 I seal the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. We sincerely apologize for bringing off the press a little bit behind Shreddles. That's due to some technical issues, big ups to our technical team for setting all of the issues out. Chris Kane De Wendu stands, he's on standby this morning and he joins us. Chris, thank you so much for being part of Off the Press on the breakfast. Thank you for having me. Good morning. Good morning. All right we're looking at the leadership and quickly finally, article WK Reconciliation Collapses. It's boldly written on the leadership newspaper. Underneath, Revers Governor says he wants campaign for ex-Vice President and also the presidential flat bearer of the People's Democratic Party, Atikua Buboka. Nominator Meiji Loyalist, 16 orders. Commissioners, article Suspends campaign visit States ravaged by flood today. Again, Chunibu hits PDP flat bearer, accuses him of plagiarism or plagiarizing PMB's agenda. It's really interesting. When you have a national issue, should everybody not think about solving the problem? One third of global economy recession, Hemefli, is saying, caught others final for future of Desiani, Abuja's homes and cars. Kainu's second state of execution, federal government declares IPOP leader threat to national security. Misinformation, fueling conflict and security distrust in Niger, that's what president is saying, well that's the much we can take at this point. All right, moving on from the leadership, we go straight to the nation. Some interesting headlines on the front page of the nation. 2023, Wike rejects Atikua and I mean the nation had not put anything about this on out, I've been surprised. So no surprises here. 2023, Wike rejects Atikua, quite big and quite bold. The rider to that headline, Revers Governor vows not to campaign for PDP Standard Bear, inaugurates council for Revers Party's candidates. Sunak becomes fifth UK PM in seven years. EFCC secures final for future of Madwike's Abuja properties. Flooding, Legas Putzikoi, Lecky VI residents on the alert. I hope we won't step out of here and see there's water outside our gate. Federal government tackles UAE over VISA ban and UBA's gross earnings hit 608 billion in Q3 APC, tackles PDP, chifting over remarks on Atikus or Tidibus rather action plan and some headlines on the front page of the nation. Away from the nation, we take a quick look at the daily trust troops. Boko Haram kingpins in Abuja, Kano. So one would think that just one kingpin, just one. That's what they are kingpins. Tide security at government offices in satellite towns and you have residents as government to be proactive, of course. Police launch counter terrorism exercise, FCTA orders, CCTV in public places. National assembly cannot prosecute corruption cases. Lawan is saying an Islamic development bank or bank approves 788 billion Naira funding for Nigeria, produce flood prevention plan in 90 days. Buhari tells minister what happens now. This is some of the headlines on the daily trust. Let's quickly round off with a look at the stories on the front page of the punch. U.S. terror left atikutinbu b demands security beef up, reject campaign suspension. Floods, Buhari demands action plan but also gets donations. All right, this is a 90 day ultimate. It gave to the minister of water resources to promote a flood action plan. But I think they, I guess, give us thoughts on that. Nigeria loses 3 million or barrels monthly, FG. External debt crisis, external debt rises to 840 billion dollars under Buhari. And I think aptly you have a picture of the finance minister there, whose job these days it seems, is just to announce how much is being spent and how much is being borrowed. Nothing more. Asu, FG to modify IPPIS in three months. That's some of the headlines on the front page of the punch. Let's quickly bring in Chris Keinewando, I guess, this one. Chris, I think the big one from a couple of the papers happens to be he has some big case apparent rejection of Atikua Buoka, the People's Democratic Party's presidential candidate, with his declaration that he will be campaigning for the candidates of the PDP in River State. And no more. And what are your thoughts on that? Good morning once again. Personally, I'm tired of here in Ikewiki every time. Nigerians are tired and with you, we have participated governors in Nigeria. And if it's just one governor to not complain around in over the 2023 adhesion there, I think it's time for us to move ahead and focus on the adhesion for 2023. So if we can say he doesn't want to campaign for Atikua Buoka, how well and good, it will be commiserated for me. Ikewiki goes to commission on a project in River State. Instead of commissioning, he used 19 minutes to talk about Atikua and the adhesion, the way he's fighting. He goes to commission on the way to commission on the project. We will not focus on what he's doing, I'm just talking. So for me, I think it's time for us to just come to some kind of conclusion and so that people can concentrate on. He's not competing, not putting in much. Who's the rest of them? Fine. All well and good. He will fight around the way he needs to fight around the way. And that is the sense of war. We don't just stick to a point. And that's why the industry tended to you from all fronts. And we stick there to the beginning and the beginning. For me, I think, I personally think that we should give less of the opportunity. Let us focus on how the presidential candidates, what they have to do for Nigeria and what they can do better than what currently, where in a very, very terrible situation in the country now, economy has to turn into collapse. Flood has taken over practically every part of Nigeria. We've lost close to 700 lives. And nobody's talking about that. Let me just say, I'm starting to give in a mandate of about 90 days a month for us to have a solution. Nobody is giving a direct solution to the problem at hand. All those that have been displaced, how do we be able to make sure that they are taking off their villages, towns, houses, and crops have been taken over practically straight away? To me, that they should be the focus. I'm not one weekend that we're somewhere shouting at. But it's not much that they have some genuine reasons and consign. When he started and he has to make his point, I see no reason why this should become a common business on a daily basis. And something we continue to discuss on national television. I say we don't have further issues. There are so many issues that have happened in Nigeria that need our attention. So that for me, don't forget also if you have the service cabinet and appointed about 18 commissioners, they are the seven months to go. And I wonder what these commissioners can be going to do within seven months of his living office. But that for me, that is my take on that. All right, Chris, let's quickly talk about the issue of misinformation, feeling conflicts, insecurity, distrust in Nigeria. And we're also, I mean, there's also another report. This is actually on the leadership newspaper. There's also another report on the punch newspaper that where Lai Mohamed is saying, I mean, social media regulation, it's needed because all of this, not regulation of the space, is causing a lot of issues. Your thoughts on this, really? This is not the first time we're talking about this. We are hearing about the social media. Right from the session that we get then, 25 to 30 years old, but about the latest social media. And there have been several attempts to bring this to before by presenting it to the national assembly, keeping this issue. And I want to talk about it comes to national assembly. Migrants within and outside the country, all these crimes and so forth. And the government is just trying to use that must-have opinion and play to society. Migrants for the specific issues of national interest. Yeah, that was the trick, that was the trick news on social media with a very fine name and rest of that. But that in itself, I don't know how that will become a trick. What is more trickier for me is that you use that word. It's the killing of Nigerians by Boko Haram, by bandits and contaminants that goes on every day. People cannot speak with their eyes closed. High-developing security everywhere. People, policemen being killed like vows across the streets of Nigeria. Three days ago, we saw about four policemen being killed. We were killed. Somewhere in our genes. Why protecting a clergyman? Week before that, another set of policemen, about five or six of them, were killed. Why also on the convoy of Symmetra Symmetra? They ran you back. Are you saying that the social media that brought about this? No, it's not. Yes, we'll try after what we can make sure that they could behave responsibly when they are ranting and making post or making discussion on social media. But if you want to regulate people using social media in Nigeria, how do you regulate the ones Nigerians living in or anybody living in Ukraine, living in Russia, living in the United States, living in Rwanda, any part of the world? How are you going to regulate that? How are you going to stop them from doing that? We've tried to do that with the shutting down of Twitter for some months before we recreated and twittered them all over again. We've talked about regulating schools, we've talked about regulating these backgrounds and ways. My personal opinion, should be able to focus on the most important aspects of our social and economic as well as political lives rather than all these monetary issues. If there is no way you can regulate social media, it is not possible. Inasmuch as it's right. Don't forget we have a law already played that was signed in 2015 by the former president of Nigeria as a good law, Jonathan. That works for the sci-fi crime law. It was signed in 2015. If there are issues that you have with social media and rest of them, that law has effectively taken care of those issues. So all you need to do is just stop and use it to regulate the system as it's where all those that you think that are using the social media to cause some kind of disambushion and rest of them, his speech and rest of them. Then you are going to talk about laws again. Our problem is not that of law. The limitation of what the law applies or enacted as law. That will be issued. All right. Let's look at what the punch is. The nation, sorry, is saying on its front page with some speech dedicated to Rishi Sunak who's become the fifth UK prime minister in seven years. The second conservative prime minister in a matter of months and of course the youngest prime minister of the first of Indian descent, the first Hindu prime minister in the history of Britain. Chris? You know, in so far the way this thing works. In Britain, the United Kingdom has been a third way country of Africa. The whole Western world would have said, oh, this country's political system, how will I put it? They have the language, they have the wealth quite in this language. The political instability, the United States issue statements, United Kingdom would have issue statements that have been tried here and there. Britain, United Kingdom, within the past four years or there have been, they have closed about four or five prime ministers, like KG your president. It's like between 2015 and now. We said that we've had about five presidents in nine years. Do you know what that means? Do you know the shock that that would have sent through the Western world and that caused the blue on the level of political instability in Nigeria or any part of the third one? But this is a country that called themselves first world. They can't put their ass together. So, I think it also has to do with their system. You know, what they're on is the parliamentary system, not the presidential system, because it is important that this have been the United States. You see that, you know, American president, any American president with a resigning or all I call it now, in the past, probably in the past 100 years. So, in the kind of Europe, the issue is that they have to solve that themselves. It is more of an economic problem and issue of trust. I'm not going to list trust now, for bad reason. I'm talking of trust as individual. You know how Boris Johnson works, where to run, but not as much as he was being spared. When he found out that the people who didn't trust him, the issue that happened around COVID, how he violated COVID regulations, led to the British calling for his head and help to resign, even by two days ago, when he chose to resign. It was like that. He was also trying to make a comeback. But it was also because I was not able to get the necessary number of parliamentarians to back his comeback. So that is why the current prime minister, the incoming prime minister, that is good, because for the past many years of the United Kingdom, you have to have somebody of color becoming the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Something that nobody ever thought of, just like you have in the United States, when Barack Obama, a black man from Africa, became the president of the United States. What we are seeing in the new world order, where anything can happen. All right. Quickly, let's share your thoughts on the caption on the leadership newspaper. Kanu, seeking state of execution, federal government declares IPOP leader threat to national security. And we also know that the court had rejected the order from the federal government. Yes, federal government has the right to appeal until they are so wish. But which one is more threatening? Is it the fact that we see people being killed in factories practically every day because of the issue of freedom of the country? What about those? It's not, I don't know if that is related. Or is it just where the economy of the factories is practically planted every Monday? We have people have to sit at home. Now, the worst part of it to me is the news that broke yesterday that the three court of appeal charges have been deployed. They both moved from their present and current cases of abode here, their jurisdiction, and moved to other places on that move the rest of the day. That speaks volume about our justice system. That's the problem about the kind of government we have. We are somebody within the executive just wake up and just wake up and just do whatever he likes. We're talking of independence of the judiciary. And judges are not allowed to be able to decide on issues based on evidence before them. And once they do, you start to believe them. Don't forget the various attempts in the past that we have so many Chief Justice of Supreme Court we are arrested on slingsy excuses and rest of them. That is a terrible and a turn on the right of the judiciary as an independent body to be able to cooperate. So personally, I feel the IGF is playing to the call. None of the college should be released. And that should be the beginning of the issues, ways of assuring the safety or the kind of agitation that is going on in the country. For goodness sake, we sit and read of situations. We are terrible terrorists. What terrorists that have thousands and thousands of Nigerians? Nobody said anything about that. These are people that have been identified as killing. These are terrorists that have killed. What do we do? We try to... All right, Chris, we have to go now. I think that I was kidnapped after the execution of this country. And somebody just went to Kenya and picked him up and got him and he got him there. And because I said that it was wrong and you say you are feeling, let's wait and see what the Supreme Court will tell about the best and the best thing that a political issue, a solution. Well, Chris, that's the size of the press this morning. And thank you so much for being part of it, if you can hear me. This is what we call it a wrap. We take a break and when we return, it will be time for us to dive straight into our first major conversation. But just before then, let's tell you what happened today in history. Please stay with us.