 And it's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Thanks for joining us this morning. We're about to look at the papers. We're calling it off the press. Ezekiel and I took joins us this morning via Zoom. Ezekiel is always a delight to have you every morning. The pleasure and the privilege are all mine. Thanks for having me. All right, then. We'll start off with the punch newspaper this morning. On the punch, new Naira's Cursity, Sokoto Zamfara Katsina, border residence trade in the CFA, Frank, you know, that's a currency that this country is eight of them in West Africa. Actually, use as a legal tender for them, long and short of the story. Now customers without new Naira notes must pay in CFA, traders insist, banking holds empty, LCCI says, Naira, exchange poor affecting businesses, I CPC, arrest currency hawker, angry youths, protest iniquity and Delta, the riders you find. Now there's also another headline, I did several headlines here, but I'd like to take this one. Amashu Abiyodun, class of a performance abandoned project and Anambra Gunman killed Tinejra, born 1,240 INEC materials, Obi Kwan Kwanso won't step down for Atiku, that's what the party is saying. No favorite candidate says US envoy and presidential candidate, we K frustrated lacks integrity, says the PCC. That's so much we can take at this point. All right, on the nation news report, a big one there, L5, elements in government working against Tinejra, very controversial interview from last night and of course, the first lady Aisha Buhari put that interview on her Instagram page, it's still there with hashtag Longley of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Elements in government working against Tinejra, L5, talking about those in government in Asarofila as well. No cash missing in Oguni trust fund, says Edun Gunman, born INEC office and police station in Anambra. I plan for betrayal, I plan for backstabbing long before they happen. Guess a headline there, I don't know if that's a campaign, message a headline with the face of a presidential candidate. How Leki Akbar wrote or boosts Lagos economy, Samo Paulo opens experts way, worsening Nara's scarcity hurts daily living business. A picture couldn't have made me feel like that. Well, we have the Daily Sun newspaper and it talks about the allegation, Governor Erufai's allegation of sabotage, Sparksphere in the APC. The big question is who are these elements in the presidency or in Asarof that are sabotaging their own party. Now you find Kurt Oke's Kano's request to access doctors and medical records. That's what also the Daily Sun is quoted to say. He was not poisoned, he will be taken care of the DSS. There's also a story that Namdi Kano has been poisoned by the DSS. Atticu's government considered Southeast for topmost position or concord, allow state-determined workers' salary, control on resources, pay taxes to center, Akira Dolu tells federal government, again US wants politician against undermining the elections while we're opposed to same faith ticket, Khan is still saying, and Otto Eze moves to rescue Enugu from drinking water crisis. These are some of the headlines you find on the Daily Sun. Very quickly over to the Daily Trust. Hardship lingers as business travels suffer. The kick after that is narrow scarcity. Narrow scarcity, hardship lingers as businesses travels suffer, online transactions fail, chaos as banks customers fight. Another one from the paper, one killed as police station and office bombed in a number of. WeK revokes a stadium approval for Atticu's campaign in Rivers. Governorship candidates to defend agenda at Media Trust, we can all write and that's some of the headlines on the front page of the Daily Trust. Let's quickly bring our guest, Eze Kalayantuk at this time. Architecting, we will start off with the situation with Naira. I mean, it's on the front pages of the least story in the punch in newspaper with the Sefa being used to trade in parts of the country that border Francophone countries, neighboring Francophone countries. And we see a picture on the front page of the punch where the IFCPC operatives are overseeing and supervising the loading of, or monitoring the loading of a new Nairan was into ATM, ATM points at banks. As the CBN governor said, what happened? What are your thoughts on this? Looking at also what the Daily Trust has said with hardship that Nigerians are facing, fighting at banking holes with chaos everywhere. Yeah, I'll tell you, there are two sides of this story. The very first is the national economy. I was one of those, I have been one of those that has been in support of the central bank governor. But there's an aspect I will not be happy with in my concerning. And that is that they ought to have made, that I was very happy about the change in Naira notes. I can tell you for more reasons than one, but they ought to have made it such that it was relatively readily available. But it's really scarce. I actually went through some bans yesterday and I couldn't even get 20,000 Naira for myself. Okay, so for that is not good enough. And then people are really suffering. People are really, really going through hard times. Even the North, they can have safer to have as an alternate currency in the South. We don't have anything like that. And people are going to sleep at ATM. And also I want to encourage the EFCC and the rest who are going through bank vaults to make sure that the money is there. But you see, the fact is that if a certain bank is given a certain amount, how do you ensure that that whole money goes into the vault and not that some, not vault into the ATM machines and not that some have some do not have. It's a process that they needed to be a little more coordinated in what they were doing. But on the other hand, it has helped some of us politicians that were being overburdened by, people bring money, bring money. You see, there are two seasons in life. Night day, black, white, sowing, reaping. Campaign season is reaping season for Nigerians. And that's wrong, totally wrong, absolutely wrong. Campaign season happens to be sowing season for politicians and reaping season for Nigerians. Now, that's for about four months. Just suppose that with governance season, it then becomes reaping four years for politicians and sowing four years for Nigerians. And that's wrong. All Nigerians should come to the mentality of four months of sowing everybody sows and then reap good governance four years. So that's the mindset I hope this would have been able to bring out, but it's still not working very well. I think maybe in the next election cycle, it will be better. Let's have four months of sowing everybody and then four years of reaping. So that's to the extent that I supported the policy because there have been too many people who had monetized our electoral processes. So for me, it served them real good, but we needed to balance it such that the poor is not made the worst for it. I hope it makes the poor to wake up and insist on whoever has what it takes to give them four years of plenty and not four months of plenty against four years of lack. So I think it's just being able to balance between the two. All right, is it called? Yes, let's turn our attention to the Daily Son newspaper. On the Daily Son newspaper, Governor Refaia's allegation of sabotage sparks fear in the APC. There's that video. Of course, you also have the wife of the president posting the video as well just to say, hey, this is true because that's what it means. I'd like you to show your thoughts. Who are these elements in the presidency that are working against the presidential candidate of the APC? If there's anybody that doubts such a statement, it's because the president lacks what I would call emotional intelligence, which is what the presidential candidate of APC, I'm sorry to say lacked. You see, you need to understand people. You need to understand mindsets before you go public. You're a public person. You want to be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Everything you say, you do not demystify leadership. You don't, no matter what it is. Look, there are areas that I disagree completely with my governor. I don't agree, but you will never in my life hear me come to castigate or insult the office of the governor. There are many times I've said certain things about the president who I don't agree with. They're not gonna come on national television and insult him or in any forum whatsoever. And these are days of not even national television. These are days of social media. Even a meeting between three people or five people, you don't know who is recording. And it's gonna go out. Not to talk of a meeting where you have so many people and you're telling the world how the president came on all fours. Even the choice of words where derogatory and guy, let me say this with every sense of responsibility, if you understand, I don't know whether to come and blow it up and talk about the fuller needs because it's like praising everybody with the same brush, but these guys don't joke with their leaders. They don't. And even the ordinary person, including an acquirable man like myself, I wouldn't be happy if you say certain things about, I wasn't happy when they say some things about President Jonathan. And I'm not happy when they say certain things about my president. Me and him, we don't agree. Many grounds, we don't agree. Ah, no, no, no. Me and him, our fight is like Tom and Jerry. But I will not come here to degrade the office of the president. He's my president. He's like my governor. He's my governor. Me and him, we don't agree. But I'm not coming here. The dome is just clueless. It's absolutely, in fact, he begged me to. No, no, no. We don't do things. So because of that, it should be expected that in fact, right now, if people love Ashwa Jew, they should be thinking of the highest level of damage control. I listened to, was it Festus Kiyomo? No, no, it wasn't, it was Fanny Kayode, who came and boasted of how they have 22 governors plus five in the wings and these and that. They don't have these North, South, East and West. I think that all the presidential candidates on the day of election should have a doctor behind them because when the results start to trickle in, some of them, including governorship candidates, some of them are going to fall backwards and faint because we're going to have clean election and they are going to see the real mind. Forget about all the money you are throwing around. They are collecting the money because they believe they are thief and it's their money in the first instance. It doesn't mean they are going to vote for you. No, it doesn't. It doesn't mean they are going to, they are going to be in for root shock. That is why President Buhari, I pray that God gives him that strength to just sit on this beaver's policy, sit on it and even the monetary policy, let him sit on it, but let money be available for people. By the time people are able to get money from their ATM easily, they don't care. In the next two, three days, you can resolve that and people are happy, but central bank, whatever it needs for you to make the money available, at least at ATMs and even across the counter, even if you give limit of say, maybe 20,000 across the counter as well, use all manner of areas to make it easy for the people to collect their 10,000, their 20,000, that's not the one that has a problem to you. Those who are looking for 200 million, for 100 million, ask them for what? They should go and campaign, go and campaign. I'm campaigning. You understand me? Bring out what you've got to say, not money. They don't need money now. Yes, they need money, but that's not the money. They need the four years of a stable government that takes care of the basic essence of government and governance, security, welfare of the people, chapter two, section 14, soft section 2B. So I think that all these things should be put together and what El Rufai said, I listened to it myself. And as he was saying, I couldn't understand where he was coming from. But who could these people be? I mean, in the system, in Arthur? They are the North and South who feel that this man, look, we've had enough of you. Why would you talk to a president like that? They are northerners, they are southerners, they are Nigerians, not nice, really full on ease. Yeah, you don't talk like that to the, I wasn't happy. So you're talking- I wasn't happy. The Abe Okuta declaration, or the Abe Okuta statement. Yes, yes, Abe Okuta declaration. Where he said, all you give you, all you learn. That's where the problem started. The elephant in the room was found in Abe Okuta. I see, interesting. All right, let's go on to look at what's going on in the People's Democratic Party. Do you think we case the influence and the influence of the G5, or integrity group is waning, people have become tired of the same song. Like a song goes, how shall we sing the same song in a strange land, or a lot song in a strange land? On the front page of a punchy superhouse's story, presidential candidate, Wike Frustrated Lax Integrity says PCC. I saw something yesterday when people asking, oh, Wike, you said you would announce, together with your group of governors, the preferred presidential candidate, you threw your support behind. In January, and this is February, he now replied that he never said he would announce it on TV, you know. So I want to talk about that. Also, I don't tell that into that, the front page story of a daily trust that says, Wike revokes approval for Ticco's campaign in Revers. Yeah, you see the Wike thing, I've tried to follow it, and people may think that Wike has lost, but I think that Wike has achieved what he needed to achieve, whatever happens. And that is that he has slowed down the pace of what would have been the tempo of the PVP candidate. He has largely slowed down his tempo, like it or not. The only thing is that the APC candidate could not take advantage of it because of internal wranglings in APC. APC is just one day, it's like in Akwaibo, one day, three troubles, you know? There's the problems are just coming out left, right and center. While on the other hand, Labour Party is consistently moving on their own trajectory and there are two other presidential candidates. No, I'm talking now as an analyst and not as a party man. You see, when you listen to two people, you know, one is the SDP candidate and the other one is the ADC candidate. But for the internal issues within my party, ADC, these are two candidates that would have really, really cost a major offset in this country because their sound bites, their intelligence, their understanding of issues is something to write them about. But you see, because they don't have the sort of platforms that these others have, you don't have, as of today, the talk would have been between ADC, APC, I'm sorry, ADC, Labour and the SDP. As of today, that would have been the conversation between the three parties because it would have been the new kids on the block. But you see, Labour Party comes in, he cannot really assume that new kid on the block because of where the man has come from, you know? But if they had had these three people, you know, ADC, a new kid, SDP, a new kid, and then Labour would have been able to come in and play with him. This would have been the conversation. But because that new conversation is missing, we are still talking about PDP and the APC. These guys effectively have little or nothing to offer, in my opinion. Thank you so much. We have to let you go, it's 7.55 on the clock. And congratulations on the, sorry, let's see. We need to provide, as the candidate was part of the acrobats to go on the debate. Yes. Oh, you should have watched it. You must watch it. You must. A, B, S, T, you must watch it. I know you wanted the debate. I'm sure Messi agrees. Now you talk. The same man where they dance, you don't know how he's back there. But reading from the comments, God was awesome. God gave me the most. It was great. All right. Thank you best. All right, thank you so much. We wish you were successful there ahead. Thank you. All right. That's Messi. If he wins, we will go to you for a vacation. We'll be right back. We have a discussion ahead. We are talking about the secure situation in the country and the need to make Nigeria's borders impenetrable ahead of the election. Stay with us.