 Mario Christmas and welcome to the breakfast at Plus TV Africa time for us to go through the papers this morning. We call it off the press GDA Johnson joins us this morning via Zoom. GDA compliment of the season and thank you for being with us this morning. It was always wonderful morning to start the weekend on Plus TV. Good morning to our viewers all over the world. Good morning to Kofi. Good morning. Most important, most important. Good morning to beautiful messie for messy. All right. Merry Christmas and happy new year. Merry Christmas to you GDA Johnson. You look set, you look set to, you look set to jump into the Christmas celebration I can see. Yes you need. Exactly and then you'll be waiting for that messie for smile and we call you. All right fantastic. All right let's start off with the leadership newspaper this morning. The stories are quite interesting. On the headlines it talks about at Lagos River's Rally. Tunibu Obis speaks to issues underscore governance plans. This is a bold caption you find. I will convert Niger's challenges to opportunities as APC presidential candidate. I will run government of youths, women, Obis say don't waste time on Tunibu. I think who tells PMB. Well quite interesting right there but you know when politicians make all of these promises we call them we tack them campaign promises and this is just statement and even if you had a government in place there might just be policy statement because you need to have an action plan and beyond having an action plan you also need to have implementation. So I'm hoping that the electorate are asking the right question as to how all of these things will become. Cash withdrawal limit, Naira redesign not political. The central bank of Nigeria is quoted to say of course you have a picture of the CBN governor, Godwin and Mepheli himself. No amount of threats will stop 2023 elections. The federal government is committed to that, it vows. Again I will unveil my presidential candidate in January we can say shouldn't he be supporting you know candidate from his party. Illegal abortions report and vindicate army fingers foreign NGOs. Anyways that's very very interesting. Southern Uni Abuja lecturers get one billion Naira research grants and Kaduna emerges best performing state in world banks projects analysis that's the much we can take this morning on the leadership newspaper. Let's go to the next paper we have on our list and the nation newspaper has some interesting stories, the lead story there, tiddable multiple exchange rates, petrol subsidy to go, APC candidate promises to fix power, introduce students loans. We'll look at both of the paper, wiki allies to unveil preferred presidential candidate next one. One of the stories are two series on the paper, we'll look at some of them as we go on with our guest. Well let's turn our attention from the nation newspaper this morning and quickly look at the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian says lawmakers constituency project delay 2023 project or budget. I take that again lawmakers constituency project delay 2023 budget. Senate fixes December 28th for passage of appropriation bill. United States Africa leaders summit beyond the symbolism or catch up race with China and 2023 and mentally affirmed CBN's neutrality state's benefits of the policy. Now as we just move away from the Guardian we quickly take this I will remove fuel or petrol subsidy to Nibu vows at business launch. Obey Supreme Court order on souk or fuel by also tells the RMAC and you find airlines operators ricks imprisonment fines for non-remittance of sale charges really. Why are we having this as a conversation? MBA shoes minister of women affairs, Pauline Tallin over kangaroo comment. That's the much we have this morning on the Guardian newspaper. The next paper on our list is the punch newspaper with these headlines cash limits not anti-people CBN insists reps knock him if you leave policy will open row under self-communities economic opportunities. CBN deputy governor ipex bank orders 500 million pieces of new notes says nation ready for cashless economy. Mayfully flouting CBN act policy ill timed irresponsible law makers xadc. Kailas of US based hotelia Lagos Ibarro highway kidnappers arrested. We have still from the punch and in pc marketers a plan 148 naira per litre that tinnable insists on subsidy removal. If G may reintroduce telecom tax in 2023 according to report and the national assembly uncovers errors delays passages of the 2023 budget seems that that may not happen before the new year some stories on the front page of the function. Well aside for us to have GD Johnson share his thoughts this morning on the papers GD it's good to have you join us and please which of the headlines interest us went through the pages this morning. Well let's start with them the story on tinnable be sticking to issues and what we are looking for to 2023 is issue based campaign not campaign based on ethnicity not campaign based on personality personality will not solve problem but it's issues that are also the problem and like you said in your monologue not only for them to outline these issues make these promises but also to give us the action plan we have had a lot of promises in the past that we were promised to do to do these to do that and that they have not been held accountable to the promises they made. I hope moving forward we as the election is doing there to be issue based and then we also ask them about the action plan of what they intend to do to solve the merits of problems that we have this country. There's no doubt that that the problem facing Nigeria is multifaceted however a constructive program by decisive leadership we solve all the problems that we have to a certain extent so for me it's a welcome development and I need I think that we need to to hold them accountable with respect to what they are going to do beyond highlighting these issues beyond identifying these issues what are you what are the steps that you are going to take to solve the problem you know what the problem you know what to do the critical question is how is it critical questions we should be asking them to go about because what you want to do is to solve public governance problem and that's that's for me this is step in the right in the direction that we've started talking about issue other than abusing themselves and insulting one another which has always been the major approach that has been adopted in the past with respect to dealing with them campaigning for public offices in Nigeria it should be all right the House of Representatives have tried they've tried to get the CBN governor got it away fully into the green chamber for some time now unsuccessfully they've given him several I mean he says he's out to the president you say come tomorrow you know when I saw that I said I say how can someone just come tomorrow when he's abroad you know so he's written to them telling them he can't come he's outside the country there's nothing you see the updates the updates on that as we read earlier from the punch in that headline on the front page of the punch these are cash limits and not anti-people CBN insists reps knock him a feeling the paper just gives us the details of what happened when representatives of the CBN appeared before the House of Representatives to represent Gordon Mayfield please the bottom line is that I can't imagine the chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States been invited by the Congress either by the House of Reps or by the Senate for to appear before the committee and would they not appear you see the the talent we have with our democracies that's uncertain institution believes that they are both or that they are both checks and balances the beauty of democracy particularly the type of system of governance that our practice is about checks and balances it talks about separation of power the power of oversight function lies with the with with the with the legislature so there's no need that hemiphoelid issue acts the assertion of arms to arrest to arrest him because if you are invited it deals on you to appear the the House of Representatives legislature is the representative of the people the old organizations cannot come and ask you questions but they've elected their representative and have been summoned by the representative and you are you are you are sending a rep you are postponing your appearance and then you are sending someone to represent you are you telling us that you are bigger than and I don't have any reason to blame them to be in that manner it is because the way the National Assembly itself have conducted itself when people that are meant to be to exert control over over ministries department and agencies of government another executive they go cap in and beg them for for for wanting to appear or so they've lost some of their respect because it's I can't just imagine a federal reserve of united states being invited by the congress to appear and it's not appearing it's it'll be subject to criminal prosecution you you you for defining the congress the content of congress could send him to jail so it's it's a content for for the legislature which is the true representative of the people how could you come up with a policy a policy like that that would change the monetary policy in Nigeria we need to put other arms of government in the know even if they didn't write the national assembly that okay we are about kind of this particular policy they didn't involve the the the the committee on finance or the committee on appropriation in in in all of this in all of this policy because government is meant to be a collaborative a collaborative venture it's not it's not the neutral decisions that we take it by the executive weight on because the executive and the legislature are both elected as representative of the people so as well as I'm concerned they should just send their sergeant of arms to to pick him up where you said or someone to appear before and it's not appearing before you use the full weight of the law use the full weight of of what the constitution has provided place for you to exact and assert your authority right GD Johnson let's also move away from that and look at all the issues on the papers this morning and my attention is on the punch it talks about the federal government reconsidering reintroduction of telecom tax in 2023 remember that that was suspended after you know public outcry but what do you make of this if it was like you know there's a lot of hardship well um well thank god that they are coming up in the open even without the we don't even know whether the taxes have been have been collected directly or indirectly because if you look at if you look at it um what has happened to the rates what has happened to the rates of that would be for data that would be for for for voice calls and the rest of it now if government is with the present economic hardship with inflation at double digit and the government is also thinking of imposing additional tax burden on the people then it tells you about what 2023 will look like on the perspective of government in terms of what it remains for Nigerians to survive or not in 2023 as far as i'm concerned different form of taxation are directly or indirectly being imposed on the people and then there's with nothing else to shift to shift for it in terms of the revenue that government is making upon all the revenue that government is making we are still indebted to foreign to foreign nations and foreign bodies and yet we have nothing to shift for it in terms of deliverables of of democracy just to carry on do does it look like when a christmas is just to carry on do how many people have sent you text messages or phone calls that you have received with people asking for one form of help or the other because they have a big christmas ahead of them all right jenny johnson want to thank you very much for your time and for joining us this morning and of course uh we've enjoyed your analysis not just today not just this month but indeed throughout the year 2022 let me let me quickly add this coffee um whoever knows what is your advising that he needs to learn from a machine and he needs to learn from peter oddily and he needs to learn um uh from james ebore these were people that were larger than life when they were holding the executive position of the governor as far as i'm calling son the party's training it is not to be advised if it does not take the rightful distinction it's just we're going to political oblivion after i leave the office in 2023 all right thank you i'm sure reacting to one of the papers i think a couple of them up that headline he says he announces a preferred presidential candidate next year i don't know if it's on a personal note or as leader of the mg five group of governors or the integrity group we'll see what happens um but we'll look forward to seeing you next week as we have a swan song for 2022 have a fantastic weekend merry christmas and advance to you merry christmas and happy new year in advance thank you let's smile again thank you all right we have more conversations ahead we'll be right back let's take a look at judgments of landmark and significant judgments that were recorded in the year 2022 as we review activities this year please stay with us