 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus see the Africa time for of the press as usual We'll take you through the pages of our dailies has been made available and would have a G.D. Johnson join the conversation G.D. Johnson is good to have you join us this Friday morning Good morning to you all right, let's start off with the daily trust newspaper this morning and Looking at the front pages of a daily trust. Let's find out what big stories we have on the daily trust newspaper The banner caption reads our detour general on covers multi-billionaire fraud in national assembly Detour general on covers multi-billionaire fraud in national assembly three billion in Senate 5.5 billion in house It's shocking lawmakers are breaking the laws father who is saying all of that That's this arrived as you find underneath the caption. It brings us back to the conversation Those who should uphold the laws at the ones breaking the law I just shook my head in a way you said that Multi-billionaire fraud. Let's just move ahead Why APC convention should postpone February I take that again why APC should postpone February convention That's what Carlos quoted to say explain Source of your wealth Adeban Jotel's a condi and to noob lack of trust major challenge in COVID-19 vaccination Sultan is also quoted and that you also have Dichi emirate whole special prayer today and why we gave Buhari's son title Emile Daurah quite interesting. This is some of the headlines you find on the daily trust newspaper Away from that to move on to the daily Independent and party politics is what they have in mind that as your banner the elite story this morning APC February convention on certain as crisis persist in states with a rider convention in February may lead to inclusion Once just below a pictorial there are states Steering committees to oversee payout of 800 million dollars to the poor All right, that's that's on the daily independent on the red strip below the page Steak or shareholders approve access banks transformation to holding company Jonathan law on the song will lose celebrate Buhari at 79 integrity may affect 2023 election Jigar for my neck chair APC chairmanship not a do or die affair Yari Al Makura and Akuma 2020 T privatization of public health facilities will creep all sector that's according to the MHW and provisions of customs bill will paralyze free trade zone according to Nigerian export Promotion zone that they ban Joe challenges are condating able to disclose sources of wealth NJC bus three judges from promotion over conflicting expatriate Others those are the stories on the daily independent this morning Moving away from the daily independent. Let's take a look at the punch new people a Tony general of the Federation Right Buhari says mandatory direct primaries will cost confusion That's on the punch newspaper as a boat caption now underneath you have several riders Malami's office sent its position two weeks ago says minister of justice source Constitution of parties chip elates direct or indirect amendment will be difficult Now these are the riders underneath and that issue is back again on The front pages of our dailies Buhari snops calls to visit Noth and jets out to Turkey with wife and seven ministers and J.C Sanction three judges for conflicting rulings one on watch lists and You also have fans suspend workers as car confronts landing plane on Lagos Airport runway federal government wants Nigeria's COVID-19 cases Increases by 630% in 10 days Insecurity threatens 2023 polls says Jaga VP inaugurates a gym OB center. It's also another caption you find and Still looking at the page of at the front page of the punch newspaper this morning salary deductions fighting monarchs cost you election not Regan Find out who's saying all of that when you check out this page La one bad job. Yeah, Mila and gigi orders hill Buhari at 79 and you also have more interesting caption hoodlums arrested for kidnapping on dough female worshipper during a vigil orders held and reps demand dismantling of Lagos Southeast Abuja roots Checkpoint checkpoint. That's also another caption. Let's see if we can check this out Not entirely clear, but we'll just allow that to slide this morning That's the much that we can take and just before we move away governor's vow to review federal governments Proposed privatization of 10 power plants. That's it on the punch newspaper this morning And the last story on our table sir this morning is the Guardian Consensus hope deems for amended electoral Bill with several writers Buhari departs a budget for Turkey Africa summit returns on deadline day A lawmaker's procedure on you tied the recess Turkey trip Stores National Assembly leaders lost effort to save amended bill a fate of a kitty ocean Governorship opposed hangs over Steelmate all right a monster is NHIS can vast as one cobra per second telecoms charge for health coverage of Vulnerable Nigerians Lagos indebted to retirees by over 30 billion Nair says pension as chair Emeritus the Christ 50% of land taken over by terrorists are warns of food crisis Hold or there's a rest of emo deputy speaker over alleged 75 million their throat and finally in Nigeria at war SBM report Reveals those are some of the stories you can find on the front page of the Guardian this Friday morning All right, let's have G. Day Johnson share his thoughts on some of the pages of a national dailies once again Good morning G. Day Johnson Good morning messian. Good morning, Justin. So Let's start with a story on the general multi-billion Naira floor in national assembly 3 billion in the Senate five on five billion in the house of rep and that's on the daily trust newspaper That yeah, that's on the daily trust newspaper. So let's start off so that we can have a trust for our argument compute the trust of the Odessian In a democracy, I don't think that The autogeners just come out to see young cover I think those that I'm about should have been identified and Their names should have been forwarded relevant agencies for prosecution You must go beyond uncovering uncovering uncovering uncovering Evergiver You have auditors Procept that are laid down school be released and assessed in public service and the procurement field and the rest and then internal mechanism put in place the Political you don't cannot assess this one without compliance An agreement of the civil servants that are in place to facilitate this So what has happened to the general knowledge of the servants that are meant to be Gatekeeper that are meant to be watched up within the system to allow this longest amount of money to get out of the National Assembly Interesting thing is we will see it on the pages of the instrument We'll cry about it. We'll scream about it. And then we'll continue business as you nothing will come at all. You're not screaming as you have just cleaned and then Nothing will come out of it But they decide to have lawmakers at lawbreakers where you have people that are making the law People that should perform over circumcision executive to prevent wastages and And then wastages and corruption and mismanagement of funds are the ones that are also mismanaging from It is unbelievable. I don't know why the National Assembly should have rights to approve money Only to be spent because their basic responsibility is not making when it comes to protest execution I think it should be left for the executive and it should be left for the civil servants Which are more or less like the food soldiers of the executive. Let's see how it goes We throw a spotlight on this particular issue and hopefully We will see a drooling that people being prosecuted otherwise to be as business as usual If you uncover the type of corruption that has taken place in the National Assembly That's why most of them most of them want to die office And as soon as they get elected into the House of Representatives or they get elected into the Senate They don't come back home again. They remain in Abuja. In view of I have challenged them. Let the speaker of the House of Representatives Let him travel from Abuja to pick us up. Put out the grandfather in the office security and let the Senate President Let him travel to Yubi State where he's from where he has represented since 1999 as as a prep member and as senators since 2003 Let him travel to that particular place without this paraphernalia of office Unless he were there freely to travel and all other as a prep members and senators Distinguished senators to travel to their respective dead constituencies and district Unless they work on out of it until we are serious about dealing with this issue The issue of insecurity will not continue. They'll continue to provide private security for them They'll provide private life for them themselves. They'll provide everything that will meet their comfort For them until we put ourselves on the red list. I don't think we are ready to make progress We shouldn't power any government office that have elected public officials generator We shouldn't power their official residence generator. We shouldn't We shouldn't power us all up with generator. We should Once there is no like let everyone of us Have no like and they understand what an hybrid nitrogen is going through That's my take on on on on that The other story in the daily trust is the story of lack of trust Which you are dealing with trust today for which is a major talent for COVID-19 vaccination And that's where the traditional rulers come in Traditional rulers have moral authority religious leaders have moral authority What are religious leaders and moral and traditional rulers done with respect to mobilization Education mobilization and education and mobilization would be a great citizen of their followers They are more they have moral leadership over these people People listen. We live in a society where people are too religious and too traditional What are traditional rulers doing with respect to encouraging people to get vaccinated? What are religious leaders doing encouraging people to get vaccinated? Trust problems is a perception problem That means you can help with it So if trust is perceptual and perception can be changed When you use opinion leaders You can use opinion leaders in public communication Whatever communication be public or commercial You change perception and that's where their role should come in And they should be collecting 5% of the money that goes to the local government Without them having any work to do I think that responsibility of dealing with the issue of trust Can be facilitated by traditional rulers and religious leaders And it's very interesting in the north The emirs and the sultans are both traditional rulers and religious leaders So it's a two-fold, it's a two-pronged approach I think the sultan should call on young emirs And then all traditional rulers across the length and breadth of this country To encourage people to get vaccinated You go visit the doctor for other ailments You do not talk to the doctors When you go visit them for them to treat you over other ailments How would you talk to doctors when they have come up with vaccines? And we should talk to them when with the different types of drugs They have come up to deal with different types of diseases and illness I think the traditional rule will be very, very useful in that regard When it comes to dealing with the trust of the people in the vaccination And I'm saying it, as many of you that are listening to us Please go and get the booster shot I'll be getting the booster shot once I'm available Get the booster shot, I'll be fully vaccinated They say we need to get the second, we need to get the third Even if we can get the fourth And even we need to get the booster shot But I will get it, I will visit the head center Where I took mine in the first instance And I will see if there are booster shots that are available I will take it, it is important for us to get the booster shot Forget about all the conspiracy questions It's your life and your life is critical to you And we see that it's worth it So the sort of thing you call on is other traditional laws to help us In this fight, it means people that have the bison I have my, I have my reservations for some of the bison But nobody lets a public education It's not only about it, it's about everyone of us And it will be responsible for anybody Not to take it That's on the bison All right, G.D. Johnson Let's leave on the Daily Trust for a bit And slide on to the punch The electoral bill is still being talked about It's still being topical around major spheres A.J.F. writes Buhari says mandatory direct primaries Will cause confusion Malami's office has sent its position two weeks ago Says a Ministry of Justice and Source Now Buhari right now is in Turkey And it's actually almost deadline So what's the fate for that particular bill? At present, I'm not saying the bill anywhere By the way, we've said it over time That the National Committee members do not do their duty against You delete it in a sense that are carrying their party alone Of involving the political parties That they are involved That's sponsored them for the election And we have said that There are things that National Assembly can legislate on And there are things that they cannot legislate on It's like the National Assembly Let it lean on the extension of their own tenor Because they have the power of not making The fact that we are power making laws Does not give you absolute power to make any laws Responsible and irresponsible laws To make laws that's an overreach And we have said it That the National Assembly trying to make laws On how political parties should conduct themselves and overreach Because in the first instance There won't be a National Assembly without the political parties These political parties are sponsor candidates to seek election And once you win the election, you become part of the executive Or you become part of the share So as far as I'm concerned I agree that on a general Unfortunately for the first time That this law will create confusion To create confusion You can't mandate parties on how to rule They are united by their constitution It is not gangsterism It is not legislative rascality And gangsterism can also solve the problem in the politics And let the National Assembly members Leave each party to run its own affair Based on the constitution of the party And with respect to that electoral act We have said that the contextious area Is that close That made provision for this direct power Everybody seems to agree on every aspect Of this electoral act And I think it better than considering this electoral act Into law And in this particular context Because as said in the National Assembly For them to run an amendment Would you expect to do this? Tell them that you have suffered this law Or this area at least Remove and then you do it on this Unless it will be cleaned up And then outside this Into a perfect document To see that In I think another headline of this theory There is a particular misrepresent That law make us threatens to override the president Let's wait and see Whether or not one led senate And by the bianmilla led as of As of now Call it and tamarit To override the president in the first place But that law That deal With this contentious aspect of Our party should conduct their primary Should not Should not The advice of the National Assembly Should be taken with respect to that And I mean one of the things that the political People have to do Is to create confusion They know what this thing will generate Can you imagine The National Assembly leadership Not discussing with the leadership of their party Not discussing with the presidents And they went ahead To send this speed In that different Of the liars between the presidents And The National Assembly And all of its officials Of did not Do enough duty leaders For them to know The thinking of exerting what's under them And the call to help us Comes to maintain insanity And the polity Okay Let's just stay with the punch News for this morning NJC sanctions Three judges who are conflicted in rule And one on watch lists You remember the fact that In one week we had Different court orders emanating from Keby state River state And cross river state What are your thoughts on this Well for the democracy to thrive You need an independent posture The judiciary is meant to be an habitat When there is an overreach Between the executive And the legislature But unfortunately sometimes The judiciary takes sides That with most times with the executive And on few occasions with The legislature However they are meant to be An independent habitat They are meant to interpret the position Without minding what's called Is God And I think that The judiciary needs to clean itself Clean itself Of elements Elements that are brought That temple of justice Into this way Because once you get To the judiciary is about To get justice And what is justice What is justice being just And being fair Dealing with easy With fairness With a fair of favor So where you have Judges across There are principles that govern the law There is the letter of the law There is the spirit of the law Now Both must be in tandem What the law is saying So you are meant to interpret what the law is saying You are not meant to input your own personal Into what the law is saying With respect to any particular issue Or dispute that is brought before you Beyond putting those people's What is I think that Those people should be sanctioned Because they should be The sanction should be Until we are taking Traconian steps As in Ponditive steps In punishing people that want to destroy This democracy Through different types of Political judgment You got in judgment We are not ready for this democracy Because the judiciary is critical A critical augment of sustaining democracy So as I salute the people of Ganges And I think they should do much more They should do much more than that And address the mess And clear the mess in the judiciary So that we can now clear Judicial system with conscience In with fairness And with equity All right Let's talk about him This one is still on the daily trust You know Adeban is asking Akonday and Tinobu To explain the sources of their wealth Do you know if they wanted Mobi It's the first person to book in Mobi That's all they would tell you Even senior journalists When you listen to them talking And you ask questions I've said it If you really want to fight corruption And we will get there We will demand them to come up with the Those of them that are providing them to be presidential candidate in 2022 We ask them After all the other sort of election in 1999 We ask Artiku to come up with the form he filled To the code of conduct in 1999 We ask Tinobu to come up with the force within the internet back With the code of conduct in the room To see the wealth he has in 1999 The wealth he has now And we would not insult our creativity Because they think we are fools Zelo Hoki worked in Mobi Who was the director of this Was the director of that What is the wealth of these people Prior to 1999 And what is their wealth now Post-1999 If you really want to fight corruption We should go to the code of conduct in room And get the form of the Bahrain And get all the forms they fill Where they declare their wealth And tax documents Where is their wealth from And suddenly people become rich By getting access They become stupendous in rich By getting access to politics And some people in such a sensitivity Is he Did he steal your money He was He was He was Let them tell us this And these are the questions we need to ask What is the sources of their wealth What are the sources of their wealth How rich was Tinobu in 1999 How rich was Artiku in 1999 Artiku in 1999 And they will parade themselves They will make money from the public policy And they will parade themselves And see if the wealth of everyone And their money came and their money is paid I know what you and the man there have said With respect to them explaining The sources of their wealth If they are not bold enough to tell us How they make money Why should we elect them Why should we trust them With public With public fund So what they are ready to ask stuff Questions And we ask people We have You don't have any private business That you are running You don't have any Any private business And then We call in 2019 When William Brown went to the house of Of one of the gladiators In the political asking And they said this It does not collect government contract It does not do this It is his money And you just tell I arrest them And then it is your money How much tax did you pay For you to have Will you ever come to your house No problem We are not arguing with you You know the interesting thing You can make whatever world But how much taxes have you paid For you to have That amount of money that Will you ever come to your house And we see the taxes you have paid In that financial year Then we know that you made your money Like extremely We don't care whether you collect contract Or you don't collect contract But you must pay your taxes As at when do you Why do you make money from this country And you are not paying your taxes Why should we trust you With public office So these are basic questions But you know what The unfortunate thing about this Are democracy Is that the major problem of this Democracy And some of my colleagues Including myself That are doing this program And are watching this program The pain of this democracy Has been journalist If the journalist Turned the bull high Then he kept an eye on the bull Doing the military regime If he turns spotlight On these actors and figures I'm telling you Nigeria would be a better country But you know what Why check those that are supporting them Why check many articles There are many articles that are There are many stories on the pages of these people That are not news stories They are just sponsored They are just sponsored stories And people are talking People are talking about it And as if it's a major news story So the major news people Are putting in their front-line news The major news stations Broadcast stations put it In that line of their story Whereas these are sponsored stories By people that have political and economic interests And then they will fool the citizenry As if they are major stories of things We will get there Some of us will ask questions They will tell us where they get This is their world They will tell us When it comes to 2023 I don't think we would have Get to listen All their supporters They can get two of their supporters And just to face me For us to have a face of Just two of their supporters Two of supporters of Antico Against me Two supporters of Of Tinumbu Against me When we get there Let's continue Let's have a constructive debate Of selling that Two of the supporters Of Bokalasa Let's have a constructive debate Let Nigerians Let's throw spotlight on this So that Nigerians will know So that we don't make mistakes That we in over and over and over and over And we begin to grumble Grumble over what? Programs They are not talking about policies They are going to do They are talking about This is the blessing And they won't If you are unfortunate They will use it in a better style Nigerians are called In the call of Nigeria Who are they fooling it For everyone's sake Who is calling you to be president? If you want to be president You should be president We don't want to adopt that president Come out after a key And tell us Who want to run for presidency And these are the programs I am going to do These are the issues I am going to address Not to add on the guide of When people are calling me And I am idiot you are calling I would be disappointed God will punish all those That are calling them Let them call themselves Please forgive me for For that I think I think Responsibility for that The most important thing You take it back It's alright Because we are going to call Your attention to it I totally understand that In the course of this conversation Emotions can be very high But it's also good for us To put out an emergency Emotional runs high There are some things that are acceptable And there are things that are not acceptable Everyone is attached to his or her opinion Let them support whoever they want to support But the bottom line is that We all get the result which is for that Everyone is a democracy But if that is the case I don't think that is acceptable But you know let's also You know continue God will bless it God will bless it Gideh Johnson The result that we have Gideh Johnson You know in the course of all of this I totally understand Whether or not Some persons have declared Right Everyone has a right to contest An election Vote and be voted for I mean of course it's enshrined In the constitution And who we decide Would usually be at the polls You know when the election comes But looking at You know just This is 2021 is almost over I mean we're getting to 2020 To all things being equal Do you even think that You know we're ready as a people No it's what Jegatte Jegatte said is insecurity Is one of the challenges One of the media like Former Professor Jegatte Said insecurity might affect 2020 people I wish I were going to have 2020 people And then if you check the headline of Most of the news people Where the chief people of the senate Senate or to use or call And said that APC February convention Will my life be to the Improachable party That gets an uncertainty That's an uncertainty That is characterizing That because crisis It persists across the state I've asked you this question A party that cannot put this house in order Not put the nation in perfect order We've seen How these parties are more from one crisis To another For example in PDP No chairman of PDP has completed his term Not chairman Has completed his term Now APC That's PDP And we've done PDP for 16 years APC Has been the devil with crisis from inception So the party system Which is meant to be the avenue through which you Beat people to run public administration Is be devil with crisis They cannot manage their fears How much would they manage their fears of the country And we have said it A party that does not have respect for its own constitution When it wins election and gets to office Will not have respect for the constitution Of the federal republic of Nigeria It is too late for a Leopard For rain to wash off the black spot In a Leopard scale So what characterizes the administration of the party We characterize public administration And we have seen the different degree of In PDP or APC In public governance In Nigeria So the likelihood of us having election In 2023 Is very very slim Is very very slim Respect of insecurity That are okay If you have the election You know one of the challenges you are going to have Is in conclusive election Because if you are not able to conduct election In some certain places Are able to declare the result But there is one thing that is very very typical of Nigeria Politician You know what we are talking about Actually let me tell you for a fact There will be election Next use the Anambra Anambra Street as a case study There will be election In political class And in non-state agents There are causing confusion They work in tandem In tandem in the sense that They are the political talks They used to foment trouble During process campaign Balmainis and the rest of it So there will be agreement among themselves And you will see that there will be if A pseudo peace A pseudo peace Across the nation So that we can conduct the election And we can have transition Then we will go to business As usual With this bit of insecurity Let me assure you There will be election in 2023 If you want to go about this things Just before I allow my colleague Come through again I wanted to talk about the fact that We are also here that China has volunteered to send Some security expats To Nigeria to help So don't you think that that also Will go a long way in solving The problem of our insecurity And there may be Are you practicing the same democracy with China? I don't know who have people So we tell China That we are indebted to China We allow China to send the security expats So they will collect intelligence For the security implications China that has taken over the airport In Uganda And now is offering to provide us With security for our election So they will understand The structure of our political system They will gather the intelligence They will work on it And then in 20 years You will see the result of the intelligence Are there fools Managing critical infrastructure in this country? Security agencies Because whoever wins that election Becomes Except public policies So we are not indebted to them It's just a matter of time All right Now they are offering us Like the grid You know what is called the grid gift? If you check the older So at night They will just come Then when to sleep Then they make him to suit his College And I'm calling on the end of getting The citizenship of another country All right, thank you Because once they have a seat All right, thank you so much G.D. Johnson He is the chief lecturer At the Nigeria Institute of Journalism And we have been reviewing the front pages Of major dailies We must say a very big thank you For your thought and input this morning G.D. Johnson Mercy I'll be messing with Friday And Justin Just have your job Please don't Friday Thank you very much Yeah, whatever that means Thank you You are welcome G.D. Johnson All right Today in the history We'll be going back in 1936 Pope Francis was born today Let's take that away