 Welcome back to the Breakfast in Plastidia Africa. It's time for Off the Press. As always, we take you through the pages, front pages of a precise of a national dailies. We have G.D. Johnson, who is on standby. He joins the conversation in no time. G.D. Johnson, happy Friday and thank you for joining us. Merci. Happy Friday to you. Good morning to you, I'm G.D. Johnson. Good morning to you. I'm Justin. Good morning to you. I'm Messi, I'm Messi, I'm not the boss. Good morning, G.J. Well, it's definitely, we started with the leadership newspaper this morning. For Abandoning Zoning Principle, South East to Dump PDP after 23 years of party loyalty. What does that mean? We move away from that. Several riders, South-South leaders kick, says party has dug its grave. Atiku, wike, ayim, obi, Emmanuel, intensifies consultation. I will be a bridge between the North and South, directly declares. ISIS releases video on execution of 20 Nigerians in Borno, and Tambuels, Sultan, Koka, appeal for camp, and demand justice for students who are killed in Sokoto-Dos, bitten to death. You also find another head of this morning, Odili retires from Supreme Court and backs restructuring, talking about Mary Odili. Jonathan, not yet registered member, but also APC insists. There's been a back and forth with that particular story. First, Cursity Federal Government falls Ipman's 500 billionaire bridging claims. Quick notice, Emethili visits President Muhammad Buhari, urges Nigerians to aspect news. What could he be? These are the headlines on the leadership this morning. We'll move on next to the nation newspaper. Emethili admits Buhari as SGF clarifies quick order. CBN governor, I am having fun. Appointees to APC, AINEC. Protestants students block highways, as so adamant after talks. Tambuels, Sultan, condemn lynching a female student. Retirement of justices, the police Supreme Court. Expect flooding, nationwide agency alerts Nigerians. LRFI, Kaduna delegates a pledge support for Tinubu. AFC backs African economy with $2 billion facility. AINEC reconsidering a safekeeping of ballot papers and CBN's votes. All right, Federal Government launches mobile app to tackle antiquity. Councilor held with AK-47. Those are the main stories on the front page of the nation newspaper. We move away from the nation and let's quickly look at the punch and find out what's happening on the punch. This morning, 2023 presidency, Jonathan, submits APC firms today. Okay, so we're wondering all of the reports we're getting. He's a member, he's not a member, he's not registered. Emethili shuns resignation calls. CBN governor entitled to stay in office 30 days to general elections and he's quoted on that. Adam and her point is UAPC. AINEC Yahya Bello submits nomination form. Buhari's resignation ordered to save APC candidate from loss. That's what the president is quoted to say. Despite 129 billion nair intervention loans, aggregate import heats 2.7 trillion nair. AINEC says 1.4 million online registration is invalid. Wow. Buhari signs anti-money laundering counterterrorism bill and inadequate data based threatened SIM and NIN registration. You also find NIMC admits deficit. Vice chancellor's delay admission process and student protest spreads. You have student protesting. AINEC says 149 in four months says NCDC. 20 princes show interest application and today talking about the al-Afi and thugs attack onto female aspirin supporters and several injured. Some of the headlines you find this morning on the punch, household consumption rises to 108 trillion nair according to national bureau of statistics. Nigeria is 15 million out-of-school children. Population frightening. That's what the former president, Olesha Gun Basandro, is quoted to say. These are the headlines on the punch. Finally, we look at the Nigerian Tribune. Outrage that allege blasphemy. Outrage of a killing of female students in Sokoto Polisarist II governor Mitz Kan. Under Ohaneze Pandef knock PDB for throwing presidential ticket open. 32 states, 233 LGA's risk flood disasters federal government wants. I like to adopt manual electronic transmission of result. Federal government licenses 12 new private universities. Pilot daughter of ex-minister 10 others die in plane crash. 223 SGF rights ambassadors, heads of power statels, others with political ambition to vacate seats. We get hopeful of fruitful end to strike as Asu, Sanu, Nassu and AATNLC meet federal government team. Keep a date with destiny on May 29, bellow campaign DJ. I'm having fun. Let Nigerians have heart attack. Oh, wow. And those are all of the stories on the Nigerian Tribune. Jeanne Johnson is good to have you join us this morning on the show. We appreciate your time always. Let's start with the Central Bank of Mozambique. Sean's call for resignation and his visit to the president. He's telling us how she expect news and also giving us the wonderful news that he's having fun and then we can have heart attack. Issues the irresponsibility and insensitivity of the person that is in charge of the monetary policy of our nation. And that's when I was had a free fall because issues his entire attitude is lack of respect for statutory provisions of the constitution in the process. So, and his general attitude, you know a man through whatever, through the way they speak, through the awards, you can't know my thought until I open my mouth to talk. And we could know his thought, we could know his attitude, we could know the clear of his professionalism and the rest of it. Do you need any locate science for you, for anybody to tell you that if you are seeking an eye office of the presidency, you are applying the sense that you should reside. And then I think that the president himself has not had matters. And that's been up to the approach of the president. He has developed a laid back approach in dealing with indecisively. I'm sorry for doing this comparison, but I did public administration while I was in university. One of the elective courses in the department of politics. I've seen you do that. I said in public administration, you can make science out of public administration. You should do comparative analysis. Now if you compare, I can imagine the central bank of now, under our person, your administration, doing this type of nonsense that the media is doing under Boris administration. He's not only insulting, he's insensitive, and for him, and he's coming back to ask for a vote. He said he's having fun, and Nigeria can have pain. We'll wait for him at the polls. We'll wait for him. So let's do it with the media, the media, open terms in the marketplace. We'll wait for him. We'll come and ask the marketplace. Now, let's look at the story of what happened in Shokudo State in this age and time. I have told anyone that cared to listen. Is it the way we practice the religion in that Christian religion or Islamic faith in Nigeria? Is it the same with the practice in Israel and in Saudi Arabia and other Arabian countries? Is it the same way that we practice it? There's a slight distinction. Now, this is even not our own religion. These are imported foreign religions. These are religions that are imported from Israel. In fact, the religion that came from Abraham, the Abrahamic religion, and that's what some of us are about to cater to. If you want to sweep people into office, let us use our local deity. You live in a mountain in Nigeria. You go to a mountain in Nigeria and you say, that's where God is. That's the only way you can see God. You live in a mountain in Nigeria in Okimesi and the rest of it. You go to a mountain in Jerusalem and you say, that's where God is. God is not limited by space. He's not limited by location. Now, God, any God that you have to fight for, there is not any kind of worship. Leave God alone for God to fight for himself. Don't fight for God. Leave God alone. This is the supreme being. Can you imagine setting a fellow human being a place because of... So, there are no judicial process. There are no process of resolving issues in the country. It's unfortunate. This itself, Nigerians are waiting on how the Shokudo State government and how the Federal Government is going to respond to this issue. With a fact that this itself has put a certain question mark on the aspiration of the government of Shokudo State with respect to what has happened in the state. Because the way this issue is resolved with the timing, if it is picked as a PDP presidential candidate, hypothetically, then the way this matter is resolved with the timing, whether I will get votes from people of other regions in the right or not, that's on being... These people arrested should not only be arrested, they should be prosecuted. And the attack should be made open. And it is clear in Nigeria, if you commit murder, it's clear, it's definitely... And this one should be... If it is proven by court of confidentiality, this one should be executed publicly so as to serve as an editor for others in the future, even though I'm totally against the execution. And this particular issue should call for outreach from everyone that cares about the dignity of human life. You could arrest the person, take the person before your Sharia court and let the person be tried, and don't take laws into your own hand, and can imagine they are students, students of a tertiary institution. All right. Unfortunately, those are just very sad scenarios, though those two issues that you have looked into, the 2020 elections, and of course what happened in South Dakota State just yesterday. But let's move away from that. Let's talk about other stories trending. Let's look at the Nigerian Tribune, if we would. 32 states, 233 local government areas risk flood disasters federal government wants. The issue for me is the warning and all of that. Over time, there are always issues that are asked us, don't you think the federal government should just be doing beyond warning and find a way to mitigate against this, rather than just warning residents? Um, just in ones that will not present the program tomorrow. I said, just in ones the producer that he will not present just in ones the producer that the program might not hear tomorrow. Okay. When government that should be responsible for keeping care of means is warning the people, that's the restriction of duty. And here in the story, when the rainy season is about commencing, that are before one measures, one step, why do you have marginal emergency marginal emergency management agency? Never. Never. Why are they budgeting resources for them? If you look into the budget, you look at monies that have been allocated for dealing with deforestation, dealing with flooding and the rest of it. Where does this money go to? So it's year in, year in the same story, year in, year out, where government is shifting responsibility or what government ought to do back to the people, for the people, to do that. It is the same thing when you lead us to it, it is the same thing with vice-cancelors of university, saying that the strike is the lead admission process. You lead that to charm over the course of this week, early this week and lead last week. We had charm. In the last three years admission have done, there are still some schools that have not done the admission of their 2018, 2019, 2019, 2020 2021 admission process. They have not done it. Yeah, charm is still continued. Charm is a federal agency. Charm is still continuing with admission process. Now the mandate for charm is joint admission and matriculation examination board. Joint admission and matriculation examination board. Now there are two mandates. One is the admission, two is the matriculation. Now, you can do admission until you conclude an admission and the conclusion of an admission is matriculation. You do not do another. But we live in a useless sight. I am so sorry that you find a body that is interested in making money out of Nigerian faith. The admission of last year they have not concluded. They are doing another admission this year again. Running against their own mandate. But because they have involved a lot of critical stakeholders, nobody is talking about it. How would you do admission that they have not done matriculation? You have not completed the matriculation for one. You are doing the admission for another. And then you are collecting money for people. It's a crime. But the charm itself, Ministry of Education, they are committing against humanity. They are ripping off Nigerians and are destroying the lives of Nigerian children. Give them hope in a no-place situation. Because the schools are on strike already. The admission of last year has not been concluded. Even for two years ago has not been concluded. You are doing another exam again. All you need to do is to visit the centers and see parents sitting down on the floor. Because they want their children to go to school. And the schools are nowhere to be found. In our trust Gide Johnson, do we still have you online with us? It feels like we have lost connection with Gide Johnson. We talked about this issue. We talked about it. You said I was laughing about it. We talked about people still scrambling or grappling to a right jump when some schools have not even done admission. When also was on strike. Gide is mentioning it again. Because it is a serious affair. Although I apologize for making light of it the other day. The issues are real. These issues are very serious. They are collecting money. And they do not even know their future as it is the term they admission. Jam is being at home for some months. And some schools have not been able to wrap up previous sessions. And the people are still writing U-T-M-E. So of course he is actually, I mean he's raised very valid points right there. If those who were supposed to have a session magiculating and all of that has not happened was the essence. So you are just going to have a backlog. Because if this set of persons do not magiculate was the guarantee. But you can't really really almost blame the student for the fact that they have to aspire to go to school now. Because in the first instance if Jam did not put out the publication there. If they did not put out the advertisement to say we are meeting. Then it will not, it's like saying you didn't even know that these contractors they will not pay you for the job. Then you saw a contract being published. You applied to be part of it. But we have GD Johnson back on the line and it's good to have you join us once again. Let's allow you finish your thought of line. I think the students don't know where to take their protest to. They are taking their protest to the IWI. Why shouldn't they take their protest to the IWI? They should take it to State House of Assembly. They should take it to National Assembly. They should take it to Government Buildings. Government Buildings and then they take it to ASUROC and then they take it to the Airports. The executive wing of the Airports. That's why they should take their protest to. Because these are the policy makers. The protest in the IWI is a duty-printed on another night here. There is no evidence to nothing about what is affecting them. I recall when we were in UNILAC one of the things that first of our administrative act of LECOS when they were put on Milankwit when we went on protest and we plucked on Milankwit we did not see the vehicles of private citizens. We see vehicles of federal government and state government and that's when they listen to us. I don't know the kind of student unionism that you can't admit your pains on another night. Don't protest on the IWI. Take your protest to the National Assembly. Take it to the State Council Assembly. Take it to government houses. These are the policy makers. Take it to the office of the minister. These are the policy makers. Not Nigerians that are going about their normal businesses on the IWI. And there should be a public hearing by the National Assembly on this duty of gold, admission and admission. This continues ripping off of Nigeria, collecting money from parents to do jam that there's no admission inside and there's no matriculation inside. I'll end on that. Alright, GD Johnson has caused this conversation down. Now let's look at the leadership newspaper it talks about. The South East to dump PDP after 23 years of party loyalty. What does this really mean? Well, the South East has gathered in terms of PDP to enlarge the South East but note that if you are looking for a region the South South and the South East South South West and then the South East The South East will enlarge the state because in Anambra state ABGA has been in power for 20, for 19 years now and so for 17 years now, almost 17 years because the last three governments with the current government are in Anambra. Then EMU has been under APC for the past six, seven, seven, seven, seven years. So the largest entity and then the governor of a boy instead has crossed over to APC. So you can't see that truly the South East is only PDP but over time in terms of voting, in terms of actual voting the South East has always been locked down by PDP. However, some gladiators in the South East started romance in APC almost seven years ago, Ken Namani who was the senate president. Paas Aym Aym who was the senate president, David Maewis who is a later governor, Oji Uzoakal who was a two-time governor. And you have them, these actors and players that have been critical players in PDP that have no free peace. But anyone that is the president of APC says that APC is PDP 2.0 so I will not be surprised even anybody in APC even anybody in PDP moves to APC because if we look at the entire structure of the APC, the entire structure of the party machinery of APC is controlled by the PDP, the national secretary. The national chairman was once the secretary of the body of trustee of PDP and was a two-time governor of PDP but the two-time senator of PDP back then. The national secretary, Iola Omishori was the senator elected under PDP so there is no PDP we have said we have no PDP or APC in Nigeria. One in Nigeria political class cares about, is about the interest. That's why you will see that Jonathan, good luck even Jonathan, there was an immediate, there was this grace that was humiliated by the APC who today be thinking of collecting the APC form and APC will be of fielding someone they delighted someone they humiliated someone they disgraced someone they gave all manners of name that they will be willing to accept quote-unquote the most collapsed, according to them and to accept them into the integral as a presidential as a presidential candidate. The bottom line is that they don't care about us, all they care about is themselves, all you need to do is to go to a Buddha and you see in the night, they relate together. So there's no PDP, there's no IPC. We've been telling the Indians about this for a very, very long time. But we like to understand further what this means as, you know, the headline puts that the South is dumb PDP after 23 years of party loyalty. Does this mean that, you know, afterwards you're not going to have Niger and the South is voting for the PDP? I mean, is this at a party level? Does this mean that you just go down the road of Nigerians not to support the PDP? The outcome, the outcome, the outcome, the outcome of the, the outcome of the presidential panelist, you know, the parties with the damning, where the voting bloc could go. However, PDP was economic with the truth. And it's unfortunate that Yosha Hayu is made the chairman and is a chairman that has manipulated the process. By the time he tested principle of PDP, once the national chairman is gone, you know, the presidential candidate comes from the South. And that's what they are doing. That's why when it was PDP convention, there was no president, there was no national chairman office that had, there was nobody from the South that contested national chairman ship office. In that sense, the office was zoned to the North, if it was my, my co-zoned to the, to the, to the North Central. And that's why Yosha Hayu was speak, Yosha Hayu was speak to, to, to do that. Now moving forward, whatever happens in 2023, we determine the, the way forward for Nigeria, whether Nigeria will remain as a corporate entity or not, whether they will be needed or agitation for self-determination. Because if you have principles that govern your nation, your relationship about the North and South that go to me, and how you try to reach that gap by having a seamless arrangement and a written rule that governs our power shifts between these two major, two major, two major geographical divisions that we have in Nigeria. Forget about the North, it's not West, not South. It's just up and south. And then if you don't have that arrangement, then you'll see. For example, in APC, the same thing was done, and then what did APC do? They threw the ticket open, same thing with the PDP. Now can move forward, will some of them politicians ever trust the Northern politicians? Now, what is at stake concerning 2023 moving forward is trust, is the issue of trust. And that trust will be tested, will be tested to the wire, and until the presidential candidates of the parties are beat, we won't know where the voting blocks will go, whether the South is the voting block will go with the PDP or they will go with APC. Because even if you look at the arrangement, the arrangement in APC is not even favouring the South East. Who is the presidential candidate that has come out of the South East that want to aspar? Some of them that want to aspar, they've just seen their aspiration. And some from the South East have also brought the form for example, like the governor of Cross-Investate, he bought the form of a presidential ticket, and he also bought the form of Senutura, Senutura, Senutura from soon. These are some of the issues that we resolve moving forward. Under the most circumstances, the South East deserve the first shot on the president, and the South South, the South West, the North West does not deserve to have anything in the presidency, whether the vice president or the president. It should be the South East, South South, not Central and not East. Those are the people that should have a conversation with the presidency. When I talk about the presidency, I'm talking about the vice president and the president. These are the conversations moving forward. We want to have principle of inclusion of every element that constitute my general mission. A little, you know, the actions or the action of the governor of Cross-Investate. Don't you think that this might just go with the saying that, you know, don't put your eggs in one basket? We knew that Ruta did the same thing in 2014, where he picked the presidential ticket form to contest against brawling beggars. And then after the same thing with Tampua, Tampua did the same thing in 2014. So it's not in Nium. It's just that Nigerians don't, you are sure that Nium and Nigerians don't follow history. It's not in Nium. I did this short story about the meeting that took place last week, Friday. You know, we were talking about the meeting of APC taking place last week. And I said, I'm not advising Ushiba to come. And Ushiba actually came. They all came for the meeting. And after the meeting, I did the short story where I wrote about the tale of Tupolas. What happened? They told the scenario that played out in 1999 between Pala and Niumbu, and me and Ushiba. So it's just 2014. Okay. We have to let you go now. We have to let you go. We have to let you go, Jaleigh Johnson. We are completely out of time. But indeed, thank you so much for all the useful insights and thoughts you usually share on the newspaper review. We do appreciate the time. It's a pleasure to be with you, Justin, and have a wonderful night. And messy. Once again, have messy on us. All right. Thank you so much. All right. That's as much as we can take in this segment. We'll take a quick break. First of all, we'll look at what happened this day and his channel. Come back and have our first major conversation of the day. Do join us again.