 Nineteen days from today, a new president will be sworn in to stare the leadership of Africa's most populous country amid petitions at the presidential election tribunals. What should Nigerians expect? How is electoral art 2022 impacting Nigeria's politics and democracy? We'll be taking a look at a new era today on the breakfast. We also are going to be looking at the purpose to see what the headlines are saying today and that one will be visiting all the newspapers that are available to us to look at what the headlines are. In that segment we'll call it off the press and right after that we'll be looking at the top trending issues on the social media and elsewhere. Good morning and welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I am Maureen Menonguizigwe. I am Nyam Gul Agadiz. It's a pleasure having you today. It's Wednesday. It's midweek while you're preparing yourself to have your midweek service. We're starting us today on the breakfast. Okay, so welcome to the program. Welcome. The theme for today is the role of Nigerians in nation building. How should Nigerians perform? What should they do? It's not just about what my country can do for me but what I can give to my country and what I can do for my country. Are Nigerians positioned? Are they conditioned to give back to the country or is it just about oh this is not working? That is not working. This government is not doing that. That governor is not doing that. What am I doing as a Nigeria to build Nigeria and move it forward? Nigeria is a geographical entity but it cannot be Nigeria without its people. So for Nigeria to be what we want it to be it has to be the people that will put in their very best to make sure that Nigeria becomes that Eldorado we want it to be. Yes we know that government has a role to play but government can only do what we give them the chance to do because if we let them do anything that they want to do with impunity the word that we like to use is because we have given them the chance to do that because if they know that when they do a particular thing the people will not be happy about it the people will grumble the people will take action they will not do what they do. So it's actually our responsibility to hold them accountable in any way that we see fit that is not violent. And the leaders emanate from us the corrupt leaders emanate from us the stealing leaders they emanate from us the ones who mess up the elections and the electoral process they emanate from us and again you ask how many times have Nigerians recall their leaders from the national assembly or the state houses as an assembly. We don't often hear that if at all. Yeah but it's in the constitution there's a provision that if they do not perform you recall them just bring them back home and say okay. You don't try come sit down and let another person try. But what you find is when someone is indicted for corruption people from his part of the country would come and say leave him it's our own. It's our own TV every local to TV. Yeah but you see I have this experience where a local government chairman went into office he had a Beatles car which we used to call Totty's car in those days so he had a Beatles car he went saved his tenor came out with that little Beatles car he didn't change your car he left millions of Naira in the coffers of the local government he was coming home he comes from somewhere that I am very close to he was coming home and he will take his gun go into the bush and hunt he was just down to earth like that it was a normal night yeah he didn't steal he didn't do anything and guess what people were now calling him names that he he didn't have sense how would you leave that kind of money and of course the next chairman that came just cleaned everything and said he's starting on a new slate you know but he didn't steal that money he did what he could do and left the rest for the people who were coming behind him to take and if you hear the names they gave to this man if tomorrow he has an opportunity to lead if he doesn't want to be called those kind of names he will be tempted to do the needful that's why I called him the abnormal because that's the way he's described and he have just confirmed that that is the way Nigerians see you unfortunately yeah if you do not it's our fault government money it's it's a cake it's our turn to steal it is that turn to take our own portion of it and then I asked if we are not united you know I kept saying 62 years is enough time for us to consolidate and say we are a people and own the space and own this country and say look this is ours to build and until we have that spirit of this is ours to build Nigeria will continue to crawl this stagnation will be just there until we find ourselves that spirit of oneness to say this is ours to build and you know one thing that I noticed during the these elections that took place this year especially the presidential that was the build-up to the presidential for the first time I saw what looked like the spirit yeah of Nigeria yeah I saw what looked like the Nigerian dream which I didn't think we ever had what is your Nigerian dream did we ever have it but towards the build-up to these elections it did seem like we had it like Nigerians for the first time and that was birthed by the promise by the Anna chairman that the elections would be transmitted electronically and since Nigerians have lost so much confidence in the process so many Nigerians weren't even thinking of contesting or joining in voting you know the incoming leaders but when that promise was made by the chairman it birthed a new thing inside of Nigerians and you could see Nigerians for the first time owning Nigerians saying okay we're going to make this work we're going to come out this is the everybody was competing but Anna did what they did Anna did what they did now they're in court now they're spending money taxpayers money our money to to fight against us and I don't know how that works out money was voted for them to conduct an election now they're having some other extra money as I see they kept some money for litigations they kept kept some money for court cases because if 400 billion billion was to go into preparation for election where is the extra money coming from I always ask this question and I don't know how they get this money to go into the courts hire so many sands you know advocates of Nigeria to defend them that what they did was right I don't know how to do that but this is our Nigeria no matter how disappointed we might be Nigeria is still our country no matter how it is because if you go out of your house and you say my daddy says stupid man he doesn't do this doesn't do that thinking that people will hate your daddy you're just in it in a an indirect way saying I'm a useless person I come from a useless breed I come I'm a useless person that's what you're saying so if we keep talking down on Nigeria trying to bring down Nigeria because a few people are making it very unbearable to to call ourselves Nigeria so it becomes an embarrassing thing to address yourself like in Nigeria yes they might be doing that but what are you like Maureen acts what are you doing to put Nigeria out there for people to see we've seen sportsmen and women whenever they achieve anything the way they they wrap our flag around themselves the way they behave when the national anthem is being sung the way they take pride in the fact that they come from Nigeria even some of them whose successes cannot be attributed to what Nigeria directly has done but they do this so do something in your little corner and make sure Nigeria is proud of you if they cannot be proud of anybody else yeah that's it if you find go to the the movie industry the entertainment industry fantastic make Nigeria proud and you know what I'm going to science yeah you know what like the entertainment industry has little or no influence coming from the government like they're not giving their money every year take this grant to do this at one point they did that but it's not all the time they are self-sustaining as it were and they're doing well which means it tells us that the government doesn't have to have a presence in our lives before we can succeed so the tech industry even the government still doesn't understand much about it but it's flourishing in Nigeria so we don't need we don't need government for everything yes we need them for the essential things to create an enabling environment and all that but we don't always have to blame the government they might do badly but you do what do you do your bed do your bed and part of doing your bed is also as nyan go has said holding them accountable yeah if they know if they have you to fear when they go to the markets they will watch their steps if they have you to fear when they come to community meetings they will watch their steps but if all you do is praise them when they steal praise them when they drop some crumbs around you then you've lost your right to question them you've lost your right to chase them out of office when you shoot yeah a leader who a politician who comes organizes his people gives scholarship to the people will not be regarded so much as the one who comes home every once in a while buys a car for the community buys them wine and all that something that is ephemeral that will just end you know after a while but the person who is planning for the future may not even be regarded so we need to change our psyche so that they themselves will know what they need to do democracy is about the people we have a voice in what happens to us who governs us and how they govern us that's democracy if they build a road it's not dividends of democracy that's governance it's different it's part of their duty it's part of their responsibility even if they were a dictator and he's got money anyway even if it's a dictatorship they will build the roads they will build the bridges i always use third main land bridge done by babangida that was not a civilian administration that was not democracy it was just governance they do the things they need to do but democracy is when you have a voice and one of your voices is vote rightly fight for your rights in any way that is legal you know be there when the decisions are being made you do that and nigeria will move on and then we can identify those of us who are good enough and we know those of us who are so bad that they should never go to represent us they should never they should never they should not graduate from being bad governors to to to those who go to the national assembly and make laws for us that should not be happening it's so sickening to see some of them there they messed up their state they stole all the money you go to their state there's nothing to write home about the states were not viable under them they didn't meet them viable they left them non viable and then they moved to the national assembly it's just so crazy and then before you know you don't want to become senate presidents and before you know you don't want to become president of the country and they are just having their way and the circle goes round and round and nigeria is the worst for it yeah the national assembly is the retirement home for for governors and uh and the annoying thing as well is that you're collecting salary what my friend will call amroba salary as a one-time governor you're still collecting another one as a senator and you know it just it just i can't wrap my head around it how someone has said okay i've retired i'm no longer a governor it's bad enough that you're serving for four years and you have to get or eight years and you have to that kind of humongous amount as retirement benefit for you crazy and changing of cars and houses and houses and sevens every once in a while and sevens and all that and then a retiree that has been working for 35 years doesn't have his pension at all but you are there collecting religiously you're collecting your money religiously and all that and then you're going to the senate again and you're still collecting that and do nothing by the way so who is going to make the law to remove all this money for us to be able to spend we who cannot be governors or national assembly members oh well things need to change today we'll be taking a look at a new era in the country but let's move forward now to top trending uh the supreme court has affirmed adela ke as the ocean state governor congratulations to our dancing governor yeah yeah everybody remembers that he dances and it's good it's a good thing some people wanted to use that as you know a mockery a dancing senator and all that but i think it's a good plus for him people kind of love him and i was i love him i was listening to the program yesterday and the presenter kept asking why is everybody so excited that he won this case and i think it's simple people just need a fresh air a breath of fresh air no matter who it is adela ke is not much of the establishment even though he belongs to the pdp he's not much of this time here is looking for fresh yeah fresh air and that's what one of the things he represents we have a track let's call for that track at this point in time we have a lot of goodies in stock for our lovelier shooting even though there was little distraction we were focused huge authorities can testify to our 100 days in office i mean you have said it all you went with me you walk with me you saw what we have done i must say is that there's no we love there's no fun with so everybody should come together now that everything is over now let's come together and work together and make us great again i thank god almighty because one with god is a majority we thank god because from the onset we have put our trust in the lord and i want to thank god that he did not put us to shame not surprising because it is expected a judgment that is expected because uh anybody that believe in the rule of law and equity justice will know that the judgment should go that way because um the beavers in question is a new electoral law that any law should support and that is what happens and will give glory to almighty god yeah delicately there congratulations to him you know like i said he he came in not like the establishment or all that he came in to replace his brother when his brother died to become the senator so he wasn't someone who woke up and said i must be a senator his brother was the politician but he came in because on the good will of you know on the back of the brother who was a good person according to what is said is being said and he too coming from a family that has been a judge a good family you know uh he became senator from senator he contested to become governor and a lot of people believe that he was robbed the last time in 2019 when they uh the this governor that has just left or yetola i was sworn in the supreme court did some brakadabra almost the same thing as is done was done in emo state and or yetola came into power so people now rejoiced and felt that this was justice being done at this time so they wanted him they love him they want him to dance you know and then someone said uh if even if he will not do anything anymore as soon as he got in he paid their rears of salaries that previous governments have been owing you know something that the government should be doing without being without any prompting someone will owe so much that the person who comes to do a duty that the government should ordinarily ordinarily do would be applauded for doing his duty that's one of the things that's crazy that bad governance by the leadership has done to the psyche of nigerians and you know look at looking at the judgment by the supreme court yesterday one of the things that was that the beavers um it's not the only means by which the electoral the results should be given meaning that um you know whether the beavers worked accurately or not should not be the basis for which to cancel that result because the beavers could miss malfunction you know the battery could have problem and so you begin to also ask is this going to impact yeah that's the question going presidential uh petitions going on but you see cases are one based on evidence and arguments in court so it may not have any kind of import whatsoever but of course we are watching to see how all of that is going to be playing out okay uh well i dedicate congratulations to you and i just wanted to point out that he sounded so much like debu-do he always sounds like yeah yeah and i can wonder is his uncle yes i'm sure he was that uncle that always buys bread who is always buys the toys always comes and dances with them always because there's always that one uncle or one auntie that everybody wants to visit go on holidays to his house and all that i'm sure i'm the governor at demola delicate you know i listened to him yesterday on an interview where he said he actually should have been a musician yeah but uh you know it's a good thing that his his nephew and his son have taken that path and um it's his time now to he was also asked regarding dancing and he said well it's time for everything it's time now to work and quite well but he still will dance you cannot remove i mean look at him he's dancing he must dance and i love the spirit you know i love his spirit he's a happy man jolly good fellow yeah all right so the second top trend in apc secretary rocked by protest over marginalization of the central north okay north central is complaining they should have the senate presidency or the speaker and all that the south east is complaining they should have the senate presidency or the speaker and all that so every every zone will complain during the build up to the election itself did they see this coming where they're against whoever they were against because they wanted to get to this point where they're going to be up the senate presidency or not did they argue so much about this zoning of things uh before this time or are they just trying to you know we have lost everything else so let us get this do they deserve it do they not deserve it where we're not arguing that we're looking for competence rather than you know ethnicity and everything so zoning to a zone should that not be something that should just close their mouths and try to try to market themselves based on competence not the geopolitical zone so if they have said uh muslim muslim for instance doesn't matter we want competence okay fine uh then zone shouldn't matter as well we want competence i don't think they should be arguing any of the states anyway well what is playing out in the apc is um it's quite um i don't know how to describe it but it's quite interesting to as we watch what is playing out in that party on fold especially regards to who becomes a senate president you can see that the president elect has chosen akbabio and um should that have happened that's a question should that have happened should a name have been given openly and then what about indie bows what about indie bows do they mean nothing to this party that's one of the questions that really comes to mind yeah well indie bows were so much because you can't say that there are no um indie bows that could have been given that i mean but also there are so many indie bows that could have been given the presidency if you ask me so if they're thinking about uh equity i don't know do they always have to be only senate presidents indie bows have been senate presidents very many of them advanced and wearing was a senate president okade bows a senate president and so many other people so uh can't there be more than that it's it's not marginalization has this not central ever been i doubt uh except okay maybe if you're counting saraki as not central that was a senate president and all that but the way he came in was you know yeah was not handpicked he wasn't handpicked you know there was a real drama it was a real drama where some people were asked to go for a meeting somewhere and those other people came into the house and the mace was there and they elected their president there yeah the senate president uh we don't know what will happen now because the opposition party is spoiling for a fight so if they do that they either might choose someone from the apc that they are comfortable with and do what they want to do because i see no reason why the national assembly cannot elect their own members their own principles it has to be the president elect coming to annoying somebody that's to be the so how will they function how will they in the oversight function be how can they not be rubber stamped and that is one of the things that nigerians are speaking against this ninth assembly that's going out now that's been more of a rubber stamp house than any other they said it before they came in that everything is going to be a yes thing for them and they demonstrated it so the president democracy it is in this assembly or this this dispensation that we can see a president borrowing money without approval spending the money before he comes to get approval and it's it's you know everything can just move on fine it is this our Nigeria yes you want to take the we will survive it well uh nlc indefinite strike this strike i think has been called off uh in abia state over on paid salaries there's been an agreement between the government and the people so the strike has been called off but um when a spade is called a spade sometimes it helps the abia state government hasn't really done so well and i was talking about the other day there was a an interview on another television station where the abia state government governor was asked what he does for uh people who give berthin in in the hospital in government hospitals in abia state and he said he gives the the the the women 500 naira and when he was asked 500 naira your ex-excellency said do you know what 500 naira will do to the poor so you're comfortable that the poor person who comes to the government hospital first of all he's coming to the government hospital you know or at least you think that that person should be so poor that's why he's coming to the government hospital is that not an indictment you're telling people that the only people that come to the government hospitals are the ones that cannot afford private hospitals because it's so bad and then you're giving them 500 naira that one will not cover transportation that one will not cover uh feeding for the child for one week does he even know how much a a can of milk is that a child feeds on for a week some of them eat a lot and it's so glad when you see a child eating well but you give 500 naira to do what to buy paracetamol you know this this thing you're saying is quite um it's quite deep and i'm excited that ohani is indeed worldwide spot of all we're taking a look at today how that they call for the revival of the ibo governor's forum yeah because these people need to come together and put their hearts together if you ask me i think they're filled they have filled their people they have filled they have really filled their people the ibo's the ibo's um have suffered so much you know and and speaking to facts and truth they have suffered so much unfortunately also part of the things they've suffered have come from their own people yeah if not all bad leadership yeah bad leadership bad leadership when are they going to get it right uh you see when the presidential elections was uh in the days leading up to that um we saw all the backstabbing all the betrayals everything they were coming from the governors of ibo stock they were coming from the ibo people themselves people mobilizing against ibo candidates and all that from the primaries of various parties to when uh some of them had the candidacy for their parties we saw what they were doing and it was really disheartening and then you cannot tell me that five governors from a zone cannot mobilize themselves and make sure the ipop does not make laws that the people will obey for instance till this date the monday seat at home even though the people say okay it's no longer there it's being forced people are afraid to go out and the governors have done next to nothing and the regions are losing billions if you do you know what the market is monday markets how people used to come from all over the the country to attend monday markets within the east abba and the only channel the rest of them now it is no more you can travel to let's say cross river because you have to pass through abba and all the ibo states and a lot of things are happening and the governors are there they're not doing anything they will tell you is the the federal government that takes care of security they have failed they have failed and if they're doing a revamp of the of the governor's forum they should look critically at the things that are bringing them down and bringing them to bad repute as far as i'm concerned they both used to be respected they need to continue to be respected and that ship has to be stared by the governors because they are the chief security officers and they are the the final decision making body as it were in the southeast yeah so you're watching the breakfast and plus tv africa time for us to take a break we'll be back stay with us