 Thank you for staying with us. You're still watching the breakfast on Plus TV Africa and right now we'll be looking at what the national dailies are saying This morning. It's time for off the press but joining us to review the papers is Sir Ezekiel Inyak Etok. Yes, he'll be reviewing the papers with us this morning. Good morning sir. Happy New Year. Welcome to the program Thank you so much. Thank you and thank you for being there with us all through 2023 and here we are again doing it in 2024 Anyways, let's get into it. So our first paper that we'll be looking at is the punch and Here is a headline that is screaming writer thoughts. It says APC promises heavy defeats as article ice 2027 Residential bead now the writers on this one is article has wisdom capacity energy will run in 2027 says aid PDP welcomes X VP others and APC says X VP will be defeated again Or be will contest as article should support him LP insist So this is this is the battle between the different political parties that we have so we have a PC we have PDP we have LP and I mean, I think PDP APC is pretty confident that they would win again in 2027 article might be defeated LP and PDP should form a coalition But what's what's your take on all of this and how can they be so confident that? In 2027 they would be elected into power again Okay First is that People really don't understand Politicians They are Die hard On the second hand They realize that You can never say That's why even So they don't have that This position before the pope The way they get inside They would explain their reason you know I listen to one And the top they say oh, no, no, there's no position He will be for our joint, right? Thank you This guys It is The new That So Now, not only us, like you would either, it's a future of you, okay? Now, there is a state that holds up a life of purpose. I'm very close to you, and I know that you're tough. I've tried to be a politician, but it can't stay for the past time. Let's assume that for four legislatures, for two weeks only. So, the government can bring an enlightened politician up in the island and teach you as a student, as a candidate. Yes, sir. It's a bit... I'll follow you. I'll tell you now. We really don't understand that. I'm not sitting at the park as somebody called me, which are for the reason. To that extent, purpose is to ask me where I should go, those problems. I'll say, look, because this is the list out. And people are close to that. If you take out the result in two years, and then take out which out, which has been in the past, if it goes back to the past, it means that the result has not changed. So, what I'm going to do is, the problem is like, if it has gone to the past, it will just come back to the past. So, how do you come to know that it can go to the past? Or rather than not to come to the past, that how do you collect to go back to the past and destroy the things that are most in the past or want to go back to the past? So, the past is in the same way of our current governor. How do you know that he's the same governor? Sorry? I'll tell you something. The audio is breaking. I think that it may be the weather, but we can only pick a few things that you're saying, but yeah. We can't hear you clearly. It's not smooth. I think maybe you just need to adjust your phone a little bit so we can hear you properly. Okay, well we can hear you now, but when you start to speak, yes, we can hear you better now, so just go ahead. Okay, good. Now, Antonio, the first thing is that when I think we are closing as a party man, as it is strictly as a nationalist and an analyst will be objecting, because sometimes when you party can say, are you looking at that secret? Why? No, no, no, no. I don't wear that cap of a party man. I wear the cap of a nationalist. That's one foundation name. Coming down to what I was saying, we have about four people. There's the current president, you know, a large of you, we have a double party candidate, we have PDP candidates, then we have NNP people that have to be clear to him and I know that he's a very active politician and he strategizes, you know. So these four of them, there are two things, being in the North, being in the South, you know. Now in the South, we already have someone who will be there for years. So the question is, is the North going to become most able for each to move to another South and they will do like 12 years? And the South don't be happy that it goes back to the North. It has just come to the South, will it go back to the North and the South will have to change. And the dynamic that these three other people have to contain it, talk about Mr. Peter Obinich, a larger people, and the up-and-down person. But the age is the demand of up-and-down people because he has sentiment on his side, he has power on his side, he has certain momentum that he can either build on or destroy. So I want to tell APC today that for them to assume that because there is power, they will not lose power, is to make the same mistake that we've been made. Nigerians are not interested in those dynamics. If, on the other hand, Mr. Chinobu can sit down and face the governor and face insecurity, people will likely say, this man is making progress. The northerners will say, since he's already here for four years, let him just complete his other four years so that he can come to the Egypt. But if he does not face the governor with vengeance and believes that the country is incumbent, we need to circumcise, I think he will begin for a good shot. There are a lot of things that were not admissible in court this time. I'm sure they will be admissible in court next time. Maybe that's what Achiku is basing his own confidence on. But given age and all other things, I thought he should just step down and as a nationalist pick a candidate that he can support. It doesn't have to be his party. I'm not saying he has to support or be, but if he finds a better person and he wants to support, I think that's the way to go. Even in his party, people can contest apart from him. But that's not all the headlines we've seen. The other headline that is very worrisome has to do with the health sector in Nigeria. There is this small headline down there that says, Mother of quadruplets held in Delta Hospital over four million Naira bill. So she obviously has gone to the hospital given birth and because of that, because she can't pay the bill, she's being held. I don't know what she can do in the hospital that will cover four million Naira. What's your take on the... I'm very likely to be held second. My wife is a medical doctor and she's born of the Naira, probably the highest level. So I'm very, very happy to be a medical doctor. Last year, I think, I tried to go to the General Hospital in Anwar. Here in New York. And let me tell you something. I went to the world to just find out what was going on. I saw a young lady. I was wondering what was going on in the maternity world. And she told me, sir, I gave birth to a pair of twins. They both died. And this was about four months ago. I've not been able to pay the bill from held out here. The bill was less than 150,000. A young girl, she has not had a set of twins and yet she cannot live without it. I have been hurted about I think seven or eight cases. All of them came together. Came together to less than half a million. I decided to hurt them. But then, we have been hurt for more. And everything came to less than a million. I put it in the proof that we have people sent in money. Madeleine sent in 50,000. Other people are able to play the back lock of the field of soil to hopefully have transparency. And they will be able to. What am I saying? How will they donate it? This lady worked for 29 years who has lost a set of twins. The girls back in the hospital for four months because she couldn't pay less than 150,000 liras. It's not okay. We need to look at our health sector and think of what we are going to do to the poor. There are people in the hospital another person worked for 59,000. And that lady has been there for about three months. We have problems. I hope that we start to look into our health sector because if we don't have people living in Nigeria how can we even have a nation in the first place? Let's move over to another headline. This is from The Punch and I'm going to tie it to Daily Trust. It talks about from a precedence, Obasanjo. Obasanjo falls 88 trillion debt burden. It says relief mismanaged. And in Daily Trust it says plunge Nigeria into debt burden. It says Obasanjo. Former president of Nigeria Olusegma Obasanjo talked about how difficult it would even be for African countries to be able to get debt relief based on our debt profile at the moment. And he also allegedly said that the money that he got from the Paris club as relief in his tenure in other administrations they kind of like just quantized the money. So what's your take on all of this you know where do we even go if we cannot have enough money and then we need to be in debt and we still cannot even get the debt relief as well. And policemen need to be kicked all the way. And I want to tell all of us as well as the early and the the corporate players by allowing people who have no understanding of government or government to get them to the expense of power people think that the foreigners near like 19 years who have decided to speak they are within the political sphere to the politicians we see it we just give it to them that a man who is always very and nonchalable finds it difficult to think. We will tell you that I don't care if you want to be a dog or a goat I don't want anyone to be a dog or a goat trying to make fun that all your children are inside I don't care. I said you don't care you know debt relief you want the international community to write off your debt. This people they are running and they are right and they are asking themselves do I write off your debt? What are you doing if your money doesn't pay all back? Your national assets in the bank are buying a piece of a hundred and fifty million when we know the real cost of that SUV in your country at least you must try that SUV. We know that in your country there is a common stock you are called in your country to tell me that you use Naira to buy people's vehicles if you are looking for dollars to buy you know just for the foreign vehicles common sense tells me that I know the cost of that vehicle in your country and not the one hundred and sixteen years common sense tells me that you are coming to this place I saw this with the number of food that came with you and you are asking me to give my money to you to fuel your lifestyle that is ostentation common sense tells me that I want to support the poor but my debt relief is not going to benefit the poor because the last one I don't know how it got done as a result we sit down and he says you can play then listen to you talk and talk okay okay and as soon as you hit the roof then say these guys are taking care of your food what am I saying listen I'm saying forage to get out to forgive our debt but that can be if we are willing to just retrieve and retrieve and retrieve two certain instruments of government and governance to show some level of one, seriousness number two, accountability number three concern for the poor if we take just these three I think that we have enough people that can speak for our country internally for us to get this forgiveness that we have before that is one opportunity very very much happening that we are we will have to do okay let's just take a final one we because of time we started late and we're sorry for that this headline also on daily trust is saying NJC budget increased to 341.63 billion Naira remember that this has happened and we know that the proposed budget was 165 billion Naira they approved one after the National Assembly moved it out is 341.63 billion Naira that's for NJC it has increased by 107 percent it also happened in the National Assembly the proposed budget was 97.93 billion Naira but later the approval was given for 344.85 billion Naira that is only the National Assembly budget it increased by 74 percent the National Assembly budget alone is more than education budget the entire education budget for the year 2024 National Assembly is less than a thousand people and education sector is having less than this for 200 million people for 200 million people that need to send their children to school or need to go to school is a paltry 7 percent while the National Assembly alone is having 344 billion Naira let's have your comments please we run political we run political governance and they've done the right thing read my lips and get me right they've done what they should do they've done the right things you give your yam to a goat and when you come back the goat has eaten your yam and you start to blame the goat who's the problem the goat or you the human being this National Assembly people they mortgage their conscience and their future some of them had to give family members and sacrifice others sold their houses and you were happy to collect during election and you sold your right you sitted your right to them and then they get in there and you don't think they will recoup their investment they know you that next time you ask for more money you don't think they should make provision for more money for themselves so they can give you next time please I'm sick and tired of this hypocrisy let Nigerians suffer what to be I just feel sorry for the bad people or for the good people for the exceptions but I want to tell this exception that because you acted in good conscience even in the night time those of you that acted in good conscience and supported the right people even when things are dark even if Mara gets to $1500 I want you to know because you acted in good conscience we stand by you but those of you that helped us to the way we are today remember what I said about the 3 things chances come your way it came by the way of election the choices were made it came by who we voted for there must be the third thing consequences you must be willing to pay and suffer or enjoy the consequences of the choices that you make and the chances that come your way for me it's very significant alright so it's a good way to end it a good prayer let it be done unto all of us according to what we put in during the time that we had the chance to select what we need to select yes ok but this is where we unfortunately will have to wrap it up on the show not on the show but on this second this morning we would like to thank you Architech for coming on the show thank you we've been talking with Architech Ezekiel Nyaito on the paper a review and we'll be joined by Donatius Onodja who will be telling us how to make money grow on trees