 It's the breakfast and plus CV Africa. It's time where we turn our attention to the papers bringing you great analysis and inside right here with Tunde Kola Wali who joins the conversation via phone. Tunde is good to have you join us this morning. Good morning. Thank you. Hope you have a great night. Thank you for asking. I did. We set off with we set off with the leadership newspaper on the leadership newspaper letter to Nigeria Democracy Day season by the president. I mean that letter has been published. It might just be dominating some of the papers this morning. Rodney Mates APC defies to Tunubu. We came to emerge as Attico's vice president presidential candidate. And then some quarters are saying that you know Wikia has probably turned that down but I don't know how true that is. Governors want to influence Tunubu's running mate who's a dimmer. Interesting. Part is in rush to meet Friday deadline. And Malibu, Nigeria loses 1.7 billion dollar JP Morgan Chase case. Very sad. 2023 polls. Army wants commanders offices to stay clear of politics and carries co-defendants get to your jail time. I take that again carries co-defendant gets to your jail time. That's on the leadership this morning. All right. Let's move on from the leadership to the punch doesn't have any letter from the president. But it has some information that will be of interest to Nigeria. It's a big story there with the kicker Muslim Muslim ticket the headline can that's the Christian associate of Nigeria. Others warn parties as Buhari meets governors PDP names Attico's VP on Thursday. I know a lot of fake news has been making the rounds on social media as to who Attico picked asses running mate. Indeed some news outlets had already put out the information and then if you read the story you'd see that they're saying reports have it you know I don't know who the underprobability who have been rushing to impress why not just wait let the man name it and then you I mean I mean I got calls yesterday posting someone had been picked as Attico's VP and I say hey see don't allow yourself being saved. Anyway the following writers to that headline Muslim Muslim ticket dangerous declaration of war can warns parties vows stay for resistance. What matters is responsive responsible government hunger knows no religion Tinibu's group constitution doesn't stipulate religion as criterion for choosing VP says governor Uzodemma more from V-Punch. AQT INEC IG promise credible governorship poll tinibu 14 governors campaign for APC. At the top of that front page fuel subsidy surpasses health education welfare budgets World Bank warns Nigeria page 20 or what massacre southwest governors to reject security lawmakers demand attackers arrest. The writer to that story southwest won't tolerate another tax has occurred a loop three governors in eight seventy five million narrow will put security agencies on the fire until the arrest killers reps that's page 30 probably adopting a different approach from the governor of Bennu estates someone Tom who always would tell the citizens that they are on their own and they should defend themselves. Dollar rises by 21 percent effects shortage persists after party primaries there's a link well you can read more for that FG 10 states plan 2000 megawatts of great power right when you hear plan you know I wonder what to look at what I would say about this when you hear plan 1.04 trillion narrow lost to 2021 aircraft repairs in foreign countries FG all right I think what they are telling us that 31 policemen dismissed others sanctioned over 14,976 complaints government abducted two in Ogun church 14 in Katsina and Bayosa as well diesel price may hit 1,500 naira per letter 75 percent of filling stations closed according to marketers and we've been hearing that they've been queues in Abuja wasn't news yesterday the papers recovered it before now during the primaries so some of my friends in Abuja posting online that why are we having queues I mean traffic traffic jam in Abuja when there is no fuel and that's like but we have fuel in Lagos today we see you saw it small small you know when it's about to come it's a little queues popping up I don't know if it's panic by no but I reject every situation of us getting legal is this you praying saying the prayer we can't we can't get into that again no because I saw that as well and I said I asking myself it's possible that probably you might just be having another few scars we'll get the thoughts of tunicola when we're done with that but those are stories coming on the front page headlights come on the front page of the punch away from the punch let's take a look at the daily independent newspaper Buhari rejects pressure to impose running mate on tunicola I mean who are these peasants imposing trying to pressure the president he's the president it takes decision without cabal interesting that's what the president's is quoted to say a lot of peasants will not agree with that large turnover of reps a big loss to democracy but abhi amila is quoted and underneath lawan console senators who lost out in primaries assure senate will address the loopholes in electoral acts again you find Nigeria lost 2.5 billion to aircraft maintenance abroad in 2021 moving away from that caption you find jeppie mogan wins 1.7 billion against Nigeria or massacre southwest governors to hold security meeting abhi adum is quoted or gun legers choir governors donate 75 million naira kidnappers of zamfara wedding guests demand 145 million naira ransom that's a lot of money niger to lose five trillion naira in 2022 over fuel subsidy the world bank is saying and says inflation likely to increase further additional one million Nigerians going into poverty by the end of 2022 uh alleged cocaine deal abaccaris co-defendant backs two years imprisonment and pdp committee recommends wiki as a tico's running mate i mean this is how the daily independence reports and also petal b visits egypt to understand the country's power education and finance sector these are some of the headlines this morning on the daily independence newspaper all right at this point let's bring in to the color with a legal practitioner who's a guest this morning and of course uh we'll be analyzing he'll be analyzing the headlines to the color well good morning to you yeah good morning to you out well thank you very much for telling me yes and let's start with the last one that messi talked about this is coming on the front page uh of the daily independent newspaper and he has received some stake from his fellow uh president shella sparrant uh talking about amoele shawry i saw his tweet yesterday but um petal b is off to egypt the picture shared on his twitter account to go and in his words on the study egypt's power of education and finance sector is this um necessary for a presidential candidate to make some noise about amoele shawry says uh you know petal b is not prepared to be president because he had uh eight years as governor of an amber state had um a run during an election cycle as a running major presidential candidate he was on a presidential ticket and that by now should have had all these things figured out what do you say sorry i didn't quite get that all right um petal b has visited egypt is on a trip to under study the country's power education and finance sectors and uh he put out a statement yeah a tweet and some pictures showing him at the airport uh boarding a commercial flight to egypt uh one of his yes yes you know one of his uh fellow aspirants of amoele shawry of aac is saying that petal b should have figured all these things a long time ago that what we he learned about egypt's power education and um health sector in three days in three days that he had eight years as governor and uh a full election cycle as a running major presidential candidate he should have got all these things figured out that's all let's let's begin i i do my initial work one one would have expected as it used to be drawn in the past that before you even told you had to to the link you would have done your own work you have done a lot of research you have mapped out your strategy and package and also where the funds will come from to run some of the programs and manifestos you intend to deliver to the people that was what used to happen in the past you really collect when chief of staff in the aula world when nanga is equal when they were contested they assembled a team of experts who advise them on the programs that their party should adopt that can take the nation forward how the programs are to be executed and where the money will come from you will also recollect that here in lego before legislative back and then back on the program the blueprint for that program would have been done by experts from various fields look at the housing projects that legislative back and then built would you believe it that the use of pillars so the first building today instead of using blocks all around and manipulated from some of the advices and research that people get a lot of back and the people engineers people like iodelia which was here and cool then look to minimize the cost of building you can put in pillars in in there and then use little blocks and other materials and that thing has became the aim thing today those are the sorts of things that you want to see with serious minded political experiments and not all these journeymen ambitious people who have no program whatsoever for the people i also would say that pizza will be with all the noises they're making all over the place shouldn't be exhibiting this kind of naivety on the eve of the presidential election all right to the color well last quickly also let's also look at move away from that and look at the daily independent newspaper where you have the report saying that boharie rejects pressure to impose running mate on tunable what are your thoughts and according to the presidency the presidency is saying that he takes his decision without cabal and prior to this time even though we haven't been able to see a proof to whether there's a cabal or not there's a constant um thoughts and feelers saying that uh you probably just have the cabal taken the shorts and deciding on behalf of the president i think since the president decided he wasn't going to impose a presidency or a presidential aspirant on this party and that he also jettisoned at the end of the day the consensus candidacy it should be expected that he wouldn't be too eager too to impose the running mate on the flag bearer of his party again that is the way it should be done they ought to do a level playing ground however they want to lobby to become the vice president for the running mate of the apc there is nothing wrong and i'm not saying this for the president to have his preference either for who becomes the president or becomes his running mate what will be wrong is for him not to allow the delegates or the rank and pile of the party so decide who flies the flag of the apc as president and also whom the presidential candidate chooses as his running mate it is natural to have preference but it should be wrong so now you show good offices to impose a candidate of the party either as the flag bearer or the president or as the running mate so i think the president is in good stead to have stood aloof in who became the president and who became his running mate also the kava let me say this all over the world there is usually a kava behind most governments behind most presidencies look at russia for example you hear of the oligarchy and you are the oligarchy they are the ones who are in charge of the apex of the russian economy they are the ones who deal in gas, who deal in petroleum products and who deal in massive importations and answer in ammunition manufacturing which is also the army in america too you have the oligarchy you have the going manufacturing people the people manufacture weapons most times when the republicans are in power the arms and ammunition manufacturers always stand in good stead from here to realize in the society the problem with our own kava is that they don't come from the background of an enlightened servant trust they come from the background of wanting to use power or wanting to use the presidency or wanting to manipulate whoever is in power to him and reach them so could give them plump jobs to give them plump contacts to employ their worlds and relations into juicy jobs in power startups and ministries in the bank and then in the presidency furthermore most times some people pretend to be members of the kava in nigeria or in the presidency whereas they are nothing they nearly go looking for ambitious politicians who want to be governor who want to be president who want to be minister and they try to draw me to them that they are the year of the president of the vice president of this also goblin and that if he makes this amount of money available mostly in billions and in dollars and funds they will be able to get for him whatever post he aspires or is interested in we used to have a man if you remember when he comes from goodness state his name starts with telling and do you used to tell people that all you needed to do is to consult him and whatever you want in the society or in government or in the business sector is able to get for you these are in friends settling a night who use their so-called in friends to make money to enrich themselves to corrupt the system so a good government who have a way a mechanism and ways are mean to discipline to rein in to ensure that it is not just a few people but it is not the kava that the state or its government whatever it does its power whatever programs it executes and now it's delivered on the dividends and leverages of democracy it is been naive for anybody to say that you can run any society or any government without some influence badly and like behind it all right thank you very much to the color only for that let's move on to look at the papers and the attention they give into the tussle for who becomes a vice president or the running meet rather of the political parties their attention is mostly on the two leading political parties in Nigeria the all progressives congress and the people's democratic party now the nation is repress says that a pdb panel has okayed yes so we can as articles running meet we haven't seen anything from it article to indicate that there were rumors yesterday indeed the word we k and confirmed we're training on twitter last night search the internet didn't see no information to that effect what are your thoughts on this apart from that other papers have also you know given attention to that of course as messy said earlier buhari rejects a pressure to impose running meet on team with one from the daily independent so let's look at what is going on the pdb first before you talk about the other one okay for wiki is a very ambitious person it is not impossible that is the one flying the kite i'm putting fillers in the media that will be the that we should be chosen as a running meet for the pdb flag data that is a large article you know he did very well in the presidential primary of the pdb he also spent a fortune of the river state money to get the president of the pdb but at the end of the day i think a large article overspending i also think that the years of experience and the influence that article has accumulated at the end of the day shown the pendulum of victory to the side of the article i am not too sure that any presidential aspirant would like to choose a weekend as a running meet he is rancorous very loud he feels like a bull in a china workshop that is is loyalty to so his principal is all the suspects he will recollect he used to be the chief of staff so oh former minister of transport at rote maya meeting look at the way he did his principal and teamed up with a mrs. Jonathan and eventually a nine forces which represent good luck on a time to rest power from governor of the meeting of former governor in a meeting in river state ever since he got that power he has not allowed what he may make it to have their own base when you have a person as ambitious as we can and sometimes as powerful as we can and sometimes who are that kind of a resource that is his purpose most people will not want them as their deputy because they might be feeling it is difficult to control to manage them and you and i do know a vice president a deputy governor and like spare tire to their principal no mangeran politician who wants a similar powerful and ambitious person as a deputy for the apc i have very strong suspicion that with the role that the governor's place in the images of ashua june as the flag as the presenter flag of the apc they will have a very decisive say and it becomes their only means to ashua jubola met in a book it is not impossible that one of the governor will already be jocelyn for that position and loving his colleagues to help him get it it is also not impossible that people like shatima who also play the very crucial that is trying to talk to shatima and former governor for an estate might also want that their position and you know there's also the speculation that the vice presidential plot of the apc should be zone to the notice where shatima comes from the other controversial issue regarding the running means to all the presidential candidates is whether to choose a christian or a muslim for certain people like eluphi and for certain people like me i really don't care whether the president and the vice president are both muslims or whether the president and vice president are both christians what i'm interested in is competence ability to get to nigeria out of this wild wind of insecurity ability to put food on the table of the average nigerian person ability to reduce the statutory pretend unemployment that we now have in the society if a muslim muslim ticket if a christian christian ticket will provide or give solutions to all this problem and really don't care thank you so much remember we have to let you go now so this will be just issues such that it may not be advisable for the two parties to choose muslims in our president and vice president because we appreciate your thought and perspective on the papers this morning thank you so much for being part of the breakfast thanks for all the men that's because we're at a time we look forward to sharing more of your thoughts as we proceed in the course of the show within the week hopefully or next week we'll take a break now but just before then let's let you know what happened today in history when we return we'll be looking at the first major conversation i neck deadline to stay with us