 Welcome back. It's still the breakfast in Plasti. We have got now time to look at the stories of the pages on National Daily. Of course, G.D. Johnson has been a regular on this segment. He joins us again. He's a senior lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. Mr. Johnson, good morning to you. Good morning, Kofi and good morning, Messy. Good morning to our viewers all over the world. Fantastic. And them back to you and to everyone of us. Thank you very much. Let's start with the stories of the headlines coming on the front page of the nation newspaper. With a big one, they've been sticking with the APC crisis for the past few days. And today is no different. Bouni malami emefili to confer with Buhari in UK. The following writers, Yubey Governor Sani Bello differ on transfer of functions. Tiribu Party should remain democratic. Party should remain democratic. I don't know what's going on there. But a certain letter popped up yesterday, purportedly from Mai Malabouni, handing over the party temporarily to Governor Sani Bello while he goes to Dubai to treat himself. Is this a code data? Eleven killed in Kaduna Berwe Bandit's Gunmen Raids. Sad one. Umahi Begg's judge gets order to stay. Excitement as Ulubado is installed finally. Bank suspend ATM POS transactions abroad. And of course we have more stories from the nation newspaper. Amma wins beauty pageant in prison. Lager suspends NURTW activities. APC needs 21 day notice to change Bouni says Ainec and declines invitation to parties neck meeting. Jam won't extend UTIME registration and PDP's neck meeting to hold March 15. The headlines on the front page of the nation. Away from the nation newspaper. Let's take a quick look at the punch and find out what the punch got to say this morning. 208 court cases threatened the APC convention. It's really, really sad and unfortunate. And a lot of people have been questioning whether or not the APC convention slated for the 26th of March would definitely happen as Bouni fights back. That's what you have. 208 court cases threatened the APC convention. Bouni fights back. Nine cases challenging the interim panel seek indefinite postponement. Bouni yahu-yahu governors against APC progress. Akiridulu is quoted. And Yube governor wrote Bello to act while abroad for treatment state letter. That's also another writer there. Another one says the jet A1. Airlines allege. Rakuten. The NCA may ground plane soon. Talking about the fact that the airlines might probably just shut down the operation. And a lot of people that has turned a lot of Nigerians to serious panic. Federal government seeks U.S. funding for gas supply to Europe amid Russia boycott. Nominist kick is a boycott. Others might retain seat. You also have Russia Ukraine. High food fuel prices in Nigeria. Others says the international monetary fund. It feels like the international monetary fund is very concerned with Nigeria. And Nigeria might not be in her leaders. Not even understanding what's going on in the country. PDP plans peace panel over a door crisis ice 2023 victory. That's also another one. And just before we move away. We can see disseminated 30,000 Boko Haram e-sorp fighters. Surrounded in SGF. Workers more sack self. Workers more sack self centered professional politicians in 2023. That's what the NLC is saying. And justice were looking at the punch again shortly before. Move away please. There is NURTW. And with those members. That's serious. Okay. Please arrange panic. There is a strange why for alleged cyber crime. And this is some of the headlines on the punch this morning. Let's turn attention to the headlines on the front page of the Daily Independent. They are studying and highlighting aviation sector challenges with a big headline. We may shut down Nigeria's airspace NCAA boss once. Aeon laments aviation fuels Kesty rejects marketers blackmail. Jet A1 climbs to 700 naira per litre. Nape warns it may cripple the economy. What is happening to Nigeria. Don't test the patience of Benware people or Tom warns herdsmen. Another six persons killed in fresh herders attacks. Don't vacate your offices. Court tells Umahi deputy. A Boeing speaker 14 others file appeal. Stay of execution over SAC. Ogum Assembly misappropriated 700 million naira. Forge the OBJ companies document. EFCC alleges. That's an interesting one. PDP gets judgment date. In suit to SAC Zanfarah governor. Others April 8 holds neck meeting Tuesday. And it's the same judge who that case is before COVID-19. Nigeria among 35 countries were one in every four household staffs. NNPC worried us communities shift loyalty to informal security operatives. Why APC may not hold March 26 national convention. And that rider a rider to that headline. Only Yahoo Yahoo governors are with Boone says. Finally NURTW suspends Lagos MCO Luomo indefinitely. Well he seems to have also suspended them in Lagos. Those are the stories coming up on the front page of the daily independent. Well away from the daily independent news this morning. Let's take a quick look at the Nigerian Tribune. Looking at the front page of the Nigerian Tribune convention crisis. Yahoo Yahoo governors back Boone occurred to Luo alleges. And if the president I mean you have some reports saying. The president has sucked you know the ketika committee. Which of course was led by Boone doesn't mean the president is part of. The Yahoo Yahoo system. Anyways you find as Boone letter transferring to Bello's offices. I did not get any letter from Boone Bello. After seven years of APC in power. Tunubu says we still have a lot of work to do. Yahya Bello showed of APC in Nigeria. That's what the senate president is quoted to say. Aviation fuel you have the airline saying. We may shut down nations airspace. As reps you also find reps blow hot. On cattle operating in aviation sector. And then PC says there's enough product. Russia Ukraine war taking toll on our businesses. That's what net two major marketers cry out. It says diesel on affordable. And just before we move away. Passengers stranded as a bad on Lagos train runs out of diesel. And NURTW suspend MCO Luoma. That's also another one. We are no longer members of NURTW. It applies. Thaitin the CP Thaitin security in Lagos. Wives of Kaby slain soldiers attack commanding offices. Residents. These are some of the headlines this morning on the Nigerian Tribune. Well, it's time for us to have GD Jonson join the conversation this morning. Good morning GD Jonson. It's good to have you join us. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning Mese. Good morning. Good morning to you as a lover of the world. GD, let's leave it open to you. Now, which of the headlines. I mean, today seem to be very interesting. Very talk top, which of them caught your attention as we went through the pages of a national dailies. The APCRs of commotion. um that um it's it's it should call for concern for everyone of us that but not only apc even ptp um the two media parties upon which will be public administration in 2023 none of it could put his own house in order and it's instructive and it's interesting that if someone cannot take care of his domestic affair he's not given the responsibility of managing the community affair and that's what we are witness we have seen parties not having respect for the constitution of their own party the media fabric upon which they build their values and their principle and from 1999 to date we have seen that and we have seen that someone that does not have respect for the for the values for the principles for the ethos of its party deals the basic foundation that establish it as a party with levity treat it as if it does not exist and then you want to entrust the responsibility of managing what constitute the Nigerian nation into such and that's why we have seen different degrees of level of infinity any party that does not have come respect for the constitution of his party will not have respect for the constitution of Nigeria we guess into power it's very very clear and we have seen that character as impart and parcel of pdp we have seen that character demonstrated by apc in the last in the last in the last several years that they have been impart that even the alleged national leader of the party is saying that they don't have democratic democratic principle so it's it's it's rather rather rather unfortunate in the first instance there's no provisions in apc constitution for ecartica committee one two they have that arrangement because at the time so shame only was however two years plus down the line apc has not been able to hold his convention has not been able to hold convention that a bunina transmit letter there's no provisions within the constitution that talks about if the chairman is excused if the chairman of the ecartica committee and has started out nine national executive committee is exiting this is the arrangement which we have in place so he's now transmitting letter to to to belu to go from buni to belu that okay i want to go abroad for medical treatment so you take over from me but under normal circumstances if you have an arrangement we are by the head or the chairman of the committee is from the north the deputy usually comes from the south so if you have a democratic arrangement if you have a nice arrangement the person that you take over from buni shouldn't be somebody from the north but somebody from the south because since it's a house of commotion and most most of the people that are in my generation will understand one of these drama series which was fuji house of commotion so we are seeing politics house of commotion both in pdp and in apc and it is not good for our policy that in the two parties upon which we will build our public administration because let's not deceive ourselves there's no other party that win the election in 2023 with the exception of either apc or pdp these are the two parties that all the majors actors converge and that itself is to give a lot of concern for night in a do in a do state they are pdp setting up a p spanner to look into a do crisis there is a crisis in ocean state pdp are the spamaries in ocean state for pdp in ocean state it produce two candidates when are we going to i was talking to a friend who happens to be a senior journalist and i told you now one of the things we need i need to do is to remove the issue of substitution or no substitution or why should you substitute the candidate once you have done the permaries the candidate should emerge from the permaries what you can have is replacement and that should be in the case of death that should be the only base that you can only replace once you have done the permary and i think as witness the permaries you have picked your candidate you cannot substitute okay candidate give us an interesting um with the state of the nation as it is um you see the party uh they are all progressives congress who is the ruling party in the government like you said is not able to put its house in order maybe the way the economy the way the country is security you know and uh and denier and everything is just a reflection of the chaos in the party because the economy is in chaos right now we'll look at the evasion sector so go on let's stay with the crisis in the party uh let's look at this headline boolee malam boolee malami uh emefele to confer with buhari in uk boolee malami emefele to confer buhari uk that's on the front page of the nation newspaper by the way so the governor of a nigerian state who left the country to go to dubai to go and seek medical treatment he's saying he will fly from dubai to london to meet the president of nigeria who left nigeria to go to london to treat himself uh how bizarre is that jide johnson it's funny that you are having the central bank gobno and then the i don't care if boolee goes to see buhari or you are having the central bank gobno and you are attorney general of the position bigger as the president himself said by proclamation that all activities relating to governors has been handed over to the vice president where you see the situation you have by the attorney general which some people in some sudden quarters are have accused of being um the stumbling block in the wheel of progress of managing the party and of managing the nation going to what are they going to see the president for the vice president is here in nigeria they could discuss whatever they want to discuss if indeed the president has gone for medical rest of a medical on medical trip why are they going to london to disturb him so we have transferred governor governors from nigeria to to to to to for buhni's case we need us to see the president because buhni himself lost out in the power play that is happening within the apc for create the loop the governor of the governor of london state and then the former mb president to have accused some of the pd some of the apc governors that are supporting buhni to be yaw yaw it is very very instructive for him to have used that term that it is yaw yaw apc governors that are submitting so those are those ones committing um opinion money by fraud or are they involved in what them us puppy so we have us puppy like governor quote unquote in in in nigeria and then we have them in apc and they sit in national executive committee of the apc and they manage their affairs of nigeria where the proof that you have yaw yaw citizen is a function of you have in yaw yaw yaw yaw yaw governor so you have yaw because what you have in in the studies reflection of the leadership so we have yaw yaw governor we have yaw yaw pastor we have yaw yaw yaw journalist well i don't know if best see myself fall into that category but i doubt we do i doubt we do yeah i understand i understand but you know it also is isn't the president to to blame you know in all of this sorry i'm using the blame word here uh because you remember last week called the upper week when he was meant to meet with the apc governors or i think it had the governors or one of the highest bodies in the party he didn't meet with them and instead hopped on the plane to go to kenya you know and in the midst of all the crisis in the country right now he's in london as if there's nothing going meanwhile his house is on fire also please respond to this headline still from the nation is repa apc needs 21 day notice to change boone says inek declines invitation to party's next meeting i don't know if you saw the letter popotli from boone i'm saying you know uh motherly stay in my state like come back and he also copied inek and so he's the governor who who is now the leader of the party he's saying he never received him later so your thoughts on first of all president boar had a question i asked and then this headline well i think that the president have left a lot of things undone with respect to the party one allowing the um and the catheter committees tend not to be extended and extended over extended over time that is antithetical to democratic norms and practices for you to have a catheter arrangement running the party now and that means that is if they could succeed in doing that they could have a catheter arrangement in running in running nigeria and you could see that with what is happening with eme fully and um mother me going to going to meet the the president in london to confer with me that that means that what we have in nigeria with the president have since the catheter arrangement that's my thought i might be wrong but it's my opinion and i'm entitled to my own to my own opinion um we're with with with with inek is you i don't think that inek has any papc could work around is just not technicalities you see that the issue of later popping up left and center now with booni seeing that it's going for medical treatment now we need if something should happen by first major or by the first major by which they don't have any control over will will the inek tell them to wait for for for 21 days for them to change so what they need to do is to tidy up the the documentation if if if a booni should resign today will inek tell them that any 21 days for them to change so apc could write inek and tell inek you know what we i think that em is what inek is just doing is grand standard is grand standing and is a voter face documentation from apc will solve that problem and i think that if identified the problem it started it started the process by seeing that there's a letter from booni to billu although billu is denying that em there is a that letter from him because ourselves of that letter itself we show an arrangement of transference of power and if booni should come back if i want to get that power back and it leads to the issue of litigation and then we could see that apc itself is faced with a series of litigation there's a particular um headline which we read that 208 court cases trainings and apc conversion we have a situation whereby there are 72 state state state and state executive committees of the apc because in each state you have two we have two parallel two parallel conventions so if you have 72 that means that seven and seven 74 local governments times two and then if you go 774 local government and two if you do that arrangement and we see there's 10 watts per each of the local government that means we have close to about seven thousand um parallel executive at the what level um 774 times two at the at the local government level is a really great picture you know maybe you should make that 73 but because in aqua boob state they had three parallel uh congresses there and and and you begin to and you begin to wonder what's really happening that if a party cannot come together because the basic definition of political parties people that have similar interest share the same values come together to form a party under one ideology in order to contest election win a election and control government but if you have a situation whereby the party cannot cannot cannot come together to hold it then you have you have you have crisis isn't it this apc is not only a squeeze from this is affecting pdp too you have that arrangement in in in pdp and uh i think it's affected it's like you pointed out kofi the state of the economy because the parties that have meant they can't manage their own affairs it's like a man that cannot control his household and you want to make him to be the head of the community someone that has no control over his household he cannot take care of household you make him the head of the community we say this thing in local parlance we say charity begins at home he begins begins at home and we have seen that these parties the two parties but essentially it's apc we are looking at because it's the ruling party now cannot put their house cannot put their house in you know that is unfortunate and my advice to Nigeria let me just end this message please thank you my advice in Nigeria count 2023 is for us to look out very very well and elect somebody whose household is in perfect order we first look at what is the arrangement of that person in his household as a person and then in the party thank you messy you can come on because i've not heard your voice well let's take a look at the punch newspaper this morning it talks about the issues going around the aviation sector alliance to shut down operation over a few scarcity and that's what the punch is quoted to say now what what what do you really make of this i mean just yesterday we also have a sit we had a situation on the reports i mean the videos were actually viral because we had a real time reporting via you know those who were passengers on that particular train where diesel actually the train ran out of diesel heading from Lagos to Ibadan yeah well um if that had been an aircraft what do you think would happen to that aircraft you come down jida johnson do we still have you on the line crash it okay we probably seem to be having crashes and people may die because when the yeah i'm still sitting from the end messy can you hear me now we can hear you clearly go ahead with your thoughts i recall in 2012 when um it's like i said if if if if if that train had been an aircraft that would have been a crash and then we start investigation i wouldn't know that diesel is the cause of that crash of that of that of that airline and we are seeing a situation whereby a deteriorated fuel could end up being used to fly aircraft we are seeing the national civil aviation authority threatening to um to shut down the Nigerian airspace well technically the Nigerian airspace is shut down because the commercial airline operators can have access to diesel even if they have to jet fuel even if they have access to it can they afford it do we even know the nature of the fuel they are selling they are selling to them this is a major issue that we need to look to see is there's already a shutdown we could have had a shutdown of this program like i told you there's no light in my hood um there's no fuel and then um if not for nature would we have been able to connect with with this program so we have a shutdown the society is already shut down you could see that government is shut down because government has relocated to london the party is shut down because i think that that's some sarcasm coming from you there no no it's a shutdown no it's it's a shutdown it's a shutdown because things can't get done because power is concentrated in individual and not in system even when the president by proclamation says that i've handed over to the vice president and then the attorney general the chief law officer that should be the main enforcer of that is traveling abroad let's see it's it's it's unfortunate i thank god for the life of those people that were inside that tree that was not an airline it was an airline they will have come down in jesus name and then we will have put the nation in money for for for for for for human error grievous human error it's it's unfortunate some point i was making earlier on a trending topic segment was um what are the things about the railway industry in the country that is still in government hands namely the nigeria railway corporation and maybe we should be looking at privatizing it but jenna johnson talking about them all the issues be devil in the nation and we just pray that we can limp across the line into 2023 and maybe i'm sure you agree 23 can come faster for us to just have an end to the nightmare that we are going through sorry about the light situation in your area if we want to go into what the transmission company of nigeria is saying about the generating capacity of the country in terms of megawatts we have today that's another sad story but um on tuesday the convoy of the deputy governor of kb state was attacked and you're very aware of this um held in an exchange of gunfire godbattle with so-called bandits for over two hours these bandits um living with at least 19 security operators dead in their week today we're hearing on the front page of the punch in this paper uh ins insurgents decimated 33 000 boko oram and isaw fighters surrendered says sgf insurgents decimated 30 000 boko oram isaw fighters surrendered says sgf um maybe maybe would you say that this current increase in magnitude in the country may be taken away from the successes that the government is recording against boko oram because it seems like boko orama attacks have been reducing in the recent recent weeks now we are seeing is the is the secretary to the federal government is it the spokesperson for nigerian and defense is it the chief of defense staff is he within the poor view of his office to provide us with such information that's for me as far as i'm concerned it's a political statement when the information you are providing does not match up with the reality that you have on ground then we just share the story if the convoy of the deputy governor could be attacked and that was the convoy of the deputy governor of the state of the attorney general of the federation keby state and 19 security equities were abducted and then the following day the sgf is coming out to say that okay we have won the war those are just political statement as far as i'm concerned it's very very clear that we still have security security challenges that need to be dealt with we have a lot of disruption by non-state non-state actors if we will lead that to what is happening in lego state concerning nauti wu and non national nauti wu and then lego's nauti wu and government taking over the parks as far as those of us that are aware of that there is a security implications of that development and that's why a lot of people that are very very knowledgeable about how the nauti wu operates and the politics of the nauti wu we prefer a peaceful and amicable resolution of that problem because that's important crisis violence and mayhem into into into into lego's lego's community we've seen that and we we saw that some people are arrested because of violence in the demota and we have not had anything concerning that cases that that particular case we've seen in in ojo too in the last i'm talking about in the last one year so when you look at security security issues not limited to banditry alone kidnapping and all of that that has not been seriously dealt with and the sgf is just playing to the gallery to justify his appointment and his his patriotism masters as far as and having a joint concern is just is just playing your street but just before we let you go gd johnson uh we're looking at the tribune now where he talks about the fact that we're experiencing fioscracy and the i'm of his concern is saying that a lot will go on you also have marketers crying out that this conflict is going on with russian ukraine would really tell a lot on us i mean how did we get to this point really do did we do we really import from russia when ukraine and if you do don't we have neighboring countries we are not even uh we don't have such trading business with russia supplies 70 percent of the energy for germany russia supplies to america now i'm just putting it across to you now if you are russia you are a trader who would you treat with you treat with people to have naira or you treat with people that are heroes or dollars they can see whatever they want to see and they can play to the gallery without russia or no russia without the ukraine crisis we have already we have always had crisis in the energy sector if you are a major player and we are one of the best crude oil in in the world and then we can refine the product and we can tap in into what is happening globally if russia is supplying america and europe is america is putting section on russia this is the time we should tap into it and we should supply energy to germany and to other european countries that is that are highly dependent on russia but not we rather import our crude oil and we rather export our crude oil and import the finished product back to niger niger is really mission they actually want to supply gas to europe uh that they're asking for united states to provide funding for that as federal government exactly to provide funding for that and then you know where the funding will go to that's areas where they can borrow money you can borrow money for investment that's you make money back but you don't borrow money for infrastructure infrastructure that cannot be itself back but we have seen this government has borrowed money for for for for a lot of infrastructure you borrow money for investment when you borrow money for investment you will come back we have to go you pay back so i'm so sorry judy johnson i'm so sorry about the interruption about that time is not being on the side it's a great picture uh from the the the headlines today uh on the national deal is what you've done justice to them in your analysis judy johnson this year lecturer at the nigerian east of jensham thank you so much for your time sir it's a pleasure to be with you thank you very much and have a wonderful weekend all right thank you judy johnson and that's it on the papers this morning we will return on monday and just before then let's let you know what happened today in history