 Let's seal the breakfast in plus CV Africa time for of the press We as always will take you through the pages of a dailies and have our guests join the conversation to Analyze some of the headlines on the papers this morning. GD Johnson is on standby. It's good to have you join us Good morning All right, GD, let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning for Friday Let's find out what's making the rounds and you have the CSO. That's a civil society organization stakeholders set criteria for electing next president and Says candidate must be free of corruption health issues must have capacity to revitalize the economy and create jobs must keep World Bank IMF at arms length Won't you find this very interesting away from that? President Muhammad the Buhari Commission's booze three million metric tons cement plant in Sokoto and APC has done more than the United States government in infrastructure That's what Facial or from a governor's could it to say and you also have eliminate all bandits and terrorists president orders the military PSC rejects report on carry and six tower probe probe I beg your pardon talking about the Hoshpa pks and the fact that the police Officer is identified with that, but the police service commission has rejected the report of the panel investigating the alleged connection between the suspended head of the intelligence response team that's DCP Abba carry and The suspected international force that talked about Hoshpa PS is popularly known, but that's it this morning on the leadership newspaper Let's move straight to the nation on Friday We have the leading headline on the nation newspaper Buhari to military. Don't spare bandits terrorists don't spare bandits terrorists With the following writers Northwest security situation giving me sleepless nights and poor weather stops president's visit to Zamfara At the top of the front page of the nation newspaper Fashola. We've achieved more than the United States in infrastructure Don't abandon power shift to south or Hanayze Cautions Dangote cement mobs up 35.1 billion narrow shares and VAT controversy affected remittances as F.I.R.S Still with the nation newspaper why manufacturers should not cut or should cut cement prices by Prices by a mafia leave with the rider president unveils Bua's plant in Sakwato Adea Bami Dele five others boycott a kitty APC primary Fiamese man declared winner would look at that going on in the next Segment we have most stories at the bottom of the front page father gets life jail for impregnating daughter Really really strange and sad and our chopper didn't crush of course that's coming from the police There finally echo as leaders meet in Burkina Faso on Burkina Faso Malik who's and six Yahoo boys Convicted those are the headlines on the front page of the nation newspaper away from the nation newspaper this morning we have the deal independent and The banner caption says I am overwhelmed by Nuff West security situation That's what the president is quoted to say Says he has ordered the military not to spare bandits Optimistic Niger will win battle over evil an NNPC gets five billion dollars from Afrim X bang to drive investment in oil sector You also have another caption saying F.I.R.S exceeds twenty twenty one revenue targets and generates 6.405 trillion now That's a quite impressive a lot of people would say reduced prices of building materials. They may fairly tells manufacturers Helicopter did not crash in Bouchie and that's what the police is quoted to say Will support investors adding value to local resources? Federal governments also quoted and that and federal government revokes marginal oil field of 33 firms and Just before we move away from the daily independent Boonee gets Buhari APC governor's not to preside over convention APC Northwest Legislatures and and legislators are beg your pardon and does bellow for president in 2023 and PDP accuses the federal government of hiding on the fuel subsidy to Siphon three trillion naira and that's these are the headlines on the daily independent to use me and finally with we go over to the park You super with these headlines so how security report first Buhari to cancel planned Subsidy removal how security report for spook hurry to cancel planned subsidy removal Very interesting really do make details on page two of the punch you super But it has the following riders FG feared subsidy protests could be worse than end SARS Source reps to summon major oil marketers Transporters customs others and the World Bank IMF may decline Nigeria's loan requests Overfuel subsidy at the top of the punch newspaper out front page unused GSM lines hit 100 and 8 million in 2021 says NCC report PSC workers and buck on a three-day strike over constables recruitment Supreme Court decides alleged 32.8 billion naira embezzlement by pension director April 22 33 successful bidders lose FG's in marginal oil field Awards 33 successful bidders lose FG's marginal oil field Awards that will make some interesting read and there's one that should not be missed NNPC to deduct 127 billion naira from FAC and plans 80 or plans five billion dollar Africa Xim Bank loan, please differ on AIB Please defer AIB begins probe of Bouchie. Please helicopter crush. That is the accident Investigation Bureau can't wait to see what comes out of that We have a PC as parents alleged fraud fire means ex SSG wins a kitty Governorship primary Court remands and you are to lead a kulepoli and others over Lagos mayhem We've been talking about the Dumota mayhem for some time now a randy man 37 bags life imprisonment for raping 13-year-old girl sent on errands really sad Kaduna reporter gets one million naira bill after 83 days in detention That's two to two unfortunate and finally these are following stories at the bottom other front page Abdullah Zak solicits assembly is not to remove auditor alleges misconduct Ogham pastor arrested for camping feuding housewife daughters a husband alleges Sex romp who that's a hot story right there and finally tin blue Nigeria's wisest choice For 2023 presidency says so allu my word interesting All right. Well, let's have GD Johnson Shea Hustleton some of the historians this morning GD Johnson is good to have you join us All right Let's set up with the leadership newspaper civil society organizations and stakeholders in Nigeria have come up with some criteria for Selecting the president come 2023 and some of which they say the candidate must be free of corruption held issues and must have capacity to revitalize the economy and create jobs and must keep the IMF. That's the international financial institutions very far What are your thoughts Citizen mobilization and not on what they should do with respect to their civil responsibility Beyond the rhetoric of telling every citizen don't vote for this can be listing the criteria They are not political parties. It is a political parties that are determined and the selection process They are not national assembly that will make laws as a gas to the eligibility or non Agility of candidate contest in what they like their responsibility should be to educate or the massive public awareness campaign the massive public education program in massive Public mobilization towards participation in the political process, and I think that should be the focus of Civil Society stakeholders and the rest of us that are involved with the media that are the fourth estate of the That has a responsibility of maintaining order in the society as my take on this particular issue We need to educate the citizenry that their life Depends on what they do when they enter into the polling unit to cast their vote It is beyond sentiment of ethnicity religion and other kind of identity divide that we have used to divided ourselves and Beyond whatever anyone is going to give to them on the day of the election probably in terms of food or in terms of monetary Reward as to incentivize them in casting their vote. That should be our focus not talking about the candidate We cannot talk about the candidates We should tell the people what should be the guiding principle when going to vote for for for candidates in the election that's my take that's my take on that I think and the The civil society are putting the cat before the horse and put the horse before the cat So do you also think that this should also not be part of the sensitization message that should be put out for You know out there to the electorates the kind of candidates that should be looking out for Kind of communication we are putting out Strategic in the kind of you know, if you empower the citizens right education Leave the selection of candidates the party let the party pick whoever they want to pick or you educate the people On how they should go about expressing their civic responsibility I think that that that that that that's better. It's an holistic rather than a It's an holistic approach rather than a selective or narrow Narrow approach to to this particular as far as I'm concerned what we do the citizen education Citizen participation a lot of you just don't participate in the process. How do we mobilize them? We need to go to campuses across Nigeria. And I think that's the direction which we've been at Campuses across Nigeria educating the citizen. I remember why when secondary school out She'd done if I mean Um father and law and the rest of them and the rest of all the members of the civil society Nigerian liberal congress used to come to campuses to interface with student You know and with the body of the student student leadership with respect to participating in In in in civic society They they have to participation of elites of university student of student in tertiary Institute even student in secondary school the secondary degree was higher on the military regime than what we have in a democratic dispensation Okay, thank you very much. I miss a galey johnson. Let's look at the the president stands on security and his Measures to try and curb the insecurity in different parts of the country the Story on the front page of the leadership friday is that he's telling the military to eliminate all bandits and terrorists Eliminate all bandits and terrorists. Um, what are your thoughts on this? This is uh, 2022 Um, and he's he's going next year 2023 Okay, when I see the way um Dealing dependent cast the headline said i'm overwhelmed by not with a security situation Go ahead. Well, and It's just like you in the studio telling Us the viewers that you are overwhelmed by presenting this program this money. What do you think they would do to you? What do you think you would do to me from this end if I tell you i'm overwhelmed by i um By security by by I presented this program by joining you presented this program is is I don't know. I don't know what to say. How many times the president has made this decision He's the commander in chief of federal Yeah, this is core responsibility Is that he swore an oath to protect the lives and property and territorial integrity of man He's he's an oath which is swore and it does not need to direct or does not need to series of our About the security situation and like you said this 2022 the president became president in 2015 and 2022 to 2020. That's seven years ago No, so so it's it's it's it's it's a fairly on the part of the security security apparatus and in a fairly on the part of himself as the head of the security The network that we have in there if we still have the challenges which we have in this country with respect to banditry And kidnapping and terrorism and I think that it took the government too long to categorize and label Bandits as terrorists And I think we tweeted it with idlos and people When when when when elected officials begin to negotiate with non-state actors when non-state actors becomes critical component of public governance public policy formulation and when they have opportunity of Imposing their own views down policies and by collecting taxes by collecting levies And by people negotiating with them to release To release them to release the allowance that have been kidnapped and you have this type of Gory situation for me as far as I'm concerned at the end of his tenure Was see our scope worry when it comes to security Security because all that's one of the fundamental factor that kept him being elected in 2015 And now if you look at the security situation of Nigeria in 2022 and compare it to the last years of Jonathan in administration You agree with me that the security situation of Nigeria under Jonathan who are possible to be a former a military head of state and a former military Person is far better except you want to pay to the quality because it's there is there all we just need to do Is to do a content analysis All the front pages of newspaper in the last seven years and we look at which issue is the dominant issue That were reported by the media and then we see That it's security That we keep reporting every day every day every day every day So it's an indication of what happens in society So let the president be living under the illusion that he's overwhelmed by the security Challenges because he sits too much in an asura does not transverse the length upgrade of Nigeria to know what is really going on In Nigeria and the proof that the security just has given to and people that are in charge of it. It's not a proper brief You have the apc has done more than the united states government in infrastructure and that's uh, according to Fashola that has gotten a lot of reactions You know in the couple of hours They were I don't know where someone you write an exam for yourself. You mark the exam to score yourself and declare the result It is a minister of works It is coming to give an account of being the minister of works for seven years. So he's trying to justify I'll just give Fashola a clue and uh, they are two they are they are two major roots That I talk about a one in Nigeria as far as Nigeria is because a one is because if I don't express me He's a gateway to Nigeria Um from other parts from other parts of the country to to to ligus Now what has happened to ligus if I don't expect this is how many years have they been doing it? God will help them in jesus name and let's look at ligus but agri express When fashola was governor of ligus it, uh, he made up kinds of promises concerning that corridor ligus but uh, but agri express way is the corridor From Nigeria to other parts of west african countries is what I call their course corridor What have they done concerning concerning concerning that route? So he's just pulling himself He's engaging in in in in in self in self deception He's playing the ostrich burying his head in the sand and the whole of his body's out In what way has Nigeria done more than america in terms of infrastructure? I don't know what he's saying Okay, mr. Johnson mr. Johnson I'm looking at the record of the buhari administration as far as infrastructure Uh investment is concerned. He also made a statement. He said um that this this the buhari administration has spent more than any other administration Has spent especially the previous administration. Uh, that was in power for the previous party, you know Spending money coffee spending money is one thing get your iso Is another the fact that you have a budgeted money and you have allocated money and then you have Disgust the funds for this project doesn't mean that Uh, you have done the right thing. So spending money can spend more They have completed. He said he said they have completed 971 kilometers of roads and that um He wants Nigerians to show him Which administration or which government in the past few years, especially from the pdp 16 years in power Completed at least 50 kilometers of road federal government. Um, he says it's not happened And they have done 971 But I know part right that when it was gone, you know, he had issues with government Which you not only tarry embossed We go stick up Collecting money back from from federal government with with respect to projects They've done on behalf of the federal government and then with them reimbossing He was underlying that that becomes the immediate immediate problem in repossess the government with back with the funds they spend On on on construction of roads. Look first of all, he's fooling himself. He's not fooling himself. I'm sorry He's he's he's fooling himself. He's he's he's he's he's he's We are the roots now. Tell me we are the roots Tell me let me tell you about uh, let me tell you about Lagos, let me talk about that west. I don't go to any part of niteria But I'm sure I've been to bouchie. I've been to gumbay in the last in the last six in the last six Mother been to bouchie. I've been to gumbay and I traveled by road from bouchie to gumbay And gumbay back to Bouchie soon and by here to to this business, but I've transverse the later better of southwest I want to ask mr. Farshala What's the state of route between uh, shagam to ore? That's in the southwest. I'm asking him That's the corridor you want to get out of ligus Out of southwest to go to any part of the country. You see that you go through Shagam ore or you go through a Ibadon if a Axis and depending on where you are going to and the veil of august road or you tell me about a bad Don about the learning what what's what's he saying? Is he eye on something? Okay, thank you Where these people where these people where these people get the effort to insult the sensitivity of niterias As you have a travel from a good year to ligus by a road axiom many time journalist and Let me max him When was the last time he traveled from a good year to leave girls by road? He's on lego's is the governor of lego's because the governor of lego's is the minister of works and transport He shouldn't be taking he shouldn't be flying by here to lego's He should travel by the road that he has constructed They should ax him those tough questions and not allowing to be so the sensitivity of writing Mama Mr. Johnson, we have to move on. I wish you had more time on this particular issue but Still on the front page of the leadership friday. Um the the investigation by the panel set up by the police service commission into Abba carry dcp abba carry and his relationship with hosh poppy The report has been presented by the panel But the police service commission through it's a department of police discipline after studying that report said it's not Thorough enough and they're recommending that Another investigation be conducted into this same matter before taking a decision. What's to take on this? Yeah That um from the way And how quickly the police panel came up with their result was very Indicative of the fact that there was not a thorough job was not done Georgia was not done. So it's not it's not surprised that the police service commission Begetted that particular report and calls for for for a for a review and we wait for the We wait for the review because facts are then the public domain Uh, it's just that we don't have the entire Fats for some of the loose facts and then the public domain and he pissed them together where police officer turning self to you know, and Providing tailoring services to to to the people that are engaging Allegedly engaging fraud. It's cause for concern. So It's an interesting under investigation so that we don't Abuse or corrupt the process or prejudiced what is being investigated But I commend the police service commission for saying that you know what you need to look at this particular report Because the ability of Nigerian police are state because the ability of Nigeria is a state our integrity as a nation Is also a state. So I support what the police service commission has done Okay, and quickly as we coast this segment down now Let's look at the the accusation the opposition party does the pdp Accusing the federal government of hiding on the fuel subsidy To siphon three trillion era. I mean just yesterday We also had the reports, you know from the minister of financing three trillion era is what has been budgeted for for fuel subsidy for 2022 Well, it's okay I don't know what to say daily independent newspaper Now, I don't know what to say, but it said that whether so, you're not sure You don't even know what is happening They've taken us up and for a ride for too long and we saw him dying Where the president was in opposition He said very many things And how do you come about so see Here to a beam of petroleum products that we have ever seen the issue of this That's the question you need to To ask Assess what they told us in good, but I keep telling is the best way make sense of reality Observe realities you do a content analysis of what Mr. Power reported over time If you do a contest analysis of stools in the last 23 Years of democratic governance and your focus which will be a longitudinal story Your focus will be on petroleum subsidy. You will be shot At how we have taken the lies and the deceptions of government Not this government alone, but successive governments in Nigeria under this present Democratic question taking us for a ride when it comes to subsidy payment and non-subsidy Non-subsidy payment Who are they subsidizing and what are they subsidizing? That's the question and it's a result of people making money Fleecing this country. That's why they have not put in place the critical infrastructure That is required to ensure that we not only extract our oil We process our good oil into various chemical products and petroleum products that we can use in this country for local consumption And a spot to foreign countries rather than being putting these products that God has naturally Endowed us with is like someone that gives and knows the season is leaving the attic And then he asked the material to make move to protect himself From from the biting cold of giving in the attic. Then you will not export the wool and then you will not You you will import the the code for a citizen to protect themselves from from from the biting code of the attic He shows the level of our intelligence and the level of our thinking and his is rather rather unfortunately There is a political dimension To this subsidy removal or non-subsidy removal Thank you very much. Didi johnson quite interesting analysis. I wish you had more time But we have to go didi johnson is a chief lecturer at the nigerian institute of Journalism and he's been a guest and off the press right here on the breakfast and johnson. Thank you for your time All right Up next let's take a look at what happened today in history, of course We'll be back after that with our first major discussion The apc prime relations have held in akiti state and the winner hasn't mentioned stay with us