kaby state PMB uploads contribution of women to national development just as Yesterday was international women say and that's it on the leadership Let's set attention now to the headlines at the front page of the nation newspaper The leading one there APC's a soft landing for bunny as sunny bellow Consolidates APC's soft landing for bunny as sunny bellow Consolidates with the riders you be governor Akpan Udor Dagesh eased out and Senate caucus decries uncertainty More from the front page of the nation international women's day Protests over rejected gender bills Governor's wives rejoin push for action house to reconsider no votes A dedicated by Miami clay motion PDP governorship ticket details on page 27 Electroact amendment Court can't stop us says Senate Electroact amendment court can't stop us says Senate and NISRO or NISRO a boosts aggregate value chain with 146 billion now. That's the Nigerian Investment-based risk assessment system for a cultural lending let's look at other ones Judgment sucking my he throws a boy into confusion Judge asks CJ to swear in PDP men. I'm still in charge will appeal Purchased verdict says act governor. I almost call him ex-governor I'm still in charge will appeal purchased verdict says governor. Of course. We'll look at that more in-depth On the first segment of our discussions this morning. Be our team murder Family challenges, please claim on body and finally Catholic priest Abducted these are the headlines on the front page of the nation newspaper this morning All right, let's take a look at the punch newspaper and find out what the punch got to say today and the banning caption says man once of hyperinflation We're talking about manufacturers association of Nigeria once of the hyperinflation subsidy heats 400 narrowed as diesel 625 and Nair these the banning caption underneath aviation fuel hits 518 air per liter air travelers stranded to pay more we rely on diesel The rise in price means higher cost of production that is worth the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria is quoted to say Away from that CBN increases the currency in circulation by 418 billionaire over cash transactions And some people are saying that this is not a way to make money in circulation I mean fact that you bring more money would cost inflation uh apc to release zoning formulas to spend zonal congress and meet confusion PDP submits umai's replacement to inek and sacked governor sits tight Of course, uh, you also find court sacks 15 lawmakers says umai legislatures cannot transfer PDP votes airmen governor and uh It goes judgment meant to embarrass apc This is what the umai federal government. I mean umai and fed the federal government is quoted to say And just before we move away from the punch this morning Some will use slams critics brt suspends operations family demands justice Oh shoo PDP. You have uh governor primaries produce a delicate. Of course, that's a dancing senator Yes, indeed. Yes indeed. Can't wait to see him dance again Anyway, um, let's uh birth for the final paper this morning the daily trust They say they're the newspaper we can trust the lead story of the front page How bandits ambushed killed 63 vigilante in kevy Really unfortunate how bandits ambushed killed 63 vigilante in kevy Informants leaked plan to repel bandits attack and buhari urges proactive action court sack A boy governor kicks as PDP nominates replacements court sack a boy governor kicks as PDP nominates replacements Airlines grown as aviation fuel exceeds 600 naira per litter Airlines grown as aviation fuel exceeds 600 naira per litter hope would all be hearing of a a vision for your scarcity That's something we would like to hear Governor's wife storm national assembly protests rejection of pro women bills and many injured Shops burnt as yoruba houses clash in ogum many injured Shops burnt as yoruba and houses clash in ogum Or should governship a delicate picks PDP ticket. Bye. Bye me mergers parlor candidate And reverence sun drills boho at kaduna musk. This is something so like to hear in this country We'd like to at this point welcome our guest unless this morning on of the press Toon the color. Wally is a legal practitioner Um, mr. Color. Wally. Thank you very much for your time Good morning once again. Thanks for having me Okay, quickly your thoughts let's start with the daily trust and The president is urgent proactive action with the news that Bandits ambushed and killed 63 vigilante group members in In kb state There's also a ride out to that headline indicating that there was a leaked plan Someone was an informant and leaked the plan to these Bandits we still have to grapple with the problem of banditry Which seems to be becoming larger than book or around terrorism your thoughts on this mr. Color. Wally Well, honestly speaking When I read that story I started wondering What kind of proactive measurement the president is talking about That he now wants to take A few months before leaving office For god's sake We are being in this problem for more than 10 years and this We were led to our responsibilities If we had They were without To take any proactive measure We also have done it in the last 10 years And we have been banditry with the book or the suggestion And this uh ruler banditry In the northern part of the country And of course Of banditry In the southern part of the country I think mr. President It's nearly time to a switch The feelings of the people Is speaking diplomacy For what I would call just a near political statement It is one night beyond him now If there is going to be redemption If you are going to be able to co-tail And bring an end to this banditry Whether you are a banditry or a banditry Or the book or an urgency We should be looking beyond the Muammar Bwari administration All right Let's just move away from that now and look at the leadership newspaper The caption says that the senators rejected the ruling of the federal high court in a booger Stopping it from amending the 2022 electoral act as requested by the president and the consent that we're looking at section 82 And subsection 12 as well Talking about different franchisement of political office holders What are your thoughts on this one? Well, I I think the senate is right In the position they are taking You and I will know Are there a separation of power? We have the executive We have the legislator and then we have the judiciary The legislator cannot be set to the judiciary I can't please say no The legislator cannot interfere in the way The executive Does its work on a day-to-day basis The executive is also not expected to interfere in the work of the legislator and that's of the judiciary So when the judiciary goes ahead To now tie the hands of the legislator In terms of making law It will not be intended With the provisions of the constitution In fact, I would have to say That it is that pronouncement of the court Is in violent conflict With the provisions of the constitution that says There shall be separation of power And that the legislator will have a better right And a better power To make laws For the good governance of the country That judgment appears to be imparted And I think The senate, the national assembly in general Will be in good state to just ignore that pronouncement Even though you and I do move That We as lawyers, we as citizens Are not expected to encourage people To disobey court orders Or to engage in self-help But when the court overreaches itself This is the kind of grabium That it brings onto itself The court has made this pronouncement As overreaches itself It's like saying The police should not, for example Conduct investigation I mean, when they feel that a crime law Has been committed And the fact that it has been committed Our courts, all courts will not directly Will give such a law That such a ruling In capacitating any arm of government From the legal, from doing Its work It is when that arm of government Has overreached itself Or has violated the constitution Or has done what it does and powered it to Either by the constitution or the laws of the land Then the judiciary can step in I think my lord has goofed With respect to that decision Okay, but let's also look at the content of it Is it all right to have, you know Political office holders Still holding to their offices Why, you know, the vibe A political office and what have you Well, the law is unash It may not be favourable To certain persons Because the I beg Because the request that's been made From the presidents is that that should Be expunged The national assembly should, you know Take that part away entirely I agree with the presidency But That section of the law should be amended Or should be imposed If you already have In the constitution A provision that says that political office holders Will seek to contest and make sure And participate in Some of these delegated Party activities as well To resign Three months before They take part in such activities I will consider, I will think very strongly And that is enough Provision To really take care of whatever The anxiety, whatever misgivings Whatever disagreements Or whatever inhibitions As the national assembly or the senate We have to have provisions But to say that A political appointee Should not participate In party activities such as Conventions and what have you In my humble opinion Nobody can say strong Nobody gets elected Or nobody gets appointed Either as ambassador As secretary to government Or as both chairmen Directors and paracetters Without being Party member Of most of this political party There's only a few technocrats On their own, maybe on their own That get into some of these places Because of the special skills That they possess But generally speaking Most political appointees Are card-calling members Of the different political parties That you have in the country To musculate the tidy hands Of the fellow politicians Of fellow people I mean of their own colleagues Who Only need to be Participate yourself When you take a look at what's coming Doesn't speak well at all It's a very, very selfish position That should be stopped at Just like the provisions that are said That all parties Should organize electors To select their These are things that you need These are decisions that you need To the different political parties To take Furthermore, there are constitutions All the political parties have constitutions Which guide the ways that manners They carry out their activities On the daily basis So I agree with Mr. President That their positions should be informed And if they send it also Then that area will be consolidated That's what we should give them More support, but the desire The vision of the country Is to take over it in itself Okay, all right Thank you very much today Let's move on to the big one On the front page of Palchini's paper this morning Of course the queues The few queues that the petrol stations are still there They seem to be Less or shorter You know, it takes a bit less time Than last week where we last Had you on this program But the manufacturer's association Of Nigeria is warning of Hyperinflation They're warning of hyperinflation Of course They're saying this with this headline Crude oil price Man warns of hyperinflation Substitutes 400 Naira Diesel 200 or 600 And 25 Naira With also a vision for you 518 Naira At a time when the crude oil price On the international market Is going up, and Nigeria should be Earning more, we're seeing that Things are not the same way The way they should be I saw a report on business day This money while driving to work That says that Nigeria will spend even more If Christ was taking more than Its earnings from crude oil sales This year on subsidy payments When it boils down to the old argument Right now we remember that during the Gulf War The prices of crude oil Petroleum products Went up as a mechanic And Nigeria started making The windfall of that We aimed A lot of Unexpected Money During that Gulf War But the opposite seems to be What we are having today Simply because Most of the places that we buy The petroleum products That we have today Which is Europe and America and others Are one way or the other Directly affected By this word that is going on In Ukraine And Between Ukraine and Russia Why is this so You will remember That most of Europe Depends on Not less than 40% of their gas consumption And also petroleum products Coming from Russia And they have all slammed All Menace of Punishment So to say On Russia Burning of one thing On Russia And Russia has also retaliated I suspect This is going to affect The cost of production The cost of refining Of crude products In most of these rural places in America Furthermore The petroleum products that most of these countries get From Russia They might not be getting it anymore They probably will be looking at the Middle East Africa and some of these other places Which is likely to lead to a kind of increase In the cost of the purchasing Of these materials I mean these are products More importantly You and I do know That we don't have any control whatsoever Beyond the raw crude that we sell Outside the country Even that raw crude The price is determined by the international market By OPEC So the refined products in the country We don't have control over the prices Of the refined products Simply because none of our refineries Is working as a present The only time we begin to have control Over some of these things Is when the refineries in the country Begin to work And we can produce in North Refined products To lead to the domestic market Of rural places speaking It doesn't appear to me That we are looking in that direction We are about 20 years of this democracy And I would think That 20 years is enough time For us to be able to do whatever We want to do And we will build new refineries After all, we have seen an individual Who is building a refinery And it's almost as a complication You also remember That I think it was under the Corpus Agile era And then Dr. Gullo to let us do That individual was giving nice answers To build refineries in North How many of those refineries Are being built? The people collected the paper With the intention to sell them For working profits Outside the country or within the country And then move on without the fact That they are refining the refineries Whatever challenges we are facing today Is our own creation These are problems that are not Beyond us as people As regards the warning by the Hygiene hyperinflation Hygiene hyperinflation is already there You go to the market and see what is happening What is the price of A bag of rice today What is the price of A bag of beans And you buy a basket of Onion Look at the prices of paper They have all the skyrocketed It's not a double Two-foot in most of these places And so for God's sake When you have a country of 200 million people You should do more film Produce internally And not depend on importation Also in importation of everything that you need Because When you do so Then you might be paying At the international Prices Which is denominated in Pan-filling and then in dollar And this dollar and pan-filling We are no longer getting As much as we used to get So what benefit Would it be now that OPEC has actually increased the Quarter production for Nigeria 1.72 million barrels For match From 1.70 million Barrels in February And 1.68 Despite the fact that OPEC is the target My decision is that The impact is going to be Marginal Because the problem is The magnitude of the problem that we have Ongran in the country today Is such that Except you are able to Sell more crude oil That OPEC has given us as a location Except we are able to Refind some of these products locally To satisfy the local demand Increase is like a drop in the ocean Of course Millions of cars on the road We also depend on these energy So for our power supply Most of the power plants we are told The water level has become so low And they cannot generate energy Or power at the capacity In use of the OPEC to generate You and I will also know That the gas fired plant Are also in trouble Because of the war between Russia And Ukraine The prices of gas have gone up And most of these power plants in the country Might not be able to afford To bank the quantity That they used to buy Before the war started So we are in the 22nd The issue is Between the devil and the deep blues The Nigerian politicians Required to put on their drinking cup And abandon their selfish interests To freeze the refinery Don't start using the refinery As a conduit pipe Because I have no money I can say last week An engineer told me That you don't need more than three to six months To be able to do the turn around maintenance Of any of the plants The end of the petroleum plant That we have in the country But we are not eager to do this Contrary to that There are moments where we don't have water And the turn around maintenance Of the refinery that they want to maintain Will take six years So, and then Where will the country be? The population is rising on the daily basis More cars on the road More generators In different homes We also have all manners of washing machines And all manners of gadgets That we have to power Using some of these sources of energy Besides Petroleum products With a lot of solar energy Very soon, another 10, 20 years If it's been like that Nobody wants to do anything with it People are looking in the direction of solar energy People are looking at the atomic energy People are even exploring Hydro energy And so many other different energies That have been invented For the researchers that are working on All about the work To the color Interesting and very worrying times For the Nigerian economy Someone's commenting that Mr. President is not around When these things are going on And another person replied to him by saying Even when he's around, it's like he's not around So leave him to not be around I wish I had more time with you But thank you so much for your expert analysis On the headlines today I'm missing to say my condolences So the Families of Van Miche A lady was killed in A BRU 3 bus A legacy government Afraid that lady will pull it We as Legations are afraid that lady will pull it I pray that the chances Will be done in our case The implication of what has happened to that lady Is that the authorities in Lagos Don't do due diligence Before they hire some of these people Who are driving some of these buses Or working with some of these Transport organizations Due due diligence as they Done on some of these talks I am sure What happened to Van Miche We have to go But thank you very much for your time We wish you had more time Because that's one of the headlines We appreciate you for your time Tunde Kola is a legal practitioner And he's going to guest analysts Right here on Plus TV Africa Let's take a break now We'll let you know what happened today In history. When we return We'll be heading straight to our first major conversation Where we look at the judgment Of the federal high court Saking the deputy governor For Borneo State Please stay with us