 Welcome back. Time to look at the headlines on the pages of today's National Daily. Glad to say we have joining us is Chris Kane-Lewando, a chartered mediator and conciliator regular on this segment of the program. Good morning to you, Mr. Wando. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Thanks for having me this morning. All right, all right. Let's get into it and look at the headlines from the pages. We'll start with headlines from the nation newspaper this morning. The leading one there, what Tinibu told APC screening panel by aid. I was told journalists were bad from covering the screening, even though I saw journalists outside at the lobby of the hotel interviewing some of their aspirants. So I do not know, maybe some papers expected to have access into the room, but an aid told the media what the aspirants Tinibu said to the screening panel. The writers to that story, former Lagos governor, Amici, Umahi, Bakare, eight others screened, or Shibajo, Lawan, nine others to face, Odigeo Yegu panel today. Jonathan not listed at the top of that front page. EFCC charges or courts with 2.9 billion Nara fraud. This means that he was under the reign before a federal high court. Titan trust completes acquisition of Union Bank. Why visited wiki, Syracuse, Tom wall by article. Peter be picks Labour Party presidential ticket details on page four and five. 2023 polls, rising full prizes, threaten economy. I am F1. So at the bottom of that front page, abductors free method is predate to others. 11 injured in Kogi. Moving over to the leadership this morning, the big one, 2023 presidency, North rallies around a tickle. Goose. So presents ex VP to IBB tomorrow. We can accuse the Southern PDP governor's of betrayal. Rivers governor Oguni, Iqbazu, Okoa tipped as running mate to a tickle. Obie merges Labour Party flag bearer. Still with the leadership court returns the culture to EFCC custody. Trained attack. New video shows on Guadalajá son stale in Tarris den. I'm of protects 22% inflation rate for Nigeria in 2022. Lord have mercy. We should add 22% inflation is quite a scary prospect. APC panel screens 12 aspirants, Tinnipu vows not to step down for anyone. Despite presidencies now, Jonathan may be screened today. This is what the paper is saying. Monkey pox, NCDC confirms one death, 21 cases in nine states FCT. And FG targets $176 billion from customs modernization project. Those are the headlines on the front page of the leadership. Over to Daily Independent, the big one with a kicker, Atikus emergence. Press amounts on PDP chairman are you to resign and writers? We can't activate that agreement now, says governor Jimmy Agbajay, Kola O'Logbundian, Diron O'Daimi speak. More from the Daily Independent, PDP presidential primary, some southern governors helped deny region ticket. We can some southern governors helped deny region ticket. We can Peter LB wins Labour Party's presidential primary. Gunman attack, a number of broadcast station burned vehicles building. Really, really sad. Maritime crimes, threatening opportunities in Gulf of Guinea, that's called into President Buhari. Kidnapped Methodist Church Prilate, others released. Less 2.9 billion now fraud. EFCC Array in Sokocha on 17 count charge. Well, of course, he has since been remanded in the accostity by the judge. APC presidential screening committee gets petition seeking to disqualify Tinnable, Atiku on Reconciliation Drive, Mitzuike, Saraki, others. And, 2023 Presidency Aquariumado shops for party meets brick wall at APC. Those are some of the headlines on the front page of the Daily Independent. Over to the punch newspaper, last paper for this morning. It has the big story there with the kicker, presidential primary screening, APC questions, Tinnable, Umahi, Bakare, others and foreign citizenship consensus. And the following writers demands answers on bankruptcy as parents records with EFCC, ICPC, CCB, party snobs, NDLEA's request for drug test. I presented my manifesto to panel, Boris and Atiku worthy, but PDP days are gone, says Bakare Buhari to receive screening report. Manufacturers spending on alternative power source, a source to 425 billion Naira Disco's boycotted. I can't be second-class citizen, says Wike. Atiku begins Reconciliation Drive. Methodist privilege, others regrain freedom, 24 hours after abduction. Okorcha engages five S.A.N.s, court hears bail application today. And at the bottom of that front page, Obi would have been my presidential running mate, Kwankwa. So, legal sergeant killed my Inspector husband with sword widow. Disco's, Genco's, others revenue shuffle rises to 1.6 trillion Naira. Let's welcome, at this point, Chris Candy-Wando. Chris Candy-Wando, thank you very much for your time. Let's start with the stories on the front page of the punch newspaper. And one that is personal to me. His evidence, Dr. Samuel Kalu Uche, the privilege of Methodist Church Nigeria. His chaplain and also the bishop of Oweridas is finally being freed by doctors who picked them somewhere in Abya State day before. What are your thoughts on this? The chairing news. It's good that they have been released and we thank God for their safety. So, all the people that have been picked up and adopted or kidnapped in the past have now had a luxury of being released. Fresh in our minds are those that were kidnapped or adopted after the train attack along the Abuja-Kaduna route. And to now, just seeing videos of them they imagine from the forest and they are pleading for their life and begging for assistance so that they can be released. It's going to weeks, several weeks now, and it seems that we're not making any headway at the point. They gave the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to pay off or set to their request. But two days ago we heard that they have a back down on that and the negotiation we heard is taken on and it is believed that all adopted or kidnapped Nigeria as wherever they find themselves we have the opportunity of being released to their family. So, for me it's good news but that also brings to the serious problem we are having the security we are having Nigeria across but no longer in the north east or northwest but across Nigeria in the south south in the south east southwest and north central. Every part of Nigeria is being a threat at this time. If people are not safe when you get back off your house you don't know whether you come back safely. So, that to me is the question we are asking ourselves and if you put into play the promise I disconnected in 2015 one of the cardinal points which from his image in Nigeria is to make Nigeria safe that we say that we are in the same way as Nigeria is not that that is just a mirage at all true. The church had started asking its members and all well wishes for donations when it was revealed that the doctors of his grace doctor his eminence Dr. S. K. Uche had asked for 100 million now ransom to release him the bishop of Oweridauces and the the prelates chaplain. What do you think what does it say as far as you're concerned that the church had already started trying to put the money together very quickly. It goes to show that they don't have much trust in the security agencies because whenever your family member is kidnapped you're on your own when you report to the security agency yes they promise to do something at the end of it or you'll be told to go try as much as possible to negotiate with the bandits or kidnappers so that your ability will turn simply so they have taken it for granted that the only option for them is to raise this money and make sure that these people are released they're good enough they'll be released so nobody know whether any ransom was paid or whether it was the security agencies that secured the release but it was important in that the report is coming in that they'll be released and that to me is the is the good news there. All right let's go down to Port Hakot where ESOWK Governor of Rivers State arrived to a heroes welcome of sorts at the Port Hakot international airport Omagwa and he was he drove in a convoy motorcade triumphantly you will call it to the government house in Port Hakot what would have expected it would be scenes of you know sorrow anguish you know and a soba mood you know at the government house in Port Hakot or in Port Hakot but it was a it was a mood of defiance the governor of rivers state in a defined mood you know he alleges alleged betrayal he also said that he can't be a second class citizen in Nigeria he said that by his performance you know and the fact that he was able to take it all the way and take a ticket down to the wire he had passed a message to them you know he was referring to them what are your thoughts on wiki is um what he has had to say when after breaking his silence in Port Hakot following the pdp presidential primary oh for me um is a good um good one that um governor wiki finally has come out of the shock of the defeat at the pdp primary in Abuja don't forget he was one of the frontrunners in that contest and then i listened to some of his speeches i would just say that politically i thought that um government wiki is uh is a well-grounded politician and should know better uh but when i listened to his speech especially the one consigning south south governors who he said he never believed that we uh gang against him there if i would just look at it from the point i say probably governor wiki is a learner because in politics you can expect everything to happen don't think that uh you have it all all the you have the feed cover that as we say in law um is is either you you are living in fantasy or just believe that everything can happen in politics in politics 42 in fact 13 minutes is is as good as changing the dynamics of of any situation and we saw that at the um stadium in we have few minutes after uh his speech the governor of sokoto state who many believe is a very very trusted friend of uh govna wiki uh came out and announced his withdrawal and asked his supporters uh to vote for a large article but nobody saw that coming i think um govna wiki should be talking more about that than let me his fellow uh south south um govnas don't forget also the south that was a sad sad govna there uh govna udon um is uh from south south so what makes him believe that uh he has more rights to give from the south side than govna udon so but the fact is that i want to know i like about the way he has gone about his uh person after that loss in the way he's like organizing uh support for article article visited him yesterday this takes our k and your mom so that was that means our reconciliation is gone and pdp seems to be poised to again be unified doing that um primary um govna wiki said that even if he loses the primary that is going to support anybody uh that emerges and i think that is what he's trying to do so to me is a true party man and i hope that they will be able to reconcile themselves again they're self ready for 2023 all right you're saying he's a true party man and before we move on um part of his anguish was that uh some of the governors from the south south and southeast uh in the party uh sort of through their weight behind atikua bubukar there's a particular governor who's the my own management i'm sure you're aware who is said to have told his delegates from the state to vote for atikua bubukar and whose name is really i think at the top of the list as far as atikua's running mate is concerned possible running mate is concerned um uh you know what i'm talking about there was a southern governor's forum meeting in asaba delta state the backyard of this particular governor and they declared that they will support a southern presidency that was in may 2021 in july 2021 there was another meeting of southern governors in legos where they also signed a communique declaring that all 17 of them will support a southern president in 2023 elections so um and this communique was read by um roti mercari delu uh governor roti mercari so so if we k he has that some governors had meetings and he said it to tell the delegates from their state to support atikua how is he to feel kofi in politics there is no permanent friend what we have is permanent interest just like international relations so um uh governor vk should just go back and continue doing what is doing and governing the people of pipa state and giving the best of representation um is is calling on and uh calling on um people and castigating people but also what were the odd chances of wiki before the primaries wiki was going on a spree of the marketing most of the aspirants that is talk so much about atikua he went to anambra state and told anambra people that p to b was not electable it's a video i'm sure you must have watched that video he told them that he's not elected but he's just a waste of votes and so what do you expect when you go around the marketing people like yes his politics he has a bet you don't i believe that part of the problem of problem wiki probably would have gone more is because of the way he talks he talks he says it's from the heat that at times as a politician you have to be very very diplomatic in the way you talk and the way you address people so if you come out uh in a way a manner that people don't seem to trust you and believe that they cannot be able to trust this person it's a drug it's for me it's a trust deficit and that is what happened to him he has the capacity to be able to win but he was talking too much and talking down on a lot of people he saw what he said about the governor of um of um a state of basaki before that election so i do want them to back him it's not possible for them to do that so i thought that he would have just um stick to what he can do and what he can be able to represent and what he can do for nigeria rather than just going around and calling them and making us also that's in the self-cathedral but i believe he has lost he has lent his lesson and the next time he'll be able to behave more uh like an eddard as a politician which he is um he has moved on as he said and um he went on to say that uh those that betrayed him especially from the south side the nemesis will catch up with them well let's wait and see what happened but the pdp definitely is moving and i think we should be starting we should leave pdp and start looking at the pc uh which is already uh conducting his own screening um now uh the drama that trailed the e fcc's arrest of former governor of uh emo state senator rochers of groch hours is quite well documented um it was something close to what we see in the movies um the man has yesterday been arraigned before court uh where he was remanded in e of cc custody we told that uh he has engaged the services of not less than five senior advocates of nigeria um as the court had uh had from him today he'll be caught by hearing his bail application to see if he will be granted bail to be able to go home to his family what are your thoughts on that the charges against him are bailable they are bailable so he has a right to bail uh if the courts find the necessary to grant him a bail secondly also the fact remains that he had discussed a big court and that is um uh as part of his fundamental human rights as a citizen of nigeria when if you are arrested it is estimated that within 24 hours or 48 hours which are to court and the e fc system is between the writing uh is it in 2.9 billion or 3.1 billion now don't even know which one but the fact remains that uh rochers of grochers uh my former governor uh is having his day in court and it is for him there for him to be able to prove uh to the court that the allegations labeled against him uh were forced and were able to provide that evidence arrest on where to that he also he also going to court or he has also instituted an action against the attorney general of the federation and the federal government over his arrest let's see how this pans out today the court will be hearing um this case once again and application for bail and i think that uh that application if granted we allow him to go home today i'm probably participate in the screening of um the presidential as far and across the e pc has just marked a mark two days for that yesterday and today about 12th we are screening yesterday i think and the many may be screened today and i'll wait if he misses that then i don't know whether they're going to go a special uh screening time period for him if not that means he's going to start from the um presidential primaries of the e pc but the good thing is that um he is having his day in court but for me as an animal life it is high time that we continue to uh look as our leaders and wherever they find themselves believe that tomorrow there's only a bit tomorrow when you are there as a governor or senator or whatever you believe that you are only all forgetting that tomorrow we'll have a say in my place that hd may hd may means that tomorrow is pregnant and nobody knows what is going to do or whether he's going to be a baby a girl or a baby boy even a steamboat nobody's not he's only got that note so but it's good that um he's been brought to court to answer uh to some allegation on um alleged fraud against my state and let's see how this goes i like the way you put it my state nobody's nobody's dry like you say like you say nobody's dragging your state with you you can have it to yourself all right um uh let's take a politics uh the front page of the uh the point kinesipa has a little story talked at the bottom left corner where the presidential candidate of the new nigeria peoples party and former governor of um uh carno state rabbi musa quankosu is saying that obi would have been my presidential running mate in a party try to you know um try to woo obi with some online posts and all that and the expectation was that he would join them but people were asking if he joins them what will happen because uh quankosu is there already and now the man is saying obi would have been my running mate is quankosu crying over spilled milk and you know i mean the man has already won the labor party presidential ticket so what's the hula balu about i watched that interview live last night on one of the last night and i was just smiling uh he's trying to pick obi thinking of picking obi at his vp yes i knew that there were a talk uh he had a talk with obi really will be left um pdp and when he was talking about semen why will obi be his why not him also being the vp of what gives him the pressure that is more popular than pito or is it because he's you know the the fact that you are doing of a party or instead of a party does not necessarily mean that he must be the presidential candidate of that party and that is the problem we always had in nigeria so for me uh it was laughable uh for quankosu that i said yes you might say that he's popular but if i look at it i don't think that nationally that's my personal opinion i with the weighties are going and the kind of support that is growing for p2p i don't think that quankosu is more popular than p2p presently i may be wrong yes he's popular in canton states um where he was a former governor don't forget he was a former governor he was a former senator he was a former minister for defense but that in this state does not make necessarily mean um and i don't know uh universally accepted as the best um the the top breakdown and um i think to be moved on and it was yesterday that he was unanimously uh uh elected uh at the primaries of labor party as the presidential candidate of the labor party and the people like professor patz who told me step down for him and one of the uh people will be at least moving on it's voting the flag of labor and let's see how a npp also come but that quankosu we get the presidential ticket of his party uh but there is going to be a lot of really uh realignment in politics of canton states with nmpp uh you see that um uh quankosu and shekara or since our close run to be able to face the tsunami called apc in the state developed with foreign governor of kanosu and which is why two of them came together and see whether i can raise so power out of the hood of apc on 2022 we are watching and looking and all right we are watching and looking you say let's go over to more papers from other newspapers and uh uh with um the daily independent it has this uh headliner tico's emergence pressure on pdp chairman iu to resign um we can't activate that now that agreement now says governor uh jimmy abadji so i'm just gonna leave it at that why would you know why would it be expected that iu should resign because tico emerged yesterday there was a video of him visiting a leading delegation to visit amin utambual and uh he called at amin utambual the hero of the of the convention well uh i think in that way the pdp is kind of really much now uh because the pressure was initially when they had convention in 2020 last year it was the end of this year and to elect the uh chairman of the their political party the pressure was that the uh the president of the chairman will be not why is the presidential ticket will be zoned to the south but when he turned out he said that that was just a thing for whatever is it and um now you have a presidential candidate and a chairman of a national chairman of the party coming from the same that had never happened before so even if he did he must be for a short period so pdp's will be looking at that at the point that we have before even the primaries we will say that the chairman said we know it's an irrespective of whoever where it nonprofits which is going to be a very very tough call for the people to know and never the the ratio of of sharing this uh political of you have always been the presidential candidates will not come from its own place with a national chairman so we are waiting to see whether the ap sorry the pdp with uh by this time allow the uh a national chairman who is from the north from Benoist to step down in order to make sure that uh somebody from the south takes over the leadership or whether the uh pdp we go ahead with this current uh formula uh to work uh 2023 but is a very very tough call for some concern all right um your kinsman uh former deputy um your kinsman and former deputy senate president ek kwe madhu he is shopping for a new party according to what we hear um and we're hearing he's met a brick wall at apc so we have a headline from the daily independent ek kwe about the shops for party meets brick wall at apc and it was quite a surprise to uh see that he could not make it in the pdp in enigo state we also were equally shocked to see what happened to inaya abari be the two ranking senators and two leading politicians from the southeast uh your thoughts on the political 14s of ek kwe madhu having to leave the pdp and trying to join the apc and still finding it difficult is it is it over for him just a i don't know whether it's true you know in the press we in the media guys journalists have a way of grabbing and seeking attention to our papers and it's just for for easy means i don't see a ek kwe madhu moving or going to pick up the ticket of of apc don't forget that if you have had the body of own uh primaries and they've already picked their candidates for senate for senatorial seat and what you need for the governorship so uh i thought that yes he made a brick wall uh he contested for the governorship of the state and he lost and i don't believe that senatorially also he lost and that have been that ek kwe madhu has been seen it for how many years about five times i don't know i can remember now and since since 2003 sorry he's been there since 2003 exactly that's what i'm saying well you can imagine the number of uh it's not like um abari be abari be is a bit lucky because um after he lost that uh uh he he lost where they have become in the governor of um adia state he moved to apia and he was going to pick up a senatorial seat not even governorship that he was i am and now he'll be scoring that art in 2023 i guess the current governor uh it uh okay say a thousand of the dpa senate so it's an interesting time that i told you that in politics uh earlier when i said that in politics there's no family affair where you have a serious interest and to me as a person it was the level of selfishness of our leaders the the fact that they want to remain relevant some of them don't even have a job again all they do is politics so if you lose an election or promise whatever if you know that you are well done come back to your business and continue it does not end that you will be a politician that is why we are policy that politics should be seen as a part-time job so that people don't think it as a put time but here they've taken it as a put time job and that is what i'm saying but interesting time ahead in 2023 interesting times indeed um let's go over to the leadership this morning the leadership newspaper and uh it has passed some space uh for uh the apc presidential uh screening as it's ongoing yesterday 11 uh aspirants screened out of 23 accuse said today more expected to be screened them uh we heard yesterday that dr goodlock jonathan's name was not part of the 23 names to be screened the three aspirants to be screened but um uh a headline from the leadership says despite presidencies denial of course president bowyer had to come out to deny uh that he was supporting or pushing a jonathan agenda says despite presidencies denial jonathan may be screened today we were told yesterday the man was in italy is this possible that he'll be screened today by the apc the last time i checked he posted out uh is a man in italy so i don't know how somebody that is it me would bet the 30 he flew in this month from it that is one two when the apc released the name of uh uh candidates to be screened the goodlock jonathan's name was not there also didn't see the name of uh not central bank they were not there as well so to me i think that is a workload already best um except if you see he is going to give you some love with the man has come out to say consistent with that um didn't think the form probably some people picked for him and uh he has not come out categorically to say whether he has done apc or whether it's going to be a candidate or an aspirant for apc in this presidential election the man has not come out categorically to say all you have been saying is oh i'll make my views known and rest if the screening ends today and the name of the kofi also remember that during the pdp primary on saturday if you look at the program of event the name of goodlock jonathan was very very prosperous you could see the picture as in which means that he has not left pdp he has not there's no evidence to show that goodlock jonathan uh is no longer a member of if you're not going to be a member of the party you will come out to say and from what we've had you have not come come out to say that so you cannot be a member of pdp and apc at the same time is not possible so uh for me uh it's not that he's not there the president have come out to you know that they are part of this uh attempt to bring him in what jonathan what abolish as is that what did goodlock jonathan as asorok has been back to uh to pick knowing what the apc uh leaders of apc did in 2015 it was called clueless it was called also manner of names i was told that uh he's not worthy of being a president so hope i stand between 2015 and 2022 i don't know if he will ask me interesting very interesting deal and that's uh the much we can take right here on this segment but uh christ k and i want to thank you very much for your time thank you very much for having me and you're helping me here all right thank you very much time to take a break and uh we'll look at what 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