 All right, so it's time for us to take a look at the headlines of the National Dailies. We're taking a look at four this morning and we'll begin with a leadership newspaper. Leadership newspaper leads with APC may opt for Consensus Senate President Speaker. That is the leading headlines on the leadership newspaper. APC may opt for Consensus Senate President Speaker. Now this is a major issue, Nyamgol, and I can't wait for us to join our analysts to take a look at this very serious issue. You have on top of that Don Tronkate Cano's suit against DSS Court 1's parties. And then under you have Senate approves PMB's request for 22.7 trillion Naira loans. Another loans. And then you have LP crisis. We pardon, obi, dati for attending a Boris meeting, a papa. That you will find details of that on page seven. That's the much I would take from the leadership newspaper. Okay, Daily Trust is next. Following up on a speakership of the House of Reps, I think. Opposition intensifies plots to upstage APC says we were more than prepared. Under that we still have is fruitless, is a fruitless move that's according to the chief whip, will abide by a ruling party's decision as the tax force forum, and they can succeed, but there's a but there, and that's from the analysts who are saying the opposition may succeed, but there's a but there. We're working on consensus according to Adamu, that's still all under a speakership position intensifying a plot to upstage APC. Then we have Ways and Means. Senate occupies Buhari's 22.7 trillion Naira loan request. So Buhari is living in a matter of days, and he's still applying for loan. 22.7 trillion Naira loan. Okay, we also have Sudan crisis, Nigerian evacuees airlifted from Egypt without luggage. We hear that they have reached Nigeria. The first batch has arrived in Nigeria, but they were airlifted without their luggage. Lagos Oggun Kano top as internet subscribers hit 15 or 154 million. Okay, and then press freedom day. IPI sets agenda for Tinobu's government. Buhari launches Nigeria agenda 2050, targets over 150 million jobs. Okay, 150 million jobs from now till 2050. That'll be hold on Daily Trust, please. Okay, from the Daily Trust we'll go over to the Punch newspaper, and the Punch newspaper is leading with outrage. Senate approves Buhari's 22.7 trillion Naira extra budgetary spending. You find details of that on page two of the Punch newspaper. The rider's there fresh burrowing from CBN illegal suspicious, says NECA, LCCI, and economists. You also have the second rider there, 22.7 trillion Naira extra budgetary spending to raise public debt to 69 trillion Naira. Well, the countdown you can see if you look closely, 20 states to go, the countdown has begun. The countdown has begun. So this administration has 22 days to vacate office and give room for the incoming government. All right, so on top of the Punch newspaper you have picture of the foreign minister at the Sudeh Onyema and it's titled Sudan 376 stranded Nigerians early third from Egypt. Finally we've gotten to this point. Yeah, finally we've gotten to this point, but it's just 376 stranded Nigerians and I was, I heard someone saying that we have over five million Nigerians in Sudan. You were saying, we were saying the other day that we're not sure the number of Nigerians we have there, but I had someone saying, from a diplomat for that matter, saying that we have up to five million Nigerians in Sudan. In Sudan? What are they looking for in Sudan? Well, looking for greener pastures. How green are the pastures in Sudan? Geez. And the fact that we had all the burglary, all the confusion that took place in the course of getting our people out of there also raises lots of questions as to why did we have all of that? You have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then you have the diaspora ministry, the commission headed by BKW and then you have the ambassador. So and our embassy over there, why did we have all of this and then not managed to forget Inyema? We have all of these and did we need to have all of these at the same time? Those are questions that are begging for answers. So, well, details of that you find inside the PANCH newspaper. And so, following that you have the federal government disconnects, discos from national grade over debt. The federal government disconnects, discos from the national grade over debt. You find details of that on page 10 of the PANCH newspaper and then you have strike. Resident doctors say FG's threat annoying page 7 is where you find details of that. That's all I would take from the PANCH newspaper. Okay, finally, we'll go to Daily Independent where the first and biggest story there is my government won't marginalize any region Tinobu ashores. We also have another smaller headline, NLCTUC Disrupt operations at Lagos Abuja Airport over IMO or IMO. The airpiece laments 110 flights interruptions and 400 million error losses. You'll find that on page 7 of Daily Independent. Buhari unveils new national development plan days to government exit. That's like the one we said in the other newspaper. 2050 is the target and 150 million jobs also. Page 6 is where you will find that. Senado case 22.7 trillion ways and means loan for Buhari. Federal government makes U-turn on directive for states to stay off federal roads set to refund Banu government 16.7 billion Naira. Okay, which means maybe now the state governments can work on the federal roads but I don't know if they will have a refund because yesterday Tinobu was in was it yesterday he was in Potarkot to commission some of the roads in river state and when the governor said okay I spent this XYZ amount of money to fix the roads do well to refund when you enter into office and he said I owe you nothing but if you want your money you can lobby me. So I was asking myself if after lobbying you the money can be paid why not just go ahead and pay it or is it that you're going to pay and it will not have budgetary allocations for that or something I don't know is it from your pocket or something these are questions I cannot answer maybe the experts will answer them for me. Sri Lanka insists Nigeria is still feasible before May 29th and this is 26 days to go let's see how that will pan out then join Apapa orders and be booted out LP1s officials so now LP has become like a Sudan we have we have two factions fighting themselves Apapa is on the one hand Aburi is on the other hand the other newspaper said Apapa has forgiven Obi for attending Aburi's meeting. So now who is this labor party talking we don't even know what faction that is but that is on the news there and under that this owns purported neck meeting held in Bauchi and accuses judiciary of buyers over its internal matters that's still under the labor party headline. Opposition parties dare APC insist rather on producing speaker and the deputy raise under that raise 11 man committee to shop for credible popular candidates and then vow to remain indivisible provide effective checks on ruling party that's interesting and I'm excited about that if the opposition party can come together and produce the speaker or the senate president that will be something it will be something because trust me we need the opposition we do not need a rubber stamp 10th assembly we do not we do not even want in saying that we do not need a rubber stamp doesn't mean that we need one that will not allow government to work but there should be balances should be checks and balances each of them each of the arms of government should be able to independently perform their role so that government can function as it should I believe that too but let's leave that to the opinions of our experts who are analysts who will be joining us here now and I do hope he's on standby he is on standby Ezekiel Etoque is a public affairs analyst and is talking to us from Aquabomb state good morning and welcome to the show sir good morning always a pleasure to be with you guys okay how is Aquabomb today or are you in Lagos no I mean Aquabomb and it's as cool and as peaceful as has always been lovely you need to be here yeah amazing I asked that question because the last time you were here on of the price you did mention that you might be traveling to Lagos to celebrate ob-execuously um I can't even remember was it because of her 60th birthday or it was because it was she was included in the list of the transition committee did I get you right please don't let me go to certain areas because she turned 60 and the whole world was at a standstill it was awesome so I did go there and then a few other places but I'm back because of our tribunal so I'm actually talking to you from Uyo okay all right let's start with this very serious matter of the outrage our senate approves boharis 22.7 trillion extra budgetary spending 26 days to go talk to us about this how do you see this you see um it it's a topic that I think that every Nigerian has to come to understand that government is not their business but our business the president is about to leave office in the next 20-something days he's left office but you know you are stuck with whatever decisions he took you are stuck with it your children the more are stuck with it so we don't have a problem with borrowing but we have to ask ourselves how do we intend to refund to repay if you are borrowing for production you expect that the business will I mean we are I'm a private sector person I've never asserted any public office any paying public office so I understand that you need money for you to I mean to real estate I build estate and I borrow I borrow you know but you know I do my cost benefit analysis and I show the repayment plan and I show how the circle will close except the loop closes then there's a problem so when you do that strategic analysis I don't know why countries just keep lending money to us without without caring about anyway it's none of their business to care about us they know that we have national assets that they would like to take there was a place I went to borrow money you know the property was worth close to have a billion and I just took less than 50 million and they couldn't be bothered any terms and conditions they'll sign and give it because what they hold in trust is over 10 15 times what I'm asking for so we need to understand the mentality of the man who is lending is that he is not a you know a moralist he's a businessman and so long as he has something hold on to he will give it to you it is for us Nigerians to ask them hello network is trying to mess up this morning this has not happened before with Ezekiel hello can you hear us yeah we seem to have lost your audio he's trying to reconnect it's it's a bit of a maybe you have to go off and reconnect so that we can get that well we can't hear you anymore you're breaking 22.7 trillion yeah and 26 days to go yeah what is the game plan what is the plan for the 22.7 trillion and what amount of inputs did the incoming administration have yeah hello please come back on continue from where you stopped hello can you hear us you were saying that those who are giving us this money are business people hello all right he he's not here Ezekiel mr itok hello can you hear us now please i can hear you loud and clear okay let's go ahead let's wrap up that because of time basically what i was trying to say is that it is our responsibility as citizens to ask the questions because the body is on our head at the end of the day few days mr president is out that's the first thing the second thing is addressing mr president directly i expect him having been a former head of state and having been a president on two terms to know how government works you should understand that we don't run a party system of governance this will shock many people we run a person system of governance as at today take my my state for instance we've been governed by pdp all through but you can see a thread that runs through governor attire's administration transiting to governor fabius administration transiting to governor udum's administration each person comes and they do their thing now i can't quite compare that of apc because you can see that he is the first person that's president mohammed by bohari but if you go to pdp before what is the nexus what's the relationship what is the party between obj from obj to yaradua from yaradua to goodlaw jonathan you can't see a thread so and what still during the campaign season you saw um bola admit tinubu you know distancing himself from the current administration so why does the president think that whatever he's doing now that the current person is going to continue with it we don't demand as far as i'm concerned that you just wind down what you are doing you are coming now to want to borrow about 29 three or 22 trillion but this alone though this loan is from the cvn isn't it from wherever borrowing is borrowing it doesn't make sense number two you are launching a vision 2050 what makes you think that incoming government is going to be interested in it because we don't do a party transition we do a person transition and once this man comes anything you did that does not go down with him he will get this in it and do his own thing so i believe that what mr president should have been doing a minimum of six months to his exit is what you call you know finishing strong tidying up and not starting to bring up new programs new projects new borrowings those things that they don't mix it doesn't show me as a man who means well for this country you find them suspicious you find this borrowing suspicious you're suspicious of this you find it quite suspicious do you absolutely more payout cash for something else okay let me combine two headlines here they are the same anyway more or less apc may opt for consensus senate president speaker and then we have speakership opposition intensifies plot to upstage apc so here's apc not able to zone and then thinking about having a consensus candidates to occupy the position and then the opposition party parties rather are also coming together to upstage of turn or whatever it is to unsettle the apc and take up the speakership and even the senate presidency so your comments on that please well you know it's i i there are many things i almost regret but i try not to regret one of them is i wish i was i almost wish i was a member of apc because apc is in dire need of strategic thinkers they don't have this foresight they don't they don't see it coming they don't pre-empt they react instead of setting agenda they kind of wait for it to be set and then they start to react common sense would have told you two things number one you know knowledge of the past benefit of the past we are at the time of not law and before law and suraki yes you saw what opposition did so you have that benefit of you know past experience secondly we have the most diverse house you know than ever where you have you know labor party is there in the national assembly pdp is there a dc is there abga is there then apc itself is there nnpp is there if you had strategic thinkers they would tell you the house room says that this person like the senate president or the speaker must come from the majority party that is different from must be presented or must be chosen by the majority no they are two different things it means that the majority party can in this case let me be very specific apc can say we want mr a and then pdp pa a dc labor nnpp coming together can say we can bring out a minimum of say about 20 30 people so we look for a strong person in apc when we look for a strong person in apc that we like we tell him can you get a minimum of this number of people from your party all we need the numbers we just need 30 can you get 30 from your side we will give you the others and when we get to the floor we'll make a majority what that means is that they can actually choose who the next speaker or senate president will be on behalf of apc and from apc and it justifies the law now what apc needed to have done was to understand that and early north start to engage friendship with your position don't even wait for them to start talking start to say you know the way things are we've got to be able to work across the aisles we need to work with your position we need to carry everybody along let your sound bite be along these lines of not wanting to threaten that we have the numbers because you really don't have the numbers when push comes to shove all you need is somebody from your side who is powerful enough to bring out 20 people 30 people add to these people and he's a king and there's anyway let me not go there so the bottom line is that we need to understand what the ground rules are we need to know what the situation is and we need to ask apc to be more strategic in the approach to things that this grandstanding is old politics is no longer working that's that's that's lazy mentality they need to start to be a lot more proactive and a lot more you know you know inclusive in the approach and let their sound bites be a lot more entertaining not entertaining accommodating that's a better word all right let's go forward to another headline which is FG disconnects discourse from national grid over debt that's on the punch newspaper as well on top of it there you have FG disconnect discourse from the national grid what do you make of that I think that it would ordinarily make sense because you need money to be able to run the cycle you know there's the gen cause and there's the discourse now the discourse are a lot uh independent the gen calls are much controlled by the government it is only what is generated that you can now buy and distribute and in the discourse which is the distribution arm the way they operate is very suspect you know unless you get Nigerians to be properly metered you'll always have where they have the estimated billing if you can do estimated billing whether you give like you don't give like you're going to collect money from the people so why do you want to go and buy even the ones that you buy you will tell them that oh people are not paying as a result you don't have money to pay back there's this deceit where you know it's like you know I don't know the expression to use there's a lot of insincerity there's a lack of lack of data lack of transparency lack of accountability so no matter what the gen calls or the discourse have brought in they will always tell the discourse that they have they don't have enough and they will always buy or and borrow and there right now the the federal government is saying look we we we we we we can't keep keep giving you we're going to disconnect you and I don't know who they are threatening are they threatening the discourse or they threatening Nigerians that they're not going to have their light again I'm happy that there's been this law that Mr. President signed that states can have have control over their power system I think that with time all those things are going to settle down I believe I hope that the new government coming in will have specific plans for power so that if each state is able to take care of their needs then this question of discourse gen calls will just become a thing of the past okay the minister of aviation has said Sirika he he insists that Nigeria air is still feasible before May 29th what's your your take on that that's a very pardon my language irresponsible statement for a minister to make that's the sort of statement I should make because I'm an outsider I say it's still feasible a minister should make authoritative statement it will take off on social so date and if it is in the court it should be able to know what the terms and conditions are if they can meet it or they cannot meet it you should come to Nigeria's and give us information that will make us to know where we are don't come tell me oh it is still feasible and all that was that so so what do you want me to do with that I should be optimistic or I should be happy or I should be sad I expected him to say this is the situation this is what we've done on account of it it will be possible we are doing this and then we start and what it is all about how is it going to be different from Ibum air or Arik air or you know AAPs how is it going to be different those are the things we really want to hear at this point in time as he's packing his bags and living and not be telling me that it is still feasible let's hope let's pray he should have even gone let's pray because everything in Nigeria is has become there it is virtualized a lot here don't we all right let's go to the next headline and that's also from the daily independent NLC TUC destruct operations at Lagos Abuja airports over Emo and the right of the air peace laments 110 flight destructions and 400 million nara loss how do you respond to these destructions that took place orchestrated by the NLC and the TUC you see once you bring in labor and um you know oh sorry my my my cap is a little far away I would have put it on you know during the labor there was a as it were decorated by the president himself and then I was fully catered and one of the programs I was there in my full regalia you know so right now I've got to be on the side of the comrades you know so labor is very clear a workman is worthy of his wages let the labor you know the workers Nigerians who are Nigerian workers have what is due them and then we we that are outside need to also join them in putting pressures because inside there are certain things I tell them that is not I would not want to say outside here because I mean you know a lot of times you are like the frog you make the rain and the rain falls on you so it's a two-way thing but generally I would like to say that whatever is due the workers they should be given to them so that they can allow the system to run if not so they should use every possible legal means to make sure that they press for their right so once in a while if they need to disrupt the system to call attention I think so long as they do it within the ambit of the law it should be allowed okay I don't know where we should just wrap up we still have a few minutes I want him to touch on what's going on in LP what are your thoughts on what's going on in LP their papa faction and the main party and their Bure faction yeah it it there's nothing going on in LP it is in my personal opinion APC trying to be smart by half so I do know in party politics you use the direct and indirect methods you realize that during election we have 18 political parties in acquai bomb PDP can decide to sponsor parties by a candidate in as much as 15 out of the 18 you know they just go there to make sure that they seal the spaces and some very good people don't come party politics is a very complex politics that's why when people start to analyze from outside they don't know what goes on inside they really don't understand how the sins work they analyze in ignorance party politics is a two-way thing while I am progressing I'm making sure that you are retrogressing so it's a two-armed thing one arm you're climbing the second arm you're pressing the people down it's a label has to be given this fragmented you know image they have label has a strong case in the this tribunal they get strong case very strong case and if the judiciary sits up and they do their work they may be consequences that the nation might be might have to brace up to and this know that it can go left it can go right and any which way it goes let's be based on justice let it be based on equity so that we will know that that's why I want a tribunal to be public let people see it so that when their final decision is taken if it goes to the way of apc people will see that okay it makes sense okay next time you know but if it goes away or pdp people can see that it is honest it is straight and we're like okay no problem if it goes away of labor party people will see it that they don't need to be told they won't be a system shock they've been following it as a matter of fact they have actually seen the end from the beginning so when the final result is given there's no system shock let us just open up ourselves so in the light of that pdp apc has really looked like a few steps ahead by making um uh labor to be fragmented this is my my my conspiracy here please my very personal opinion so that's why they are helping to fuel the faction because if not so labor party that has a man like pita will be we're not going into election we just finished election so the first thing would be you know coming together to see how they can make their case better so anybody who wants to fractionalize labor at this point is a few columnist is a sense he says it's not he's not a labor member thank you so much mr isykel etok for all your time and insights he's a public affairs analyst who's joined us from archivum state on after press this morning as we took a look at the headlines and some major newspapers on the breakfast this morning so just thank you mr etok and we hope to see you again soon i thank you too thanks and god bless you we'll be back with our hot topics don't go away