 We're glad to know you're still there. It's still the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa and we're being joined by architect Ezekiel Nyaito, a public affairs analyst who will be talking to us today from Abuja. Good morning and welcome to the program architect. Good morning. It's always a pleasure. Thanks for having me on your program. Okay, it's time to lift off the price some of these headlines that have caught our interest. We're beginning with the Daily Trust newspaper and on the Daily Trust newspaper, we have Kanu Tribunal, SACS, Governor Yusuf and Diclez Gawuna Wina. The writers are government, imposes 24 hour curfew, business owners, close shops, NNPP to appeal APC uploads verdict. We also have, as other headlines, U.S. court orders Varsity to release Tiddubu's academic record, 5.2 trillion Naira remitted to federation account in six months, according to AMAFC. Undo assembly moves to impeach deputy governor alleges misconduct and then we have subsidy back as federal government pays 169.4 billion Naira in August. There are other headlines there, but let's begin with Tribunal SACS, the governor of Kanu State. Yeah, I took time to look at some of the details and I think that as a people, we must come to understand the importance of election. Elections is not just a formality and INEC must be schooled, INEC must be tutored, INEC must be brought to a table where they are made to understand that they hold the live wire of this country. And to that extent, they must understand their responsibility as one that has dire consequences. And what is that? The management team that will manage the resources of this great nation, if it's a good team, it will bring us prosperity. And if it is a wrong team or a bad team, it will make us to become the poverty capital of the world. It is that important so that whatever are the processes that should be taken, must be undertaken like science. What do I mean? For you to have water, there is a certain quantity of hydrogen combined with a certain quantity of oxygen before water comes out. That's why it's the H2O. Now, if you get H3O, it's not going to be water, it's going to be something else. We must understand the imperatives and the importance. Now you come to elections right from the national to the state and they are saying things because I'm directly involved. I can tell you by the time we are through with the Supreme Court processes. That's why I said, INEC, don't bother about all these reviews that you are doing. No, don't bother about it. When all this matters, because there are certain things you can't say while the process is still on. By the time the process is over, the Supreme Court has made the final pronouncement across the country. We the participants will sit down with INEC and tell INEC the honest, hard truth and reveal several things and then there must be consequences. I'll give you a very simple case like that of Kano. As of today, they said they had to void about 146,000 votes. Question is why? It is either INEC did not do their work and they should go in for it. Or people falsified those figures. It's got to be one of these two. And if people falsified the figures, who so ever was responsible, must be prosecuted. It's not enough for you to say, oh, we removed these votes. Those votes, who was responsible? If it was INEC officials that were responsible, is it really justice for me to be punished for what was not my problem, what was not my responsibility? Just like we discussed before we came on air, you said I built a house on a wrong track. Now, if I can show you that I had an approval, it wasn't my responsibility to know the master plan of the state and build my house where it was not on a pipeline. That wasn't my responsibility. My responsibility was to design according to specification, meet the pre-qualification standards, the soil tests and the integrity tests of the structure, and give it to you to do due diligence on the title for you to be sure that this land belongs to me. Then look at the land use because some things, some places, must be commercial, some places must be residential, some places may be mixed development. It is for you to ensure that I conform with the standards, the requirements, the expectations, the guidelines of the state to meet approval. And by the time you sign and say, you have met all the necessary approvals, which is what the approval drawing is all about, and give it to me. Now, the next thing is for you to ensure that I build according to specification, if I've done all those things. And then somebody comes and says, oh, your house is on a pipeline, we've got to bring it down. I mean, the question is, why should my house be brought down? Okay, if it's true that it was not done properly, which was not my fault, you value my house and you give me a commensurate resettlement. Okay, that's number one. Number two, you go after the person that failed to do her job or his job and you persecute. Coming back to this, the 147,000 votes, why are they voided? If they were not signed, and were they not signed because INEC didn't do their job or were they not signed because they were falsified vote and figures. If it was INEC, I don't know why this man should be punished, but that person that was supposed to be punished. On the other hand, if they had done something untoward, they should not only have their vote voided, they must be punished because we must come to a point where bad behavior must be punished. That's what I'm really driving at here. At the end of these processes, because Nigerians go out to vote and nothing is this act of impunity. For instance, they said, if more than, I want to look for something that is obvious, somebody that is above six feet must not be the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Assuming I'm just looking for something that we can easily relate to. It is something that impunity says it doesn't matter and parties field. Now, out of 2 million votes, that man gathered 1.9 million votes, 1.9 million out of 2 million. That means he's gotten overwhelming majority. Now the person that contested against him that had only 100,000 votes, he goes to court and says this man is six feet seven inches. He's above six feet. The law does not look at the votes he amassed. The law looks at how he has flouted the law and now says because you are above six feet, you have flouted the law. So we're going to cancel your vote and then the public is incensed. Does the law in Nigeria look at things the way you're talking about? The law in Nigeria seems to be like, okay, they will tell you technicalities. You did not file this case on time. You did not pay the funds that you are supposed to pay and all that and they disqualify it even though the merits of the case are there, the evidences are there, but because the filing was not done right, they dismissed the case or you didn't pay for a particular thing at the time that you were supposed to pay for. They dismissed the case. Is that not what has been happening? Does the law in Nigeria recognize the merits of the case and treat them as the merits of those cases that come before them? You see my being in the tribunal and going up to the appeal court and now in the supreme court has taught me many things, has exposed many things to me that there is a major difference between INEC and the court. I've said this before. INEC is like mathematics. One plus one is two. Two times two is four. Ten divided by five is two. Specifics. INEC is like mathematics. But the court is like literature. I was born and bred not two hours travel from this place. What does it mean? They go into a lot of technicalities, they go into interpretations, they go into quoting, you know, the law operates on certain foundations and principles that have been laid. And those principles are not naturally morality. They are guidelines if they say that a man above six feet should not be the president. The law does not look at the number of votes you had. They look at your height and the moment you are above six feet, they will remove you and when they remove you, they remove all the votes that you gathered because they become voided votes. Nigerians need to know that so that the responsibility goes back to INEC. INEC, why did you allow somebody above six feet to be on the ballot? Because you're going to cause us this, those moral distress. Why didn't you ensure that your processes made sure that the pre-qualifying guidelines are very unambiguous, they are very clear and you stick to it as if your life depends on it. And if there's anything that ties your hand because you saw the man was above six feet, but the law says you can't do anything about it and you say, well, at the tribunal they will sort that out, then let us go back and make sure that before the election day, all issues of pre-qualification are no longer issues. So whoever is on the ballot is someone that is expected and qualified to be on the ballot so that the question now becomes, how many votes did you have? They will now come into the voting pattern, the processes. Right now, look, let me tell you something. Assuming we're going to do sports and they say you, the person that is in charge, you can decide whether it's going to be football or it's going to be swimming. Okay? And you say it's going to be swimming. And I'll come there with my swimming trunk. Okay? And when you get into the arena, you say, oh, no, no, no, we're not going to do swimming again. We're not going to do football. I'm like, you can't say that because I'm here with my, I'm not going to swim in trunks to go and do football. It's not possible. And in the people who now say, oh, no, no, no, the law had given him the liberty to do any of the two sports. But you had told me specifically that what you wanted to do was swimming. Why am I bringing this in? You gave us all the assurances that you're going to use beavers. Some of us came in and said, we've interrogated these beavers and it looks good. It's, it's, I can play. So we state our life depending on the integrity of the beavers. And now the day comes and you said, look, we can't use beavers again. We're not going to do manual. The law allows me to use either A or B. Yes, the law allows you to use either A or B. But are you fair when you have already said you are going to use A before time? And many of us that liked A decided we're going to, okay, come into the game because we like A and our strength is in A. I'm a swimmer. I'm not a footballer. So these are the things that we must sit down. The pre-qualification guidelines must be clear. The rules of engagement must be unambiguous and you cannot change it. If you're going to use beavers and you say, I'm going to use beavers, you must use beavers. You must, of necessity, use beavers. And this law of, oh, they have latitude to use either A or B. You could have said that. Well, it depends on how it works out. On that day, I can use beavers. I can use manual accreditation as my basis. And if I don't, if I look at you, I'm like, I don't like this thing, this A or B. I don't want to get involved. Fine. And not that you tell me you're going to use A. And then when the day comes, you say it's going to be A or B. So of course, might never have been part of it. Let me just conclude on this matter by saying that Nigerians need to know exactly what certain expectations are and put the blame on the doorsteps of irony. While I was in the witness box, you know, while my case was going on, they told me they had problems. I said, I don't have any problem with my governor. I don't have any problem at all with all the candidates. I have a problem with one person, INEC. Because all the other people, they're my friends. They're my buddies. They're my buddies. You know? So I have a, they did not do me any wrong, so to speak. It's somewhere that told me this is what I'm going to do and refuses to do what he said he was going to do. Okay? So we need to come, after all this matter is over, Nigerians need to have a conversation on going forward concerning our electoral processes. We must not have this again. I'm going to see a lot of things that are going to be unacceptable, are going to be difficult to understand because of that conflict where we expect the court should be this way. And they are not trying to operate that way. Do you understand me? And because of the court doing what they ought to do, technicalities are part of the system. If you are to file a case within 20 days, you must file within 20 days. But what if I file a case within the 20 days? And then the system keeps that matter for a long time without attending to it. Maybe because there are so many cases, assuming a case must be determined within 60 days. And then for about 50 days, you are waiting for them. And then suddenly they are blaming you that oh, 60 days is up. The question is, is it up because I didn't do my work? Or is it up because you kept my files? So those processes must be interrogated because the lawyers are doing what they believe should be. A great number of them. I used to have a terrible disposition to these lawyers when I hear things, until I saw certain weaknesses in my own side. And I discovered that that's what the law says. And I also used to think that they were all robes and robbers until I moved a case without paying a dime. And I got justice against the run of play. Then I'm like, oh, wow, God, please forgive me. There are actually judges that are incorruptible. They are there in this country. They are there. And they are also- Okay. Well, you are still in court, struggling to get justice and possibly become a governor of your state. And so I'm interested in what is happening in some of these states where governors and their deputies seem to be fighting. In Undo state, for instance, there's still that story on the daily trust that Undo assembly moves to impeach the deputy governor alleges misconduct. We find this kind of a story also in a do-state where the deputy governor has even been removed from the official quarters to somewhere else that is undergoing renovation even as we speak and all those kind of things. He was even the last to be informed that he and his staff are going to move to a new location. And I just wonder what is going on, you know? Let me tell you something. We are such terrible students of history. Governor, don't try to impose a successor is the most, pardon my language, the most senseless and stupid thing to do. Don't try to do your work diligently, conscientiously, knowing when your day is over. You create a level playing field and whosoever emerges will hold you as a demigod. Because he knows that if that process was not transparent, I probably would not have succeeded. But let me create two scenarios. Scenario one is that you go against everything and impose a successor, unknown to you. At the back of the mind of your successor, he is like, this man wants me to be a puppet. He saw all the things you did when he was a deputy or when you were governor because sometimes might not be your deputy. And everybody expects that the way that they brought you in that this man is going to be the puppet master pulling you. So you are going to be just there in front while somebody is controlling you. That will not last for more than three months. If your luck is six months and then people said, oh boy, your excellency, why are you, this man has had his done. Why is he running your administration? And before you know, you are no longer available to that man. Before you know, you find reason why you must antagonize that man. Before you know that man is out in the cold, that has happened time and time again. That is where you get a puppet and put there. But if you created a level field and I, from a small party, become the next governor, I will hold you almost as a god because I know that if not for you being a gentleman, being a forthright man, I would never have succeeded. And because I succeeded independent of you, nobody is going to tell me that you are going to be a puppet. So I'm not going to look for a way to go against you. If anything, people will say, why are you treating this man like this? If this man was not like that, you wouldn't have been governor. So there is a sentimental, emotional, subtle blackmail for you to be nice to that person. That is one thing. You are going to become relevant in the system for a long time. The second thing is that because you know you are going to walk away at the end of your administration, you put your house in order long before time. Two years to the end of your eight-year tenure, you are already doing, you know, checking things, knowing that when you walk, you are not going to look back. You said, oh, you are being idealistic. No, I'm not. Somebody did it. And that is my friend, Mr. Donald Duke. Six months to the end of his administration, he had already left the government house. He had already shared his protocols and everything. Three months, two months, he was already traveling alone. I met him several times at the airport and we were like, you are excellency. Like, then one day, there was supposed to be a biker stuff, you know, December problem, you know, issue, not problem. December, you know, the carnival. And I went to him. I'm not a biker, friends, and I was admiring all those things. I went and there was this delay and delay was supposed to be good. And I said, you are excellency. Let's enter the road. After all, he said, yeah, it doesn't work that way. If God makes you a governor, the day you leave office, walk and don't look back. They said, governor, until he gives a go-ahead, I will not move. And I'm like, wow. And that guy has enjoyed peace because he let you be. But all these governors that want to fight their deputies and then do this and that understate is a little different. You know, people say that while the man was out, there was, they were setting acts that were not showing loyalty and good conscience towards your boss that was ill. I don't know the details and I don't want to get into that. But I want to tell the governor, now you have come back. God has been faithful to you. And helped you to come back. You have lived that man and own your deputy. God will deal with him. But unless he is constituting a problem, unless there will be things that he has done that were unethical and you think is not in the best interest of the people of understate, call him to undo what he did. If he doesn't want to undo it publicly, make it formal and official, don't let him look vindictive. But that of a dhosty. I think that if I had the way to talk to Governor Obaseki, I would tell him, bros, cool down. I'll tell him, cool down. There are things you do and people think is an act of desperation and you lose that emotional intelligence and connection to the people and you get the wrong end of the stick. There are wiser ways to get about things without these avoidable dramas and distractions. He has a few months to go. Why don't you want to concentrate on finishing strong and leave your deputy. There are many ways to kill a rat. There are many ways to handle that issue so that you put him where he belongs without even, you know, causing this public rancor and this and that. It's a way the public can take you of him while you face your finishing strong. I think that my friend Obaseki or my governor or my brother he might end up realizing a little late that he had spent precious time where he shouldn't have and that would be sad. He has a few days to go and to concentrate. Someone said that he has more to lose than even the deputy that he's haunting. Yes, by far, by far. Okay, we'll come back to the daily trust if we must but let's take a look at other headlines from other newspapers. We have the daily independent that will be next and then we have the nation and then punch. So let's just take Edo asks federal government to explain source of five billion Naira palliatives to states. That's a very critical question they are asking the federal government. I'd like your comment on that. You know, I want to say that I'm finding it in one of your sister's stations, one of the national stations, I was the guest and they asked me to describe the current administration if possible in one word and I said confusing, you know, and when we advanced the conversation I said we are having a kind of break and quench administration. Another one I said that, you know, after what we had in the eight years of former president Buhari who was to use a very hard word, extremely docile, you know, to meet a man who is up and doing, hitting the ground, running. He's like a breath of fresh air. That's the expression but you see the question is which direction are you running? You know, if I were to advice my ogatinubu, I'll tell him ogat, the best advice anybody can give you today is close your eye to the tribunal, forget about the second term, even if you have 100 days, make every day count. As of today, what is that one thing that, let Mokri Thala Mohamed was around for about 100 days, his name still resonates. What is that direction after 100 days that Nigerians say this is the man, this is where he's going? Is it that of extremely competent hands to run their face on Nigeria? Is it that of extremely transparent governance? Is it that of extremely prudent governance administration? What can Nigerians say is the direction or the man, tinubu, when you say the man, what comes out from the body language, from the direction? When you are able to come in that emilokon, what was it for? Was it emilokon to also have my turn or emilokon that I've looked at Nigeria? I sat and looked at Akwaibon. I looked at Akwaibon well, very well. And I told myself if I had 24 hours, 48 hours, one week, three weeks, people will know where I'm going. Rural areas will hear me. Rural areas will hear me. They will hear my voice loud and clear. Rural areas. So that even if I was there for three months, there would be a definite, any way that the ballot box knows the way to. Development will also know the way to that same place. So when I talk, Mr. Maogatinugu, what is that thing that I say this is his direction? This is what he's doing? You know, his greatest strength before today was that of, oh, he knows how to fish out talent, put round pegs in round holes. After 100 days, even his closest supporters are starting to scratch their head and like, well, let's give him more time. Give him more time forward. The ascending appointment that you will go above, you know, cross the line to the other side and pick somebody. And people will say, ah, ah, ah, even when they want to complain, even your party members will say, well, the guy's producing results. We can see him being the Tinubu that we knew of the days as a governor. Today, I really don't know which direction is going. And I believe he's a good man. I believe that he's done a lot of good things in the past. And I believe that he expects much, much more of him. I believe that right now, because of the way he got into office and me, it has never happened like that before. He's allowing politics, you know, that hailing him. Oh, he's a master politician. We don't need a master politician. You were a master politician to get your ticket. You were a master politician to be sworn in as a president. Don't be a master politician to remain in power because that's not the essence. You have come in here, become a master administrator to fix Nigeria. It's a milo con. It's your turn to fix Nigeria. But today, look at all the indices are driving us in the negative direction. It's not good for his image. Yes. We even have a story that Naira is exchanging for as high as 985 Naira per dollar. And it's a headline we didn't take on the daily trust, which I thought we were going to go back to later on, is the fact that they said that headline reads, subsidy back as federal government pays 169.4 billion in August. So we have those subsidies. We are doing palliatives that we don't know where the money is coming from. Then we are paying subsidy of 169.4 billion Naira where there was a subsidy paid. There's no clear vision. We don't know where we are going. But Naira is falling and falling fast. And we don't know where that will end. I'd like to comment on the fact that this free market for the Naira is causing these Nigeria will say Wahala. Naira is gradually gravitating towards exchanging for 1000 Naira per dollar. And I don't think it is good for us. Yeah. You see, after I had furnished my family, when I said furnishing, capital letters, bold and underlined and red letters, I looked for a way to satisfy my conscience by asking them to go on vacation. Brother, I'm sure you know where I'm coming from. Outside the country. To save money for my wife to job. I'm now using calculator and asking her how much is bugger. She says 10 pounds. And I'm calculating to convert 10 pounds. I said, do you want to eat 10,000 Naira bugger for 10,000 Naira? Do you understand me? What am I trying to say? This is me, vacation. How about my brother that has sent a child to school? And this is the final year of that child. And he had calculated, because the window for education was about 400 and something Naira to a dollar. Some months back, he had put the school fees of this child out to complete as a very responsible person. Now, before my wife traveled, we be paid for money. The money was there and immediately this policy came in of floating the Naira. So instead of her getting the equivalent of about two or 4,000 pounds, her money was returned because of the number of people going. The money was returned where to buy in the black market. We ended up getting less than half the money. Come back to demand with the school fees. That man was expecting maybe about 4,400 to a dollar and had calculated the 10 or 20,000 pounds he was going to pay. Today, that amount that could have given him 20,000 pounds cannot give him 8,000 pounds. How is that man? And he sold his house, he sold his property, sold everything he had to be able to get this money. Now he cannot get half that money. What's going to happen to his education? He's thinking so much, his blood pressure has started going up. He's thinking so much, he's becoming irritable because he's becoming traumatized. He's thinking so much, the wife can no longer connect with him. He's thinking so much, the family is starting to fall apart. His health has gone south. He's now using part of the money to go to the hospital to take care of himself. All because of policy that happened to a man that had thought well and his resources and believed that this child coming out will be his own insurance for the future. We're not thinking. This thing called governance is not a play, it's not a joke. It's about the destiny of a nation. It's about the future of a people. This Emilokon must be trying to fix this country. He must be trying to do things right. What have we done to the people that are sucking this country dry? As of today, why did we have a problem with subsidy? Because our trucks were going across the border and we were consuming much more than we were. We needed number one. Number two, because some companies were doing round tripping and there was lack of transparency and accountability in the system as the result we were paying about four trillion as subsidy, which was unacceptable. I come in and I tell the people, look, I'm removing subsidy. What do I do? I do myself three months. Within these three months, I have a very specific plan which is meter, not just meter, track all trucks, plug all loopholes. It does not take me more than three months to put all those systems back. So number one, I've solved the problem of no truck is going to go across the border and then I put very stiff penalties and as economic crime, get into legislation and let me make it possible to do a dead penalty because we want to kill this nation. We kill you before you kill us for those. And then you now come into the administration internally. I put a tracker on every well head in every oil rig so that I sit in my office and know the production quota of every oil well. Number three, I put in place a sanitize system so that you cannot do this round tripping. Number four, I asked myself, do I want to do the swap deal so that I don't have any, whatever, any conferences or wait on my Naira so that I give you a certain, you know, barrels of crude and you give me back a certain quantity of A.G. or petrol or diesel or kerosene or aviation fuel so that it is a batter. I'm not putting any pressure on Naira to solve Naira to buy. Why do I want to, I call it, oh God, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. I can hear you. So three months of somebody who knew what he was coming to do is enough. At the end of three months, you come fellow Nigerians. I've done my mathematics and everything. We are reintroducing subsidy because this is one thing that benefits everybody. This issue of palliatives, we don't know who is getting, who is not getting, but the issue of fuel getting the transportation affects everybody. So I've reintroduced subsidy. Now we are no longer consuming 70 barrels. There's 70 million litres per day. We have been able to get our consumption to be 40 million litres. That's number one. Number two, we are no longer having ground tripping of people doing this. Number three, we have entered into an understanding where there's no pressure on a foreign exchange. So everything is fine. Petrol goes back from 500 or 700. It comes back. It's not longer going to be the 178. It's going to come down to 250 because the production quota or the imported cost is about 120 or 150. So we are only subsidising another 120, which we can do it as social service for Nigerians. And boy, we'll demand get ovation. Even if you bring it to 300 now, everybody would like, oh, guys, you know, oh, guys, you try, you do. Now, what I've just said, please, somebody should fault it and tell me what is idealistic or impossible with that. The question is, do you have the willpower to say so far, so good, henceforth, no more? That's all it takes. I had a discussion with the Minister of Housing, and the first word he said to me, he didn't know the weight of that meaning, the meaning of that word, he said, architect, we now have a president that has the willpower to face issues of housing. As I speak, no, father. That expression alone that has the willpower to face the issue of housing, which is why he made housing to be a standalone ministry, and he's committed to that expression alone. The guy I was sold, he bought me 100% for nothing, for free. Why am I saying, does a president have the willpower to face two sections? Number one, oil and gas. Number two, let me say this, and I will say it without any fear of, I don't know what to say. You see that guy called El Rufai? That my brother called El Rufai. I wish that El Rufai, I want to know why they didn't allow him to get into power, or get into energy, as I'm told he wanted. El Rufai, I use this in a very, very enlightening word. He's a mad man, positively. He's target-driven. He has his issues, but I can tell you that in my personal opinion, if El Rufai was put in charge of energy or power, by today, some people will be sweating. And we need those people to sweat. We need them. And El Rufai is one guy that couldn't care less who you are. He couldn't care who sucks his God. And that's the sort of person we need for a place like power, for a place like energy. That's the sort of person we need a mad man. Because this country needs some people who will say like Esther, if I perish, I perish. I remember the time that the religious bodies were going against it. And they just laughed. They said, you know, my health condition, people in my situation don't even live up to this stage. I've only overleaved. So what am I afraid of? I've overleaved what people expected. So what am I to fear? Okay. I wish we had more time. There are other headlines that we would have loved to treat with you. But this is how we will say goodbye to you today. Thank you so much, architect Ezekiel Nyaitok, for coming on the show. Thank you. I think I was starting to end as a hotline. Okay, the time is just up. Thank you so much. Yeah. Okay. Well, we are done with architect Nyaitok. But we'll just take some headlines so that you can read them up if you have the opportunity to do that. We all have other headlines saying 300 million bulletproof jeep. Undo assembly begins impeachment process of deputy governor. That's in daily independent. Oburovary and dosage serapses report on Niger Delta. Lagos rakes in 400 billion Naira IGR in six months. Lifting Nigerians out of poverty requires paradigm shift. That is Rep Speaker said that U.S. court orders Chicago Vacity to release Tinnabuz records to Atiku and NNPP vows to appeal Kano governorship tribunal judgment. On the punch newspaper, Dango Terifinery will take off with a crude from NNPCL. Undo House moves steps to remove deputy governor. We also have planned strike. NLC keeps federal government is in suspense. That story has writers, SGF ministers meet with VP, Shatima, labor states chapters waiting for go ahead. Then tribunal voids 165,000 NNPP votes. Saks Kano governor. Political cases. Consuming courts time says CGN. On punch newspaper, which is the final newspaper today, police declare 24 hour curfew as tribunal saks Kano governor. Undo assembly begins process to impeach the deputy governor. APC tackles Atiku as U.S. court grants ex VP's request. The writers on that story are PDP, Atiku's eight command U.S. court say Tinnabuz academic record will be unveiled soon. No cause for alarm, Atiku's case and exercise in futility, president has nothing to hide that is according to APC. And unfortunately, Lagos road collapses after downpour residents groan. Nira tumbles to 980 Naira to a dollar, FX shortage worsens. Mobile's wife seeks fellow Nors intervention. Akiti assembly demands justice and strike NLC ultimately ends today. Federal government allays fears. Those are the headlines. You might just want to read them up on national dailies. Very interesting headlines there. Just know what is happening in your country and make informed decisions. We'll take a short break when we return. We'll take other guests that will be treating our first hot topic. Stay with us.