 Welcome back. It's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa and of course moving on with our conversations this morning. Time to look at what the papers have to say. But before we go to the first paper, Mercier Boppo is also here with me. Mercier is a great Wednesday morning. I can't wait to see what the papers have today. Some very interesting stories. So we have those. Yeah, definitely. Very interesting stories. Coffee. It's good to see you this morning on the set as well. We just get head straight to the conversation. Always at this time we get to look at the papers, various papers that we have and of course have an analyst share their thoughts on it. This morning, Tunde Kola will be joining us. Tunde Kola, well if you're... No, we have Andy. So that's a default setting. Andy, if you can hear us, it's good to have you join us. Thank you. All right then. But let's sort of with a daily trust newspaper, broadly written. It says politicians move to bypass cash withdrawal limit. Politicians move to bypass cash withdrawal limit. That's what you have on the daily trust newspaper this morning and underneath there are several writers. It says chief tends collect agent's account details in Nassarowa, a presidential candidate to spend 1.8 billion naira on agents on... Wow, that's a lot. APC-MUM as PDP, Labor Party kicks and then you have it won't affect our campaigns and NPP and the PR, it's called policy will force a change, activists are saying. Two billion dollars per greed maintenance expansion ongoing. The federal government is saying now and that's a way from election spending. So there's a lot of money that's would just be going round. Stakeholders approve dangote cement and share by back. Tunebu and Kaduna vows to eliminate bandits. The question would be how? Because how is the question? Very constant dominant question that every time you know someone is saying something to you. How? How? How? Southeast PVC collection is slow, start amid rising insecurity. PVC collection is in slow, start amid rising insecurity. Women are reigned for assaulting police officer and Malamiz committee working to recover stamp duties. That's what the president is saying. I'll restore peace, improve mining in Plateau. Really, I think it was quoted to say, but is it just in Plateau state? Because this is just also saying nodding to the fact that yes, there's mining going on, especially at a time where you don't have the states in charge of their resources constitutionally. Wow. That's the much we can take this morning on the Daily Trust News People. We have the nation up next, top stories on the nation front page. We have banks getting marching orders to sell off Disco's shares. Quite interesting. A government explains sack of core investors targets 22,000 megawatts. I think we can be not surprised with the performance of some of these Disco's. Under the nameplate of the nation news report, you can see that headline, killers of unilaterally female student to die by hanging court rules. It's a long time I had since I had the last time I had such a ruling with are you in office? No deal with Atticus says wiki. How to end petrol crisis by reps. Oh, wow. They should put that in the book. Agency search to partner. I didn't hire 12,000 workers in our show. 14 persons, 22 cows die in road crush. Teenable promise to end, promises to end, banditry, terrorism in Northwest, CBN abuse, Naira and go to jail will be promises to end stealing in government. I had lines on the front page of the nation. Nothing on a rise TV today. So I think it's cool. Well, we have the punch newspaper this morning, 2023. Inaq vows prosecution of voters, card buyers and sellers. Well, that's a lot. Inaq vows prosecution of votes, voters, card buyers or vote, whatever. I mean, if you talk about those who are buying votes and selling votes, that's what Inaq is quoted to say. Commission and system beavers to combat PVC fraud. Please working with Inaq to track rigors, first headquarters is quoted to say this is, this arrived is underneath the board caption. And just before move away, Nigerian leads in YAM production exports none. Oh, wow. Such an irony. Reps direct NNPC to end petrol scarcity. Even though you have the DSS also saying, hey, the ultimatum was given for the eight hours after it seems like the situation has actually been different, especially after all of that. Now, Senate postpones hearing on cash withdrawal limit and fake soldier in court of for terrorism or terrorizing Lagos community. And Majestic Mercy Secures Argentina World Cops Final Sports. And they say he's the goat, the greatest of all time, just in case you're wondering. Well, I think that that's the much we can take. They're interesting headlines, but for the want of time, we need to move away. All right. The last one is this day, on Wednesday, the big one there, wiki, I would have won PDP primary if it weren't manipulated. Think he's a civilian graduate telling his heart, you know, what's behind his agitation. As he would have won the PDP primary if it weren't manipulated, insist he doesn't have any rift with Attiku, ex VP Okoa PDP governor salutes Revers governor at 55. Attiku put out a congratulatory message to wiki in the papers. As he celebrated 35th birthday yesterday. Interesting. This day is still holding on to that fight, the argument and the disagreement with the Teenable Camp whilst the nation didn't have anything on it today. This day, who belong to that rice family, they put out a headline. It's under the nameplate of the paper. Allake or Nanogawa's allegation. So by being a class heir challenges them to present their candidate for debates. Interesting. And the writer so that reiterates journalist, not the opponents in 2023, insists resort to blackmail, fake news, bullying, bullying won't work. Right. Resort to blackmail, fake news, bullying won't work. More from the paper. U.S. Africa Summit. Buhari restates 30 gigawatts electricity target by 2030 and Obi and Kogi pledges to make Nigeria producing nation some of the headlines on the front page. Obviously, let's bring in at this point Andi Akpoti-Veho is our guest analyst on the program this morning. He is a nation builder, thinker and author. Andi, good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. All right. All right. Let's start with this look at the cash withdrawal limit, the lead story on the front page of daily trust today. We hear politicians are moving to bypass the cash withdrawal limit, you know, shift agents, collect agents, account details in Nassarwa. Some underhand moves and tactics going on with the politicians just to beat the CBN's rule. What are your thoughts on this? We are just in a joke. I'm just in a joke. And let me tell you why I've just said this. If this had been said or this policy had been constructed but about in civil society, you would hear how that there would be a potpourri of ideas from those who are the propellants and those who are the opponents of these. They would be on TV. They would be on radio. They would be bypassing their positions, presenting facts around why it should be or why it should not be. But in 99 years, what we hear is a national assembly called the CBN and says to them, can you just talk this? And I wonder, now we joke. Now we really, you know, created, commit my use of this word, created after the image and the likeness of God. Who always conveys this idea? They wanted to make man and he was consulting the others and saying, come, let us make man in our image. Are we really designed after the likeness of him? That today, if people in the first instance wanted to bring a policy and they just and they were going to adjust the fiscal policies, they did not consult with the monetary angle, which is the Ministry of Finance, who is really responsible for those kinds of adjustments. The CBN is not responsible for those kinds of adjustments. Now they did not make matters worse. The national agenda and politicians are also making the same mistake. And I'm wondering what kind of people are we? I'm just a joke. I'm sorry to say TV stations and politicians and radio stations, you reach out to these politicians and CBN and they've had a debate, a national debate. I have followed so closely from debates, you know, in America on CNN and that they are on both on the floor. They are having, you know, serious conversations around some policy statements on CNN. They are having those conversations and everything. But you know, India is a command and rule kind of thing. You know, we are still very deeply immersed in that dictatorial military, you know, system where one man believes that he knows it all. It's such a joke, okay? I'm telling you. It's such a joke. Well, let's also look at, turn our attention to the punch newspaper ahead of the 2023 elections. Inaq vows prosecution of voters card buyers or vote buying and, you know, sellers of this vote. What are your thoughts? Because it's one of the factors that will shape the 2023 elections. We saw that, you know, the pre-elections, the elections that happened before 2023 elections, vote buying quite dominant. Do you think that the empire has what it takes? They've been empowered enough by the law specifically stated, well spelled out, you know, to carry the act of prosecution of those who will be involved in buying and selling a vote. My dear, another big joke, you know, and I say this because how empowered is Inaq to prosecute Inaq Nigerian Police Police Service? How empowered are they? Only Inaq would prosecute those who are spending money, you know, more than they should spend for election and they are not banks, they are not the essay, only Inaq. They are just, it's just everything is a joke in Nigeria. And that Nigerians are buying these, these, I want to be very careful, you know, with my church of course, Nigerians are buying this non-science from this politician, you know, shocks me, beats me whole lot. How is Inaq going to be able to prosecute them? Is Inaq police? I can, Inaq take anybody to court. If the police says they're not going to prepare the matter, they're not going to prepare the case and take it to court. What would Inaq do? How can Inaq do with case where journalists, people should ask them, how can you do it? Ignite that position is clear on who should take, you know, criminals or who should take those who have been said to have committed crime to the courts. Who should take them? It's police. The police are loyal, the members of the police are loyal to politicians. You don't know this reality. It's a big joke. Politicians will even go to the police station and go and enter into a non-reprosecute and carry those people out of the police station. Those who are up there, they are going to the generals to go and enter in non-reprosecute or beyond for the state, for those people who would have done, would have used to do those things. What the hell is a joke? Everything is a joke, my sister. I'm telling you, for the sake of speaking, that's why we are speaking, but they are not serious about addressing the basic issues that are confronting Nigeria. The issues that will address Nigeria is going to be a gain on the pedestal of growth, a gain on the journey towards, you know, becoming one of the greatest nations on earth. Those basic things, they are not willing to address that. They are just beating around the bush, you know, and turning around like what we would see. And quickly, before Kofi comes in, before Kofi comes in, I'd like to ask, because it's also another issue, the fact that the commission is insisting on the beavers as a means to combat PVC fraud or rigging of the elections. Do you really trust in this technology and its deployment? It's as a need, I don't need to know that they are insisting on beavers as a means of what? Commission insist on beavers to combat PVC fraud. And my question is, do you trust, you know, the deployment of the beavers is a technology, you know, to combat election rigging and the fraud in the election? Politicians are head of, you know, INEC already. I don't want to speak to these things on national TV. Politicians are head of INEC already. As long as, you know, you have the fact that you have the right to speak to it. Are you seeing what they are doing with the frequent and regular burning of INEC offices across the nation? Politicians are head of INEC already. And INEC is not the security, you know, institution in this country. They must sit with other stakeholders to make this work. They would fail to do these basic things. They would fail to contact the security people to do what should be done. Beavers will just be one thing that would not even address the nonsense that will happen in this election. I have said, if you go to my Facebook page, you see I have posted a lot of things around these beavers, you know, but not to overflow the dead horse. I would just say that I wish them were around the optimism with the years of the beavers. All right. Quite interesting. Let's look at the situation in the People's Democratic Party. Yes, so we get Governor Rivers that is still talking and still blowing hot. And this day, it gives us space to data in its lead story. Ricky says he would have won the PDB primary if it weren't manipulated. That's where the back and forth is at right now. This comes as he's insisting. The paper says he doesn't have any rift with a Tikua worker. And a Tikua himself yesterday took out, I think, a page in a national daily to wish Wike well, happy birthday. Okowa and some PDP governors also saluted Wike on his birthday. So what are your thoughts on where we are right now in this entire drama? We are trying to get Nigerians to be emotional. I'm not interested in this Wike's quarrel with the Tikua and the Tiku's quarrel with Wike. I'm interested in what we need to talk about to improve Nigeria. I'm interested in APC telling us the Potacot refinery will start working by December. Taking our monies millions of dollars to go and do what they call revamping of the Potacot refinery. Today it is not working and there is scarcity of petroleum. They are interested in those matters. Wike and PDP are not speaking to do this. They climb the post of the restaurant at the podium and they talk fucking, spewing all kinds of gibberish, you know, on the podium. Wike will speak today and I'm not fighting. Who is interested in your Oswana wife matter? Who is interested in it? Can you people just adjust Nigerian carbon forward? How we can stop this brain drain? How can we stop this jackpot syndrome? Nigerians are living this country in droves and in numbers because leadership is feeling on all levels and the leaders that we like, we call them leaders and the dealers that we have there who are currently in position of authority are really giving us sensationalism. They are discussing about what kind of boxers they are wearing, what is the color of it, what kind of hair their wives made, what kind of nails their wives made. We're interested in all those jokes because the real issues that we make Nigerians move forward. This course is about the potter country for the night that you will spend money on. This course is about the monies you took to go out and buy machines to use to combat these who with our last years you are not doing it. This course, these basic things, this course it out, the amount of money you see you have invested in your life, production, years you have been buying carbon flies for 45,000, 50,000. This course is about these people. I'm not interested in your Oswana wife matters, you know, the matters that concern you and this course are going to affect, you know, how the price of fish and how the price of snow is going to change in the market. We can continue discussing those things and be having the ears and the interest of Nigerians while interested in them. But I'm sure that a lot of Nigerians who are rather interested in address, wearing them, address the real issues, which is to be spending your life on TV and the frame that the OPC has failed. OPC said the protocol refinery was going to go back and produce it. The trade of these things, when we take you on this course, there are a lot of people around them saying that today nothing is working and it's talking about articles, rifts, I mean, I'm just so disappointed, you know, about these people we call leaders who rather should address as leaders. Okay, let's just also quickly look at the fact that, you know, with all of that, some persons have taught that this policy is actually rather hasty and some people are very critical of it. So I hear a lot of noise in the background, right? So it's difficult to actually pick what you are saying. If you can please repeat it, I would be really very glad. Okay, so it's about the withdrawal, cash withdrawal limits and the argument surrounding it. And some people have said that's on the daily trust, we're back at it. And, you know, there's been several arguments that it's a hasty policy. Others are saying, yes, it's good, but it's hasty. I mean, where do you stand in all of this? So if that's what you are saying, the fact that it's hasty looking back, I thought you should converse, you should say what is wrong with the policy. It's not one of them because his hasty is bad. So because somebody quickly finished addressing certain problems that was given in school, they said it's supposed to take like three hours to write it and the person wrote it in 25 days, they make that solution provided bad solution around us and Nigerian. That's why I say it's a joke. I needed to say them come on TV, come on radio, those people were against it to come and tell us why this policy should not be. Little kind people converse ideas. If you are really worth yourself, if you are really a politician and a leader, who knows? If you are not just, I don't want to say who is put there in position of authority, but now I'm telling us what you think is wrong with this policy. Come and tell us, come and converse, come and tell us the reasons you believe that if it should do something different from what you are doing, you should come and tell us why they think that is what Nigeria should be asking for. I don't know, I don't want to develop to that level yet. I have a few friends who said to me a couple of days back that, you know, the developmental stage of Africa and Nigeria is at the lowest end. If you heard people, if you heard older society talk about issues, you would understand that. I do not argue with you when you said it. You will hear how that they are converting issues. They are thinking about it. You will make sure you stand still and you are converting ideas. Yeah, God almighty, because it's a good thing you should not do it. But the love reason for you to suspend it, because it's hasty, okay, it's being hasty what destruction is we going to bring about? What level of noise will be introduced into the system or noise will be introduced into the system if we implemented this now? I'm sure that you are conversant. So it's a conversation that we're going to have in the course of, you know, the breakfast on the show at 8 o'clock. So maybe we don't need to dwell so much on it. But if you talk about the arguments that have been put against it, there's been a lot, especially for those who are in the business of rendering services. I mean, I'm sure you know the POS service or agents across different parts of the country. That is a major concern. And the fact that this person probably might just be out of business, you know, is another issue that has been put at the front, but quickly to that other one, I'd like to show you a thought on the punch newspaper. Nigeria leads in YAM production, exports none. That's what the federal government is saying. Do you think this is an irony? It is as pathetic. It is as ludicrous. It is as ridiculous as preposterous. I think we pay that we're living in rice production. Go to the market, man. We are just defining all the loan economic principle. You know, the simple mode demands things. When demand is higher than supply, prior we go up, we won't supply terms demand. When there's so much supply and demand is pursuing, price will crack. They are telling us that we have to diesel rice in quantum. They lied to us and show that we're in the middle of rice. And I think that you go to the market and tell me why people buy the rice if they're selling at $48,000, $45,000 even though we are living in it. And it's not rice. And it's not rice. It's YAM. YAM production. No, I know. I know. I know it's real. It's the same thing that you are living in YAM production. And I just think they have become, within the reach of the poor in our country, we don't understand the whole life. The government is full of lies. The government, the leader of the government, the spokespeople in the government, they all actually never think they can continue to do this because my children just buy this life. We are not concerned. We are not going back to check whether this is going to be, whether this is going to be speak. That's why you will see them going to fact check, fact check what, when you are not fact checking your lying government, your terrible government, you are not fact checking your lying government that you have. That's it. That's what is in YAM. That's what is in rice. Please let them read me this morning. All right. Andy, thank you so much for your time. We will leave it at that. And of course, we appreciate you joining us, you know, and to give us your fantastic analysis. Always look forward to having you again. Thank you very much, Andy Agportive, for your time. Indeed, Andy Agportive is an author, a nation builder, and a thinker. He's been a guest on Off the Press right here on the breakfast. We'll take a break now. When we return, we look at some reactions to the Central Bank of Nigeria's cash withdrawal limits. That's a new comment coming from a legal practitioner. It says it's illegal for the Central Bank of Nigeria. We'll discuss that with analysis up next. Stay with us.