 It's time for off the press, and we have our guest, Upunabo Unkohtaria, is a political affairs analyst, and he's joining us from Rivers State. Good morning to you, Upunabo. Good morning. Good morning, Nigeria. Okay, so we'll just go on and take the headlines and then we talk briefly on each headline because there are so many that we need to touch this morning. Let's just begin with the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian newspaper Tinobu Ruto called for financially autonomous African Union reject fresh crumble for Africa. Let's begin with that one. What are your thoughts on that? Can Africa really stamp their feet and say we do not want to fall for this crumble for Africa, the new crumble for Africa that is going on now? China wants to take over, America wants to take over, UK wants to maintain their stand and everybody wants to just divide Africa like they used to do in those days. Well, my thought is simple. If they have this crumble right now because the western world is aware of the global states in Africa, and so they just want to seize the opportunity. If you look at the leadership, I call it leadership paraplegia, we are almost crippled. Our African leaders have seen, they are not planning the morage of policies and procedures. They don't really know what to do. They don't know how to address the bonding issues, problems and so on. The African countries are facing. Sadly, we have what is fixed to become moral powers. We have in terms of both human and natural resources. We have them. But we don't know how to go about them. And even those that might know how to go about them still do so for egocentric reasons. Because look at the national assembly, for example. I am highly paying that they will even conceive the idea of giving to each member about 200 and something millionaires ostensibly as palliatives. I can't just settlement. I don't know. Oh my God. 220 millionaires per member as palliatives. We are talking of affixiating economy. And you are talking of buying bulletproof vehicles. How insensitive. How callous. How wicked. And certain persons being. So the western world have come to a conclusion that these Africans are animals that ought to be the zoo and ought to be controlled. And the best way is to push them into the zoo. And when you get these animals into the zoo. Of course the whole essence is to attract customers to the zoo. And at the same time change them. Change the animal. Most important. Because that is what Africans are doing. Look at Tanzania. I keep talking about Magusio. The former late president of Tanzania. That was how the word Magusification was coined. Who let the facts and lies. How many convoys. Tinibu is still having his matter at the tribuna. And look at the number of cars. The poor man goes at the bottom of the second order and has the key. Here is your driving SUVs. You are buying new ones. You are fooling them. They came up with some reasonable reason. That the minister of this came out to work. It was in Tinibu's convo. You have to ask them to come out and work on me. To what end of what is important. So you find that we have this what perception of leadership and life. Look at Tomosankara. Look at Jerry Rawlings. When are we going to learn? The ministers. Yes, the ministers of your own political. Who buys the advisors and the children. Who buys the people. Is it not from the government force? Who is going to maintain it? You remember when India was in number 2 man. When India was the leader of this country. The government is obvious. It was never a chance. Once it is 233. They find you in any government vehicle. You are arrested. Because as far as it was concerned. It was built well by the government. And at the same time it was built by the government. Accountability. It was built where you were the funder. While still talking on this issue. Since we are talking about this. Let's still on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. Set up Ergis National Assembly to draw a plan. For 110 billion narrow bulletproof cars. Others. You touched on this pallete. For the National Assembly. And here we have set up saying. They should drop the plan. That they have to buy this bulletproof vehicles. That's what I'm saying. Because it is a rationality. It is a rationality. It is a rationality. It is a rationality. It is a rationality. It is a rationality. Nigerians are dying. First I want to ask this question. In the state you see. Will they pull that move for. National Assembly. Exactly. Who wants to kill you? Who? When they were contesting Nigerians. If you enter the election. If you enter that election. Which means you were accepted. ఇాసిగాలవ�sei లిలిలింర౾సింన పఃస్టాలింనడింరులి. ఎదికికిక౾లింకు... నికిలికికికికికకాక్కి. నికికి... 체적 నివాినిన భాతినినినినినింిమిని Öనిక౿కంట౪టి . ఆరివాలికి. దివివికాడంరం సంరికెకి. సంితానికికాపూశరం ంివికికని. ణిక౟నంరయిలిటకి. బ౪౅ంవార్లికి. ష్డికికి. నికికిక. పనిటాకిప మాసాయా ఆస్యసికి మ్లికి. మ్సిలికిి. నింకంప్తిలిలోతినాచితాంఞాపెకి. మఎజమి ఉడ్యికి. మాల్టికికిలితాసిపోచికి. ోలులుటువ్ట్చి నేప్చ్టైటూనిదిండెదె సాపిసైనిండిస్ప్చ్తులింగి. దిటాటాwave అఠటియాలాయారి. perpetualmenovéత్ధి� Chattamах teaspoons, chucka massesантaalj feeling trapped insidevidia�ూడే, పవనుisineసిఛిడ్లు. 벌써కప్సనికోబినిssenలుమున nextキャンプఀతేడినో.сколько�ేసనునునినిమకాానినా�! But you came to my nation to address, how many foreign ministers or presidents have come to India to address in the nation? Why do you always go to London and America to address them and invite them to monitor and everything? And they give you money, you collect the money, you specify for the decision. Then you say we are not beggars, we are not this, we need that. Then you say we are not beggars. Okay. It's a matter, you know. I don't know. We are not those people who do intellectual or arrhythmia. People who do non-regional and inter-position. One minute you say one minute, the next minute you tell me the next. Often we are just talking before you came on how a revolution that we may not be able to handle may be brewing. And we are just begging that the people who need to hear this should hear this. these and not throw it in our faces whatever they are doing to tell us that we cannot we have no see in whatever is happening but now the apc chairman has resigned this they keep quoting the resignation like you know resigned in quote now some people say it was a long time coming some people say there's anxiety yes so what what is that what is your take on the resignation yes at this point now i don't give a foot about who resigned thank you he is part of the problem in fact you want to see more of them resign resign what's the more of them resign so what is so special about resignation what i wasn't confident my resign as a special advisor so what is so special about it's it's a big deal because in this country resignation is a taboo you have to be subservient and when you resign people will rate abuses is so vile of infecting on you why won't you enjoy thank you so much you are making for that system and all those talk so what your resignation there's no beating and that you resign does not necessarily mean the iman enough is your principle is bad or good if only simply means there is conflict of interest what is doing i don't like or what i'm doing it doesn't like there is that relationship is that in condom and we say you go i wish that we does not necessarily mean what the president you cannot see that and say you are the best no so but the point i'm trying to make is i don't give a foot about who resigns your resignation would not make the economy better or worse your resignation is your personal your personal i don't care i don't know how personal that was because some people are even saying that he was forced some are even saying he was forced to resign he has much in top the man himself is i don't i don't i'm not a member of it i'm not a member of it but the truth about that he i don't guess to himself the powers in the world that's the truth about he wants to dictate who bought the law what what what what about the law who lost and i will never contest that i will give this because it gets is a such a is a such a man resigns that i didn't talk about even though they both have destroyed our economy let him go and rest let him go and sleep talking about the economy talking about the economy that concerns that concerns me that's what i'm saying the economy that concerns me i'm not going to die yeah talking about the economy resigns today i'll be happy because he's in charge of our economy then we can discuss it let's talk about the economy let's go back to the economy the lead headline of the the lead headline of the guardian newspaper leads with the congestion lego sports cash crunch investors apathy stole 8.5 billion dollars deep seaport projects now this is tangential we are looking at the whole economy now you cannot diverse one from the other now they say there is apathy why wouldn't there be apathy where you have a wobbling economy if not in fact with aggression so there'll be apathy and most importantly we live in a country where you don't even have the rule of law so the investors are not even sure that the investors are going to be secure and if there is any infraction that definitely you have a law for that will render justice and not judgment that is one then secondly when you look at the indian economy you see at the indian state the whole activity of the indian state is so unstable are we talking about an iron you know the country is dollarized well and you say you're talking about something the country house rents today in dollars everything in dollars there is a something because one thing component ingredient of something is your so there is a something everything is assembled that apathy get it over there the letter you would get it's a natural thing even as you are now you will not invest in anything that you are not quite sure when you consider all the different providers all in this i also saw who run in this or the whole company is all digested well now it's a natural thing there is a you don't need rocket science you don't need god to interpret it you don't need god to do that you know we just talk because we have to talk well thoughtlessly all we've been saying is not that they don't know what to do do they do they open up here they do no they do i must tell you they don't want to do so why are they doing otherwise the nation is the nation is there because the country is seen as a full country and then we are the revolution will come they will come to console look at the answers this is just happened they are not planned they are spontaneous and this will be bloody now i was telling somebody i said there is being wielding for session and corroding bitterness in the land our hopes have been dashed dream shattered and promise of a brighter future she threatened we are headed slowly but standing in for a renderable and and this is as a result of the leadership the characteristics leadership we have with this leadership by quite insensitive he doesn't know what about those at the bottom of the city now that the oil for law okay i will practice capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich okay open up like i said earlier we should be very brief about anything that we are treating and there are so many things that we might miss today because yeah no no no i know i know the passion with which you're talking right now but in a report now that we we're talking about these things we know that the government is promising us palliatives that will come but we've just had a report that about 43 million people 43 million Nigerians were shot out of buharis cash transfer that's the report that has just come in it's on the on page 21 of the punch newspaper 43 million were shot out of the cash transfer i don't know who were the people that got the cash transfer in the first place and then 43 million that means 43 million of of qualified people you just ask the question you just ask the question of 43 million those are those are cookbook figures just they just want to give you an impression that certainly they were beneficiary mention those who have started benefiting in the again are you hearing me can you yes yes okay the 43 million they talked about is just to give you an impression that something doesn't benefit them they should tell us those who benefit them nobody benefit them those things you are used to feather or line their pockets they are not beneficiary the only one that's can be fraud or the positive by the government look at this someone has something thousand also has something thousand afforded that was been handled by what is this person's care or who is an embodiment of contradiction himself you kept quiet about the way you left office you said minister for state appoint when you see my freedom so it's the character but you accepted it but so the question is let us know first we must have the statistics the targeted beneficiaries let's say 100 million and hypothesis right now let's say 100 million and definitely for you to be a beneficiary you don't have your character to have the particulars to say o gavay kothaira was the beneficiary he was a beneficiary now they who did not who were left out these are their particulars the way has that that is like oil and we lose that we lose that who told you we don't need to know who have do how many barrel to produce it so you can't come and talk about what you're thinking to do these are just charlatans characters you are there to please determine feeling school children that we are not the school parents you are feeling and told you we are pocketing the money so don't wonder about these figures they come up with this because they give you an impression that actually people benefit it that's just you want to be rich not money benefit give me the next let me have the doctor and let the person so because if you say i benefited and i did not benefit i'll come on air to repeat it of course i'll come up with a report let me have the doctor okay um we have these numbers and these are the ones that benefit it then we now maybe without telling us who we living though by deductive reasoning that this on our own did not benefit then we can now start questioning why this on our own did not benefit if allocations were made for those ones but not benefit it all right let's forget it the party where when they read that the minister saw the and he said the political we have to be sure that open number you're just you just open it up these are facts this unfortunately these are facts open about and they are so hard it's so hard breaking to hear these things go on every day and nothing happens to them when doesn't happen during the end people are hungry and someone holds free food that was given for you to share to the people you hold it and say it's for your birth you're waiting for your birthday then we do that as well to get it out i don't know members of your are you going to make the distinction the whole is for the constituents may god help this country amen may god help this one amen so still on punch i say i say it negatively nothing can pray for the price i say negative they got help not that i'm praying for the we need to pray for nigeria open up we need to pray for it we don't need it anymore we don't need it all right above the mask and we need to lower the pressure to get to power so we see the revolution let's take another thing open up let's take another headline let us see that first if we are let's take another headline open up let's take another headline there are on the yeah still on the punch newspaper fg withdraws mobile policemen and men from ex-governors ministers vip's ig i think please can we be discussing most important issue we all know that this withdrawal is for the time the man wants money so that the richie man after six months they will return to their boss let us let us address these issues now not until the when you know that is just for three months you want money it has been a tradition we all know what this is this is the tradition that after three months you know you started in form and got not a minute as a day even just be a militant once you become a militant you make so much money they give you police escort inside his left right let's not discuss issues and forget all this this is by this kind of how can we be discussing how did you just you all know that three months and three months from now they will get that back to his man he needs money he don't got into our system that's what he's doing all his predecessors did it let him prove me wrong yeah let him prove me wrong yeah let him be sustained we're looking for that we're looking forward to that that he can prove you wrong uh but still talking about and i'll be very glad if still talking about security still on security during campaigns they now a vice president said he will be in charge of security even though that's very illegal it will be in charge of security and the president will be in charge of economy which also is almost like illegal because constitutionally it should be the other way around the president is the commander-in-chief and the vice president is in charge of economy but right now we just heard from the vice chairman that the president is said to unveil security plan you know it is the the um that's on the nation's newspaper it is the vice president that is telling us that the president will soon unveil the security plan and the president has not said anything about it he has not talked about security he has not talked about corruption how he intends to fight it now we're only hearing it from shatima i don't know what your take is on that well i i i don't i don't think it's going to be that because um you know both for the vice president party it's a joint debate we vote for the president and until there is a rebuttal from mr president it is presumed that the vice president was asked for the speaking for mr president it's information that has been disseminated to nigeria admit to a very large extent has swayed their fears they're still the fears of nigeria and also rare shock them that the the president or the presidency is is not checking the sustainability is that it's in no way to do and very soon if you come up with the blueprints that will ensure the protection of lives and property which of course the principle principle that will be there in the government so programming is just trying to reassure 90 years on what the president because when it talks about wait up a security it is just within the body of the president not the president the concern the concern open about is that must we keep doing these things you are campaigning to become president in a country like nigeria that we know insecurity is a problem and you are only now thinking about unveiling your blueprint like you have said shouldn't these things have been done before even taking the reins of leadership my brother you know you know you know the problem we're having in this country you people are again to these persons give them so much you i don't know how you let me tell you if the economy they don't have most of these things are written down for them now by very telling them and unfortunately they don't even understand what is he doing for them he said they do the manifesto they don't understand that's why we put the manifesto i don't do the manifesto because you can get the best brain from outside from others so the issues the man you're writing is manifesto doesn't even understand what the grammar to start with sometimes you are one of two for this cruiser because you are a fool having different names you are a fool nobody is don't realize a school makes two after you now understand what is reaching for that thing so when you start thinking that this man you have come in my dear they learn on the job it is on the job they get one they get even boring job for first boring so they never need the your former minister for education said you need nothing about education on that on that worry after seven years plus so you now you can appreciate why what happened in the in the business sector in the day he said he knew nothing about the job should not be late but he was there for eight years is it a that the former governor i don't even want to know his name anymore you know so when you think that these are persons that are actually there to work for you are making a big mistake you're making a big mistake they get there is what they are okay so stop saying you have to have prepared for this none prepares for anything they prepare to get into office they have never prepared to lead you or he was out of the mountain of despair none i can tell you their focus is a a miracle it is my turn as it is heritage the patrimony not to lead you so when you start expecting so much my dear brother you know you begin to get worried so don't expect forget about how he's supposed to have he's supposed to have he used to have thought of all through before and during the election all the thought of was how to win the election not how to lead the country not how to move on from the factig of disrespect to the privacy of folks if that is what you think then you have a lot coming you are sticking with it i'm on a long thing according to the bunch thank you apunaba for your time and insight this morning on off the press apunaba on cotaria political affairs analysis joined us from river steaks on off the press we'll be coming back in a moment to give you our first hot topic just stay with us