 Attico Boca has emerged as the presidential candidate of Nigeria's opposition, PDP, but who are those he could face in that election? We look at the chances of his contenders this morning on the breakfast. And the ruling of Progressive Congress has screened the presidentialist's parents for his forthcoming presidential primary. We look at what transpired at the screening of the ruling party yesterday. And we have analysis from today's headlines of the pages of today's national dailies in off the press. There's a moorhead on the breakfast this morning. Very good morning to you all. Welcome to The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I'm Kofi Battels. It's a beautiful Tuesday morning reaching you live from our studios on Victoria Island Lagos. We have interesting conversations but let's start off as usual with our trending segment on the program. Yesterday it was jibylation and celebration as three days after picking the membership card of the Labour Party, Peter Obey, from a government of a number of states and from a presidential aspirant on the platform of the People's Democratic Party emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Interesting scenes right there in Delta State where the presidential primary of the Labour Party held vague contenders for that ticket of the party stepped down. They all stepped down for Peter Obey who wrote triumphantly like Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. He wrote triumphantly to pick the ticket of Labour Party. Let's go down to Delta State and to the venue of the presidential primary of Labour Party and let's listen to what Peter Obey had to say after he was declared the presidential candidate of Labour Party. We need to rebuild here. We need to give the future generation a hope in this country. A country that is so endeared with human and natural resources that have been mismanaged over the years needs to turn around and that is the work of just... All right indeed there were scenes of jibylation and excitement there. You had the likes of Professor Pat Utomi stepping down for Dr Peter Obey and most of the candidates had good things actually, all the candidates on their aspirants for the Labour Party ticket had good things to say about Peter Obey and why they were stepping aside for him to write triumphantly to pick that ticket and become the party's presidential candidate. Don't forget six days ago on the 25th of May Peter Obey announced to his teaming supporters that he was resigning his membership of the People's Democratic Party. What are people saying about this? Have expressed happiness that Peter Obey has finally clinched a presidential ticket and they are saying they are moving to the Labour Party. I can imagine the Labour Party's followership online in particular on Twitter where it seems a lot of the conversation is going on has increased and will continue increasing. In fact they have given themselves a name Peter Obey FC. However the presidential candidate now of the Labour Party had to caution his supporters on Twitter yesterday to take it easy and to have some decorum in their conversations and in their companion for him on the social media application and across social media sites. He said that it had come to his attention that some of his supporters had been attacking and other candidates and he didn't like that. Quite interesting, the presidential primary had a lot of intrigues and had a big media attention. It was sort of a celebration of sorts because it was quite clear that this was going to happen at the end of the day. You had some talk a few weeks ago about three to four weeks ago about a certain mega-party being created to be the third force in Nigeria's election and the Labour Party was touted as being the party of choice or the consensus party to fly the flag of this third force coalition in the 2023 elections. It remains to be seen how this will go. If that happens that will be quite an interesting one and probably a stroke of genius as far as Peter Obey is concerned. However some of the political parties like the New Nigeria People's Party had come out to deny involvement in that coalition or that third force mega-party as it was called. But it remains to be seen names like that of Dr. Professor Rada Patutomi, Atari Ujjaga, you have the likes of Fermi Falano and his own movement were said to be part of this mega-force or third force as it's called in Nigerian politics. It remains to be seen whether Labour Party will be eventually adopted. Never say never. As far as Nigerian politics is concerned, never say never. Will the other parties adopt Labour Party? Will they come together to form a third force in Nigeria's politics? What are the pros and the advantages for Peter Obey on the ticket of this party? Well Labour Party is aligned to the Labour movement in Nigeria. It's actually founded on the Labour movement in Nigeria and you have the Nigeria Labour Congress having chapters all across the country, across the states in the country, workers belong to the Nigeria Labour Congress. It is a workers, Nigeria's own version of the workers party and I'm sure that if this is able to, you know, if this is able to be, if this can be carried out successfully and Labour is able to take on the responsibility of campaigning for this party then it might just be a good day for Peter Obey at the polls in 2023 and the man spared no effort on Twitter in telling his supporters why he decided to join Labour Party and one of the reasons that he gave was that the party was a workers party, it looks after the welfare of workers, a working class and all that. So if that can happen we see the Nigeria Labour Congress, even the trade union Congress pulling its weight or putting its weight behind Peter Obey and behind this party then it might turn out successfully for the gentleman. But some people have said that a vote for Peter Obey is a wasted vote. Some have also said that Labour Party does not have what it takes to give Peter Obey the ticket. They've talked about structure, I mean the party has chapters in every state but some are saying this party won only 5,074 votes in the 2019 general elections and asking you know why or how such a party should be relied on to challenge the APC that produced more than 15 million votes for President Buhari in 2019 or the PDP that produced over 11 million votes for Atikwa-Bubakar in 2019. Now the Labour Party's vote of 5,074 amounted to 0.022% of the votes cast in the presidential elections in 2019, 0.022% of votes cast in the presidential elections in 2019. That's quite minute and I'm sure if you ask a lot of people they will not remember who the candidates of Labour Party were in the 2019 general elections. And these are some things people are pointing to however you have those who said that they are going to galvanise support especially is Twitter based you know and that they believe that Peter Obey can do what some people are saying he cannot do which is claim to presidential ticket and they've said if you have all the young people, if you have all the people on Twitter you know coming out offline, going into the streets, going into the communities and conversing for votes for Peter Obey he just might have a failed day at the end of the day. So let's see how it goes right there with Labour Party and Dr Peter Obey in the 2019 general election. All right, it's been quite a fallout from the People's Democratic Party presidential primary. Of course, Attiku Boko has since been elected the flag bearer of the PDP for the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria. Attiku spent the next day, yesterday, going around meeting with some of his fellow contenders for that ticket in the Abuja Residences. I mean if you're a politician, ranking or leading politician in Nigeria these days you should have an Abuja resident. He met the likes of Yeson Mike whose picture you can see there and Mike had to come out to say some things but a major statement that was made by Yeson Mike was a tweet he put out that he will support whoever emerges as the candidate for the PDP indeed that is Attiku Abu Bakar. He also, when he landed in Portugal, addressed his supporters, supporters of the People's Democratic Party in River State and Yeson Mike, wow, you know, completing about setting the gang up, you know, setting the governors from the south who were unreliable and didn't keep to the award and all that at the end of the day said that he's a PDP man through and through that he was going to keep to his promise he made or the promise he made at the presidential primary where he gave his speech and in his speech he said that he will support anyone who wins that primary election. So he reaffirmed that when he addressed his supporters in Port Hacott at a government house where they had a meeting and he said that he was going to work for the PDP, he said that he was going to support Attiku Abu Bakar and he also went out to put a tweet where he said that he will support Attiku Abu Bakar and work for the PDP in the 2023 presidential election. Mike has always flaunted his credential as being a true party man. He's spent the effort in telling the delegates that he traversed the country to seek for their support that he remained or has been in the party in the PDP since it was founded in 1998. He has never gone anywhere like he always says and not to go anywhere. Attiku Abu Bakar himself has been to the APC and back, the likes of Bukolasa Aki have also been to the APC and back but Mike has remained. So he's saying that he, in pledging his support for Attiku Abu Bakar, despite losing that presidential primary to him is being a true party man like he has always been. And indeed the reaction has been quite favorable for yes and Mike with supporters of Attiku Abu Bakar and supporters of the People's Democratic Party expressing their pleasure in the position that he has taken up. Attiku spent time to also visit other contenders as well trying to unify the party and one of his five agendas or five points agenda in his campaign has been unifying the country and also I'm sure that before you unify the country you have to unify your party and that is what it seems that Attiku Abu Bakar is doing. All right, the wreckage of a missing plane was found out of foothills of Nepal's Himalayas, Himalayan mountains yesterday after it went missing the day before with 22 people on board and no one likes to hear a plane crash story. No one likes to hear a plane crash story. The Himalayas are quite a rough terrain and that's where you have a range of some of the tallest mountains in the world and it's quite a rough terrain, harsh terrain and not a good place for any mishap to happen. Well the Nepali Army spokesman Narayan Silwal said that the plane was found somewhere in Saroswar which is in the Mustang district, Himalayan district, northwest of Kathmandu. Happens to be the capital of Nepal. Rescue team member told newsmen that the search was looking at the search team was looking at for possible survivors from the crash but was not optimistic about finding 80 now. The wreckage was found at an altitude of guess what around 4,000 meters that's quite a lot and an international mountain guide by the name Narendra Shahi said the Nepal Army search and rescue team was currently at the crash site. It's quite a sad one. The plane is a tower airlines plane which was flying from Jomsom to Pokhara which is a popular tourist hub around 200 kilometers west of the capital Kathmandu and we're told the plane had three crew members and 19 passengers on board when it lost contact with the air traffic controller at about 9 55 a.m. or at about 4 10 GMT or 4 10 hours GMT on Sunday. There were four Indians two Germans and 16 Nepali nationals on board very unfortunate one very rocky and rough terrain where you have amongst the highest mountains in the world the Himalayas we do hope and we do pray that at some point they will find some survivors if possible all of the passengers alive. All right that's the much we can take on the training segment when we come back we look at the headlines of the pages of today's national dailies in Off The Press stay with us.