 Welcome to the breakfast and plus the air for care. It's time for us to take you through the pages of a national dailies And we have GD Johnson who joins the conversation. It's good to have you join us this morning GD Johnson Good morning messy. Good morning. The coffee and good morning to all our peers all about the world. Good morning Mr. Johnson, thanks for joining us. All right, let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this Friday morning and the attention would be on the top caption or top Pedder this morning and the fastest the adult treated fuel crisis blame game continues queue refuse to go away and A lot of persons are asking why up until this morning. You still have cues in Lagos. We're looking at the leadership newspaper this morning and President Muhammad Buhari still consulting on electoral bill presidency. Yes We're looking at the leadership newspaper and that's what you find and the way from that you also have CBN Bank as committee plan $200 billion income from non or export So it feels like the conversation I and Kofi has been having this morning the issue of revenue generation is big and You know the government will go any length to ensure that that happens 2023 presidency not not threatened by a carry do lose warning And that's also another one you find and just before move away NMPC Sahara group flag of 17 kilometer road construction in a dorset Zulam six political solution to insorgency. These are the headlines on the leadership newspaper Let's head straight to the punch newspaper now with the following headlines or your bullion Vano Robbers in the Google gunman Kale five policemen others. He has the following riders Ibadon Motorcyclist commuters shot. That's the punch newspaper Ibadon motorcyclist killed commuters shot hoodlums cut away cash motorists flee three policemen manning integral checkpoint killed POS man shot and a woman abducted really worrying stories As far as the security in the nation is concerned We look at most stories from the punch newspaper at the top of that page Front page petrol transporters gradually halt operation over low freight rates and it's almost like adding insult to injury Details on page 22 petrol transporters Gradually halt operations over low freight rates more headlines from the punch CBN to stop for exile to banks by December targets $200 billion non-oil exports and only God knows where the banks are going to get their USD from Electro bill National Assembly cup its Malami over self-interest comment Electro bill National Assembly cup its Malami over self-interest comments and reps quiz finance Ministry for 17 point or 17 billion NARA unapproved spending you know the amounts of money we're hearing I'll keep hearing in the on the papers Leaves you wondering Reps quiz finance ministry for 17 billion NARA unapproved spending more from the punch NNPC may spend 200 and 1 billion NARA to clean 170.25 million liters of dirty fuel My god interesting very interesting NNPC may spend 201 billion NARA to clean 170.25 million liters of dirty fuel The writers of that story Buhari orders service providers to compensate aggrieved fuel consumers reps demand MRS Oando others suspension and NNPC customs face probe stories or details of that on-page 2017 more from the punch Quara PDP disagree over take on take-off state buildings over debt rep remanded over 185 million NARA for one nine case bail application fails Driver backs life jail for raping unilog women or society school people Really sad one there presidency Tamboil meets Kaduna Katsina stakeholders laments deep division Students protests suspect named as awaiting copper ocean motorcycle is killed and finally and the early aces Two billion NARA drug in containers from India at Lagos port. These are stories coming on the front page of a punch Let's move away from the punch and you speak with this morning and take a look at the daily independent The banner caption reads adulterated fuel suppliers must be held accountable And that's according to the president of the federal Republic of Nigeria You have three riders underneath tell foreign diplomats not to interfere in local politics reps probe NNPC son custom orders over bad petrol and You also have the Britannia you Folds inclusion in importation of toxic fuel. That's what you find 2023 presidency song will or Lou urges APC leaders to unite for to know boo and 30,000 terrorists have surrendered to the military. That's what governor Zulem is quoted to say NDLE a intercepts 40,000 250 kilogram codeine worth two billion NARA at ports That's the Lagos port and Zamfra assembly acts the chief judge to raise panel to investigate deputy governor and You also find God's raising young leaders to rewrite Niger's history the P F N president is quoted on that Buhari consulting over Reamended electrobial. That's what the aid is quoted to say and the CBN targets 200 billion dollars in Forex repatriation with five key anchors. That's it on the daily independent Let's round things up With round things off rather with a look at the headlines on the front page of the nation newspaper Toxic petrol firms NNPC in raw as Buhari orders sanctions toxic petrol firms NNPC in raw as Buhari orders sanctions is Interesting day the nation doesn't go with the term Adulterated but using the the word toxic. It has a following writers consortium faults oil giants Indactment a president gives directive on compensation of victims Another headline or more headlines from the nation a newspaper are lawmakers wrong to initiate electoral act amendment says Inic lawmakers wrong to initiate electoral act amendment says Inic bands lose access to CBN's forex cash With the writers RT 200 policy takes effect 2023 diaspora remittances hits hundred million dollars per week. It's quite interesting and bottom of that front page empty and pays balance For 5g license can we APC factions to reconcile at the top of that front page? Boko Haram's and is near says Zulum 30,000 terrorists surrender a seat rider to that headline federal lawmakers angry over flight delays Airlines to be summoned rider to that headline 18 Zamfra lawmakers vote for deputy governor sack details on page 7 and I a false x agf's claims on sack AG DG that's acting DG details on page 3 and We have Niger to pay for information on terrorists and finally troops recover 2 million liters of crude more of such stories. We have details Inside the nation is right now turning our attention to G.D. Johnson chief lecturer in the Nigerian Institute of journalism. Mr. Johnson quite interesting The headlines we're seeing coming on the front pages today. Let's start with the The security situation in some parts of the country as highlighted by the punch newspaper and the or your bullion van Heist and we have also an Inugu. We hear Three policemen manning a checkpoint have been killed a POS manshot in New York in their situation to policemen lost their lives And one motorcyclist we call our car a rider also lost his life affordably your thoughts on that Well, it's It's an indication of what is wrong entirely will be political economic and social Systems that we have and the people are pressured and When government does not meet the basic need of people people are forced to engage in criminal criminal hearts When there's a collapse of the social political and economic system the question you ask yourself is how we seen mine Go and them attack the bullion burn and Attract the bullion burn and think that some if you not affect the The life of others that are surrounding that particular that particular is it's a story that we found ourselves in this situation It's a sorry. It's a sorry state that you have People committing aist on the road and putting the lives of other people in danger. Well, it's a failure on the part of the The organizations that are moving their money in providing adequate security from Moving from movement of their money. That's one tune. It's a failure on the part of the states Improvising a decision adequate security for people to go about Transacting their business and people to go about the animal life. So you said failure is a systemic systemic failure and I don't know me the soul of those that lost their life unfortunately resting perfect peace and those that were involved in the crime media Long arm of the law caught up with them and ensure that justice is done And we don't have this type of sorry situation and so this situation in our country All right, GD Johnson. Let's also look at the issue of adult treated Fuel and the crisis surrounding it according to the leadership newspaper this morning the blame game continues and the Cues refused to go away Well, you know for the past three days. I've not driven my car And I actually part of it open on a card and then not pay to go to wherever I want to go because one I can't struggle to buy for it. I'm paying for the service I'd why should I struggle to to pay for services that someone is offering it's it's it's it's it's Unfortunate that them they don't care about us whether private and business owners or even government To if you buy the four you go to traffic So he's suffering and smiling like fella like fella said and the clean game continues outcome We have different agencies of government. We are paying a V a VM Subsidy on this petroleum products. There are agencies of government that are meant to ensure quality control and to ensure that what comes in meets up with in standard and The they have lost checks and balances and the president is just ordering a given directive You know before we go to the state some some head would roll some should have accepted responsibility In order to climb the minister of petroleum will have resigned and the minister of petroleum in Nigeria is the president The NNPC the NNPC chairman will have resigned but you have a situation where by allegedly the NNPC chairman himself As the private operating company that are charged with the responsibility of him for them for now You see the clean game is going on because sanction has not been applied What was expected that from from from from from a normal administration from a normal system is that on Monday? Who's that a couple people have been sent on suspicion the NNPC? chairman will have gone on suspicion pending investigation And all other ideas of government that are involved in the importation of petroleum product They've gone on possession but since we have crude in our thinking since we have a crude System because God give us one of the best crude oil But we don't we find that crude oil we export those crude oil to foreign countries And then those are refined a product they determine the price which would be for the crude oil And then the refined product they also determine the price which they said the crude oil draws and Now they determine good prices We are their messy and some people that are making money out of subsidy or no subsidy because we don't even know through position They are important to Nigeria and the Twitter for some people are committing economic crime They should go to do these are the people that a fc should be going after but you don't see a fc going after this one Yes, you rather be jumping into a test looking for y'all y'all boy people that are just committing small infraction small economic infraction In front different people I do not approve of that in any case. However serious economic crime crime against humanity Crime against the nation, you know cfc this type of issue now I think is where fc should going but rather they won't go into this one They'll be looking for political cases because this is a serious economic crime It's a serious economic crime. It's meant to destroy the economy of Nigeria Is involved is committing sabotage and sabotage such people that are involved in in this in this M In this annual crime should be prosecuted because they are trying to bring that a government Because if you collapse the economy of the nation you collapse the politics you collapse this with the society What are you trying to do? Just to add to that you know and the punch has today reported is today reporting that I'm the NMPC may and I hope we underline that what may spend 201 billion narrow to clean 170 point two five million liters of dirty fuel and how does that make how does that make you feel The money to establish fine idea. They have the resources of cleaning. What is the essence of the refinery? You know to clean and process the crude oil into various and products that will require now You see another have any for them. They should drop before somewhere. You don't need it in Nigeria Why would they clean it? Why would they spend money? You could see the game You could see the cycle the cycle of corruption now the question, you know coffee while I was talking I said What is this true situation about subsidy payment and subsidy removal? Nobody seems to know The more you look the less you see is an abacadabra situation now They will spend that amount of money to clean for who on whose account Who is paying for it? Yet government is complaining that they don't have resources Let them go ahead So one of the things is still very I mean Constant is the fact that the cues have reached refuse to go away as being put off by the leadership And that's the reality because if you move around, you know, so so Because I'm asking in the sense what what would the people do now? What's going to happen because we're also here the NMPC saying that we're going to make this product available and then I took I took a gun to drive to drive out and I saw for you know what I bought the foil I bought it one night 90 per liter That's how much I bought the foil now. Let's come To to we as Nigerians the people operating the first actions the moment they hear any major Rumor with respect to something affecting the supply chain of petroleum products in Nigeria What happens they shut down their station and They start selling on pump if they are 20 pumps if they are 10 if they have six If they have five or four the start selling one pump. That's not good. That's Nigeria the supply we have in Nigeria Manus that you're 24. He said no to service for the next one month, but Being exploitative as we are the government exploit the people the business people in ideas will exploit the people It is a downtrodden that suffers most in Nigeria And you know the same that says that went to a different fights. It is the grass and That suffer now you have to say this question What we come up upon a first station to step up selling one to dispense it for a from one pump We are at the agencies of government An agent of government that needs to go around and money to her whether this first station Actually half way and they are not dispensing to Nigerians. Now. They made you hear any slightest rumor affecting the supply chain. We are the messy of Private individuals operating their business and exploiting Nigerians apart from government and you see these people today. They will go to mugs to pray for human service and on Sunday you see them going to church on Sunday to pray to God and I think God to solve Nigerian problem I think God to intervene Not knowing that they are the devil themselves that need to change their mind and stop exploiting Nigerians And I've said it if it is by prayer if it was going to mugs or by going To church now you should have any problem, but unfortunately and We have more problems because the people themselves we the Nigerian people We have fought apart from the government those operating their business and running their business At every slightest opportunity want to exploit fellow Nigerians and it's unfortunate and you have PPMC and Agency of government under the presidency that you go around and monitor and nobody's monitoring I told you I paid 190 someplace. They sold it 200 And nobody and they they are people that are selling for that's why you see the key Because if all these four stations are dispensable for from all their pumps, you will stick you Okay, maybe so Johnson interesting I wish you had time to look at into the fact that the the authorities are lying to Nigerians starting with the Nigerian Mistrum and downstream petroleum regulatory agency that put out a statement at least with lies You know for instance telling Nigerians and methanol was a regular additive to fuel But it's added in in small quantities and all that and and we mean we know it's not regular to add it You know in terms of the specification for Nigerian cars or cars in Nigeria or telling Nigerians that you know you had a limited number of of Petrol affected when it was actually more than 300 million liters and But we'll find time to talk about this some more in the future But let's go back to the contentious a reworked electoral bill that 11 days after being submitted to Mr. President's table and that green pen has not touched the white paper and Signature and Bwari has not been signed on it yet 11 days and what we is hearing in the papers for instance in the leadership newspaper and in the The daily independent is that a present Bwari is consulting over the electoral bill as far as An aid is concerned and aid revealed to the papers that he's consulting over the electoral bill It's coming from the senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters now yesterday a book a Malamala me the All about any general and minister of justice who was the one who gave legal advice to the president the first time this Amendment was passed and sent to the president and he said that The only reason why or if they bill is based on self-interest or selfish interest then it will not be signed And today we're hearing the punch national assembly carpet smell me over self-interest comment or selfish interest comments And what are what are your thoughts on that because the elections are meant to hold on February 18 2023 Let's let's just oppose that with what I next said In the nation newspaper when I next said it's wrong for lawmakers to initiate electoral bill amendment Now I think it's a major Stakeholder if I the critical stakeholder in the electoral act now and it is just waking up to tell us that it is wrong What initiative did I make or what presentation did they make to the national assembly? There are public Year in respect to this amendment you didn't make their representation another critical stakeholders I'm so on since the president is consulting the president is consulting who? the critical stakeholders in the democratic project of Nigeria One the lawmakers themselves the political parties the electorates And I neck now if you ask another Nigerian if you do an opinion poor You do a straw poor and then you see what's the view of an average Nigerian with respect to the passage of the electoral Electro be into an act of the parliament with the president standing into it You know that me judge of Nigerians and his support of it if you ask the national assembly members Who actually involved in they are interested in it? Who are the stakeholders the party system? I keep asking myself question. There's something dysfunctional about a PC a PC Contrudes the national assembly a PC is the party in the presidency now a PC is the party in power Now it is a PC Late national assembly that passed the electoral act in the first instance the president did not ascend to it It is a PC late national assembly that passed the amendment listening to comments left right and center Now the president and the attorney general is saying that the president consult the media It is saying the president is consulting who and then the attorney general that should advise the president With respect to providing illegal framework for us having an election in 2023 I know use a document that was passed in 2011 to run an election in 2023 That is saying that they are doing for We know the governors are also interested in this and have you know paid visits to as a rock as well Maybe that could be another block even a PC governors are opposed to to some clauses in the reworked bill And then that's why I said something is dysfunctional with a PC as a party There's what is called if you look at the party structure of any political party Yes, what is called the national caucus of the party the national caucus is made up of the leadership of the national assembly the president The president governors elected on the platform of the party that's the national caucus now the question you ask So I think governors from each of the geopolitical zone the question you ask yourself is produced by the party When was the first time or the last time a PC at their national caucus to amunize their interest So that they all work in tandem with one purpose and we will go National assembly will not be going in the wrong direction The governor's will not be going in another direction and the president's will not be going in another direction So we see that it's like they are a ruderless ship without direction And as a result of that they are creating chaos and confusion when I try with respect to the passing of the you I still can't comprehend and I'm not yet You've been able to come to terms with the fact that the electoral The the sign in the assent of the president electoral act will be dramatized this long Whatever inputs the president wants to make yes, it's into the national assembly He's laughing officer to the house of rep and to the Senate now They could have passed in whatever input the presidency want to put into the electoral Before we get to this stage of this drama and then the attorney general could have Related with the national assembly on this matter and the national assembly will have sent the bill to the office of the The the the attorney general for his input before they actually passed the bill so that they are monies all of this But what do we have is an enlightening service is not even a light is safe interest Mr. Johnson, we have about 369 or 368 days Till till the elections in 2023, you know, we just about have about eight Days before we get into or seven days rather before we get into the 18th of February I like needs to release electoral timetable and you do you suspect that it may not happen? This bill may not be signed in time and I like myself well We've been waiting. Nothing has done so we can't use this new law. We'll have to kick it down the road till next election Those that come up with representative democracy and the system of government our practice Ensure that in such a situation they are checks and balances the president is not signed the bill Why can't the national assembly override the president with a two-third majority across why? That's the principle of checks and balance. Why can't they? Why can't they override the president better? Do they are if they really love Nigerians and if they truly believe in the bill that they've passed They should override the president with the two-third vote and then let's have an enabling law a guy's election All right, G.D. Johnson. Thank you so much for your thoughts this morning Always an interesting time listening to you share your thoughts on some of this national issues We look forward to having more of you on the show We appreciate your time as always And we may see and thank you coffee. Have a wonderful weekend And that's the size of the package for the off-the-press would definitely return with off-the-press and Monday We will be taking a look at what happened today in history being the 11th day of February and when we return We'll be time for a first major conversation while we look at women girls in science and technology Please stay with us