 Well, it's a beautiful morning and it's very great to be back on your screen. It's time for us to look through the papers this morning. We'll call it off the press. Ezekal Yaituk is on standby. He joins us via Zoom. Ezekal is good to have you join us once again. Always a pleasure and a delight. Thanks for having me. Alright, then let's start off with the leadership newspaper. It's been made available by our paper vendor. On the leadership in final outing, President Mohamed Buhari, 6th pardon for Nigerian pledges credible elections in 2023. You also find courts cannot force lecturers to work as students following, you know, the ASUS strike and all of the court injunctions. However, another headist is Supreme Court short of Eight Justice. That's what the CGN is quoted to say. And that's it this morning on the leadership newspaper. In tow from the leadership moving on to the punch this morning. Of course, a big picture right there, Nigerian leader, President Mohamed Buhari addressing the United Nations General Assembly. It's a long text of his speech made available by the State House. Interesting to see. Read story. IU must go PDP calls emergency meeting over Governors, others gung up. And wiki's camp or his gang is getting wider. It's getting wider. Right as to that, as we came back in the fire shade George, others pull out of presidential campaign. Southern PDP block says Artico failed to honor London agreement with the ravers governance camp. I cannot decide IU's fate. Vice President replies a grieved campaign council member saying probably he cannot just tell IU to step aside. It's not within his powers as a candidate to do so. More from the punch UNGA. Buhari promises credible polls seeks debt forgiveness. I think that's an interesting one. Also picture of Joe Biden addressing the United Nations General Assembly. A Pangasin Fingers military in 600,000 barrel daily stolen crude. Pangasin Fingers military in 600,000 barrel daily stolen crude. Quite interesting. Asu to appeal ruling, parents won't strike ended. Senate confirms a Rwola new CJN gets agenda. Court sets aside $47 million Paris Club or Paris Club payment judgment. Let's picture the Minister of Finance and Budget rightly so. Northern Christians will mobilize against Muslim Muslim ticket lower. Northern Christians will mobilize against Muslim Muslim ticket hoodlums. Radio going communities kill three police investigate. We'll come out of that investigation. We hope something will come out. No post-conviction bill for Babayyesha caught rules and forces hack bank transfer. Transfer rather 523 million there to 225 accounts. So you have to check your balance to see if you're affected. So what I'll say to you. All right then. Let's quickly turn our attention to the Daily Trust newspaper. It talks about the saga that's going on with the PDP right here. Article to weakest camp. We trace your steps. That's what is boldly written on the Daily Trust. We won't participate in campaign under you. Reverse governance camp is quoted to say I mean what is in the camp. Does it also translate to mean that you know yes some week is speaking at the end of the day. A solution coming at the BOT chair is quoted to say in crisis will benefit APC others. That's what analysts are quoted to say. That's the obvious. As to reject court orders for resumption vows to appeal ruling. And that's another. Chakaral remains NMPP's candidate for Canada's central INEC is quoted. Buhari at the UN and leaving legacy of credible elections in Nigeria. That's okay. Just before we move away from that. That you have for excursity bank suspend international transaction on narrow debit cards. That's a lot. I mean what happens to a lot of persons? Kofi are you on this table? Those who like to shop. I'm not on the table are you? Well a little bit. And I know what I mean. Okay. It's really going to be very you know very very strange. The floor destroys 14,496 families in five Canon local government. According to NEMA. That's never. Are you all I confirm the chief justice? Chief George says Supreme Court's short of eight justices. Chief George. Now 29 dies as a dough records 225 lesser fever cases. That's the much on the daily trust. All right. The last paper for this segment. We have the nation PDP quakes as we case group ups out of articles campaign. And they predict that they would give prominence to that. Indeed. They've done that PDP quakes as we case group kicks ups out of articles campaign. Compensate IU must quit. Chairman would be forced out says a Tico. 95.4 million liters of crude oil stolen daily says government. Nigeria, US, Germany, others seal packed on food security. Senator confirms everyone last chief justice of Nigeria. Dignity is grit remittable at 62. Court order won't stop negotiation with our success in Gigi. In other words they can still have something out of court. I think the more you talk about the situation in the people's overcrowding party. Shackle dow notify Senate of defection to PDP hoodlums. So those are the headlines on the nation from the nation. Let's bring it as equally I took is a very well poised and placed position to talk about this situation the people's overcrowding party. What are your thoughts? I think we're seeing my hands are tight. My hands are tight. Hakkot at Wike's estate last night. So what are your thoughts on this, sir? Can you hear us architect Ezekiel and Gaito please? All right, well, Welsh would try to re-establish connection with him, of course, network issues, normal, you know, in these circumstances sometimes. And mercy, it's quite interesting what's going on in people's democratic party. You know, well, the nation in Separat day stepped it down a bit, moved the coverage to the smaller headlines, you know. But I just sort of predicted today they're going to come back to make it big. And the nation has not disappointed in front. So they're very predictable. In your face. But I don't blame, I don't blame that paper. This is the editorial direction. And every New Separat has a choice to decide what editorial direction they want to go in. Why not? They're not breaking any law, you know. But it's quite interesting. I keep saying Wike's camp is growing, you know, because I haven't seen but a judge in the Port Hakkot since this current you know, situation started. It's always been, I mean, Donald Duke should basically move his, yeah, I'm sure he should move his family to Port Hakkot for now because he's been there always. You know, but this is politics. I'm sure the gentlemen know what it takes. It takes a lot of personal sacrifice to get some political decisions go away. All right, is it clear? Can you hear us? I get it that you're back with us. Yes, I can hear you loud and clear. All right, all right. So yes, it seems Wike's pool is growing larger, wider. We know less a person than Bodegio joining in. He read the statement after the meeting, marathon meeting that stretched into dawn. But I think we're saying my hands are tied. I can't simply tell you to resign. I don't have that power. What are your thoughts on the current situation? Yeah, you know, that of the PDP is a little curious in the sense that the PDP largely wanted article. There's always a gap between election time and non-election time. Election time, there's attention focused on the candidates that they are selling, particularly the presidential. But you see, after election, which is a few months, then there is still party left for you to run. So having to manage the interest between party and election is something that most people don't understand how it works. And I've been a national chairman of the party and I've also been a candidate so I can feel the two sides of the divide. Now, right, right now, article is in a fix because he is not party. He is a candidate. But at the same time, this is not party time. This is candidate time. And what some people have done in the past, like President Goodlaw Jonathan, was when he was having a problem with the party, he decided to set up a parallel body to run his campaign, which was time. And when you are running your campaign, it's not mandatory, not obligatory for you to run within the party system or structure. That's why you are asked to set up your campaign council. Now, right now, article has its campaign council set up, but the demand of wiki is on party. So on one hand, article does not have control over party, but that is storytelling. The fact is that in a curious way, I do not know why article that I've known is being a deft political maneuverer. The day I've said this, and I say it again, the day that article calls IU to his house and says, my guy, please, I beg you, this thing is getting out of hand. I'm going to win this election. I'll give you this. Can you just do me the favor? The way that the BOT chairman resigned, IU can also resign. The constitution says that after you resign, the guy that is the deputy chairman takes over from you is also from the north, is a simple thing. He also resigns. When they both resign, they can now put in somebody there, after which the party can now appeal to the second person that resigned and say, please, can you come back? And the party's constitution can allow you to come back. So it's an in-house arrangement. I've said this time and time again, but there's something that calls article back and I really don't understand. And I think the worst mistake it would make, it's already a dent, a damage, because people are starting with this new wave of person not party. A lot of party lawyer lists seeing what is going on are starting to say, okay, maybe for presidency, I'll go this way. For governorship, I'll go this way. People are starting to, and there are three boxes that I've checked, and we need to understand. Box one is cash. People who just don't care, just pay me. But there's a box two, which is conscience, and then there's a box three, which is intellect. Between box two and box three, there are people who are starting to think those two boxes didn't use to really take part in election before. And they form about 70% of voters. That's why we always have below 30% turnout. But these people are being activated right now because of the confidence they have in the beavers and also other players coming in and becoming relevant. For the first time, we are now talking about a three-horse race, a four-horse race. In states, you can actually have a five-horse race. Do you understand me? So people are starting to pick and choose. So the issue of my party, my party is not as binding as it used to be. So within that context, I don't think that articles should take the risk of saying, well, if you like, if you don't like, I think they should just find a way of getting in-house. If they hire me as their consultant, I'll tell you, this problem will be resolved in less than three days. It's a simple thing. Bring down egos. Get down into the room, guys are beg. Let's get this. Somebody needs to play the fall guy. Somebody needs to stoop to conquer. And that person that needs to stoop to conquer is Mr. Artiku. And the earlier he takes this statement serious, the better for him. All right. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper. The president, President Mohammed Buhari seeks debt pardon for Nigeria and pledges credible elections in 2023, looking at the statistics that were released by the DMO. Debt profile is standing at 42.3 trillion naira. And that's a lot. Do you think that this is really a great move of the president right now in New York? Asking that our debts should be canceled. What do you make of this? Absolutely ridiculous. Really? Absolutely, yes. You see, the way you treat Nigerians should not be the way you think you can treat the international community. These are people who think, these are people who are on your case on a constant basis. You are telling me that you can't account for 400, 4,000 barrels of oil per day. You can't account for it. It just shows that you have no knowledge of accountability or you are so wasteful and you are asking me to forgive your debt. Number two, the lifestyle that you live, those people can tell you the number of people that have come with you on the trip. They can tell you the amount of money you have spent on the trip. They can tell you. If you think Nigerians don't know, people know. They can tell you how you've run your budget over the years. They can tell you what your priorities are. They can tell you that you that comes to say that education is the barometer for measuring the future or in fact, the campus that takes any society to the next level and then your children are out of school for the past seven months and what are they asking for? This will listen to you and when you come to international arena and you start to say these things, these guys just say, does this guy taking us for a fool? Do they think that we are Nigerians? So they are saying things that children say, but that's the way you put your house in order and when you go back there, you say education is such an important thing to us and we are so, we've done the best we can but because of this debt stuff, we cannot get much more. Please, can you just allow us, give up a phase, a kind of structuring where we can deploy the debt that we pay you to fix in the education sector or the power sector. We want to get the country going. There is an argument you put forward based on your antecedents that will get the good-minded people thinking. Please let them go back and see how we got the debt forgiveness under President, former President Obasanjo and my, my, my, my, my, it's very, very respected senior sister, Konjoy Wehala. Let them go back and study the things that were done, the demands that were requested, how they met those demands before you even go to ask. You would have started putting your house in order and by the time you reach there, they'll say this to be done. You say check, this one, okay, because we don't have this, that is the way that international community... A bit of a conversation here. You say that the international community is a brotherhood. I mean, if we have 195 countries thereabout, and so you have 183 who are members of the United Nation, you want to say 184 thereabout, then it's a community. I mean, it's like the brother's family, the world come together. And if you have a problem, there's nothing wrong sharing with a brother. Afterwards, once upon a time, we also enjoyed, you know, debt cancellation under the, you know, former President Obasanjo's administration, which was headed by economic council or team, was headed by Ngoziokonjoy Wehala. And so is there anything bad if the president is asking, you know, that debt cancellation should be considered, especially... You are taking me back two, three steps. I've said this before. The international community, they have the money that worked for money. But I'm saying that it's a brotherhood. That's my point. I mean, when countries come together. Let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, if you have two siblings, a brother and a sister, and this sister is very serious, takes academics really serious and everything. And then this brother doesn't want to go to school, is very recalcitrant, is very responsible and everything. And you have some money to send one of them to school. It's a brotherhood, it's a family. You send your sister to school and not your brother. And you tell your brother, if you just behave yourself and you show some level of interest in education, maybe next session, I can think about you. All right. We have to go home. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry to interrupt you, sir. But we're out of time. We should talk some more about some other issues. But we'll have you again soon. Thank you so much for your time and have a fantastic day. Always a pleasure. Have a lovely day, both of you. All right. We have a look at what happened today in history. We'll take that and when we come back, we dive straight into our first major conversation. Stay with us.