 We're back. It's still the breakfast and plus we have glad to say we have joining us for off the press, which is daily new super review segment upon a boy in Qataria for my special assistant to the state government or governor on information and communication. Missing guitar. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. Special advice. I don't know how that came out. Sorry about that. Yes, indeed. You're a special advisor. Appreciate it. We had a good relationship. You know, I was in cross in reverse. In reverse. Thank you very much for your time. And happy new year to you. Good morning. Good morning. Right. Fantastic. Um, we started for the look at the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper this morning. Indeed, the political season is heating up. There's a lot that's happened since the last time I was here, which is last year. Well, the big one there. Uh, I'll be fair to all tribes. I will be fair to all tribes. APC candidates unstoppable says Quarra governor. Uh, he is a product of unity. All right. Uh, more from the nation security spreads net to rescue 31 train travelers in Ado state, a reverse bars articles campaign from public schools, PDP candidate in the UK business review for 2023. So, we'll look to Nigerians. Sean evil predictions. Uh, the risk for us. We'll uh, some of the titles there on the front page of the nation. Fogs attack ocean APC campaign office 13 new COVID-19 cases reported in Lagos Ado. Um, and the early intercepts drug assignments in Woodin statue and Chris Azulica is thefts CEO. Uh, some of the stories on front page of the nation quickly uh, to the next paper, which is the punch and the lead story of the punch. You see, but no surprises there has to do with the adult train attack. Uh, it says soldiers, please vigilantes track abductors 31 passengers missing of course over 32 of Dr. Ria one escaped uh, to freedom to safety. Uh, writers to that railway workers, non passengers, Southeast residents among abductees and RC boss official. Uh, two underage victims rescued suspect arrested as FG or Basiki condemned kidnapping. More from the paper, electricity consumers demand new tariff reversal. Think it's quite a troublesome one. Uh, for a lot of us who haven't to pay uh, a lot for that. FG pays 4.12 trillion narrow interest on CBN loan. Agents protest as customs hike imported vehicle duty raids. Air chief regrets civilian casualties, orders probe armed forces remembrance. Governors seek support for fallen soldiers, families jackpot. More youth for cell assets seek fortunes abroad. Call for missing baby probe rises government mom and forex allocation to telecom sector drops. Let's quickly go to the guardian with these stories. The lead one search ongoing for 31 abductees in a dull state train station attack. Uh, reverse unlawful electricity tariff hike. Syrup, Ergis, Buhari, Atticus aide denies ill health rumors. Ignore propaganda LP on ground in North Spokesman shows Nigerians. Why some Southeast politicians, businessmen opposing OB by OBD OBIGO? Okay. Uh, more from the guardian. Some of the Ergis Nigerians shun evil predictions ahead of general election and don't take consumers for granted. Energy experts charge discos are some of the headlines on the front page of the guardian and that's our last paper uh this morning. We have a discussion on the situation in a dull state uh as far as the train attack is concerned but I'd like to give you a few minutes or a minute to just say something about this. Some things about because it's quite worrying uh traumatizing to see the least least. Are you talking about this uh train attack? Yes. Well it is it is quite tragic and more so worrisome. I mean uh I think these trains and train stations have become targets of attacks. Uh the last one of course we're all aware of what happened and uh that stops uh train services for quite some time. It will put on hold for quite some time to ensure that all the methods and safety measures are put in place. And so with the assumption of the train services we all expected that the federal government would have done its own work properly to ensure the protection of lives, the safety of lives. But you see this is even more disturbing in the sense that this one did not just happen while the train was uh uh in motion. Let me say uh what I say was not in real. It really happened at the station and this calls to question the preparedness of the federal government to actually commence and sustain the train services. Because at the stations we expected security guards at least we should have the police, we should have the DSS and all the security station there going too well that the train services shall be target of uh uh these criminals. So the main fact that without any resistance that these criminals went and abducted all those that abducted including the station manager. So without any resistance that is the key word there is quite disturbing, extremely disturbing. It shows that the federal government uh uh has um taken treated lives of Nigerians with levy. You know they bother less. Why would you tell me that you don't have security guards at that station? Because no gun shots were fired. There was no resistance. I think the abductors just went into abducted their their uh uh big things and walked away. It's so much need. It's it's quite disturbing. I think the federal government should do more or if they cannot ensure the protection of life then let us talk to the the train services in this country until when they are sure that they can protect lives. Very important. They are not just talking of uh attacks in and around the rails. We are now talking of attacks and they're taking the fight and they're doing nothing about that. It's it's it's not it's all right. Let's uh go stay with the Guardian newspaper um talks of the the health situation and the health condition of our presidential candidates uh really rife in this season ahead of next uh this year's presidential election. Um Artico Boca is his turn to to have that scrutiny. I mean throughout the weekend lots of um rumors surrounding his his health. Uh and a Tautiku has come out as quoted by the Guardian newspaper uh the stories on page three of the Guardian this morning saying that uh uh he's denying Artico's ill health ill health rumors. What are your thoughts on that? Because um some have said the man is not been walking well um he's jetted off to Dubai to take care of his health. He's nowhere to be found in recent days as far as campaigns are concerned. Well uh I am not here to ascertain to the velocity or I mean the apocalyptic fairness of that report. Uh first and foremost let me state this that um Artico is a human being and we are all close to him. I mean kids fall sick and that's why you have the traditions. They fall sick and don't forget that he has been touring this tradition to campaign. He's a human being. In fact I just got back from my elder brother's burial on Saturday and he showed rest in peace. Yeah, since I called the lenses on on that open above. Yes, the architect who died at fifty eight you know. Uh and uh all through someday I was sleeping. Oh, I don't have any medical conditions. I'm not in apathensis. I'm not diabetic but I'm human. As a result of the two traditions preceding I am just a brother not even a son. You can imagine what the son was up on and you know and the wife. So we are human beings and we are prone to human problems and illnesses and sicknesses are part of of human being. The article today has gone for medical checkup of cause I'm not sure about his age. You know, I mean once you're you're fourteen they say your your your system changes. You have to adjust at fifty the same thing. So what are we talking about? There is no human being on end of course. There is no one on end of course. But if because of when one is a terminal illness or when one is going to affect your job to discharge of the job that is really because of for example, as you're going senile if you're having amnesia if you're unable to walk then definitely it is going to affect the job because you will not commit yourself to that job the way you are. That is when it becomes worse. Otherwise somebody has malaria somebody has typhoid or even BP that is being managed and your doctor is abroad and you want to go and see what's going on with that. So the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. If at all it is because like I said I cannot speak for now if at all it is actually speak or not. I know this is an area of propaganda where everywhere you fly out to go and do something or they'll say ah there's one on medical treatment. Just to discredit the family. One of his both persons have come up to say it's a lie that that story is not true that Antico does travel. But whatever it is, even nettles that assume which are conceiving that he's actually sick. What is wrong with that? He has never he has never talked to anybody. He wants to be. He didn't disappoint anybody during the campaign. So what I'm saying? He didn't disappoint anybody during the campaign like they're faltering like something like making some numbers of him comprehensible statements and so on. So we didn't we didn't get all those things. His mental faculties are intact. Okay. So there's no problem. Maybe actually travels have traveled abroad for that. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. He is not a young man anymore. I mean he's um uh uh 76 years shy of 80. So I mean my my my my father passed on at 78 and I took care of him for 79 years. You know. Let me tell you something about Biden is old. Joe Biden. Now you said your father passed on your father passed on at 78. My father died at 94. My father smoked cigar. Grant is brandy. He stout. The other day he died. He was a judge. So you cannot say he was when I mean a judge. You can mean you can if you see judges that are actually working to see most of them go pray gray hair and everything. Because the challenges are enormous. You know. So he died at 94. No high blood pressure. No diabetes. No glasses. You use what you speak intermittently because he was a paramount chief. He never used what you speak at home. He died at 94. He didn't have a mission. He was not senile. Yeah. But that's the problem. What about we don't know. One minute. I'm not talking about you. Listen up. Your father's uh. You mentioned your dad. Let's keep learning land. I know what I'm saying. All right. All right. Go on. We went to the UK. Came back a few days later. He died. My mom died at 78. He was with the four years older. So it is not age. That's the point of me. I went my father died. He died with his younger brother. Sorry. One week interval. Who was also a general of university? One week after. He was seventeen years older than him. Now I'm dead of course. So it's not the age. I get your point. I get your point. My dad was 79 when he passed on. I give you his a life. I give you his a life. My elder brother is 58. He's dead. He's already buried. So what are we talking about? I get your point. It's not about the age you know one passes on. I'm not saying that you can't live here. I'm just saying that from what people are saying uh it's been reported some tabloid was the first. I thought it's a particular tabloid was the first one to report that the man was sick and that's why he was flown from Dubai in the UAE to London for medical treatment attention. I'm saying that when you for most people not for everyone for most people when you get to your 70s you begin to you know watch it. You begin to take it slowly. I'm not saying it's impossible to be a president at that time. But if you are the age of 76 you know and you begin to have health checks. You are admitted to the hospital and there are speculations around your health. Shouldn't that be taken seriously? And shouldn't that be a serious question? That is what I am saying. As far as your push for the president is concerned. I just told you I just told you this is political error. So plan to the tabloid just to moving into excuse the situations like this by your political opponents just to discredit you. Otherwise medically they tell you once you're 40 that's what they tell you medically. And of course as they socialized I spend the week. So that's about that. PTOB cannot claim to be who is supposed to be one of the youngest. Cannot claim to be as strong as Kofi Mantis. So if we are looking at just the age alone then PTOB should also not contest. That does look like Kofi Mantis to contest. Well we're not talking about PTOB here. I didn't mention his name. So what you're saying is that even if Tico is in the hospital in UK right now as far as his run for the presidency is concerned it's not an issue. That's what you're saying. That's not what I'm saying. Don't get me wrong. I said it depends on what I'm taking into the hospital. Okay. Okay. Okay. It depends. That's another point I'm making. It depends. We all fall sick. I said it from the one. We all fall sick. Okay. But it depends provided it is not something like I said it here. I said you don't suffer for ambition. You are not senile. You don't have a terminal. I didn't think I mentioned that when I started. I said it depends on the sickness. So if you have headache and malaria and stuff for that measure then would you go to the hospital? So it all depends on the kind of sickness you have. All right. So is it that so you believe that Tico Aboka left the UAE left Dubai to go to London because of something that could easily be treated? For him to go to London doesn't not mean it's something really serious. It's possible that there is doctor is it's possible he might even be going in for surgery. I said possible this is an hypothesis. If he's going in for surgery he would definitely go to where is doctor is. All right. I open up. I between nine thirteen and twenty. I have six surgeries. So surgery has nothing to do with eight. I have six surgeries. So surgery has nothing to do with eight. If we have we eat that's where I remember my first surgery when I did it there. The second one because Dr Yanny had left for London with you to London for me to go to surgery. But I'm sure you're aware that having a surgery in your 20s 30s even 40s it's way different from having a surgery in your 70s. I agree now. The point I am making is that he left UAE for London does not mean the case is that CBR. Maybe that's where he has his consultant. You have you don't have to you have the consultant that knows your medical history. And then we can afford it. Why not? I lost my friend my second cousin Dr Tiazia Makhry. Just because when we rushed him to the hospital the doctor who the doctor said he was like give him an injection and I was not killed him. Dr Tiazia Makhry that was not killed him. Sound brave. And that's how we lost him because the man who was trying to save his life. So he gave him an injection. That injection was not killed him. You definitely don't go to wear a doctor who knows his medical history. Even you coffee. If you have a problem you can rush to a doctor that you're close to. It's your manager. All right. All right. Mr Kutaira thank you very much. On the front page of the leadership we didn't have the time to look at all the stories there but I'll take one for now. Peter Obi the the Labour Party's presidential candidate has some coverage that he says quote I will or fuel subsidy will go. It says it'll be sort of paper saying I'm sure that must be from his appearance at the Town Hall Town Hall series last night. What are your thoughts on that? Fuel subsidy will go. Seems it's already going because in some places I am impenetrable. We are paying 400 Naira. Yeah. Do we still have fuel subsidy? Fuel subsidy is just a dream pipe. It's just a conduit pipe. Do we still have fuel subsidy and we are buying fuel at 500 Naira per liter for filling stations in Potacot? I understand in Naguja it's a few 180 or there about. But in Potacot it's 500 Naira. So where is the subsidy? If we remove the subsidy we'll fuel fuel go for 1000 Naira per liter. Send down to any nation. So I don't think there is fuel subsidy at all. It's just a cocktail. Because as you see a cocktail goes in charge of the the the industry maximizing profits at the expense of of that in Nigeria. And the federal government is doing nothing about it. So is there a reason maybe you think would you say this man who is saying fuel subsidy will go categorically maybe the right person to handle the situation from leading candidates. I'm not saying he's not the right person. Probably he has his own magic wand. I'm not saying the right man. I think Kutu has said that it was talked about fuel subsidy. Kiribu has talked about fuel subsidy. It is not the mountain. It is the act. You talked about a cocktail. I need to ask you which candidate Yeah. Which candidate you think has the political will looking at the leading candidates now three or four of them. Which of them do you think has the political will to dismantle any cocktail, you know. I don't tell the article has the political will. Amongst all of them the largest prospect of doing that. They have the political will. He's been there. He knows what it is. He knows what it takes and he knows how to grab out. He has the financial to all of it. All right. Interesting. Let's move on to other stories. Zoya Tiku has said I think his plan is to sell you know sell sell government assets. I'm sure probably privatize NMPC even though they're private but not entirely private now. If he wants to go into that we can go into that but that will be a topic for another when it comes to selling privatizing government assets. We will go into that. Don't forget Tiku was a vice president. I could say Tiku a Tiku a Tiku. What did the bus industry in 2019 when he recommended that Tiku? What did he say? He said he has all the checks to revamp the economy. He has all the he said all that. But this same bus angel now is endorsing Tiku. He's endorsing another man. That's the man of doubles. He's the man of double stick. We all know him. He's the man of double stick. So in 2019 was he why should we trust what he said about a Tiku in 2019 since the man of doubles speak? I'm not saying I would because the truth of the project is that COVID I can say COVID is the best broadcast time today and tomorrow I now say oh message is the best broadcast time. That does not be the fact that I recognize your abilities. All right. All right. Anyway, let's go on. It seems all is not too well with the families of Nigerians fallen here heroes. As we mark armed forces remembrance day, you know, there's been talk of the difficulties of families of Nigerians ex-servicemen having to go through on the front page of the punch, there is a little story a caption at the bottom of that front page armed forces remembrance governors seek support for fallen soldiers families. It seems that the state governors are the ones who may be coming to the rescue of the families of these ex-servicemen. One of the thoughts on this and how they they've been treated are they asking for too much maybe because I know that this current administration I I I yeah when you've been when you've been doing the service of not the public taking care of are you talking about those that have retired I'll be asking for too much doing the service of not the public taking care of the remuneration incentives almost zero we've heard of new continue on three occasions we've heard of the situation where even the soldiers have to shoot a captain or that about and even those that were sent on the rescue mission to rescue the adopters what some of those who went and took the money that have said that the soldiers said this is how they feed they just send them here to keep for them to die getting equipment to even fight these criminals so if they cannot take care of the several ones are they is it the are they the retirees that don't take care of okay so that will be actually for talking about that's the truth about and that's why our soldiers are like look I'm going to send them out you see how how successful they become because United Nations will their co-workers ensure that they give to them more than what they need okay because in this country you get 10 percent of what you need Miss Singotaro let's just quickly very quickly and very briefly look at one I think I won't be fair to you as a reverse man reaching his life from Potacot if I don't allow you speak on this on the front page of the nation a final take reverse bars articles campaign from public schools the political appreciation of article by Amishi is not endowed by Amishi by Wike or Amishi sorry by Wike sorry by Wike is not endowed okay they said thank you for that correction they said recently they have not paid 95 billion Naira for political campaign and they have the question thank God I Wike himself was wrong who said he had really was sponsoring this I mean telling people so you have used the state forms to buy to pay for that to pay 95 08 that is true because I don't have the nature of education to conjure the seeds and say they paid but let us even assume that yes they paid how many political parties campaign 95 million to campaign just to pay for locations how many political parties to pay just for locations as for articles in case you know he has sworn that article not win the presidential election and so he he will do anything to ensure that article does not even get 25 percent reverse but that is wishful thinking because article will reverse all right all right open up we're going to open up Bonkotaro thank you very much for your time we keep an eye on activities in river state especially as a concerns freedom democracy the rule of law I think these are issues to keep talking about thank you so much for time please accept our condolences on the the passing of your your brother may so it's my pleasure may so rest in peace my pleasure thank you thank you and that's so much we will take for now on off the press we'll return in a matter of minutes sir as we dive into our first major conversations we look at the situation in Edo state with the kidnap of travelers and the attack on the train station in Edo state we'll be back please stay with us