 Welcome back, here's the breakfast and plus TV Africa time for of the press is the time where we take you through the pages of a national dailies I mean the newspaper review and Check out some of the top stories on our front pages. We do have I guess joining us this morning GD Johnson, it's good to have you join us Good morning JJ Okay Well, we'll take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning and Friday and as always Focus would be on the top captioned on the leadership the APC convention consensus deal shaky 24 hours after President Muhammad the Buhari's meeting with aspirant and that's the board captioned for The leadership this morning our McCreery Mustafa invokes section 182 subsection 3 section 84 subsection 9 of the electoral act stipulated in written consent of all aspirant to seal Consensus I find this very interesting because Yesterday when we're talking You know with one of our analysts we talked about the issue of having people to agree If you're talking about the consensus because the for the APC they are saying oh, yes The APC is taking you know, they're opting towards What you know the consensus candidate for you know, the candidate that the president had actually put out so they would go for the Option of consensus candidate, but we understand what this part of the section talks about and so now It is what we're talking about is the an agreement at the end of this So you have those who don't feel very comfortable this looking at the electoral act that stipulates a written consent of all aspirant to seal The consensus and the section 82 subsection 3 section 84 subsection 9 of the electoral act stipulates that Let's go into go on. That's what some people up You know putting out their president Muhammad the very host APC founding fathers and lobby lawmakers Once again squabbles these are the right is underneath the board caption again We have zoning tradition and PDP IU is courted to say Zoning tradition in PDP or be that's Peter B joins presidential race on that the people's democratic party fuel crisis distributors it man resolved to end tanker drivers strike and that's also another one Amidst the issue of fuel scarcity and all of the hiccups that we're facing at the time It's time for drastic action to save Nigeria From a government of legacy to see what your ball out Martinable is quoted to say I can't I can clear federal government's 97 billion dollars debt in 12 months Sam Zaga is quoted on that one and let's see how he does that I'm sure that you know it would be an idea that a lot of people will embrace But this is some of the headlines That we can take on the leadership away from the leadership I was light on next to the daily trust newspaper this morning The lead caption there north south in epic battle of a presidential ticket We care fuel in agitation for southern presidency will reach out to other aspirants Tambo Are you urges aspirants to accept zoning committees decision open contest? Best option those are the writers underneath that caption there other stories are just below the must-have I'm not aware of consensus president should campaign for his candidate That's according to the governor of a kitty state fire me Buhari hosts tinabu akon de anichi of us to Dina Also on the daily trust newspaper a fresh controversy of a new Lagos Airport terminal Nigerian army commences selection process for short service We are confused by court's orders on eboni governor's defection That's attributed to I neck and just below the pictorial there How troops destroyed 49 illegal refineries in Delta state? Those are all the stories you can find on the front page of the daily trust newspaper Away from the daily trust we take a quick look at the punch newspaper and a PC convention Buhari battles last-minute crisis summons governor's chairmanship aspirants Fail to agree. I take that again Buhari battles last-minute crisis summons governor's and chairmanship aspirants failed to agree Just the how many more days before that election. It's on the 26th Okay, so today's the 25th. So you have just a day to go. Let's see how he pans out for the APC Tunubu ex governor Hakon de Mids president and villa over almost sure as choice as secretary ruling party bars political appointees from Saturday's national convention this what's dominating the papers this morning and Just before we move away 12,977 children among 207,977 Tobacco this case recorded in 2021 is second into the federal government. Yes, they was world to Tobacco's this day really really sad. I mean if you look at the you know the statistics the children about 12,977 One would not think that you know children would be prone to this This IG distributes 257 253 trucks APC other vehicles uniform to Formation IG distributes 253 trucks APC Other vehicles and uniform for formation. That's what you find and Fashola reinstate second Niger breach 2022 completion date blames. I pop okay, and Just before we move away suspected quarters Invited gang member to rape 22 year old lover. That's what the pleases saying right here Very very sad story this morning and capital importation suffers 300 a beg your pardon capital importation suffers 30% decline records 6.7 billion dollars and CDS silver orders vow to crush all thieves lament crushing revenue I You'm tumble wall Bouchie governor picks presidential form consults on consensus IOC sphere collapse as I federal government says 1.36 trillion our crude stolen in for ten months. There's a lot of headlines on The punch newspaper this morning and finally we reviewed the nation newspaper Convention why we chose consensus option by APC. That's the lead story on the nation Party to abide by electoral act president solicits unity among party stakeholders Above the masthead Ibrahim ordered to publish court records against Amcon MD reps section 84 subsection 12 remains part of electoral act reps is saying that section 84 subsection 12 remains part of electoral act raise for PDP Ticket Sarah key tumble wall Mohammed meet a tick who are named others on Likely consensus or be joints raised more aspirants peak nomination forms All right, let's see if there are more stories we can take it just before we bring GD Johnson on 3.27 billion dollars crude oil stolen in for ten months still on the nation newspaper and On the red strip on the bottom of the page over 9.7 million pupils at the risk. Oh, we are not regained freedom passport Seized those are all the stories you can find on the front page of the nation newspaper this Friday morning Well, we do have GD Johnson and standby who joins the conversation once again. Good morning, and thank you for joining us We appreciate you To be with you and we wanted to have you all over the world. All right, so Let's leave it open to you without asking you which of her I mean asking you specifics But which of the headlines and trust you as we went through the pages of a national dailies Let's start with the APC National Convention, which is 24 hours away and then to see The battle for the soul of the party like we have said over time that as the 2023 nomination Hammaries are approaching and the stakes are becoming higher My liking become pretty difficult for APC to put this house in order with respect to Over postponing its national competition. You can see that there's one of the headland. I said 24 hours after The president met all aspects. It really is the shaking and I remember cannot be written and then the chairman of the Informal chairman of the APC the chairman of the Nigerian governor's follow who have wants to be the governor of It said that it's not that we have any consensus on the ringman that the president should She would campaign for his for his candidate We're also So in one of the headlines that the president hosted the founding fathers Invited them to a dinner, but one of the things that I picked up from the political Landscapes is 1999 Is that when a passenger invites you to Asuron or it comes to your house to eat dinner with you as the national chairman of Of PDP then your faith is sealed As you when the president invites you to come and to come and eat dinner with him I don't know what the The arrangement is in the case but it should be cost for concern for everybody that And we are seeing this Kind of crisis bedeviling the parties Now if this type of crisis be devil the party where they get to government They go For me Good PDP Even if she was doing on the zone arrangement Muhammad or father I might be as they get this attention to run and the president at the chairman of the party He or she is telling them to respect the zone arrangement or whatever. I mean that is what it is Should be should be respected. You see that there's a lot of heat in the in the quality You hope the political class can come together and put their house their house in order for example There's another story we talked about some of the aspirant in the apc saying that um the section 18 two and section 84 of the electoral Which requires Consensual arrangement for all for all aspirants to have a written agreement Well, they are that too for them to to go but what it has been what it is I am sure there's a lot of us training There's a lot of us training going on when you see people raising their heads Throwing their hands raising plantoman saying no, we are not aware of any development It's just for them to get their sticks and then um at the end of the day what you are going to have It's going to be a coronation. It's going to be if in one take one thing that is very also very very funny to me is the emergence of yellow missionary as the as the apc As the apc preferred national secretary from the southwest I just want the people that are presenting omishori Let me go down the memory omishori was the deputy governor to baba country When akade tbc akade when tbc akade was governor of shun state 1999 to 2003 The yellow mission was the deputy governor to akade and then there was a fallout and that fallout omishori was Belled all manners of me was labeled as a mudra as the person that was involved in the death of chipolaki And then he won his election was in the nation was in relation as a senator in in prison then these people that are related Omishori then Are the same people promoting him If you're a young man, and you are listening and you're just joining policy be careful of who you fight with on behalf of the lagoon political class They are just the same if you if anyone I told you 50 years ago five years ago three years ago that That ashwajibola met in umbu and baba konde would be advancing the candidature of the yellow missionary You you say it's not possible. Did you take it to the money? Does this not bring us, you know to the issue of you know The political parties that we have the fact that this is where you talk about the fundamentals of democracy And so if you don't have it right at this point then it means it might necessarily not be right Even if you have a political party trickling down And so the issue of ideology having political parties having an ideology where they stand for what they stand for And also Would all of this not also mean that being that the apc came into power In 2015 as a result of you know combination of various political parties And so you would still have different political parties with different interests or ideology coming together And that might just be the reason for all of this Uh, clash that you have and projecting some persons like you have questioned the character of some persons that have been questioned For some position at the national level of the party I'm not questioning the character. I'm just questioning I'm i i i i am i writing the arrangement of people that were cross political purposes coming together people that in the south and for the southwest that have been characterized as, as, as political, I don't know what, what do you use for it, but that's, that's, that's does it. For, for almost seven years, the APC has been a political party. It should have been able to harmonize itself due to the consensus and have in common thought, usually talking about founding fathers and non-founding fathers in the APC today, because having been in, having been formed in 2000 and, and, and, and 13 and in 2015, it got, it got, it got elected at the national level and won most of the state and the national assembly. Since 2015 to date, the APC has been controlling most states, they have been controlling most of the national assembly and the presidents. We thought that it should have been able to harmonize their thoughts. But my own take is just to educate people out there that then don't just, don't just fall prey to all their political challenges. When they are fighting among themselves, you know how to reconcile themselves. I've said it over and over time again. There's no difference between PDB and APC. There's no difference in the Nigerian political class. The Nigerian political class don't care about you. They are not leaders, they are dealers. They engage in choosing not to secure wind power. So if it means talking to their act enemy, for them to win elections, they will use their act enemy. Now I can tell you for a fact, as a strategist and as a communication expert, the reason why they are advancing the candidature of Omishuri, for example, as a national secretary, because it's a grassroot politician. It's a top dude. It's not someone you can take for a ride. They needed to have someone that has a voice and have the force of personality to represent their own interests in the formation of the National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee of APC. So if they control the chairman, they have the secretary to themselves and they are. So it is, it is political expediency that has made them to use them. So that's just, that's just however, if we go into, into the moral ground, the moral basis and the politics that are played in the Southwest and then they are played in the Southwest and the enemy that they have created in families and the bad blood they have sold over the characterization of some characters that are coming together, then you understand what I'm talking about. And like you, all right, if something is wrong with it, if something is wrong with the party, something will be wrong with public governance, because the basis, the foundation for public governance is the political party, whether PDP or APC, the parties are assembled. Let's talk about the PDP too for one moment as the daily trust is captioned. It's as though, I mean they're both in troubled waters as it were, because they are similarly the two in the prominent parties in the country. From what daily trust is captioned, North-South in epic battle over presidential ticket. Would you think that this issue of zoning might be the undoing of the people's democratic party as they had to pose in 2023? The PDP and the consensus are making picking on you. The National Chairman, there's a tradition, like how you said, you listen to the Chairman, that you have a tradition in picking, in zoning their president. Now, for the National Chairman, when the National Chairman goes to the North, the president comes to the South. That has been the arrangement of PDP and that's also the arrangement that APC borrowed from, because there's no difference between PDP and APC. The actors and players today, PDP today, but the actors and players in APC in 2014, 2015, Tambuwal, Atiku, Saraki, all picked presidential form of APC. All picked presidential, all of these actors. Ana, Ana, Ana in PDP. So you not tell me what's the difference between the PDP of 2022 and the APC of 2014, a year before the presidential election in 2015 and a year before. So that's the arrangement. But as the National Chairman, I'm sure you want the party to be successful in the polls and I want a crisis-free arrangement. But like I've said, there's no difference. The two parties can't put their house in order. I ask you this question, we are faced with the devil and the TPC. What are the choices before Nigeria? If you look across the coastline of PDP and look across the shoreline of APC, in terms of those aspiring to be president, it is the same set of people that have been part and parcel of public administration in Nigeria and none of the aspirants has come up with any policy or programs on how to transform this country for good. Okay, so let's quickly look at this. As we coasted down this on the PUNCH newspaper, it talks about a fashioner who instated the second Niger breach 2022 completion date and blaming the fact that all of this has not been completed due to iPop. Well, I remember when fashioner gave the speech at them, you know, when he was with government a year before the expiration of his tenure. And when he said that all the people managing the economy in Nigeria, then they called them the bad wayos. The bad wayos and they all clapped and they all laughed. And he has been given opportunity. I'm not sure there's any minister of works. There was minister of works for seven years. At the end of the date, it's called card of fashion, I would be brought before the public. And then he's to put him in the rightful place, if it helps to, because he used to condemn a lot of actors and players at national level when he was governor of the hospital. But from experience and from what you have seen, he has demonstrated that he's in fact, he's the bad wayo, actually. He's the bad wayo himself because he's been giving excuses left right, left right and center with respect to. He talked about power that any serious government might power for six months does not know what he's doing. He was there for minister of power for four years. There was nothing that came out of it. So I don't reckon with such character. Characters that will come on beat, that will use every opportunity to advance a position because they are not in position of power. And when they get to position of power, they start giving excuses. In fact, his own tenure will evaluate it. Don't let me see anything. And so that I may be passed, we evaluate his tenure and the aspiration of it is coming back home. When you come back home, I will say it is free. Even indeed, we go back to where you go. Or those that were there were the national level when it was governor of legacy, whether they are the bad way or 2.0. But how did the activities of IPOP, or how did IPOP affect the completion of the second night? It's giving excuses. It's giving excuses. That's what I'm saying. It's giving excuses. And why should people take the excuses given that the activities, you have the security, you have the security apparatus of mission, the east is heavily militarized. It's heavily militarized. You travel to the east and then it's giving the east the same plaga dash. All right. Let's stay with the punch newspaper. There's a story just above on the must head. IOC's fear collapse as federal government says 1.36 trillion narrow crudes tolling in for 10 months. How do you react, G.D. Janssen? Well, the probe panel to probe NNPC from the fifth, from the fourth assembly to the night we are here now, the probed NNPC. Nothing has come out of the report. You remember the NNDC, the NNDC's probe? No, the minister dropped the mic. Nothing has come out of the report. Now you are not hearing the report that the stolen coup d'oeuvre. So what do I have to say? You always hear different, because there are some institutions in the state that are higher than the state, like NNPC, like NNDC. These institutions, they are institutions that even the national assembly does not have oversight function. And when they exercise their oversight function on this NNPC. NNPC is bigger than the federal government we have seen. So that they are stealing our coup d'oeuvre, we don't have an account. They've been saying it. We have listened to different types of probe panel. In that sense, on the issue of NNPC, we have seen that a former chairman of Appropriation Committee in the House of Rep has gone to jail because of corruption that is tight, that is tight, that is tight in that. So as far as I'm concerned, we don't have any record. That can, because of the NNPC. When we begin to look at our oil and gas industry, you can run, you can go, you can go, you can go, you can, you can, you can, and I don't want to be collumentality like Rela said. And that's just unfortunate because we don't have record of how many include the pump in the day. NNPC does not declare its account publicly. They operate, they operate outside the shares of what the auditor general and their, they, no one has control over NNPC. That's not the truth. And no country operates like that. If, if you go to Saudi Arabia, if you go to Saudi Arabia, you see Aramco, Aramco's records are there in the public. Petronas record, Petronas is in Brazil, is the oil trading company in Brazil, is in the public domain. And people who operate in Nigeria, I think we exist in isolation. I think Nigeria is rubricicoso in the Committee of Nations, founded on an island of its own, operate within the, within the sphere of its own world. I think there are no, there are no other countries that, that have similar attributes with us. The other all producing, you see what we are seeing Nigeria in Iran, we have that in, in, in, in, in, in Russia it is Gazprom. For Russia it is Gazprom. For, for Saudi Arabia it is Aramco. For, for Brazil it is, it is, it is Petronas. We have that in Iran. All right sir. All right. Thank you so much. It is the same set of people, it is the same set of people that were there during military regime. Don't forget, the first time was Minister Petroleum in 1977 and today is still the Minister Petroleum. Why is that? Something to change. Why is that? But I'm not expecting that you give me an answer immediately because we're at a time now. Thank you so much G.D. Johnson for being part of the show this morning. We do appreciate you. It's a pleasure to be with you. Have a wonderful weekend and grab your popcorn and your something and enjoy the UPCA program as you go for their national convention. Thank you. Thank you G.D. Johnson. We appreciate it. All right. Thank you so much G.D. Johnson. I, I like the, the popcorn and the something for the national convention as though we would be watching a movie. That's as much as we can take on, on, of the prayer. We'll be going back this day in history and all come back having our first conversation for the day to join us again.