 You're welcome back. It's still the plus politics on plus TV Africa. The all-progressive Congress, APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has asked the presidential election petition court in Abuja to dismiss Peter Obi's petition, challenging Mr. Bola Tinugu's victory. Mr. Obi was the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He came third in the 25th of February presidential election. He and the Labour Party, who are co-partitioners, are seeking to upturn Mr. Tinugu's victory as Nigeria's president-elect. Tinugu, who was APC presidential candidate, polled 8.8 million votes to beat Attiku Abu Bakar of the People's Democratic Party, who came second in the race. Both Attiku and Obi, and three other political parties, with their candidates, are contesting the outcome of the presidential polls, alleging irregularities ranging from INEC's failure to upload elections results from the polling stations in real time to its IRF portal. Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct supplementary elections in 2,660 polling units across 185 local government areas of 24 states tomorrow, which is April 15th. Elections for 26 governorship, 104 senatorial, 329 national, and 935 state assembly seats had been concluded and winners declared. According to the Commission, all outstanding governorship, national and state assembly supplementary elections will be held where they were previously suspended due to hitches like violence for which the exercise was declared inconclusive. Well, joining us to discuss this is Taiwo Olakbadi, a broadcast journalist and public affairs analyst. Good evening and welcome to the program, Taiwo. Hello, good evening. Thanks for having me tonight. Okay, it's interesting times. Just before the elections, during the elections and now after the elections, and maybe in some parts as the case may be, it is before the elections because elections were cancelled. We are going to have supplementary elections, so it is another round of elections that is going to happen. And right now, first of all, how confident are you that INEC might even want to use this to redeem their image? Do you think they will do better in these supplementary elections than they did in the main elections of February 25th and March 18th? Can you hear me? Hello, can I? Sorry? Can I go on? Yes, go ahead. Okay, the bottom line is that there is no perfect election in any way around the world. Even you recall that the U.S. elections are not being presented by this. At the point, the candidate of the Republican power president, Donald Trump, was accused of trying to hatch the election through the Christian experts. So, if we had the situation where some leaders are saying that the election is not real, that's their own view about conduct of some INEC. But really, that is legal. It is also a legal move by any political party or candidate that failed to agree or failed to cheat at that election, to approach election participants to seek the best, rather than go violent, or want to concrete law and order in the country. And even at the level of an election presidential tribunal, if the outcome is not achievable, we can still take the matter up to the Supreme Court. That's what is allowed by the nation's constitution. But in the case of the petition 5, the Labour Party cabinet, I want to quickly draw reference to the election that brought in President Donald Trump in 2015. The power president, Donald Donald Trump, was the first to congratulate President Bwari in the way the announcements of that election did not become true. It was Donald Trump, in the same way the results were quickly published. He was not going to win that election. And at that point, even members of the political community were meeting on how to say no. That's an obvious fact. They are going to the tribunal, they are going to appeal, they are going to speak to the state. But in that time, in this wisdom, all president Bwami was congratulated. And that was how any move that the political community to find an appeal, to win that election was all paid by the actions of the United Nations. And I want to say that even the current president, he was told that he congratulated for this presidential on three occasions. So he also appealed, believing that he won that election. But the tribunal did not rule. He still approached the United States court with the Supreme Court. And in the same manner, the outcome was not favorable. So back to the liberal party community, what kind of saying Mr. Peter would be? He has the right. He has the right and has the right. He was not going to win that election. Can you hear me, Taiwo? Just a moment, Taiwo. Just a moment. My question is not whether people should take any other means to address the issues on ground. My question is, do you think INEC will do a better job in the supplementary elections than they did in the main elections? That was my question. Do you have confidence that there will be an improvement or it will still just be the same way it happened in February and in March? Okay, we are likely to see that happen tomorrow. Where we are in the supplementary elections, two states, two gubantara elections, I was declared head of the district by INEC. That's the Adamawa and the city. And we're so harsh on the national assembly and the house of the assembly. So, at the moment, INEC has chosen to give us an upgrade to INEC and about $330. Also, there's no money left. So, we have criticism out of this, and we have more than $970. So, that's your question. Where we had the preliminary election, I was sure that from last week that from Nigeria pointed out to INEC and when INEC got back to the drawing board and conducted in March, a change from next election. We record that the government met with them two weeks after the presentation. Because of the fact that INEC said they are going to reactivate the machine. In order to meet the standard of the Congress, they have to respect that election by one week. And many Nigerians, political parties across party lines, commented on INEC that there was an improvement in the conduct of the government situation compared to the spread of the 23rd presidential election. That does not mean that the 23rd presidential election was not so successful. Because there was a stable improvement in the conduct of the government. But INEC had to take some time to also go back to the drawing board. Look at the last week, look at the stage. Of course, look at this on the field. And they were able to meet again. And I'm hoping, going by national commission, I tell the commission, I said that there is no election. I hope INEC will move on to the presentation because it's the final act of the 23rd presidential election. By the time we have this election tomorrow, that means we have considered the election cycle 23rd general election in the country. Okay, well, just give some pointers. Tomorrow the elections will hold. If you were to advise, what are some of the things that you would want INEC to do in these supplementary elections to give it more credibility and all that. From your observation of the previous elections, what would you want them, even if they can't do everything else, maybe two or three things that you feel that they must take into consideration as they go into the elections tomorrow. Okay, for tomorrow's presidential election, I and INEC must ensure, number one, that the staffs that we also have been participating in the election arrive at building units, to collect some material, as an operator to be there as early as 8 o'clock in the morning because I know that a lot of electorate will also get to their community because they are some of the clubs they are involved. So early arrival of building units by island in the American main must ensure that the elections stay at that building at very low. The other one is to ensure that we have a machine that works according to the issue and shows that if we have to have some of the things that we are doing we shouldn't be in the building unit in the state, give us, we are not working in the building unit, there will not be a case that no elections. We are expecting that people also work with us. Another factor that we also ensure that people also come out and participate, is for us to also have a kind of grant that is made for states of drive and property through the elections and after the elections because in a case that people are fed like a their lives are not cured, the property are not cured that would also lead to so far a party at that election but if there is maximum deployment of police in every police there are these searches of black and property and if they are covered allegedly both are elected to come out and stand and vote for every candidate I think this is some of the necessity of this election to see as there and continue tomorrow. Okay, well, salient point, arrival of materials on time, security and beavers must work. We do hope that the supplementary elections will be such an election that will give INAG a better image than it had in the other elections. Thank you so much, Taiwo Holakwade for coming on our program this evening. Thank you so much for that. Okay, we've been talking with Taiwo Holakwade a broadcast journalist and a public affairs analyst on the issues that on the issue of the supplementary elections coming up tomorrow. We do hope that you had a wonderful time watching the program today. That's where we wrap up. But as we leave, we'll leave you with highlights of the week. My name is Nyam Ghul Aggadji. Have a wonderful weekend. We have good leaders. We have good leaders who are very good in managing things. And I want to say this directly to every Nigerian out there. We have good leaders. Not that we have leaders, we suffer from leaders. We have good educated people. But the problem is, we lack visionaries. You see, to be a visionary, you don't have to have all the education in the world. You just have to be a man of purpose, a man of intention and a man of goal. And that's what we're lacking. We have good leaders. We have good leaders who are very good in managing things. And I want to say this directly to every Nigerian out there. We have good leaders. Not that we have leaders. We suffer from leaders. We have good educated people. But the problem is we lack visionaries. You see, to be a visionary, we lack visionaries. We lack visionaries. So what we're lacking? Because Nigeria is the most educated people in the world of Africa. And I can assure you, there's no part of part of the world you will go. You will not say a bargain level of educated Nigerians. In fact, in America, one of the top minority educated people in America are Nigerians. Same in Europe. So we're not suffer from lack of educated people. In Nigeria, we're not either. So it means we have educated people. We're not suffering from leaders. We have leaders. We have great pastors. We have great imams. We have great kings. It's not we're suffering from leaders, but visionaries. Like Moses said, I've been to the mountain top and I'm that. I have seen the glory of God. We need visionaries. He said, I'm taking you to a place that's flowing with milk and honey. We need visionaries. He said, when the people who came back, who went to spy, when they came back, they said, some naysayers. And the other said, what? He said, place flowing with milk and honey. This is why I can't wait for the noise around all elections to move on, because there's a lot more to watch. This is the period where we should be setting agenda for whoever the new, I mean, the new administration setting an agenda, putting out the markers, the things that we're going to watch, taking out, you know, all the manifestos and all the talk and marking and asking, okay, is this happening? This is the time to do that. So yes, civil society played a critical role. And I dare say, even on elections, they as much as challenging as it was to get real time underground information, especially because of the challenges that happened with IRS. The grievances that were filling the mouth content and make things just terrible. So that is what has set the tone for what we're seeing now, where people are in an unprecedented manner. Some are even saying that the inauguration should not hold. That's how bad people feel. So I think what set the tone for this is the amount of vote that have been created before the election and how much of an anti-climax the elections itself then turned out to be and how those hopes were attached, you know, hope deferred, making the heart sick, the holy good say so. The worst thing you can do to a human being is to take hope away from them when the republic less is as good as their debt. And, you know, when a man feels that he's dead and there's no vote, believe me, there's nothing that you cannot do. This functionality of the state and functionality of the system, the this primary government for me today is the current government is, first, it must create that economic broad economic base where every economy, economy, functionalities are working. The banking, the agricultural sector, the oil and gas, there should be more openness and transparency in terms of how we deal with the people You cannot, and the exchange rate for us, for example, if I tell you the losses we have made is terms of insurance, how much money we have spent, in terms of trying to do our security system of insurance abroad. Imagine what the exchange rate is and what you have here, the dollar exchange rate that we show abroad with the lawyers and other companies abroad because some of the policies we cannot keep here, all that we've seen not having much of an insurance in terms of paying those heavy risk when they come. You have to treat them abroad and imagine what that would cost us.