 Welcome back. Time to dive into the pages of the National Daily Look at the headlines from the front page and of course we have a public affairs analyst Upanaboy and Kutariya joining us this morning. Mr. Kutariya, thanks for your time. Thank you Kofi, good morning. Let's begin with the headlines from the front page of the nation this morning. Buhari seeks APC governor's support to pick successor that meeting he had with them with them yesterday. The writer says we want a candidate that can win. Governors meetings on president's proposal deadlocked. Okay they had a meeting some meetings on the president's proposal look at that as we go on. Monkeypox federal government bans sale of consumption of bushmeat. Members gave my abductors hundred million Naira Ransom says method is prelate. This coming after the Abia State government released a statement claiming that the police or security agencies in Abia State had moved swiftly to rescue the man. He's saying another that didn't happen. Oyetola condemns police shooting of the nation reporter. Release at one. A trade attack. Terrorist demands taken to government. We have more from the paper. Buhari and his unfolding succession plans and analysis piece by the nation newspaper and national working committee members accused party chair Adam Wolf taking on a unilateral decisions or Shiba Joe, law and five meal culture others screen. EFCC ICPC operatives to track vote buying in Ekiti poll and Lagos Okada ban takes off. Alright let's move on to the punch newspaper. It has the big one there presidency search for strong consensus candidate Buhari directs APC governor's search for strong consensus candidate Buhari directs APC governor's says a chosen one must be nationally acceptable possess electoral value. President didn't disclose his favorite Nassaral governor and I carried a little backs consensus. APC governor's in strategic meeting as Oyego grills or Shiba Joe, law and better others. Emo X governor or culture gets bail leaves EFCC custody. FG sent 640 soldiers on peacekeeping duties amid insecurity. We're helpless abducted train passengers family families lament. Password stealing malware attacks rise by 146.65% in Nigeria this according to report means we all have to be extra careful. Couple three children die. Lagos police suspect generator fumes and 2,334 domestic violence cases in four months worrisome is coming from the Lagos state government. Lagos factory worker loses hand in industrial accident firm blames victim and agribusiness workers yet to receive wage arrears is coming from the senior staff association of Nigerian University is at the top of that front page. Lagos international airport runway lights collapse pilots one fan. Lagos international airport runway lights collapse pilots one fan page 21 has the details really a puzzling one there. Buhari and Baxon 8th foreign trip in five months. Okada ban begins today. Lagos deploys more boats. Kidnappers showed us decomposing bodies. Church paid 100 million Naira ransom Methodist prelate and those are the headlines on the front page of the punch. Let's quickly turn our attention to the daily independent that has the following headlines. Presidential primary APC governess settled for Northern candidate focused on Ahmad Saniyarima, Ahmad Lawan, Fierno Southern candidate may beat Attiku. At the top of that front page abducted Methodist prelate admits payment of 100 million Naira before release. Telcos face declining investment over infrastructure vandalism theft. Crisis in APC as NWC members square up against party chairman. Security operatives subpaid or raid IPOB ESN camp kill three in Eboi. PDP resumes governorship primary to accommodate Bauchi governor present certificate of return to Attiku today. NUJ urges redeployment of CP over shooting of journalists to others. It's talking about the nation reporter. Buhari unfolds credentials of APC presidential candidate. Appeals to governess that all interests must converge for victory. Leaves for Spain are made preparations for parties convention. And Aoundaqa, Gemade, others want Benwe APC Guva Aguba primary cancelled. Allerged 2.9 billion Naira fraud court grants or culture 500 million Naira bill. Of course, the man was able to sneak in at the last hour for that APC presidential screening. And finally, headlines on the front page of the leadership this morning. In final push for consensus, PMB says I will choose my successor. I will choose my successor. This goes against what the other papers said, you know, saying that the party was told or the governors were told to choose a successor along with the president and he never gave them a name. The writers to that headline asks progressive governors to support the anointed one party crisis deepens vice chairman KKM Lukman move against Adamu. Accused him of rendering NWC members redundant, taking decisions unilaterally. Oshiba Joe, Lawan, Bello, Faimi, Ayadeh, Onu, Jacreich, Okorcha, two others screened. Bochi PDP goes for fresh governorship primary as candidate stepped down, steps down, buying credit to private sector hits 37.17 trillion Naira in four months and Hunter's Kail Boko Ram commander, deputy in Borno State. I think the other headlines that have been covered by the other newspapers. So we'll leave it at that and now turn our attention to analysis. Kersi, I guess, Opponabo and Kutaira. Opponabo, let's start with the fallout of the president's meeting with APC governors and the chairman of the party. We'll be looking at that later today, so a very quick and short analysis from you. The line broke. The line broke. Oh, okay. I'm saying let's take a quick, yeah, a quick look at the the president's meeting with the governors of the All Progressives Congress and the chairman of the party. A very brief one from you. Well, the truth is the meeting of the president was only to inform them of his resolve to choose his own country. The man has made up his mind. Don't forget, that was one of your sister stations. He has said his preferred candidate is close to his chest and if he discloses the identity of that candidate, he might be assassinated. And the president has just told the governors what he said to them. I don't think he's even an appeal. I think he's more or less more or less an instruction, just like what he was the governor did when he chose his successor, when he said if they don't like his choice, then they should challenge him. And what the governor did is that's what the president did. He has just told them I'm going to choose my successor. That's what he did with the national chairman of the party. So it doesn't more or less an information. It doesn't a question of confabulation. It's a matter of information. This is what I want and this is what it's going to be. That's simple. A lot of them might disagree, but also to protect their own political interests, especially for the governors that have the second term to do. They want without the second term, well, probably my coaches, but they put us in a closet. Why did they put us in a closet? What else would they do? You know, because of some political interest, their own political interest, the political interest of their godfather, I don't really see a protracted put there. And they are not really a lot of them who submit. They will have to come to the governor because they plan to enjoy it. And that's exactly what we want. All right. All right. All right. Let's move on from that. Of course, as I said, we'll have analysis of that later on the show. The crisis in the APC national working committee is another one that the papers have dedicated some space to or purported crisis with the daily independence saying that the members of the party are squaring up against the party chairman. That's on the front page of the daily independence. If you look at other papers, for instance, the nation newspaper, it says that NWC members accused the party chair of taking unilateral decisions. We've seen in the past that some of these internal crises have been overblown and really didn't lead to any breakdown or any implosion in the party. If you remember what happened between Mayim al-Abuni and his deputy, the one who wanted to take over the party, I think it was a Niger state governor. The party has moved on and nothing really went wrong. Nothing happened. There was no implosion. So is this something that goes along that line of being overblown or you think there's more to this and really this could lead to some serious problems in the party? Well, NWC has been a dictator. Some decided not a strong character, strong will, some have a lot of semantics. But for this vice-chairman Keterlai to have come out to pull the party, it's an issue that they were able to resolve within the party. And approaching the current size, he just felt we should let the world know I wasn't doing under the party. The chairman of the party ought to be, to pretend that nobody has turned on the party at the end of NWC and so on. But decisions are made collectively. You know, the end of NWC is supposed to be the body, the organ in that party that is supposed to make decisions for the party. And if they collect it, they're not a one-man show. But certainly they were killed at the end of running a one-man show. In the last life, I've taken decisions on all what's not. So if you talk of an explosion in the party, there is already an explosion in the party. We might not have seen the explosion. We might see it later. We might never see it. But there are so many ways of expressing your rigor that is appropriate, especially in politics. Some might not try to play at the party, so that visually without you knowing that they're going to flag the party. Because you know when every spirit we vote are tyrant. And when a man is pushed to the wall, he bounces back to the double death. So in order to prove the point that you don't have the cloud to think you have, you don't have the cloud to present things you have, therefore we're going to ensure that this candidate that we are first set on the party or the policy that it's ethical for the party's guidelines and laws and what that is, we are going to ensure that the party crashes. You know, it has a written effect, it's a written effect. So it all depends on how the president is going to manage it that has done this speech. If he doesn't want to lose our power, there's already a future on the political wall of the APB. But if the president is able to smash it, we need to be able to fill that gap, that is the issue. And you have to be careful in so doing. You are talking about human beings, about minds of their own. And they are not talking to speech, they are not talking to babies. And let me imagine that with Nigeria as well, that not only when the president that the government is at the twilight of the Constitution, especially when it's going to be last year that they cannot because they also said that to them, she can't go beyond to them. And most times when they are trying to round up their circumstances, we find out that the influence of the president that the government is way too dark. At that point, a lot of people believe that what is there, not right or wrong, so far we've got some of the maximum money and that's the end of it. And that is going to be a lot of most challenging and satisfactory. And that is what my play of people has said, when he was asked during the screening, if he's going to assume to contest his candidacy. And he then knows that he will refuse because it seems contest his candidacy. How is he going to do this in the body of the president? He's going to do that to another political party. And whether he likes it or not, yes, whether he's going to win the primalism or not, whether he's going to win the general election or not, he's going to say first to be reformed, not just in ABC, in Nigerian politics. So when you hear a man like him, he will tell you that he's not going to accept contest his candidacy, then you should know that if you sit down for an action in this party, it's not back for an address in most of this issue. All right, the man, Roger Scorcha, was reigned before court. And he was granted building to the tune of 500 million nair with a surity in like some. Surity has to have a landed property in Abuja of not less than 500 million nair. Yesterday we're watching to see if he'll be able to perfect his bill conditions before the end of the APC presidential screening exercise at the Transcope Hill in Abuja. Fortunately for him, Roger Scorcha perfected his bill terms that was released and let go and made it just on time to the APC presidential screening venue. What are your thoughts on that? It was some mild drama when he arrived the venue. Well, I must commend the APC. Because it's so such, you know, a lot of the competition slander the competition where we need to be arrested for some difficulty process. Yes, no doubt. But then if you go to the reserve, you know that the APC acted within the path, because within the path of the APC, how can I jump in? He was granted administrative and he said that he's done the with us extremely responsible. But after he does that, given his status in the society, he can just do anything and go away with it. So I love what the APC, I must commend the APC for that, but a lot of people are just boiling with the timing, because I think it was been essential to denying the screening and so I learned like I said the right to contest. And another of these critics, he actually decided to release the photo on the day, like if it's a penalty, for him to go for the screening. Another order I'm telling you is that there is no ceremony, there is no activity. The man was found guilty, was accused, not found guilty, was accused, charged to court, granted bail of self-recognition and he went on debate. Such a man, I must, sir, I'm sorry to say, is irresponsible. What does he think? Who are you? Nobody's above the law. If you are asked to appear in court on a particular day, why won't you appear in court? You see, we cannot continue to tolerate this act of impunity. And so I love what the LCCD and I must commend that they also admitted it to go, for him to go for the screening. In order to prove to the world that no, we are not acting at the behest of anybody, we are not doing this to define him or his right to contest for the presidency. We are only doing this because he's done better. And we have to prove that the U.S. is not to be tried for you. And that is what the LCCD said. I'm very impressed with the LCCD and commend the chairman of the LCCD. All right, all right, let's move over to the nation. New separate gives some attention to the fallout from the PDP, a presidential primary where Amino Tambo, governor of Sakata State, publicly stepped aside in support of Attico Walker, moved that many believe suede the delegates vote in favor of Attico Walker, thereby giving victory over Yesomike. Well, and many know so well each leader, Chief Edwin Clarke, has come out, scathingly criticizing the PDP chairman, Dr. Yorche Aayu, for calling Amino Tambo a hero of the PDP. And that headline on the front page of the nation newspaper, Clarke demands Aayu's sack over Tamboa, said that the national chairman of the PDP, Dr. Yorche Aayu and Sakata State governor, Amino Tamboa, came under scathing criticism from Ejo leader, Chief Edwin Clarke, the other statesman asked Aayu to step aside from office for describing Tamboa as a hero of the PDP. Clarke berated Aayu and demanded his resignation for what he called quote, undignified and parochial conduct. Your thoughts open up one, Kutaira. Well, for an outlier, to publicly comment Tamboa and also the third name after Aayu is a little resourceful. It simply means is by act. But we all imagine Tamboa as a politician. I mean, we all put the amount through. So definitely you have to have your biases, whether you like it or not. Bias is people or a game, if it's not the best. But the truth about it is that you shouldn't have come out publicly as an umpire to have commended or expected. But one thing to which you'll understand that this thing did not just happen. The whole thing was orchestrated. It was architecture to happen that way. And that is the unity we have in the north that we lack in the south. Now even in years of, even if Tamboa has not said that I don't think yes or no would have worked. Probably the gap the gap would have been reduced. The number would have been not that we could have worked. Now you are a governor at long ahead with all your southern brothers. You can see the unity in the north. This should teach us a lesson. You are a governor at long ahead with all your southern brothers. A just a governor is not with you. Uh, Ocola is almost neutral. That as you know a lot of issues tend to be with Olicosa. With the ordinarily I must tell you just like Dr. Pete Ocola ordinarily would have won this election. But in the morning your local issues you are at every point in time you are attacking one person or the other not just criticizing them attacking their persons their families their parents their wives their children the so-called have to follow their bubble even the issue of donating monies to stay six hundred million five hundred two hundred million let me tell you even those God mother are receiving the money will begin to wonder if this money becomes the present of this money is going to please our church right? Pensioners are complaining it's in the news they're also yeah you say oh look you know there beneath that app we are all going to we will no longer have this immunity very soon we'll be should make it now the strip of our immunity even we are stripped of our immunity this one that is inferior to criticisms but is quick act to decide about us I don't think we will be able to tolerate us because at that time there is no more immunity we'll be stripped of and arrested detained and prosecuted as well till there are all the issues that they must have put into consideration in the blood against the success that is the truth so but look on first fact otherwise he would have won landslide landslide but a lot of these God mother would have said ah okay look at what they have point about themselves they have said not as good look at what nah you're not getting the vote from your southern God mother telling you you don't have support from the home base that is the south side and you are feeling the south side of the trip what do you think this is good the notice also works you know you go and tell him you say things in church you say come that fire and people will begin to ah ah ah your cronies you are lieutenant might praise you they might protect you they might hate you but my dear this is your state we are talking of national president so they will begin is this presidential in nature okay went to casino you are using the casino state okay this government came to reverse it to visit the later my mother sarcasm because it is not informing oh no one of is a you said all kinds of things again but you went to acoustic you did not inform the this government you went to acoustic you went and learned before the beneath monarchy before the beneath monarchy the beneath monarchy is not superior to the the calabary monarchy or the monarchy or the upover monarchy you went and learned before the beneath monarchy but here you sit down and you hold your own things in concert oh if you don't what kind of here if you don't come here and do oh look at this small boy he's the today they think where the small boy running around you and you these things are telephiles you are talking about the osman down for you incident that is just the issue come watch that yes indeed indeed that what he did and if you're the master through I commend you big ones because that is what you lack in the south I will tell you something about the coffee let me end on this too I'll tell you this coffee if you go out there to say your father is an idiot you don't expect others to respect your father it is the respect you give to your father that will make others respect your father that is the truth of how Nigerians are watched and it's he's gone not like he's really kind of person that will come and rule over all tomorrow when trouble that is what happened but that is with your it's not it would have worked but he did a perfect work in terms to complain in terms of trying to win over delicate he didn't wear just like Dr. Fitzhotton ultimately this was denied participation because they knew that it had a lot of work he knew that one man's life because he did his own work very well but he might have convinced you for one reason or the other when you don't need to solve that what did you see that's too much okay let's see what my decision okay let's have a brilliant decision for one or two reasons so you have to be clear that there when you know that you have such a presidential ambition you have to be circumspecting what aspect you do there's not just a level of panache and echo in all you do because the world is watching despite the problem with the state government all right interesting analysis from U.P. and NABO in Kota'a of course you saved us as a special advisor to the governor in his first time and you know quite well the workings of Government House would hack it as much as better than most people so you know what you're talking about let's move back to the punch in this paper Mr. President is flying he's flying high again the paper says Buhari and Baxon it's on eighth foreign trip in five months this time around the president is on a two-day state visit to Madrid the capital of Spain interesting one this is an invitation by his Spanish counterpart Pedro or Pedro Sanchez your thoughts on this I'm sure the immediate reaction of the average Nigerian out there will be again so what do you say about this this is the system deceiving the world the invitation the president to just call his colleague colleague to say can I come and the colleague will do if you call him would you know are you sure are you sure Openaboy Gutierrez are you sure are you sure about that and the colleague will say okay come then he's the media if you call yes you say on the invitation of the president of Spain I better forget all of it the man is just calling him what has come out of all the jobs the man is just enjoying his last minutes oh I should be out of better let me enjoy the Paracanelli of office the Paxon office I don't know I don't know he's all in that of the so why should this even be used he's all in that of the because he will come again and leave again the next one that he's going to invite him the American oppressors will invite I don't know because he's going to have to sleep he's all in that of the last he's going to invite him the American people will invite him very soon Joe the the great president will invite him the Kanyan president will invite him he's only for himself he will make a phone call to say invite me so that I can tell my people that I've been invited he wants to leave I don't know if he has issues to toss over or if he has this pen shop for playing I thought I can't even comprehend it but I've not even seen he doing something most of these things but what does this have to do with the economy on security but but open up open up boy I mean open up boy you are like you're claiming yeah open up boy claiming the president is the one who requests for these I can't hear you I can't hear you oh my can you hear me now yes you're claiming the president is the one who who requests for these trips but it's quite clear that I mean can he make the Spanish president invite him I mean this is going across or beyond the the diplomatic red line if you want to tell the president of another country what to do and I think that is against normal diplomatic practice some would argue that president can tell the president of another country what to do I don't know if you can hear me now let me quickly there is really nothing that is not even wrong in calling another president to say can I visit your country you could go there for political reasons for economic reasons and so there is nothing wrong the point that maybe we are looking at the reasonableness in most of the students what is the impact that it is going to do it it's not again any diplomatic no it's not I mean if you have to if I can decide that the president to say I want to visit Ghana I call the president Ghana president please can I come and you might tell me oh yes we are under the economic issues to discuss we have these political issues security issues there is nothing wrong what I am saying is this what is the impact of these tricks what are the impacts that is the point every time he is the most troubled president in the history of this country I want to be most troubled in the history of the war what are the impacts the effects I mean when presidents open I want to tell you yeah I guess but there is an impact on the economy impact on the security of the nation on the safety of the on the continued existence of the nation what is the impact that is what we are talking about this is seven years now what are the impacts and most of these tricks are not necessary because there are things you could discuss over the phone that's the point we are making and you search the country millions of men are going to accept this and fly out to the country get rid of this the financial resources that is the point we are making that is the point we are making all right open up on this area you know in times past when presidents are back on these trips they say they are going to look for foreign investors but anyway you've made the point that it's too much coming from this president he's expected back in the country on Friday days before the APC presidential primary which holds on June 6th to June 8th but if you remember one of his I don't see where he comes back and I don't want to be for 10 days in the heart of the country but you know one of the last times one of the last times he traveled it was when he was meant to meet with the APC governance to discuss the issue of the party's convention and you know the successor to Maima Labuni and just before there was this internal confusion you know John Akpano do it again saying so since Maima Labuni was not around he was meant to be there the Niger State Governor coming out to say no he has a letter the man is no more the he's a new chairman and all that that confusion the governance went to me with the president and he left the country and didn't meet with them I don't know if this this trip also is his style of saying I don't want anyone to come and see me regarding the APC primary I'll come back just before the primary so that no one I will be inaccessible remember Boonee had to travel from Dubai to I think Paris where the president or London where the president was to see him regarding the the internal crisis in the APC of its leadership so do you think maybe the president is trying to be inaccessible for now till the primary is around the corner No I don't I don't think I agree Mr. President then Mr. President is a memory is made of his mind and this is made of his mind and usually cannot be swayed the man no good is going to succeed him that's the truth about and is going to beat it down the neck and I must commend him for not shifting his thoughts you know a lot of people will tell you I will never input the candidate or you and at the end of the day they will put the candidate or you are they can try to challenge them but this is the president that says please if the government does not do that allow me to do my success if it's not like if you go if you succeed you are in your what is a success you can fight if it doesn't succeed you'll fight but the matter that he came out to say that I must commend him maybe his military background helps him but I must commend I'm not the one that will come out to say I don't want to input the candidate may or maybe I did that for official to asking delegates to put the candidate and not eyes of Senanigan but the one I said I want to go too so I must commend him for being very honest with my colleagues interesting one indeed open up I want to tell you well the the point she's about give a a rundown of the countries the president has visited visited he says that with this trip to Spain you know to Madrid where he also meet the Spanish monarchy the president will have visited eight countries in the past five months that is quite a record they say he had in may visited oh down in May the paper says he visited United Arab Emirates where he paid a condolence visit to the country over the loss of its immediate pastita so the pastida president died and he went there to say sorry to them also he went there to say sorry yes forgive my brother no but condolence you know there is a problem that President extend condolence visit you he went there to say sorry he said sorry you know the relationship between Nigeria and Dubai you know and the UAE where a lot of people go well in that same May the president went to Iqotorak Guinea where he attended the extraordinary summit of the African Union and he also went to Ivory Coast from there where he attended the 15th session of the conference of parties of the United Nations Convention to combat there's a desertification Buhairi also visited Brussels, Belgium in February joined other world leaders for the sixth European African Union Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and March he was there for the 50th anniversary of the UN environmental program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under in February for the 35th ordinary session of the assembly of African Union heads of state and government and in London UK in March for a two week medical trip and what's all these trips are really important international commitments that he must fulfill EU UN AU UNEP including the country land you see well that's just one including the country land you see all right anyway you open up about what we are talking about but there is this there is this there is this there is this what's that called the mine mining mining this mining explosion in South Africa put it I don't I don't know how to describe it I know that the South Africa this last mine and so on the old land yes yes yes yes so I I just hope that he will soon go to South Africa to also it's with with the with the South Africa on that as well it's okay it's okay open up open up open up I think that when I was I mean that was where I mean that was good good as well as others when I was going to America to also so you want you want to turn you want to turn a president I mean it's also international policy you want to turn a president into a condolence messenger we refuse that we refuse that open up for thank you very thank you very much for your time and I hope to see you sometime soon on the program all right we'll be all right thank you good morning good morning that's it enough for press we'll be right back with more we delve into our first major conversation in a matter of minutes please stay with us