 Welcome back instead of the breakfast on plus TV Africa. We're going straight to off the press review over the major headlines across National dailies. We have that chief lecture of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism Gidade Johnson joining us on this discuss. Good morning to you JJ Good morning Dustin and good morning messian morning to our listeners and viewers all over the world Yeah You wonder if we don't join you through video because there's no light. There's no foil We are living in darkness and then we are struggling to even get the foil. I Just pray we'll get past that as a country the issue of a few auscult is actually biting hard by the day But let's just let's just slide on and see what the papers are saying if that be major mention concerning the few auscult We'll start up with the leadership newspaper this morning or it seems to have Politics on its mind as it's late story for this morning 2023 presidency Northern elders in dilemma of a choice of candidate with two writers They're way still way in the options. That's according to Baba Ahmed vote character competence not religion ethnicity so town tells Nigerians Most stories on the leadership newspaper tinnable malls construction industry bank vows to combat Insecurity on all angles NNPC and ourselves petrol at 194 Naira leader up a leader as scarcity bites harder Most stories on the leadership welcome back. Mr. Governor PMB tells Immy Philly I won't tolerate incompetent but leaders or be vows Explosion have a shoot in my APC PDP rallies in rivers and at those states Alright, let's see one more from the leadership newspaper Antiquearity a TQ promises to engage Traditional rulers and those are the major headlines on the leadership newspaper this Friday morning We'll slide on next now to the nation news paper alright Okay, let's take this one first that just above the must-have Why petrol is cash? That's by major marketers depot price hits 240 Naira Finance Minister economy on the rebound 3.5% growth projected Lagos the class for Walk free days for PVC's collection alright CBN threatens sanctions for banks over the new notes a Marking day. I use deputy Sean Attico's rally in Ibadom why G5 governors won't join presidential campaign by at home XVP promises to make southwest industrial hub Let's see if we can take care one more or so from the nation Explosion rocks a PC rally in Port Hackett Deuteria kills 25 in Kano those are the major headlines on the nation newspaper from there we'll move on next to the punch news paper all right vividly caption is that the cost of Petrol in the country and the punch caption said this way rising petrol price heats 300 Naira per liter 1000 fuel tankers talk at depots queues Lengthen in Abuja Lagos others gridlock Lagos limits filling stations to seven hours per day sale That's on the punch Decide the must-have explosions rock south-south a PC PDP rallies and just above that must-have They are tickle on the fire for no votes. No contracts remarks 2023 UK EU Australia issue security alerts federal government revokes 3402 mining titles Slain and SCDC offices families get automatic employment and of course a canoe from Kano federal government probes 25 deaths from throat ailments United Nations issues new COVID-19 rules for air travel Call members need special life insurance for elections. That's according to a member of the House of Representatives at the final paper. We are reviewing this morning is the daily trust now the ATM the banks and the dispensing and all of that is that the main story of the daily trust this morning Despite CBN's directive bank ATM still dispensing old Naira notes a piece bang insist on January 31 deadline in Mephile briefs Buhari on progress Soutan urges extension Herders reject new notes for fear of counterfeit federal government revokes 3402 mining titles Kano Sharia judges registrars remanded over 500 million Naira fraud police release 13.69 Billion Nair to 6184 Injured and offices and families at the terrier outbreak here is 25 in Kano And that the last one this morning are restructuring Nigeria industrialized Southwest According to from a vice president and the candidate of the people's Democratic Party at IKU But let's make welcome once again. GD Johnson. I haven't scored around the various newspaper Where would you want to begin GD? Well, if you read the story this in the stories on the newspaper power predominantly dominated by political stories and then Economic stories so let's start because when the political season we are witnessing by This time next month will be just some few days away from the presidential election and One of the first two is not on leaders in Dalima over choice of candidates What Dalima and then? That's leadership. The media headline did a ship in his paper What are the in Dalima and the word in what and how does that mean together? To over choice of candidates. We are talking about Nigerians I think that if you gather you have Nigerian leaders are not mountain leaders that mean together to Over a choice of over choice of candidate if those are called themselves that are leaders are still confused With respect to what direction the future I'm concerning choice of presidential candidate for 2023 Then we understand the high-politic in that is that is going on at that level What do you expect of the followership you the leadership are? Confused so as far as I'm concerned and That that story is meant to So to make the presidential candidate to reach out to them. They are still expecting some which out So that before they can give them their endorsement as well as I'm concerned my appeal and my Counsel to every Nigerian is to look beyond promote their sentiment such as religion ethnicity and the rest of it and make a choice With respect to who will be the president of Nigeria in 2023 Look at what you have gone through in the last eight years. Look at what you are going through presently Do you want that experience to continue? What are the changes you are requiring and what are the next steps? You want the new government coming into power to do these are you should be the guiding factor if you don't vote Based on the person is from my tribe or based on religion or base on any other sentiment Because you should vote for someone that has better policies for Nigeria so that we reduce this syndrome and then we can encourage Jaffa da and Jaffa da Lifestyle so does that one will come back to Nigeria. So that's my take on the Northern leaders Dalima as far as I'm concerned. There shouldn't be any Dalima. The choice is clear. It's choice between night and day I don't know whether we are going to reward reward failure Constant in 2023. Whatever choices that the Nigerian people made with respect to 2023 We all live with it We are living with the choices we made in 2015 and 2019 and it is very very clear that there's no direction and there's no coordination when it comes to this present administration Added by the APC government. All right, JJ. Let's slide over to the punch You know, everyone is actually feeling the bite right now, which is at the Fuse scarcity the punch come to captions. It's a rise in petrol price heats right now It's about 300 naira per liter. That's on the average. That's the average where some people are actually buying Above that price. There's several riders here. It says 1,000 fuel tankers stock are depots accused lengthen in a bourgeois Lagos and others Lagos limits filling stations to seven hours per day sale. JJ I need to get your comments concerning that because it is very worrisome to all Nigerians Nigeria is a monoproduct economy. Our economy is highly dependent on oil And then we discover that government at every level whether state, future or local level Is not saying anything to that to that No, no one is saying there is no explanation from government That as if the whole Nigerian any kind of explanation. It is just as if that That's just the new normal is the new normal and life continues the presidency The president is the minister of petroleum He has minister of state for petroleum And NNPC and the rest of them the minister of information and culture And all the spokesperson to the president. None of them is seeing anything and Nigerians are going to untold our ship I can tell you for your part Why did I not join through video? There is no fuel. There is no light And some have even come up with some with with a theory that there is a conspiracy between The power distribution company and the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation That once there is scarcity they to do take the light And if you watch the pattern it seems there seems to be a pattern to that effect Do you tend to believe that that that argument and that this is that is good that is good for all It is criminal for us to be buying for I've the last time I bought I bought at 270 per liter 270 per liter and I I killed to even buy it at 270 per liter and I just I just I just can't complain and the party in power the irony of it Was that the party in power today wrote on an attempt by the John Natanz ptp government To increase the pump prices of petroleum products to come to power We all knew how they went to how they went to a daughter to protest and how they They protested in Abuja Spirited by the by the by the president today protesting over this issue Unfortunately The government that protested against ike in petroleum product is the god that protested against subsidy Is the government that has spent too much money on subsidy? It is the government that are directly or indirectly increased the price of petroleum product And it is a government that has nothing to show for it with respect to the increase in the petroleum or price And that government is still even campaigning to replace itself in a normal client They've lost the election but what do we know in Nigeria? It is it is it is suffering and smiling fela fela nikulako captured it And that's what I've said if you transfer if if if you transcribe fela nikulako song Into verses into into written form and you put it in verses and you put it in edin It will be the epistles of fela nikulako to nigerians You can turn to the bible of governance in nigeria Everything he said in his music is happening right in our eyes And it will become the gospel of nigeria according to saint fela nikulako kuchi Just like the ghost food or just like just like the letters of our support to the philipians to the garlicians and the rest of it Everything they said They are suffering and smiling and the interesting thing is after the suffering they know what nigerians They know the witness of nigerians. They will perpetuate poverty They will perpetuate hardship and when the election comes around they will just bring peanuts and give us Peanuts and the people we vote they will forget all their suffering and they will vote To reinforce that same style that same pattern that same type of governance and we keep complaining and groaning Every every for four years because I don't know the justification and I don't know why They don't explain to us and Michael Jackson captured it in one of it in one of his song All I want to say you don't even care about us. They don't care about us They don't They don't do they buy fuel The president does not buy fuel the ministers do not not buy fuel the governors Do not buy fuel their age do not buy fuel we fuel their car We power their houses We give them different types of allowances We take care of them so as to take care of us. But what do we get in return? We take care of them, but they don't care about us because there's no explanation to this effect All right, uh, JJ. It is actually a very harrowing experience Nigerians have been going through since Last year, you know, we started the year with last year. That's 2022 with bad fuel it went on to scarcity in the later part of the year nights that is actually continuing on the baited But let's leave that because of time and I'll talk about some political issues That I'm making on front page on the nation newspaper Pdb seems to be in crisis yet again in my opinion Because I know we're not the g5 saga and all of that But the main story on the nation newspaper this morning Marking day I use deputy Sean articles rally In ibadon why g5 governors won't join presidential campaign by otom xvp promises to make southwest industrial hub He is promising to make southwest industrial hub. But then again, uh on the punch He said something and he's on the fire for saying no votes. No contracts remarks I just want you to comment about all of them side by side gd Well on the rest with respect to marking day you see there's a split side to this g5 Stuff and I was playing them. This is your stance in not joining article They are running their own campaign for their own candidates for the group by natural election and then And the house of assembly election And also the national assembly election Why the national arm of the party is running the The campaign for each all is national candidate so If you look at it on the split side, it is an advantage If you also look at it on the split side, it is advantage because an advantage In the sense that it is two two two arms of the party that are running the campaign simultaneously Because I don't know how the g5 governors some of them A senatorial candidate one The presidential election and the senatorial election will be done on the same day At the same time to one of them is seeking re-election and re-election is about band work gone Is about band work gone if PDP should lose the presidential election in your state, for example If you affect the re-election of the governor so well, so that's that's the flip side of of their Of their stance in maintaining their stance and not joining the national team But on the other hand, it could be an advantage It could be an advantage It could be it could be a blessing in disguise for the party because even the presidential candidate in even the national assembly even the senatorial candidate In pdp in river state in abia state in in enougo state In in our your state and in benwest state It's not possible for me At my local level to say okay vote for me and don't vote for my presidential candidate So there's a dilemma and i'm sure it's because in nigeria the governors operate as mpro you can't challenge them. That's why some of The senatorial candidates have not challenged the governors because most of them are installed by the governors themselves Who have the the power of the post and the power of security in their respective states? so As far as i'm concerned on the flip side with everything i'm thinking My we've been working the advantage of Of of of that party that marking day and are you marking day and the aracaja and the wiki they are going on one side They are campaigning for pdp. You know that they are campaigning on this side and article and are you a companion on this side? On on the other issue with respect to um No vote no contract. Well, um, it's anyone that is a political Terrain it's hypocrisy for any other political party to criticize that statement because that's the reality and in idea We don't live with reality politics is about reward system. It's about you see. How does the be? uh Eastern divine politics is a politics is who gets what when we are And how that's that's our eastern istonia definition of politics is that who gets what when we are and how He has a reward system that is tied to politics You you when the when the president was elected in 2015? He was talking about 97 percent and 5 percent Even the math even the arithmetic was wrong Not even talk about the statistics or the mathematics the president was talking about reward system We went to united states and he was talking about reward system, but in Nigeria when someone's Eat the bull by the ear. We tends to play to the guy with it What it is about reward system is about rewarding your base is about rewarding those that work for you Is about Governizing and mobilizing your base. However, should we have said that openly? That's that's that's another that in equal have been said within their internal purpose and not said during the campaign rally So I agree with some that have criticized that particular that particular statement with respect with respect to to that But in reality when politicians gather that's what they talk about It's about how to share the resources of the state is about how to allocate power Power structure and power distribution within this within the within within within the state All right, JJ. Let's look at some economic matters because of time CBN is threatening sanctions for banks over new nodes Gda. There's a deadline for January the 31st the banks are not dispensing The nodes over the counter or through their ATMs and The seabed is saying that there's no extension. How do we wriggle out of this Nigerians? Even some people now are threatening to stop accepting The old nodes. What are we doing? Where should we be headed Gda? When the when the head of CBN disappeared and when there's DJ says Drama is going on and the president, you know, there's a There's a headline where the president said mr. Governor will come back Well, things fall apart. Let me borrow a leaf from Chinua Stibis Things fall apart and the center cannot hold the head that should pretend over CNN Sorry about CBN went on leave. He went on leave first It was it was reported that it disappeared then later it was said he went on his annual leave and then DSS denied Seeking his office lean siege for his arrest and all those drama are going on at the same time when we have deadline for for the change of Of the of the nodes in in Nigeria and Our banks comply with the director of central bank governor when there's a political drama Going on in the office of the central bank of the central bank governor I just I just don't don't understand and I don't understand Our our our our judicial system and I don't understand how we enforce how we enforce our laws What is the rule of the dss in the arrest or non arrest of Of of of CBN governor It should be left for the court to decide if there is any allegation against anybody I think that Agencies of government is an interagency issue Agencies of government you approach the court let the court makes a pronouncement Other than using the secret police to hound if you if we are using secret police to Hound the person and the start the person that occupies the office of the central bank governor And his stature what we have put to another citizens like you and I I'm asking this question. So For me After my name leaves office as the attorney general of the federation A lot of things will be said a lot of things will be a lot of things will be written with respect to the conduct Of the dispensation And adjudication of justice when it comes to To Nigeria under under under Malami because I believe that as the attorney general if there are infractions Or if there are allegations against the central bank governor in order not to destroy Public confidence in order not to destroy the monetary policy of the nation There are better ways to go about it other than for us to reading stories that the cbm governor has disappeared The cbms wants to arrest the cbms governor the cbm governor and the ss will deny A dss this is and then all of this drama is not good for the value of naira Is not even good for people having come and once the value of naira is affected It affects the the confidence of people in trying to invest in Nigeria because it is unstable And unstable currency Brings about instability in the economy and it does not encourage people to make foreign direct investment in your economy And if you also contribute to your inflation and you could see what has happened because there's no coordination There's no direction With respect to managing ministries and department and agencies of government under this present administration We we keep we keep watching the drama and we see how it unfolds All right. Thank you so much gb johnson senior lecturer nigeria institute of journalism for joining us on off the press this morning Thank you so much It's a pleasure to be with you. Dustin understand my greetings to mesley and Ofi Yes, they will hear. Thank you once again. That's as much as we can take and off the press Just grab this papers read them and then make informed decisions That can better you a lot and of course of the country will take a quick break right now We'll come back and be going to the energy sector precisely the increase in electricity tariff in a moment to join us again