 It's still the breakfast in plus TV Africa. Thanks for staying with us and also thanks for joining us. Well, as always, at this point, we go through the pages of the national dailies. We call it Off the Press and G.D. Johnson joins the conversation. G.D., it's good to have you join us. Good morning, Mexico. Good morning to you and good morning to our viewers. It's nice to be here. Thank you for having me. Well, let's set off with the leadership newspaper. Five days to campaign, federal government, a Ticu set tone for political fireworks. Interesting caption. Lai Mohamed accuses ex-Vice President of Copping, President Mohamed Buhari's economic playbook. You lied, apologize, and I jureans. PDP flag bearer tells minister, keep campaign with extant laws, IGP wants politicians. And so 28 is the date that everyone's been waiting for, especially the politicians. Again, electricity workers threatened to shut down national greed. 28 died in Headsman attack and boat mishap in Benway. Abiola's widow arrested over assault and female pleas, oddly. In New York, President Mohamed Buhari was investors. Says, ain't security will end soon. That's it this morning on the leadership. Let's move straight to the punch. We have some interesting stories. The lead one on the front page, article PDP, their weekend marketing day begin campaigns Wednesday. Article PDP, their marketing day, we can declare a begin campaigns Wednesday. Writers, La Mido or La Fecho, Momodou, other heavyweights, Bach party preach peace. PDP governor's forum to meet IU, Tikuakawa, say, Tambua, Wabara, or Wabara, the BOT chair. BOT meets weekend today. River's governor vows to remain in PDP, fight for equity. Here he from the grapevine have given a nationwide broadcast tomorrow. That's how this thing has gotten serious. A nationwide broadcast tomorrow to the entire country. UNGA, Buhari Wu's investors says Nigeria requires 348 trillion naira. One wonders if they wanna bring the money in, see that some investors are not able to get their money out. Rate Hikes May Trigger Recession, World Bank, Warns FG, Dogara Lawak, I can't, or can't rather intimidate Tinnabu on Muslim Muslim ticket. Dogara Lawak can't intimidate Tinnabu on Muslim Muslim ticket. Nigeria needs help to tackle debt burden at the African Development Bank, saying that electricity consumers pay 210 billion naira in three months. Interesting one. ASU Appeals Ruling says FG has declared war. Presidential candidates signed Peace Pact Thursday. Military to bombard bandits asks residents to relocate. 245 killed in Kaduna community attacks says Monek. Keridulu fumes as FG denies Omoteku Far Arms License. And Hudlums Rensak, Lute Ogre School, pupils sent home headlines on front page of the punch. Away from the punch, the daily trust has before us. Buhari to investors, capital inflow a major challenge. Of course, the president's warring investors categorize our stolen crude as blood oil. Keridulu is quoted underneath the board caption. Nigeria needs help to tackle debt burden a day sooner. And mentally, interest rate will continue to increase. And 2023, IGP puts police commanders on alert. Baz Omoteku, ESN, others from election campaigns. ASU NITDA says IPPIS and UTAs fail integrity tests as reps summons S, GF, A, GF and others. I mean, this is really interesting because I remember when you have the lecture saying that UTAs actually passed integrity tests and what have you now. The reporters that IPPIS and UTAs failed integrity tests. Governors, BOT and FreshMove to resolve PDP crisis and police killed 16 year old Artisan injured two orders in JOS. Well, that's the much we can take this morning on the daily trust newspaper. And very quickly, the nation newspaper has these headlines. Audit, federal government takes steps to deregister ASU. Audit, FG takes steps to deregister ASU, union accused of infractions for five years. It's all about blackmail Cesar Sodeke. Maybe indeed he declared war on ASU as they are saying or as the ASU officials are saying. I'm going to take a call to carry weapons as Cesar cared to do. Why on the gun clash over riverine communities? Why on the gun clash over riverine communities? Thank you very much. Tamboal is NGF interim chair as five me heads for AF, how leaders can achieve good governance by stakeholders. WCA to expose characters in PDP, disguising as leaders, one from the nation newspaper. So as other stories that we have there, Tico's economic blueprint won't fly, says minister PDP APC have no manifesto, or PDP APC has no manifesto or some of the headlines on the front page of the nation newspaper. Tilly Johnson, no one always bring the ASU stories to you first because of your background in the academics or academia. So what are your thoughts on this rumor that the federal government is about to register the union? Don't forget we have Conwa already in the works. They already have a website up. They were at the industrial court the other day when this order was made. But what if it says they're threatened by the federal government to withdraw the certification of registration, the C.O.R. of ASU, introduce a new twist to the rift between the two bodies yesterday. The new twist came barely a day after the national industrial court injunction ordering the VACI workers to return to classroom. But the paper says that the government threatening to withdraw this, the union C.O.R. because of its alleged failure to submit the financial reports, financial reports of its audited accounts as required by law in the last five years. The last five years. I think that government is just trying to use some of the good means under on tactics that is to declare to military, administration and the territorial and authoritarian governments. And this does not work. We have been various attempting the past from government to ban ASU using this type of means. I just don't think that our politicians and our public administrator to learn from history. History is the best teacher in attempt by government to do this in the past. It does not work. So any attempt by government to do this now will not work. I think using the court system, using the territory that the best resolution to any dispute is for parties to sit down and agree on an issue. Even the court system will always advise parties to go and have a dispute resolution for coming to court if the cases could be, if the issue could be resolved through dispute resolution other than coming to court, they will be fine with it. I think government just had an approach of engaging us, looking for ways and means to appeal to ASU to ensure that the issue is solved. And this particular issue is resolved. Like it was funded in one of your reports. What is our stake is about integrity, integrity's test. Over the years, as I've gone on strike and they've caught up the strike, thinking that government will feel is not part of the budget. But what we have seen is government failure to feel is not part of the budget. And there is this determination on the part of ASU to ensure that they get all their demands from government. However, personally, if you ask me, I don't think there should be an association for university lecturers. These are professionals, these are co-academics. That's my personal opinion. Wow. Which, which that's my, because I don't think I don't see. I don't think associations of lecturers in the university should be operating like a trade union, using trade union tactics and the rest of that. I might be wrong, but it's my own opinion. But Nigeria is where you have different types of association. Where you have Nigeria Medical Association. You have different professional bodies having medical association operating as labor union. We also have it in our own industry too. You know, you have Nigerian journalist too. So essentially it's, there are so many operations when it comes to industrial relations in Nigeria, particularly when you talk about employee, employers employee relationship. But most of these things were as a result of too many years that we have under military administration. So you have to have labor union to deal with this, with this very special interest with the military government which was not democratically elected and which it was not abstract or the institution to deal with some certain issue. And we are still suffering from that with respect to our government related to various professional bodies in the various industries and in the various sectors of our economy. But I think that government should just continue with the engagement. You can involve traditional rulers with them. You can involve the parents, parents or students all across. First and foremost, these lecturers themselves too are parents. They have their own children too. And most of us should not forget that most of these lecturers to have children in federal university. So what is affecting other people's children is also affecting their children and those that do not have children, have grandchildren that are in this federal school. So you see, there's more to it than meets the eye. But my candid advice is that using this subject which means and all of these underarm tactics that you have with the territorial government, authoritarian government and military government will not work, will not, will not, it didn't work in the past. Government had been attempts to prescribe NLC, to prescribe Pegasus, to prescribe Nupeng, to prescribe Asu, you recall. In fact, the democracy we are enjoying today was as a result of government attempt to stifle the Libyan Union in Nigeria. And rather than stifle them for the federal government for that reinforced this association in their determination to fight for what they believe in. Well, last quickly, look at the leadership newspaper, the very interesting headline. It talks about, you know, just five days to the campaign and the federal government and Attico have set a tone for political fireworks. Now, there's been an accusation by Lai Muhammad saying that the former vice president copied President Muhammad Buhari's economic playbook in talking about provision of infrastructure or what have you, just a replication. But do you think that that's the case? What are your thoughts on that? I mean, I'd allow you to share your thoughts, really. Well, if you do that, we'll copy them. President Buhari's blueprint. What's the big deal about that? In fact, Lai Muhammad should be glad about that, that their position is trying to use the template of what they are using. And we should also be good for their government. If indeed you want continuity of project, all we have seen as a challenge in Nigeria is when government coming in from the same party, they abandoned the project that was embarked upon by their predecessor. And then they've gone on their own projects. So we don't have continuity. Besides that fact, we don't know the blueprint which Lai Muhammad is talking about. I don't know the blueprint. I don't know whether you have seen the blueprint or whether Kofi Tua has seen the blueprint. I have not seen the blueprint of what he's talking about. And then even if he's talking about the blueprint, we have not seen the reality of the blueprint on the ground in Nigeria as well as Amphaz. And it's just purely campaign. Red Rigs are looking for a revenge. How many times have you seen Lai Muhammad in the news? Completely. He's been out of circulation. He's been out of news. He's not even in the campaign. He's not even in the campaign team of the EPC. You can imagine if the minister of information and culture of a sitting government is not in the campaign team of the presidential campaign team of his party, there's a lot about that Karaka. GD, I'd like us to talk about this again. I mean, so what should be the blueprint of this political aspirant, presidential aspirant or flagvers of different parties? Because we're talking about the issues that we're faced with. I mean, if someone says they are existing because they want to create, I mean, they want to ensure that they are job creation, provision of infrastructure, and all of that. Are these not really the problems that we're faced with? Should it be something abstract that we expect in anything different from what they do? So what we should do when we go into the campaign season, we start on Wednesday, is to go into the specifics. You can't just tell us you provide infrastructure. What is infrastructure? That's big. You see, that's an objective. Make it, you turn your objective into a goal. A goal is a measurable objective that have timelines for delivery books, that have benchmark for evaluation. So we actually want to create jobs. How many jobs are you going to create? OK, through which sector? You give a sector by sector analysis. In the educational sector, in the oil and gas sector, these jobs are going to create. And these are going to be, knowing what to say is important. Knowing how to say it is vitally important. You can state what you want to do. Everybody can state it. But tell us how you are going to do what you want to do. And this is the key question we should ask. And it's very simple. It's responsibility for you and me and Kofi to ask them to put into question, to apply the principle of 5Ws and H into what they are going to do. Will they keep saying, if you apply the 5Ws and H, which is the what, the who, the where, the how, and the why, to any issue. It will lead the issue there. If you throw that issue on any person, on any issue, it will answer all questions. That's the question we need to ask when it comes to this. I have done this in the past. No, we are not interested in the past. What are you going to do in the future? I've done this. This is my economic blueprint. I've done this in Lagos. Fantastic. Donalists will go. We'll review what has been done in Lagos. I've done this in Anambra State. Donalists will go and review what you have done. I've done this in Adamawa. I've done this. Donalists will go. We'll review it and we'll throw spotlight into it. Our responsibility is to question the intention of those that want to cover us so that we can throw such light into it. We can make it clear that, ordinarily, I can see what is in their blueprint. Okay, Hina Johnson, very quickly, because of time, the leadership we saw on the front page talking about the tone being said by PDP, Tico ahead of the campaign's beginning. But on the daily trust, very quickly on the daily trust, in a few sentences, the paper is telling us the IGP, while the leadership is talking about political fireworks, the IGP doesn't want to see the fireworks exploding to something else or metamorphosing to a bomb. So, if paper says the IGP is putting police commanders on a let, it's his bad omote from us and others from election campaigns. Not just from current weapons from election campaigns, he's warning politicians against violence and hate speech. Is this a real issue, real threat ahead of the commencement of campaigns for the 2023 election? We still have the vestiges of military, the characterization of militarization in our political speech, even in our administrative speech, in our public service speeches by respected people. They are not democratic, they are not, the democratic culture have not been embraced by people that we have given authority of the state to in Nigeria. We are still operating a civilian administration, not a democratic administration. People have just changed the clothes they are wearing into civilian, a civilian dress, civil dresses, but they don't know what obtains in the democratic culture. Why would the IGP be warning people? There's no need for that, for that statement. All he needs to do is to just put in place his own past, his own structure and anyone that goes outside of the door. It prosecute, but we have a lot of grandstanding from different types of people. I've seen the grandstanding of the institutional police. You still see the grandstanding of ICPC. You see the grandstanding of EFCC. Agencies that should just go about doing their normal business, but because they want to be in the conversation, they want to be in the news, they'll gather themselves together and they'll make some statement, statement that you think should not come from people that are operating in a democratic space. Now, when he's saying that a motorcycle should not carry firearms, you'll be shocked that you have private bodyguards of the political class carrying firearms during this particular election. You have different BGVL and T-groups across the nation, across the length and breadth of this nation, carrying firearms. Even some don't even have to ask for the permission to carry it because they cannot be prosecuted. We've seen cases whereby government officials, state governors and people that have authority have justified some people carrying firearms to protect their business. So it's... Interesting, interesting. So we would like to thank you, Jilly Johnson, for your time. Let's see how it pans out. We have a few days to go before the campaigns begin. And NS and we can't wait, but we'd like to call it today with you at this juncture. Thank you so much for your kind time. It's a pleasure to be with you, Kofi, and make sure that you enjoy yourself over this time. Fantastic. Before the fireworks start. You too. I need to make... Before the fireworks starts on Wednesday. I'm telling you. We can't wait. All right. We have a break, of course. I will bring you a recap of what happened today in history. When we come back, we'll dive straight into a first major conversation. Please stay with us.