 And we're moving to the papers this morning with Gideh Johnson who joins us on a beautiful Friday. Gideh, it's good to have you join us this morning. Good morning, Kofi. I hope last week both of you are not harassed from doing your duty, from not being a legussian or an illegal person. Well, that wasn't the case but we couldn't say it was different for our colleagues who were out. I mean it was quite threatening when we got the reports. But it's still good to know that everyone is up and alive and we're here and that's one thing that we're grateful for. Let me just use the friend that you used to go to the court. Well, I think yesterday Francis came out to explain that what else should he say? Should he say we should fight? So anyway, you're welcome Gideh Johnson. All right, let's take a quick look at the leadership newspaper this morning. It says in 20 years, Bitalbi alters shape of Southeast politics and that's as Labour Party records the first win in RBI governorship elections, PDP slim win in Enugu and takes party closer to extinction. These are the riders you have underneath the board caption of the leadership. Now, and away from that there's also another one that says Sultan declares today, first day of Ramadan. Sultan declares today, first day of Ramadan, the festivity and banks to get more ordinary notes from the central bank of Nigeria today. It was yesterday, they said it was yesterday, now we're saying today. So it feels like every day is going to be today. And then you find President-elect Tunibu off to Paris, Saudi Arabia for vacation. That's quite interesting. I mean, some of us don't have the privilege of going for a destination vacation, but you know, the president-elect, the parliament just be enjoying himself. Abba Kerry loses beat to stop trial for drug offence. And then you find global banking turmoil, Nigerian banks need vigilance and proactiveness according to a report gar policy. That's the much we can take this morning on the leadership. All right. And let's go over to the next paper there. Of course, talking about the punch newspaper with the following headlines. Old notes circulation, CBN begins monitoring today banks set two week target. There are quite some riders which I'll skip for now. We can look at that as we go on Ramadan, Tunibu Attiku others or governance pray for peace unity. Actually, I want to take on that. 203 electoral offenders have faced trial in 20 states police. I don't know if there's a particular name that is part of those people. FG fixes May for airport concession, Nigeria air, organ trafficking, equity model, wife risk, tenure, jail term in UK, fire, share, or Tom tackle PDP over suspension type securities appeal court decides a delicate or yet taller suit today LD or LP STP reject a new golden governorship poll results. I better be heading to the courts. Well, we also have the nation newspaper this morning. PDP hits by post poor crisis and that's boldly written. We could tackle spotty over suspension of fire. She I am and she ma and then autumn X a kitty governor rejects action. It is contemptuous. That's what you find right there. Minister insists Nigeria air will fly before May 29. And then tight security as a court of appeal decides a delicate fate. Then again, insurance assets increases to 2.3 trillion narrow yellow cards for owners of Lagos 349 buildings. Quite not sure what that is. United Kingdom increases its interest rate to 4.25%. That's a lot. Just as I've increased to, you know, 18.0%. If you like to say 18%. CBN begins allocation of more cash to banks. Okay. So we hope that, you know, the issue of cash crunch and scarcity will be over by the weekend. That's the much we can take on the nation now. All right. Let's go straight to Julie Johnson for his analysis. Julie, I want that I would like to start with is on the front page of our punch in the super. Quite interesting. Uh, Ramadan to the political governor's pray for peace unity. Some using to me when electron comes around and they've achieved their result. Our political class become religious. I have said that Nigeria is a highly religious society, but we are not faithful. It's an idea that you see people will go to church on Monday morning early and go to work. We flood every known principle. Even established by this religion, then we expect miracle to happen for our society. As far as I'm concerned, all of these political classes perpetrated, they unleashed the terror on Nigerians up during the elections across board after unleashing the terror on Nigerians that they're now trying to seek redemption through Ramadan. I don't even know what type of conscience they do have. And God is just a patient God. And that's why some of us have advocated that we should use African traditional gods in swearing in people into public offices and to be the fulcrum of what we use as the basis of our faith because it seems as the God of the Bible and the God of the Quran are a bit alien to our culture and they are a bit too slow to react to to some of our needs in our culture because if you use Ila La or Osano Boa or to swear and oath when you are elected into public offices that you are not going to steal money, I can assure you that they will live through to time. But they know what it is. They know we are highly religious people. They know the easiest way for them to assuage our feelings is for them to play the religious card. And when they play to the advantage, fantastic. But when others are using against them, they begin to accuse the other of playing the religious or the ethnic or the ethnic or the ethnic card. Unfortunately, it's not possible for us to take away religion out of our national life. I think there are some certain things actually for us to develop and for us to grow is to take away the issue of religion and to take away the issue of ethnicity and state of origin rather than settled for citizenship. That citizenship is the basis of what determines your existence as Nigerian, not in the deanship of local government or not origin of the state and then not about religion which you practice. The state has no business in religion and that's why even religious leaders are feeding fat. It's a fact. The religious leaders are feeding fat across world from Lagos to Shukutu, Shukutu to Kadina, Kadina to Kano, Kano to Enuku and the rest of it. You see that religious leaders are part and parcel of the establishment. I'll say it with my chest out that they are part and parcel of a problem in this country because rather than all these political class accountable, they also become part and parcel of reinforcing their own on reins of power. So as far as I'm concerned, I take it with a pinch of salt when someone that is not faithful is trying to be religious. He's just playing to the galleries and ostriches, burying his head in the sound and all of his body are out there. How religious, how faithful are these people? Very interesting. Well Jida Janssen, let's quickly look at the punch now and he talks about the availability of the Nair as the Apex Bank will be chunking in the note to the commercial banks. But are you not worried that up until this moment, despite the fact that there's been a comment from the central bank of Niger to the ruling of the Supreme Court, we still have the notes not available, whether the old or the new note also seal in scarcity? We have said it over time messy that there are institutions of the state in Nigeria that are bigger than the core institution established by the constitution. There are three major organs of government, the legislature, the judiciary and the executive. Now when you have infractions lack of respect for the third organ of government, which is meant to interpret the law and maintain order and sanity in the society by a subset of one of the organ, a subset of the executive, then you know there's serious problem. NNPC operate as a body on its own. INEC operate as a body on its own. Central Bank operate as a body on its own. So they operate as an autonomous body within the Nigerian space. So they are above the law. They cannot be put to question because you begin to wonder what is the autonomous general doing with respect to ensuring that there's compliance with the judgment of the Supreme Court with respect to the Naira design policy. In democracy's government for the people, by the people and for the people. We said the judiciary is the last hope of the commandment and unfortunately they are the one that set up this agenda and this public view of the judiciary because one is the institution of the state don't have respect for the judiciary. As a result of that, people lose confidence in the judiciary. So when people begin to doubt the credibility of the judiciary, they should not be blaming the political class. I watch a minister. I don't even know what type of nation we produce. Why a minister will be appearing and speaking on daily basis on the part of a political party as if you are still running as the she-spokesperson. Such change will not happen in the civilized climate. If he wants to be a spokesperson, he will not be the minister of regional music for labour and productivity. He will rather resign and face his job as a minister of productivity and be the official spokesperson. He's wearing double gamut. He's a minister of the federal republic and he's taking a partisan view. In a normal climate, the judiciary will have dealt with that particular issue or the attorney general will have written a letter to the president to that effect that this cannot happen. But what we have, see what, see what, anything can happen. That's the system which you have in Nigeria. So when people doubt the judiciary, don't blame the people. Even the political class that have issues with the electoral process raises issues concerning the credibility of the judiciary. These are the things that give clue to it because there is a decision by the apex court to the apex bank. This is the way you should go about this. Yet the apex bank is not complete. You know, I killed for almost two hours to collect just $10,000 on the ATM on Wednesday when I got to Doenugum. Do I even pay new notes? Last week, when I went to the bank, I was paid from my money $3,000. I filled the withdrawal slip and I was paid, what I'm entitled to is $3,000. It was not even last week. It was Monday. This Monday. $3,000 from my money. $3,000 and I was even giving old notes. My money that I have rights to. I don't know if we have the rights of. Nigerians should seek damages from CBN. Nigerians should seek based on the Supreme Court. Sometimes I will regret that I didn't study law because there is some class action that you could take on behalf of the citizen and sue the government and then you get judgment for it. We should sue the government, both the federal government and the central bank governor and the central bank governor as a person for damages, for injustice against the Nigerian people. You know how many people that have lost their lives, that have lost their lives as a result of not having access to cash, not because some people will not collect transfer and some that have tried to make transfer. What has been our experience is making transfer. Some have made transfer and the transfer is you are not crediting those you want to credit. They can't see. They can't even see the credit. The money has left your account is hanging somewhere between the intermediary, between your bank and the person you want to credit. So it's unfortunate. It's very, very, very unfortunate. And they do it with voter fees. They do it as if there's nothing you can do. Every one of them thinks that they are above the law. They are untouchable. Look at their disposition. The disposition of people occupying offices. The disposition of the MD of NNPC, for example. The disposition of the INEC chairman. The disposition of central bank governor. And you look at the disposition of the ministers of federal, of federal republics or security agencies. Rather than be serving the people, they have turned us to be their servers. And I said that we are not practicing democracy. What we are practicing is feudalism. One, the governors have control over who have access to the land. They can decide that today you are no longer wanted on this land. Move your premises of this land. So you have the rulership of the lords on the surf. So the feudal lords have control over state resources. They have control over the security. They have control over everything. So they determine the day you come out. They determine the days you don't go out. They determine whether you can own property or you cannot own property. They determine whether you can vote or you cannot vote. So they determine your citizenship. So what we have is feudalism and not democracy. It's quite a fortunate struck picture you've painted. Even though we've been having a laugh at your plight, but the fact is it's actually a sad commentary because you know that people have even had to collapse, die, give birth, had ATM points and all that. And it's really a sad one. 203 electoral offenders face trial in 20 states. Police. Now, if I read that, I think like Messi was chuckling at one story. He's making me chuckle. But I wonder if there's a name of one dramatist personnel or the dramatist personnel in Lagos state in what we saw happen here, play out on the 18th of March. But are you are you confident that this police probe will really go after those who really matter? You see, someone cannot have their country to commit robbery or to commit election infractions, except that they are arrested. And then we have seen cases of, I want to see whether they will prosecute INEC officials who, in one way or the other, compromise the integrity of their offices because we have had cases of resort being suspended. We have had cases of resort sheet being doctored, being manipulated. We have had cases of such and then we have had cases of even PVC recovered, thousands of PVC recovered barely, not a single person has been found complicit in INEC or prosecuted. You see, when we want to clean the electoral system, it has to start with the body that is given the responsibility. If the body that is given responsibility and is given much resources is not living to expectation, I believe that the audit should start from there. I believe that the prosecution should start from there. I've said it over and over time again. Anyone that causes an infraction in democratic process is committing treason and felony offense because it's trying to target the means, the legitimate means through which you can acquire power in a democratic democracy. All of these people that you see that have been arrested, you won't see any of the political class. Who are their sponsor? Who are those that have sent them out? If they are interrogated, I think you see, until you make an example of people that are beneficiary of a corrupt political system, this corruption will continue. We thought that, oh, violence, the violence through witness in 2023 election is incomparable to the violence through witness in 2019. We thought to a larger extent that violence, violence surrounding our election would be reduced, but unfortunately, we saw the desperation on the parts of the political class and we see the, we see complicit behavior on the part of those that will even give you responsibility to ensure that the election is credible to ensure that the election is free, the election is fair and every Nigerian is given the opportunity to decide who governs them. So when you see police have arrested, what are the identity of those that have arrested? Who are they? Who are their sponsor? These, all these we need to know. When are they taking them to court? Because if you do your investigation thoroughly, you get to the root of the matter. We have to go today. Thank you so much. One of them includes a gentleman who was being beaten. I'm sure that story in Lagos, he was being beaten by some persons and he ran into the Obas Palace to seek protection. And then the thugs from the thugs and they was handed over to the police who arrested him. Anyway, thank you very much for your time. I do enjoy your stay in Inugu and like I said, do find time to eat some original Inugu Opa. It'll do you good. You know, and let's just enjoy yourself. We hope to have you next time. Thank you very much. All right. I don't know if the police have also seen this network. Well, the network is not favorable for GD at this point in time, but we hope to connect with him. And that's the size of it for off the press. We take a break. When we return, we'll be looking at new statistics and, you know, the fact that breast cancer can also be a thing with this recent report. We'll be speaking with a professional. Please stay with us. Good morning.