 It's a breakfast in Plot City, Africa. It's time for us to go through the pages of our national dailies. As always, we have Chris Cain, the one who joins the conversation. It's good to have you join us, Chris. Thank you very much. Good morning. Alright, Chris. We'll start off with a Daily Trust newspaper this morning. Now, the bold caption says, 2023 Presidency, Southwest Ways Option on Tunubu and Ossibajo. That's what you find on the Daily Trust newspaper, Southwest Ways Option on Tunubu and Ossibajo. That's the bold header. Now, underneath you have several writers. The first writer says, Governors divided as a feniferae keeps mum. Why I want to succeed Buhari Ossibajo is quoted on that. I have no son grown enough to vie for presidency. The former governor of Lagos State is quoted, Bola Tunubu. Insecurity. There may be no Nigerian 2023. This is not the first time we're hearing a statement in these kind of thoughts. But these, you would actually attribute this to the Sultan. And that's what you find there. Headers dehumanized by soldiers in Kanduna not bandit. And this is what police community is quoted to say. And just before we move away from the Daily Trust newspaper, over 100 victims of platoon attack given mass burial. Many houses raised and telecom mass destroyed. Just going to fact communication. Plus the fact that 72 million persons have been bad from making calls. I mean, you begin to think about what will be going on in communities, you know, such communities where the security can send and all of that. It may just be difficult to communicate. 30 tertiary institution compete for 950 million Naira CBN grant. In 2023, PDP presidential aspirant swelled to 15. Rapist weeps as court sentences him to death. Well, it's okay. And that's it on the Daily Trust newspaper this morning. Away from the Daily Trust, we'll move on next to the nation newspaper. Tunable rallies are governor's admission for APC ticket. That's the main story for this morning. Our writer NWC gears up for primaries guidelines. Oshibajo unfolds plan. About the must-have of the nation newspaper, CDU envoy seek gas supply from Nigeria. Mass barrier for 80 plateau residents killed by bandits. Nigeria gets 3 million doses of J&J vaccine from Italy. How gunmen killed Oshun APC council chair. That's according to the sun. 68 kidnapped train victims in Niger terrorists camp. There's also a story on the red strip just below the paper. Our last 400 million Naira fraud EFCC tier re-arranged Olesa. May 2, May the 30th. Those are all of the stories you can find on the front page of the nation newspaper. And on the punch 2023, Tunubu Oshibajo groups clash. VP, that's what you find. Vice president lost his polling boot. And we're not aware of political relevance. Presidential race is not about big name but capacity and capability. You have Oshibajo grassroots organization quoted. I have no son grown enough to challenge me. The former governor of Tunubu and vice president close to us. So you remember we're saying it's going to be a lot of interesting times for the APC and for the south west. You also find over 5,000 debtors, all 10 federal government agencies, 4.67 trillion Naira finance minister quoted to say. Ogun custom sees 102 million marijuana, NDLAEA6 help. And just before we move away, please transfer case. Minister Khan youths demand justice talking about us and her chiefs death. Lagos youths kills girlfriend and sleeps with a cop six days. I mean, there's a lot going on in our society. No resumption without meeting our demands as it tells federal government. A national greed collapse twice to 10 megawatts, 33 megawatts last weekend. This is according to the reports from the federal government. Terrorists demand 16 detained commanders exchange for over 100 abductees. You know that popular saying that's always almost in every country that government is not expected to negotiate with terrorists. Let's see how the pants out for us. You import 40% of nitrous gas and demand more. And you also have imported vehicles. Customs slam 15% David Levy clearing agents plant strike. These are the stories you find this morning on the punch news people. On the final paper we review in this morning is the Daily Independent. VP Oshiba Joe Borla Tinnable's loyalist draw battle lines. With two writers there, VP is a pawn on chess board of some game masters. Lagos APC is quoted on that. We can't be held to ransom because of Tinnable's ambition VP group. All right, several stories above the must head 2020. APC governors are lay fears of a consensus. Candidacy 5000 debtors owed 10 government agencies 5.2 trillion narrow. That's attributed to the federal government. Other stories on the Daily Independence newspaper. Plotto attack 78 persons killed 70 abducted 100 houses burnt. Another fire outbreak kills pregnant woman six others in reverse state. Seat at home. Gunmen attack motor park killed two persons set bus on fire. One dies 12 wounded in failed reverse jailbreak. MTN receives final bunk in approval to operate a MOMO PSB. Federal government spends 12 billion narrow on school feeding monthly. That's the national coordinator. PDP consensus candidate will oust APC from PAW. Says Saraki will ensure another APC member succeeds Buhari in 2023. That's according to the APC chairman Adamu. Those are all of the stories on the front page of the Daily Independent. Chris, thank you so much for being part of the breakfast this morning. Which of the headlines interests you as you went through the pages of the national dailies? Thank you for having me. Of course, I also need the declaration of the first president yesterday for 2023. And also the reaction from the leader of the party, Ashwati Bola Admetin. And the question we need to answer first and foremost is about the declaration. Is it me or should I qualify to vie for the seat of the president? Of course, yes it is. But we have the capacity. We also say yes. We have been vice president for almost seven years and going to eight years on the president. So his competence and ability and capability to be able to do the job is not a question because that instance is where also he acted for the president when the president was away. That is for that. Then the question and another question that asks yourself. I'm a bit worried by his statement. The statement issued yesterday is the declaration where he said he wants to continue the legacy of President Mohammad Ubuwari. If it is that way to go then he has nothing to offer because for us as Nigerians, President Ubuwari for me personally has been the total failure in the past several years. For the lack of what? For the promises that he made to Nigeria in 2015. None of them have been come to fruition and apart from that, he made so many, he came with so many promises at the end of it all. Now this seems to be happening. So if the vice president is saying that he wants to continue the legacy of President Mohammad Ubuwari then he has nothing to offer. But I just believe that that is his statement based on his suggestions because he has a principle he is a vice to and he cannot say anything to the contrary. But the other side of it is also that it is good to see us inflation in the APC with the primary declaration of the vice president because it was more or less like the research where it is good to get that ticket for APC although some other people have declared like minister of transportation with me and Meiji has declared better. It has always been that Tashwar Duprabi is in a poor position as we say in F1 to be able to clean it to get better with the coming of the vice president into the play. Then it's a different ball game. Then the war after some of us, which wasn't expected, was the statement Tashwar Duprabi made after meeting with the governor and saying that he doesn't have a son that is good enough to hire for the president. So we can see that already, since I started pulling apart the ranks of Ashurati and the APC especially in the South West and since Tashwar doesn't seem to be holding as Tino has to be said in his book, Things Fall Apart. But in the days to come, let's see what's going on. You know the president doing one of the interviews that said that yes he has a prepared candidate and he was not going to name that candidate because he's afraid that he may be killed. So is the vice president the candidate the president is talking about or are we supposed to wait for another one to come? In the days to come, we'll see how this will turn out. Alright Chris, I don't want to say so much on the vice president declaration because we will be discussing that eventually on the show later on. But let's move to other stories that are making on the front page. On the Daily Trust newspaper, over 100 victims of plateau attacks are giving mass barrier. Many houses raised telecom mass destroyed. What do we do with the situation in plateau state? The issue of insecurity is just increasing on a beta. Where are we headed? Even with the Seoul Times saying there might be no 2023 because of these insecurity issues we have plaguing the country. That is part of what I was saying. No matter how we try to shy away from it, it still goes back to this government and the blame will be on the last of the president. I want to worry whether I would like it or not. He's the commander-in-chief of AMFOSIS and he is in charge of the nation. So anything goes wrong in any part of it. He'll be held responsible. The primary reason we bring up mass is the security of life and property and any government that has nothing to do with that is a total failure. Let's look at what has happened in Ukraine, the war between Ukraine and Russia presently. Even with all the mass grave that we are hearing about, there is no way in Ukraine that we have been told that we have over 100 people buried in mass graves. That is the country in war, or into war. You see the old, you see that Ukraine has discovered a mass grave of 16 people, 12 people, 20 people. There is no way where you've heard of that. Now these are Nigerians, who fled Nigerians? And people are saying that we're not at war. We are into serious war because if an idiot can just move into a village or into a place and massacre over 100 people at a go and they're giving mass burial and someone is sitting down in a place in Apuja and saying that it's the president of a country. What do we do? There's no way in the world that that happens. There's no way in the world. Human beings have become, are not being counted in numbers. One last thing, the pictures of TV stations and rest of them, just as we as journalists, just the cast headline, 100 people is not numbered, not human beings. We are not looking at it from the point that these people are human beings like you and I. These people have family. They have children. They are children. They have future of the nature. And somebody just cut them down, just like that and nobody's doing anything about it. That is the challenge for me. The more we say, the more we happen. This is not a good thing last time because most of the time we've said in the past that when we happen that, another one will happen and not happen. Then what do we expect? The president will just issue a press statement saying that all of the perpetrators will be apprehended and dealt with. How many have been dealt with? All those have been arrested for terrorism, for banditry and the rest of them. How many of them have been prosecuted? How many of them have been dealt with? And that is the level of impunity in the country because if you don't bring a punitive measure to bear, on some of these people that perpetrated this, then that gives them the gift of a border on a daily basis according to what they are doing. So whether we are getting it right or not, we find remains that Nigeria is going one of the most insecure states, country in the world and that shows leadership failure on my part. All right, let's move away from the daily trust and take a look at the punch newspaper. On the punch, it talks about the concerns of ASU and the federal government. And here you have no resumption without meeting our demands. This is what ASU is telling the federal government. And so it feels like we probably would have forgotten that ASU is on strike, but the strike is still on and they're not going back. About my own investment as opposed to yesterday, today is yesterday, and nobody weekend issued a press statement that they are going to move that resumption by another four weeks. What does that tell us? That means that they don't even foresee any foreseeable resumption of school and that is the same thing. All the federal and state universities the only ones that are in session at private universities and that is how we've been going in the past three years. Last year we practically lost over 11 months which was a full session. Most of the universities cancelled their whole session. That means the students lost because it was supposed to be 200 now and we still remain 100. It was supposed to be in 300, many 200 and rest up. And we are moving this in. And it doesn't seem to be. And somebody was just, I read a minister in the USA that is not happy about what is going on and asked what are you doing about it. If you had an agreement, let's see if time and time again we discussed this on this program. Where people signed, where the government signed an agreement with the unions and we need, and what option are they left with? That is what is called balance contract. And let's see this on this program. Balance contract is a contract that is signed, sealed and delivered as we say in law. And anybody that signed that and part of that irrespective of whatever you're doing gets banned by the tenants of that agreement and that is what happens. So we signed an agreement with ASU and we are reneging on them. And ASU said that we cannot continue because ASU is not just only fighting for itself, also fighting for the provision of infrastructure in the universities. The way it is, the level of infrastructure in most of these universities have gone to a very, very bright mistake. And that is what we're talking about. I'm readily dying. And most often than not, I'll set it down with that number. Until we start making it composite for our political leaders or politically-excuse leaders to have all their children schooling in Nigeria that will not be any headway. We're not going to make any headway. All right. Let's see all the stories I'm making headlines from other papers. Let's stay with the nation newspaper this time around. There's quite some interesting stories. EU envoys seek gas supply from Nigeria and Nigeria gets a 3 million doses of J and J vaccine from Italy. Let's talk about the EU and the envoys seeking gas supply from Nigeria. This is quite interesting for the particular union to be seeking gas when we are having LPG issues in the country and the rising cost of cooking gas and all of that. What does this really tell? To me, it sounds a bit ironic. It's not ironic. That is what it's supposed to be. If I don't get right, this is not because you know why. Russia is one of the highest supplier of gas to Europe. In fact, I think they're the highest in the world. And because of the war going on in Russia now, the gas supply to most Europe is big and most of them are trying to quite caught gas coming from Russia. And that is a huge gap. And come to think of it, Nigeria has one of the best gas in the world. It's one of the best in the world. It's a prime product. And by now, I think that we should be making sure that we're able to push as much as possible into the international market and especially to Europe. So if we have enough gas in Nigeria that we can push, especially not that, okay, we can also say that Kudai is on the line because of the war between Russia and Russia. So this is not unbounded. This is not an irony. But I agree with you that, yes, we can also do more because even the cost of blue tar gas now, the 12 points, what we call it now, 12.5 kg is going for about 9,000. 9,000 from where we started from 2005, 3,000. Now it's about 9,000 or there about. So that in itself is an irony. I agree with you. But the fact is that we can make more, we can make more product exchange if we are able to export enough gas which is in large quantity. If you go to the south side, you see the flaring of gases that is with most of those gases and something that you can turn around and export. But because we don't have most of the IOCs, they don't want to do that because they cost them more to be able to do that. They're rather late. And we have the law in Nigeria guiding against flaring of gas which most of the IOCs are not also at the rate. But we should be able to capitalise on it and increase our production. But my only worry is that I mean of the companies in Nigeria produces gas apart from the LNG, yes, our LNG somewhere in the river states. I don't know whether it is now. I don't think there's any other optimization that is doing that. But if we can be able to increase our capacity, this is time for us to make more. So many of those countries are going to be Europe and even the United States are telling them that we have the capacity to bring supply. So if we have that, I think it's enough for us to be able to export and make so much money. Now that we are growing like slaves, we are growing it practically to even service our own budget. This is a time for us to be able to apply it. So I think we should look into that area properly. All right. Let's stay with the punch this morning again. You have the train attack, terrorists demand 16 detainee or detain commanders exchanged for over 100 abductees. So the terrorists are asking that there are 16 detainee commanders be exchanged for 100 abductees. What do you make of this? We understand that the government is not supposed to negotiate with terrorist demand. Government should not, should not over time. That's the word. But what's going to happen? Do you think that we're going to indulge or we have been indulging? Well, it's between this fire and the deep sea or whatever you think whatever state you can use. But the fact is that we have to do everything we want to do no matter whatever it takes to make sure that every single person that was kidnapped or adopted in that train attack are released. I think the last time we had about 172 or 168. I can't remember the number in my box. Whatever is going to take together we release back to it. That is where we find ourselves don't the need to hold up in this attack to be able to do what we're supposed to do without the assistance attack. That is also going back to what I'm saying about failure of government to be able to do the need to. You cannot secure the lives of your people then. Why are you in government? They're making demands. My problem is that if they are there to that demand and release those people how are they sure that and the the captains will be released as well. Yes. And that is the problem. So government is in a very, very high situation. What I would say is that whatever it is going to take to be able to mention that most of these captains are released let us do so that they can be released. They've been captive for close to about two weeks and 23 weeks and I think we need to do more about that. So that would mean even if it includes having that negotiation and exchange. Let me tell you even in most countries of the world it would be Israel and the United States would take it and negotiate with terrorists. But if you look at the main so if you go down and look at it there are instances where I'm not saying that they should release they're not saying that they should release. Even our president and those in government have said it before that even if you take a dream that they would if you go back to just do a go-go once you have a go-go you will see most of those things made by the president there are other options we have to look at. Israel released over 1,000 Palestinians some terrorists and others that were that were that were that were that were arrested because of just one switch one Israeli switch because of that go-go. So what I'm saying is that there's more in international politics when it comes to the issue of terrorism and the rest of them that they are better with I mean Mediator and I know about so if there's needs then the government should look at all the options they should look at the options no door should be closed the most important thing that every single person that have been kidnapped must be released whatever it's going to take to get them released I'm sure you saw the video of some of some of those some of those captives that are circulating on social media which we always put ourselves in the position of if it's our members of our family that have been kidnapped or some of them our members of our families what we do if you have to pay ransom to be able to get them and want to pay that is the situation and the most important for me is that our government should be able to do the need our security agencies should be encouraged to do the more we can see that we have a situation we have to say that bomb the place bomb the place bomb the place a big stop we can not bomb because there are people there there are some civilians around there and the rest of them you have not given a maternity fact they find themselves motivated look at Kaduna we cannot access Kaduna by route we cannot access Kaduna by rail we cannot access Kaduna by air Kaduna is just there is two hours to prepare for it Abuja if you are reading my list you will know what I am talking about that means it will happen in Kaduna it will also happen in Abuja just before we let you go now we just quickly check out another interesting Heather it talks about and this is actually the second time this has actually happened is it the second time or the third time it is the second time like in the space I mean we are talking about it in the month or you know the month I don't really like message that's why you know that you know we discuss this too it will go back when the one happened last time and I told you that you said that when you saw that I said don't take that don't take that it is going to collapse again it is going to collapse again where I am I have not had like 48 hours and that is also the same too several other parts of 9 years and it's also good I want us to go back to this government because we cannot discuss anything politics, economics, social I want to buy things without talking about the government this is the government in 2015 that promised that on a yearly basis they are going to add in 10,000 megawatts into the national grid this is every year adding 10,000 the promise I know the last 70 but what are we we are hoping to be 3,000 to 3,000 4 to 3,000 is what they even met about 5,000 now we are going to take 3,000 to 4,000 which means that even the one that we are handed over to they cannot meet and somebody is coming and telling us that it's going to continue the legacy I don't know what legacy that Vice President Shibani is talking about but let's continue to see how this works but the fact remain is that apart from the generation we have problem we don't have so much I don't think we have so much problem in the nation what we have problem is the distribution part of the of our legacy because what happens that even from what we have presented what is generated what we have cannot be able to carry that so we need to and ask ourselves these gencos that this goes that we are giving so much we are handed over these properties to that we even went as far as paying them to be able to take this what have they done in the first 5, 6, 7 years or 8 years that they even if we find that they are not able to pay they don't have the capacity why do we we can't look at the time that we stand with them and get more people that are more capable to be able to do the job what do we find on a daily basis they have gone into they have arranged neck, neck and in Arocea maybe they will go where we that and go ahead to be increasing tariff on barely on a monthly basis and that's what they been doing so they don't even care whether you are getting the power or not they continue to even the first issue of metering go and look at how many homes are metered in Nigeria they prepare the what you call it estimated deal and upon that they are not giving the power and that in this they have been serious punch on the economy because as all the SMEs have practically died SME is the engine room of every economy and once we can't get them working then that is the end because that is where majority of Nigerians get themselves that is where they get the power and that is where it is the companies are dying we are also looking for foreign investment how can the company come and invest in your country that way you cannot even boost our power it is a very big problem for me and I hope that all this will just come and go so that in 2023 God willing we will be able to get somebody that has the mission and the mission to be able to take this Nigeria to this country to the next level what we are doing that is what our government is doing and it is not helping anybody well thank you so much Chris Kane that is the much that we can take at this point that is because we need to move away right now we do appreciate your thoughts every time and we look forward to having more of you on the breakfast thank you very much and have a nice day alright thank you Mr. Wander away from all the press now we will go back and hopefully transpire this day and when we come back from now we are looking at the Vice President's presidential declaration in a moment to join us again