 Welcome back is the breakfast and plus TV Africa time for of the press. We have a punabonkataria Wasn't stand by he joins the conversation in no time Punabonkataria is good to have you join us this morning All right, let's take a look at the leadership a beg your pardon the punch new sweep of this morning We take her look at the board caption on the punch and the the banner header says Boone's men thighten hold on a PC Akpano do a digger returns to office Underneath their interesting riders Convention remains shaky caught fields to lift injunction neck holes Thursday APC raises or rises costs Raises cost of chairmanship form to 20 million narrow as aspirant snob consensus Federal government tap 2.2 billion dollar Eurobond for fuel subsidy funding. This is according to the minister of finance. I made fuel crisis Niger's inflation hit 15.7 0% in February Senate proposes airlines bailouts operators insist on flight suspension Niger recorded 1.9 for 3 linear foreign trade deficit in 2021. This is according to report and You have Ogun Anambra Kaduna others feel to assess 33.6 billion Naira UBA UBC fund and Just before we move away from the punch newspaper this morning. You have Please protest this clash as truck crushes Lakers Okada ride-in passenger That unfortunate incident that happened yesterday around Chevron Leganza access here in Lagos state and you have Lagos socialite gets two million Naira bail for doing For doling out fuel seven years at party You're also remember that one and we take this one quickly Kogi carpets look man for attacking bellow NLC falls X PGF boss and The KB bandits invade Niger kill DPO and two policemen for vigilantes. These are the headlines on The punch newspaper this morning Straight to the Guardian with these headlines tougher days ahead. That's energy costs trigger Fresh round of inflation tougher days as energy costs trigger fresh round of Inflation of course with the latest inflation figures released The following writers stood at start that headline headline inflation rose marginally 15.7% in February figures deceptive politically influenced or insists Expert seek removal of import duties on imported petroleum products Resuscitate Moribund refineries to boost availability FG urged last year's trade deficit hits 1.94 trillion Naira 96% higher than in 2020 a green economic figures there more from the Guardian UK Suspends VESA applications in Nigeria details on page three Judge threatens to dump Abakari's rights suit over delayed tactics Gunmen kill four cops seven civilians in KB Yet again KB states Aviation experts urge federal government to allow local airlines import jet a one Of course, we did discuss that on the top training segment saying that Medicare of the NNPC had said they would be doing that a PC convention Boone's team returns takes charge in Abuja and Finally from the Guardian newspaper only four doctors available to 10,000 Nigerians says FG details on page four away from the Guardian we take a look at the leadership paper this morning and Might just be dominating all of the papers you have as Boone finally takes charge neck INEC confirms attendance of APC neck meeting tomorrow as Boone finally takes charge INEC confirms attendance of APC neck meeting tomorrow party perks shaman ship form at 20 million Naira Drama in court as lawyers fight over representation in APC suit to vacate court order Why we're training convention protocol officers? Gandu J is quoted on that and you also have the PDP neck to produce shadow for party primary Niger's 2022 budget deficit may heat 10 trillion Naira as oil export drops Rebs vow to recover 2.6 trillion Naira oil and gas debt and You have donor funding for family planning declined by 10 million dollars in three years Zelensky six Canada support for Ukraine No fly zone and these are the headlines on the leadership the nation is with sticks with Very politics as some of its counterparts have this time turning its Searchlight or spotlight to the people's democratic party quite curiously With a headline Confusion in the PDP over plot to stop atiku Sarakee Tambo out Confusion in the PDP over plot to stop atiku Sarakee Tambo out and the rider clash over Returning defectors rocks national caucus meeting an ex VP 2023 poll our last chance That's about the PDP Aquano do it again APC convention plans on course Incessant grid collapse power outages and businesses Analysis a piece on pages two and three of the nation newspaper UK suspends student work family vices for Nigerians Gunman kills seven policemen 11 others in a boy KB Niger states and UK terminates COVID-19 Restrictions from Friday more from the nation newspaper Nigeria fails to meet OPEX 1.7 billion Naira fails to meet OPEX 1.7 8 million barrels per day quarter That's not too good news in a time where the country is looking for money High food fuel prices push inflation to 15.7 0% Women protest enters eight day. They're still there if you had forgotten and finally from the nation newspaper 35 million Nigerians have no access to telecom says NCC chief Dan Bata, even if they didn't have access how would they pay for the telecom services? All right, let's turn our attention now to our crack analyst Openable in Kota area who joins us live on offer press missing Kota area. Thanks for your time Let's turn our attention to the leaving paper on the front page of nation newspaper They are ledging confusion in the People's Democratic Party over a plot to stop a TIKO Sarki and Tambua Also a clash over the return II defectors is rocking the national caucus of the party What are your thoughts on the PDP and this alleged Confusion in that party Nevertheless, when you talk of competition in the PDP, you have competition and contented interest You know, you are somewhere interested in the presidency Salah is interested in the presidency I think who's impressed interested in the presidency. You also have which a interested in the presidency Also Each of them will try to match the other And that is exactly what is going on right now They want to be a mess as a candidate the flag bearer of the PDP And this character of purpose I have made some I'm not human being to put just a wave dismissed with the wave of the hand No, they all have that cloud Now the issue is like I listened to a TIKO yesterday when he said the South South and Namely a passenger and good looking at that. Sorry, the South Namely a passenger and good looking at that PDP produced the two of them only the 18 years or 16 years of history It was there for the unfair For it to be sold to the South again. It should remain in this to be the son of the law That was the evidence of a TIKO move back a year today. I think at the moment in view of the meeting but the PDP Who I'm sleepers of information on couple together. I think it's poised to zone the presidency to the South And that is where the confusion makes Some boys from the North Salah feels from the North I think it's from the North We kill from the South South How do you? Balance it to strike a compromise without that sharing any problem That might run people jeopardize the chances of the party in the forthcoming general election That is where the confusion is. That is the common drum. So that is the crossroad Okay, let's also take a look at the punch newspaper now and he talks about boonies man fighting hold on a PC And a panel do it again returns to office. So we already understand You know the fact that you have boonies on this other side You also have billow on the other hand and underneath you have the caption. I mean the convention remains shaky Court feels to lift up injunction and neck hoes a Thursday now the cost of a chairmanship form Has been increased to 20 million as aspirant also ignore the issue of consensus. So, but let's look at it the issue right now and if you if you look at the Constitution 183 1999 as amended it talks about having a governor. I mean You know sitting governor not occupying any office whatsoever. And so between these two persons now He's returning. He was holding space for him all of this Illegality because some persons have said that whether or not you have boonie been, you know, the chairman or you have You have bello, it's still invalid. Well, but let's show your thoughts on some of these issues that have been raised by the punch newspaper It's a convoluted issue right there, sister merci I say convoluted because I have an issue from the beginning of the What is this caretaker committee APC have bished the laws Because a sitting governor Going by the Constitution is not expected To take to handle any other executive office During the currency of his tenure So that is one bridge and that is one little cop That must be clear otherwise The only thing that APC will do including the convention will amount to knowledge I don't say that the Bello said is an acting chairman And the Bello committee It's not known in law And I know it has so said Because there are procedural obligations If they are if you want to express a change in your leadership At least 21 days notice to I like and That next I invited I like to all know your community or convention Mother's Julie signed By the not the chairman and the secretary of the party That is within the covenants of I like and the law The bello's committee Is not known I leave the bello's committee I'm gonna have to conduct national convention It should have been an exercise in utility Because one court judgment would have notified everything And likely so and that was why there was this former source We are a if you listen to her request He spoke on testing me That they had a meeting with brother and we are a was the one who authorized the change in leadership Everybody said so and everybody is not somebody that will lie. He might be stubborn if I don't do it But it's a man of reticule to me. I don't know what the opinion of him is anyway And he said he had just finished From the meeting with the president and bello was the new chairman Then it came out that it was the acting chairman Now that is a summer salt Because they have taken into consideration a little implication and that might eventually Remove anything from the balance in the fact coming to an election That was why they brought back me We may not have anything to leave that was that the subclass use a My way to save me for many for my friend but it was not an anything to be wrong with us Well, you have been brought back So that the convention could take place I Don't think the convention is safe, but right now I have a conviction that that convention would take place unless you have the fit columnist in the party That will want to truncate every effort to ensure if it is on the ball of just like what happened in the Uighurs And then back at the In the 2019 Jira Elections. Okay, interesting. I have a conviction that the convention would take place please. And that conference will be superintendent by Bumi and no other person. All right. Thank you. The issue because you have about 250 costs. So I wonder how they're going to come up from this little culture. You keep the issue of why not the property rather the use of the property of the community is still in this district. Okay. We need to move on to make a pronouncement to say that a sitting governor cannot share a committee, then which means everything will not be done. All right. We need to move on. We need to move on. Yes. And the Congressional is a conditional president. Okay. Can you hear me, please? Yeah. We need to move to next story. Yeah. But I think we'll be looking at this in-depth this morning on the breakfast, radio and plus TV Africa. The figures for Nigerian inflation have been released for February and amid the fuel crisis, the inflation has hit 15.70%. It's a miss that Nigeria's fuel crisis has captured on the front page of the punch in newspaper. Amidst Nigeria's fuel crisis, the inflation has hit 15.7%. I don't know what the zero is doing there, but 15.7% in February. So this means that the general price level has increased, the prices of goods and services in the country. Before 2015, the inflation was sub 10%. You know, below 10%. It never exceeded 10%, which was good for Nigeria economy. And so it was a miracle. But we've been grappling, trying to push it down for years. Now it's spiked up to 15.7%, which means that prices of goods and services have also skyrocketed. This is in the middle of a fuel crisis. Mr. Inkotaraya, your thoughts on this, basically, what Nigerians have to say? I think, yes, I agree. Nigerians are being officiated by our economy. No doubt about that. But I think we should commend the government that we are not talking of inflation rate of 30%. We are just talking of 15.7%. Considering the cataclysmic leadership that we are facing, if it's just 15.7%, then let us commend the government. I am just being sarcastic before people start reading all kinds of minutes into it. In other words, I'm not surprised. Because this is one government that is rubberless. It has no direction. A government that is not interested in the work of Nigerians. Even when the country is running, you have a president that is pollicking, group throttling. In fact, it isn't possible for the country to need this. That's the kind of leadership we have. There is no electricity. There is no fuel. All right, all of the organizations are on strike. I am also on strike. The school of administration, natural health, employment strike, the position of employment strike, even though the idea has denied it. But that should tell you our political agenda is overheated. Social climate is still in its plummeting. And that plummet is highly combustible. When I heard that slowly, most steadily, or even in terms of if we are going to go with anarchy, or taken by bad leadership, Nigerians are suffering. There is no money, no food, no jobs, nothing in this country. And you said it's not the first thing. How do you decide it's not the first thing? All right, Okonobon Kataria, just quickly on this one as we move away. It's about the economy. And it's on the leadership newspaper this morning. It talks of Nigeria's 2022 budget deficit that may hit 10 trillion narrow as oil export drops. Now, following the crisis in, I mean, of course, the conflict in Ukraine and Russia, it has become, according to some economic experts, they are projecting that this would have been a better time for exporting countries to take advantage. But here we are, what we're even going to be generating as revenue, we're exceeding that. I mean, we're going to be spending more than we're generating. We're looking at 10 trillion for 2022 in terms of exceeding our revenue. And the fact that we're not also going to meet the OPEC, you know, quarter that has been put for us. How does this really, really make you feel? And the question is, what can we do to get out of this? So it's about, can you hear me now quickly? Let me, let me take that again. It's about the Nigerians 2022 budget deficit that may hit 10 trillion narrow as oil export drops. Yeah. So what is the question? So the question now is, I mean, the countries of the world are following the crisis in Ukraine. It's a greater time for oil exporting countries, you know, to end more. But here we are not being able to meet the quota for by being put out by OPEC. And we're going to be spending more than we're going to be generating. So what is the process? We're not going to be spending more than we're going to be spending. We're going to be spending more than we're going to be spending more than we're going to be spending. whether there is an A or an N to know what the problem is when you do that. It's simple. It is not a thing that you are not intelligent, but because the man at the end of our class, I'm a national athlete, I'm a national athlete. I'm a national athlete. But because the man at the end of our class, I'm very sorry to say this, there is nothing about the economics of politics. He's been deceived. He's rooted in us. I've been in fact on the so-called panorama, on the so-called planet, on the so-called... And that is what is happening. They place their own interests ahead of the intelligent interests. That is where we are now. They are the person of what did he say? I'm rooting their common good. That was a common good place. That was a good time. You were a common good fan. Let's remember you said you're a national athlete. No, excuse me. Let's not be a common good fan. We are asking a change in this country. Let's not be a change in this country. You asked me a question. On that note, is the problem a necessity? Why can't you come on that? I said no. Why? Because there is no necessity. It's used to power. If we have to move from one place to another, it's used to stop embarrassing parts. What is the difference between the man who moves who defrauds and the man who carries the gun? Tell me what the difference is. There's no difference. Because the man who carries the gun is better than the man who moves. The man who carries the gun is better than the man who moves. The man who moves the gun is better than the man who moves. I'm the one who moves. Okay. Well, we have to let you go at this point in time. That's because we're really out of time. We do appreciate you making out time despite all of the hustle and all of the difficulties that were faced. We hope you have electricity where you are. Sorry? We hope you have power supply where you are. You don't have to question now. Power supply in Nigeria. That's lovely. You don't have power where you are. We have to let you go now. Let's keep praying. Hopefully the lights will come back. Thank you very much. You're looking so sweet. Both of you. Thank you. Thank you so much for being part of the show this morning. It's my pleasure. We appreciate it. Well, that's the size of our conversation this morning on Off the Press and Open Abore in Kutaira as a public affairs analyst. We do appreciate you. Thank you so much. We look forward to having more of you on the show. We will take a break now. But just before that break, let's let you know what happened today in history.