 You're welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa. It's now time for off the press. Let's analyze today's newspapers Shall we with Mr. Ezekiel Ieyetouk a public affairs analyst. Good morning, Mr. Ieyetouk Fantastic beginning with the punch newspaper this morning death Servicing rises gops 72% of federal government revenues Debt servicing to revenue ratio jumped 54.66% in 2019 to 72% in 2020 and Professor Pato told me here says the ratio is high because of in-discipline and that we may lose infrastructure to creditors also on the punch newspaper Senate upholds AG's reports orders 300 billion narrow refund from NPA BPE 57 agencies a Greek subsidy Famous Ford's federal government Government claims six million operators registered GTB appoints a loose on your first female managing director Despite denial federal government ear max 20 billion narrow for COVID-19 vaccine distribution Low and berates rabble rouses as National Assembly rejects electronic results transmission We suspect conspiracy in super TV boss murder says CP Also 1320 suspects paraded and that's the picture of the suspects you're seeing there on the punch newspaper More stories here on the punch COVID-19 Unileg orders students to vacate campus continues lectures online Abiodu blames FG as residents tackle government over Lagos at Bekuta Highway Nigerian activists arrested for protesting being a republic's encroachments released Fans attack police as command parades heavily tattooed artists king of madness as suspect Europe and Asian rally a fallen outtakes over slain sales girl case Lagos pledges justice and lastly on the punch Reps condemn lopsidedness in neither equipment's did not demand suspension All right now to the nation newspapers I neck given power to decide on e transmission of results Senators reps to vote on electoral act amendment recommendations today Also, Supreme Court stops emails access to 17 oil wells apex court upholds their rivers reliefs Also on the nation PDP governor say Buhari intimidating our colleagues claim laughable says the APC And also return an investment in Nigeria high says a little One or two others on the nation COVID-19 Unilag shots hostels to die in Oregon State Also CBN SEC approved a budget or loos on here to lead GTB holding on do tops federal government's fiscal transparency rating these are the big stories on the Nation newspapers this morning No, okay. Well, there's also a more suspects held in super TV boss's murder and I'll show on red a lot of our pandemic And the last one we're looking at is the Guardian newspaper 40 days of Twitter ban on the Guardian federal government's projected tax earnings undermined by fewer users Twitter unlikely to bend rules as losses rich in 96 billion Naira says ten o'clock SMEs contributing 48 percent to GDP was hit by ban that's according to a survey Also the Guardian newspaper tobacco assists to claim 432 Nigerians daily as COVID-19 deaths decrease How 3.4 billion dollars was deducted from Algan Treasury to fund and IPPS? Senate orders 59 agencies to return Over 300 billion Naira as misappropriated funds three policemen killed in Anambra and COVID-19 Unilag shots halls of residence indefinitely reverts to virtual learning Lastly on the Guardian gunmen abducts Kogi first-class chief pharmacist behead two soldiers in Enugu Miss a hedgehog and we're looking at these three papers this morning the punch the Guardian and the nation and Different headlines here on different papers Maybe let's begin with the electronic transmission of results. We saw in the nation newspaper saying that senators and reps have voted on electronic act an electoral act amendment bill and they have given powers I need powers to decide on the e-transmission of results after all that back-and-forth and criticism From stakeholders. What do you think? Yeah, two things it first is that I think one of the papers I think punch Reported it wrongly that said rejects. That's not correct. I Think to the best of my knowledge What is before the heart they're going to be better today generally is that? I next should have the latitude to decide Whether to use it or not to use it There was a big debate on that in the sense that What could have been put there could have been shall When you have them shall it makes it mandatory Obligatory it makes it compulsory for you to adopt that then when you use me It leaves an elbow room for I need to be manipulated somewhere along the line, but for me I Somebody who has Participated in elections and somebody might yet still participate in 2023. I really don't mind that Why that is so is that? during election time The politicians national assembly. They are not there They are right at their down steps try to come back for their vote and I need will be left to face Either instructions from the presidency where they will have a choice to make But then they will have to face the people that is where I'm telling all Niteria and I like the way that them did the build-up is going I think that it will be suicidal For I need to as much as Contemplate I mean not even body language not even anything for this life For everything in the world Let the election be free fair credible transparent Whoever wins it takes it. Let it be such that you know you can do yourself You can know that well this was it was good. It was clear But any attempt to model of anything I think will Turn this country into what would rather not as much as imagine mr. AI took Yes, I'll let you finish up there But I also want to ask you this bone of contention regarding the electronic transmission of results Why do you think it's been you know a subject of controversy over the years? I saw a poll put up and you know people talked about just how much you know other sectors Transmit results electronically in every other way jam and the rest but an election that you know determines the future of a country Why it's been such you know a subject of controversy and why what do you think might change if the election Results begin to be transmitted electronically. Do you think we might discover something new that would change what we know about Nigerian politics as it is? I'm absolutely and this is the worst nightmare of politicians It's it I've been involved in elections from 1999 actively on two occasions okay On ones I've contested as an aspirant But on one occasion I've contested as a Candidate actually being on the ballot Let me shock you Ask any body from a crime homestead who is architecting out of any any any over the past 20 years Consistently they'll tell you why I get into a good notion election and I am Unlocated Seventy votes not seven hundred not seven thousand Not seven seven Seventy seven hundred ninety ninety seven zero Just say what they do Meanwhile, I have all the results. I do not mean nobody not But I have the thousands of results from the different pulling put where I was able to have my agent They should answer to me Are you saying that that elections in Nigeria don't reflect, you know the people's choice and that you know votes are I'm not saying what you know and I know It's far from they do Unlocation and let me tell you how they do in a location if the thing that we are talk Has enough votes and can make noise They make sure that they reduce your vote for two hundred and thirty to thirty Wow, so that people will say You only scored thirty now. You can't talk. They should demoralize you and make sure that you don't even have that That's that's God. Do you want to say something that is what a location? It's absolutely nothing So we want the result at the polling booth Transmitted to I like when that is done you fraud in the nation is in coalition. I mean I said I've been in it The fraud in a nation is in coalition By the time that you know that the ballot boxes you snatched who is going to snatched ballot boxes for Almost 120,000 you can't do that You don't even have even one person for pulling you need to have that So everybody's gonna say well the game is over. Let's just let it be a boy's gonna go Good elections because as from tomorrow as soon as I make the Senate and the national assembly Generally as soon as they put on that electronic voting I am going to champion in a concert and we have by God's grace out of justice in 2023 You know by God's grace. I say it again I'm going to champion and let you know this this drive from massive registration of voters I'm going to wake up my people and I want a PC to bring up a candidate They need me to bring up a candidate and let us know who is more popular Okay, the elections come from the polling unit That's what every clean punishment is saying but everyone who knows that I mean Yes, I'm people that know that they can't not win the election They can't so they want to buy the vote and a time has gone They bought the vote the first time and we realized that the money that you collected from buying the voting was Keeping and using for four years. So people's eyes are open even if you pay a hundred thousand per vote Now some people take with mothers for goodness sake I rather have a school for my children where the money that I'll pay for four years is more than a hundred thousand I'm calling fifty thousand five thousand a pack of some today and sell my vote So this is amazing that you guys need it All right, we of course we have more time on this conversation during the program today And we'll get to see if there's other loopholes even with electronic transfer of results If there's other places that we you know, I think might still have challenges Well, let's move on to other things that there's a story on the nation this morning from the PDP saying that the Buhari government is Intimidating its members. It says Buhari intimidating our colleagues Claim laughable says the APC and I'm guessing this is with reference to PDP members defecting Here and there of course lately in Zamfara Do you agree with the PDP or what are your thoughts I'm saying I talk, you know, you know yesterday Yeah, I had a major event where I formally joined the African Democratic Congress ATC And my national chairman came all the way from New York and the national officers to receive me and into the party I was it was awesome That event the national chairman Jim Browns who came also at APC's made a statement that was very instructive he asked everybody question number one is A APC doing so well in Nigeria I know The shock on the face of people was like what's going on? How can't you see that from Vanessa? We know that it is inside is running amok with the failure of all those things You know at the second question What is the rational thinking? that people Will move from their parties when they think they are doing well to a party that we know that is Failing and doing terribly Why would that be so it was there that you like like the life of the trade It can only be out of question. It can only be out of intimidation. It can only be out of our aspect It can only be out of fear So a PPP has a point to beg. It's just that PPP APC is like six and a half a dozen I mean if two of them move Nigeria needs today, it's a credible alternative A third force so that people choose if you like PPP APC If you want something different, go there. So we are coming up as an alternative So be it is right because it doesn't make sense that people are working from safety zones into war zones It doesn't make sense. People run away from war zones into safety zones So people would have been leaving PAPC in jobs as of today They would have been leaving that it would have been like what's going on because the main force that moves APC Over the years, Mr. President is not going for a third a third term And if I know Mr. President very well the day he leaves office, he's back to his cows in Daurang He will leave me so it's going to be and over the years APC have not made a force to build a Successor to build a game plan to build a purpose rely on them up to today Two years to a general election Yes, you rely on the integrity of Mr. President Integrity of Mr. President which they have very very successfully depleted and demystified Okay, so if you say APC what comes to your mind that would make you to want to join them? Oh, they are they've gone electronic, you know in terms of they've gone digital Or they've gone youth, you know, based or they've gone No, some things you make you to want to go to APC today Until this moment strategically they've not been able to change the narrative and take it back to something else So on 2023 what's going to drive the narrative is a big question for APC outside of intimidation harassment and you know fear All right, I was hoping trains and infrastructural development Might you know be big enough to drive the narrative Okay The stories, you know that we need to look at as well We have a very short time, but let's see what we can do with this one The wraps here have condemned the lopsidedness in Navy recruitment and are demanding a suspension of the process So they're basically saying that they took a look at how the Navy recruits from 2014 to date And it seems like it doesn't represent federal character And they're asking them now to suspend that process and for an investigation to begin I don't know what you think about this and how you tie this tie this to you know The culture in Nigeria where people have slots that they sell Where people actually have a passion to serve their motherland, you know, you know, I kept so I left behind How do you see the story? And it's a you and I can sit down here every morning talking and talking is like we know and Yet We want to have this and post rich to play where we bury our heads in the sand and expect that We are eating when our whole body is exposed Nigeria does not run governance Nigeria does not run co-governors and listen to your narrative this morning on the issue of population and figures How can you run a country on figures not as a basis of planning But as a basis of sharing And it just doesn't add all it doesn't make sense countries thrive on production countries thrive on Creating an enabling environment for the citizens to you know Be their best. I lived in Lagos for 30 years. I did not know anywhere called a louser I'm all interested in a louser. I didn't know whether was the God knows They know these are me. I mean it was military day. So there was no national assembly. I didn't know I didn't go to secretary That's not business. I was an architect practicing in Lagos because the Lagos system had created Template where they use Anybody could go ahead and actualize his dream. It was not the best but it did well But here as a government rather than set the infrastructure and set the template for the citizens to thrive they believe in collecting and sharing and giving collecting sharing and giving and that mentality Nigerians need to know that that mentality is an evil window close no man no good that mentality is the mentality of Extremely on cerebral extremely dumb people in government who do not have the capacity to think and understand that Every system works on certain dynamics and fundamentals that will make for either growth and progress or to make for Retrogration How can population? I mean just think of it and listen to pass or differing and I love what he said How can you tell me that as you leave the water bodies and go to the desert the population increases? It just doesn't add up, but it will continue to be the narrative Until we have some people who come to do governance Not population and figures as a basis of sharing but as a basis of planning Okay, and let me tell you by time you deprive people that have a lot of money A lot of population That that latitude to to to to to to to thrive. What are you losing? You are losing all the taxes that would have come from those people. Yes. Yes. I apologize I want you to you know quickly touch on the angle that this whole controversy is coming from there was a list that was Exposed I believe I put out where it showed 44 Names that were that made the Navy supplementary list approved, you know for equipment into the Navy and they were all Northerners and I think that's where the controversy is coming from where the National Assembly is then saying okay now Let's look at what the list has been like in the last couple of years to see if you know truly we've respected federal character So I've also seen people react and say well most of these places are filled in these days with people from The north and there has not been anything concerning federal character in actual recruitment into Niger and MDA is in a very very long time Including our security agencies So what are your thoughts with regards that I? You know it you asking me a very obvious question We don't believe in fairness. We don't believe in equity. We don't write from our Constitution. I Had a body that makes me the DJ of Nigeria first project. So I'm to think national So a lot of comments I could make that is personal. I really can't make it But I believe for the north I believe for the youth of the north Not long ago the youth of the 19th state of the northern Nigeria came to give me an award that award used to be behind me for a while Until it replaced by this one for now Which is a word from the that the south is it the 11 states of the south is making me a patron of Narnans, you know that start what am I saying the youth have come to see me as a voice for them And I live for the youth of the north What is the policy of these all these things are things that are given to the children of the elites in the north These are things the policies and benefits if you go to the north and you look at the youth of the north Who are supposed to be in power? They are the most impoverished the most deprived They are the most endangered in the one of the federal republic of Nigeria No police on education for them. We have education is the way of the future All they want to do is just collect these juicy jobs and give to the children of the elites and the children of the north are left And you're telling me that look our majeuree is our culture Why are your children not our majeurees? You tell me they can't do really. It's like the little children in the forest is a tradition I ask a question. Where are the children of the elites in the north? Let me tell you something. There's a narrative Let me end on this. There's a narrative that I'm going to spearhead in talking to the youth of the north in particular It's a we need power. We need power. We need power. A time has come in to ask power for who? The elites in the north or the youth of the north. Who are the voters? And that narrative has to come to the table and we have to talk about it The youth want me to speak for them and I'm going to speak for them because there's no sense of stop The youth of the north must be protected. They've been deceived for too long. There's no violence It's going to be like sitting down discussing and taking rational action because they are youths more time All right, as the Kellyanne I talk. Thank you so much as always for speaking with us this morning We always enjoy your perspectives and issues. Thanks and have a great day. Thank you Stay with us. We'll take a short break and when we come back we're moving straight to a little bit of history I'm going back to the year 2016 to tell you about a coup d'etat Interesting and I'm going to in 1979 to give you a bit of a story about what happened on this day in America Just stay with us