 Today, on the breakfast as the race to the 2023 presidency gathers momentum, presidential hopeful of the People's Democratic Party, Deli Mommoto joins us to discuss developing issues. Also, on the breakfast, the Department of the State Services warns about plans by criminal elements to return Nigeria to the pre-2015 era, where missing of improvised explosive devices attacks on softened-hat targets in parts of the country. How do we get on top of the security threats? And like always, we won't be reviewing all of the top stories making headlines across major dailies. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I am Justin Acadone. And I am Massey Papua, beautiful Wednesday morning. Thank you for joining us. All right. Thanks for staying with us. We just head up straight to top trending. There's a whole lot going on the Nigerians are not really learning lessons when it comes to Ponzi schemes and investment plans. And right now we're talking about a particular one which just went under a football investment platform crushes. You know, Massey, we've talked about this some investment plans and Ponzi schemes in Nigeria and Nigerians are, I won't say, the less wiser because over time people lost money to MMM and various investment plans. And yet they seem to have not learned lessons. This one is about a particular investment plan and they claim to have some affiliation with Manchester City. And Nigerians will just fall hook line and sinker and now just put huge money into such plans. So I'm hoping that we're able to, you know, run that particular tape, as it were, the video where you have a lot of peasants reacting and commenting and those who have actually fallen victim. But, you know, still staying with you and agreeing to the fact that we have not decided. I think it's a decision. It's something that we have not been very deliberate to learn from what's actually going on. And so all of the experiences. But it boils down to one thing and it's also the mentality of the quick, you know, quick syndrome, greed, like you have said over time. Just get rich quick, you know. So this is actually a way and so people will invest in, you know, the thing that was really sad for me because I'm not sure if we're able to put it out, I'm sure we're going to see all of that. So one of the peasants, you know, one of the investors who reacted was saying that don't put your money here again, you know, just look for another investment to put your money into. Another one. Really? It doesn't even make any sense. So I'm laughing because it's laughable and it's because we have refused to actually learn. Lessons. And usually we say that we cannot go by saying that experience is the best feature. But we say leveraging on others experience is the best feature. And that's actually the new norm now. But you know, for us, it's a different thing. So we have to. But just want to express it for themselves. Okay. We understand that we have the video. Let's see the video. Let's come back and talk some more. It's a city tour. I told you about this. So there are people outside. Everybody is starting out with their money. Everybody wants their money. People are here. They did not allow everybody to enter into the building. So they say we should write our name outside. They will be calling us one by one. Which is the latest strategy just to keep us outside. So that they can do what they want. All right, guys. So we all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see what's going on with the C-S-S-F-B. Well, now the main thing is that violent. We all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see the direct behavior of service firms. But unfortunately we only expect to see the 2017 review coming soon as we step into that same upsize process. So there are people out there that do not Catch your driver in order to send it to us. All right. Personally, I feel this is the end of 86 FB. This is the end of it. All right. It's no longer a safe investment. Don't look for another investment to put your money inside. All right. That time don't come and that time don't go. Are you actually serious? What advice is putting out there? Seriously. When they are legit investment plan, fine. They might have little return on investment. You have commercial papers. We have bankers, acceptances. We have, OK, time deposit and all of that. Fine. You might not really get the quick fix syndrome or maybe 300% return. Like most of these Ponzi schemes promise Nigeria. But the fact is that why are we not learning lessons? No. So because first of all, this platform's they don't come as a Ponzi scheme. They don't come up and say, hey, we're a Ponzi scheme. Well, if you look at the operations and the activities, then you would actually decide for that. It's a Ponzi scheme. First of all, you need to understand that money doesn't work. I say that all the time, not because you know, probably I'm a financial expert, but I've actually stumbled on, you know, read a couple of books about financial investment and you know, how money works. It doesn't work that way. So it's still driven by the fact that a lot of people want to blow. That's what it is. You want to become like, you know, or $10. You want to become the dangote of Nigeria. But you need to understand that dangos didn't start today. I mean, you need to understand how money works. And so we're all driven by the mentality of just get rich quick and just make the money blow. And that's it. And that's why people don't pay attention, you know, to details. That's all you say. So how do we constantly fall prey for all of this? So you had an MMM that was really very prominent. So you've had, what's the other one we talked about last week again? Funny names, I don't remember the name. What did you call it? Well, the names are even funny. But how do you tell me that you are linked to Manchester City? I'll not do my own due diligence. I'll not do my own research. You know, these things I've done. It is just how gullible we are. And as much as we constantly say we're the smartest people on planet Earth, I don't know if you have research backing that, but we constantly claim that we're very smart people, not just as smart, not just as resilient, not just as everything, you know, the best persons and best people to be, not to say that we're entirely nonsense, right? So you see, you have a couple of persons who have their minds working together. But I think that, you know, the ideology of wanting to blow and make quick money is what is actually driving a lot of people to putting up. So really, what would be the issue of attraction? Because I'm looking at it, it might just be the return on investment. And so when you look at the return on investment. Most of the people are outrageous. And they cannot sustain them. So how do you tell? So usually the point of attraction, and that's what this scheme's actually come. Like I already mentioned, nobody will come out and tell you, hey, I'm a Ponzi scheme. They don't do that. They don't do that. But if you look at, when you look at it, how would someone tell you that, see, so you put, you know, 100,000 and in three days, you're going to get like, how much again? They're going to get 50,000 there. I mean, that's too good to be true. So you need to begin to query all of that. It raises a flag, but people don't pay attention. It does a whole lot. And a lot of people just think that, oh, because it's, so you're going to get 50, I mean, that's so, so good. That's a great investment. Trunking your money, just push it in and you want to get the money quick. But you see after a very long time, you know, it crashes because it's not, it doesn't follow the principle of how it actually works. They always crash because they can't sustain, you know, because the fact is that maybe we might do a particular session or maybe on financial literacy, you know, so people can get educated. No, maybe we really should. So people can actually get educated about investment. I don't even think that, so it will be a great idea. It's fantastic. We will constantly do our bid and that's why we exist, right? But I don't even think that we will get to that point. Everybody wants to, don't you want to blow? No, maybe not blow out of my side. Not really big, not to blow up more than that. Because the truth is that simple investment, if it's not hinged on any particular maybe service or product, at the end of the day, where is the money coming from? People should understand these little bases. Even if you're investing in banks, acceptance and everything. Okay, it is a service. The banks actually invest and they make returns and that's how they pay you. But this time around, you're just putting money into a Ponzi scheme. They'll tell you that in 30 days, you'll get this particular amount. How are they making the money or the returns? They're getting it from other people. So it's like crowdfunding? Yes, they collect from other people. At the end of the day, it will not sustain itself. It will eventually crash. Let's learn some lesson or two about this. I'm not gonna stay on this. We would never learn. Well... I'm serious. We'll continue in this cycle and it will just be laughable. Okay. We need to move away from this. Well, we have to move on. So that guy just advising people to go into a note. Okay, let me not dwell on that for now. Away from that. Away from that. The governor of Cross River State, Ben Iadi, has actually declared his presidential bid. But before we talk about it, let's see the declaration and what he said just yesterday. Leadership is given by God. God anointed President Muhammad Ubaray as the leader of our party and the leader of this country at this time. It is politically insensitive. It is completely non-African. It is not Afro-Politan. To walk into a man in the lofty of his seat and tell him I want your seat. I think by African morality, if we were to customize democracy to reflect the confinities that are specific to Africa, it will require a consultation to seek a direction than to declare a position. So I didn't come before the president, Muhammad Ubaray, to seek to declare to run for the office of the president of Nigeria. I came before him to seek his direction for me to understand how to align. All right, welcome back. That's the governor of a cross river state there, Ben Ayadeh, addressing these men after he sought consultation or consultancy as it were. Most of this, they have to step in consultancy fee because over time you hear and see that they're either consulting with IPB, OBJ, Abdul Salami, all they said want to gain from their years and wealth of experience. But let's see, your wonderful governor is actually declaring his presidential bid. And he said that what interesting thing he said is that he's not actually, he did not go there to see the president to tend that he wants to be his successor but just to get his nod. And he said something again that eventually, if his party were to choose the former president, Goodluck Jonathan, he would have throw his full support behind him. I mean, first of all, it is very interesting that everyone has a right to be part of the race. So we all have a right. I mean, as a matter of fact, I just probably want to declare my interest to run for presidency. Why are you clearing your throat? So, I mean, just to say that it's a constitutional right for everyone. So you have a right to vote and be voted for as long as you meet the requirement, you're not a criminal, even though you have several criminals that the Lord have not caught up with. So you have a lot of people who have offended the state and have done a lot of things but the law is yet to meet up with them and so that's why they're working as free men. But on the other hand, I think that it's a lot for the APC right now. So it's quite interesting that you see a lot of people being part of the race. In his statement, he's saying he doesn't want to succeed him but he understands how to align them. So I really don't know what the agenda is. There might probably be an agenda that we do not understand with the APC. You have a lot of persons. He's saying that he's gotten the approval of Mr. President to align. He's interested and that's why he's putting it out there. So what's the, it's politics and politics is about interest and so interest would always be, this is just the game. So people would play that game. It's okay. The president wouldn't have said to him, I'm not holding brief for the president but the president would not even tell him not to run or to run. And so we all need to understand all of that. But it would come back to the party politics. And so like people always say at what level. So right now you found out that the APC is so grappling whether or not we're going to go via the consensus or we're just going to have direct or indirect parameters. It's totally dependent on, you know, the parties at the party level to decide who becomes the flag bearer and on the largest scale. You also know that the party would have an influence to some extent, but really fingers are really crossed. So maybe when we get to that point, we'll talk about it. The sub-persons have rightly stated that, I mean, if you look at the cross of the slide, you can't really, you know, begin to put the pens, I mean, put the dots and cross the T's as regards some of the policies that he has put out. So it is totally embarrassing for some people to say that you have him saying, I want to become president. What have you done? Let's even begin to look at your antecedent at the state level. What's going on? What's the, you know, the level? He sounds, you know, very ambitious. Nobody can be unvovicious. Like I rightly mentioned, you could also, you know, decide that you want to become president. So it's okay. It's just a normal thing. The constitution has not limited anyone. And so the party would decide who becomes a flag bearer. And then maybe when we get to that point, we'll definitely talk about, you know, the ambition of Governor Ben Ayati of cross of a state. Well, in the meantime, fingers crossed and let's see what the party does. Yeah. And I know before time or before long ago, you will get to see more declarations, a lot of people, you know, coming out to declare their interest. And the thing, the question for me would be, what's your pedigree? What history do you have? What have you done at the level that you are at the particular moment? Some people, they have never really had any connection with governance or with politics. And yet they say they understand the terrain and they just want to, you know, leave, you know, that the lifelong ambition of wanting to be president. Like you said, the parties will eventually decide who would be bearing the flag and to contest Com 2023. Let's move away from Ben Ayati and his president short bid. There's also a video trending right now. Maybe we'll just take it and we'll come back and talk about it. It's about the Nigerian hunters and the hunters association they wear, you know, the coat in the latest hair. No matter what she has done, nobody has the right to just coat your hair just like that. And to the extent of the public, it is so embarrassing. What could she have even done? I mean, who gave them such rights? How come they could just go about doing whatever they feel? You know, when we have laws, when we have a democracy because people can not just be tormented just like that. We're just hoping that, you know, so we have a long way to go just before I get into that. We have a long way to go as a people and as a country and we constantly talk about, you know, police brutality and how the police have manhandled Nigerians over time. We see that, we complain, we have been speaking about it. One of the reasons why you have the hashtag and says protest. But if you look at those as a people, we're not even different from the police. I mean, we're just, we're just acting. Good weather to our fans all the time. So what is even the moral justification to begin to demand? It's not a justification for the police right now, but I mean, let's be very realistic here. So you begin to ask yourself, what is the difference between the Nigerian people and, you know, the behavior of the men of the Nigerian police? The difference just because they have the uniforms wearing and so we're not just very different from that. They were born here so they actually drink the same water. So they act like Nigerians would ordinarily. So it just brings us back to the fact that as a people we do not understand the rights that we have. Maybe we don't understand. We have a long way to go with orientation, with, you know, educating the people to understand the basics. It's that path, it's in the constitution that people need to understand the people have a right. I mean, that's too personal and that's very, very archaic in 2022 that you have this with all of the consent. I mean, if you say that the Nigerian hunters, we're hoping that they will be hunting animals or probably even hunting animals might some point be a crime. But probably look at the security consent. Why don't you channel your energy? So how does the color of a hair of an individual if you decide to go redhead, blonde, brunette, it is a personal lifestyle. So because at the end of the day, when you look at security threats, you talk about the fact that someone would be a threat if, you know, your peace and all of that has been questioned. Now, you having a blonde hair, I could decide to have a blonde hair. I could decide to do whatever I want to do with my hair as long as it doesn't threaten, it's not a threat to national peace and security. And so what was done is totally barbaric and very archaic in 2022. I don't want to begin to say the 21st century because we have actually over. But, you know, yesterday, someone who's actually from Bainway State, a very popular person said, oh, Bainway is backwards. Always in the news for the bad reasons. I mean, look at it. You know, you still have a lot of security concerns right there. So why don't this individual channel their energy to the issues? It shows you where reflection of who we are. I mean, you see our government, it's just a reflection of, you constantly see what we pay attention to, issues that are not even of national interest or concern. And that's what we usually channel our energies to. And so you see policies don't affect it. Big on top of the, you know, anyone who wants to exact their energy and power, should look at security issues. We have the Boko Haram. We have the bandits. You have the all sort of criminal element terrorizing the peace and integrity of the people. And that should be the focus. So if you think that you have a lot of energy, maybe you channel that, you know, just go. Channel your energy to our start. It's quite unfortunate that we have to deal with all of this. Yes, we have a whole lot of bogging us as a people. So we don't really need to be tormented. We don't need to be brutalized. When we know the issues are plaguing us every day, let's not add to our worries. Let's not add to our plagues because we could do better. And I just need some sort of relief sucker. So we don't really need to add more. How did they say it? What's the word? What's the word? Poor guy. What's the word? It's all about the injury or something, or maybe petrol to the fire or whatever. The thing is that let's just channel our energies. If we're sad that we're the responsibility of hunting or maybe trying to do internal security, let's focus on that. Let's go to the forest. Let's go to the poachers and hunt down the games. And of course, those terrorizing Nigeria and maybe your state banter, but don't take it out on some girl just because she decided to make her hair blonde. She might even look very good in that. Okay, that's another conversation. Well, that's the much we can take on top trending this morning. We'd definitely return tomorrow. But more interesting conversations, generating reactions in different spaces. In the meantime, let's get back. And when we return, we'll be looking at the pages of our national dailies. Please stay with us.