 Good morning and welcome back. It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We are set to look at the big stories making it to the front pages of the national dailies. Of course, we have Chris Cain de Wando, Executive Director of the African Leadership and Governance Initiative right here as a guest in other press on the breakfast this morning. Mr. Wando, good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much. Good morning. All right. Let's begin our look at the dailies this morning with the leadership, which is our first spot of call. Interesting takes by the paper. It pays attention to the economic situation in the country with this headline. Nigerians resort to cheaper goods as inflation dex purchasing power. Nigerians resort to cheaper goods as inflation dex purchasing power. The rider to that. Food inflation rises almost 100% in 10 years as Nigerians pay more for imported goods due to high exchange rate and lose purchasing power to economic realities. Food inflation rises almost 100% in 10 years as Nigerians pay more for imported goods due to high exchange rate, lose purchasing power to economic realities. There's a nice infographic of how inflation affects you. And of course, some of the things that they're talking about, they're broken it down there. An interesting take by the paper this morning. More from the leadership. PMB intervenes, approves separate energy's acquisition of excellent mobile shares. There's been some hula-baloo about that, and it wasn't clear what was going on, whether that deal would be able to sail through. But I think now the cost is clear, like they say, for it to sail through with that headline telling us PMB intervenes, approves separate energy's acquisition of excellent mobile shares. At the top of that front page, you have two headlines. COVID-19, only three states have attained 50% vaccination FG. I'm leaving Commonwealth Games with new record to my name, Amusa, is of course basking in the glory of a victory at Birmingham. More from the leadership. WIKE releases 2022. WASS results records 76.36% pass. WIKE releases 2022. WASS results records 76.36% pass. Lawyer asks Lego CJ to probe illegal eviction of court bailiffs. And US releases new African policy to counter China-Russia headlines on the front page of the leadership. We must not forget this one as well. A reverse APC. WIKE's loyalists differ on governors overtures to Tinnable. Of course, some APC governors were in river state commissioned certain projects. And video of the legal state governor and the company of the airborne state governor, all APC members with WIKE shaking hands, clasping and giving themselves high-fives and sharing jokes about how could it spin all over the internet. Interesting times in the polity. Over to the punch in the newspaper. And let's just take a look at some of the stories on the front page of the punch. The big one there, peace talks suffer. WIKE descends on Attiku's men. Peace talks suffer. WIKE descends on Attiku's men. And the riders to that headline. You cannot go to a Buja and hold meetings against me. WIKE tells PDP chieftains. A reverse governor uncomfortable with my closeness to Attiku. Senator Meyba is saying that interesting. Why I'm saying that is interesting because Senator Meyba is one of the people considered in the inner circle of, to be in the inner circle of WIKE over the years. The men who move with him, they don't have any designation, no office in River State, but they move with him when he's commissioning projects, when he's traveling, when he's campaigning, when he's visiting, going for events, when he's traveling. They are in his private jet in his entourage in the same bus as he is in. And it's interesting that the man, Senator Meyba, Lee Meyba is saying that WIKE is uncomfortable with his closeness to Attiku. It's interesting. And don't forget over the weekend, WIKE made a statement to give a statewide broadcast where he said that some politicians in the state are being used to destabilize and scuttle the security in River State with the meetings involving political thoughts. And so that's what you get. That's what you get in River State. The last rider to that headline, we will use our votes, we will use our votes against those who think River's doesn't matter, says WIKE. Let's move on. More from the punch. Shiite security agents clash in Kaduna 6k, you can see pictures on that front page that tell the story, or part of the story. Agric budgets hit 87 billion or 874 billion Naira. Food imports go up 77.81 trillion Naira. Didn't intend to give you a hot skit there. Agric budgets hit 8874 billion Naira. Food imports go up 7.81 trillion Naira, not 78 trillion, not 7.81 trillion Naira. Page 19 of the punch has that story. NUPRC-FG disagree over mobile acquisition by Seplat. WIKE releases 2022 WAS results with holds 365,564. Nigeria, three others to top World Bank debtors list. I mean the issue of the piling debt, both domestic and international by Nigeria is being of worry to quite some number of financial aspects there. SHOINCA knocks pirates' confraternity for mocking tenable. Ondo or Moteku intercepts 168 invaders hiding under cows. Kidnappers kill three abduct women, children, senators, relatives, and legos ibadon traffic. Hoodlums create tunnel extort desperate motorists. It's a bizarre one. Very, very, very strange. Never had anything like that. All right, let's go over to the nation very quickly with these headlines. Yoruba or Yoruba elder, your victory in 2023 is set in. Your victory in 2023 is set in. This rider says Southwest APC unfolds reconciliation plan. Ruling party's candidate will be different. More from the nation. SHOINCA slams pirates' confraternity for mocking politicians. Note that the paper didn't say tenable in its own version. Diarrhea Yamey, others regain freedom. These were politicians who had found themselves in prison. The rider to that says command confirms release. All right, so the out of prison. 2022 was wiped with holes 365,000 results. How to cushion Nigeria's rising debt portfolio by LCCI. That's the biggest chamber of commerce in the industry. PDP postpones NEC, caucus meetings as Atiku wiki rift deepens and Nigeria loses 400,000 barrels of crude oil daily to theft says silver. All right, let's move over to the final paper on our table before bringing our guest a daily trust. How FG injected 247 billionaire subsidy to salvage low electricity generation. One trillionaire power consumed in 16 months. Poor payment trajectory can be reversed. Experts, a daily trust, you know, showing a different direction from other papers as it's done over the past few weeks with a story that is of a different nature. That's a big story there. More from the paper, 670 cases for deaths recorded as monkeypox hits Ligas, FCT, 22 others. This is a serious story. What will our people health authorities be doing about this? We need to hear. Buhari approves 1.3 billion dollars or dollar ExxonMobil oil assets acquisition by Seplet. Darieh Yamey, three others out of prison four months after state pardon and 22.1 million KNs to elect new president today. Quarra couple changed woman for two weeks over wishcraft. We'll vote against those who ignore rivers, we can say in that one. And by the scale FIRS boss chase woman into mosque abduct Imam in Niger. That's Niger state. Now, we'll bring in our guest this morning, Chris Candy Wando. Once again, good morning to you. Let's start from the big one there on the front page of the leadership this morning. The economic situation in the country calling for attention and that's what the leadership has done. Nigerians resort to cheaper goods as inflation decks purchase in power. Chris Candy Wando, your reaction to this? Well, thank you very much once again for having me. The reality is announced. And I just have to say look up again. Everybody will cut it according to inside now or cut it according to his body. It's a so difficult for everybody that Nigerians now are facing the reality of the economic downturn in the country. And they cut across australia reach up or in the middle. We no longer have middle class. What we have 90 and I don't reach. And the points are that you are rich or you are poor. The middle class have been totally taken off the table. And 90 years now have to resort to making sure that they get the basic to the need to survive. They no longer spend on luxury. They no longer spend on things that doesn't have that value to their life. The basic things are now clothing, feeding and accommodation and transportation where necessary to move from one point to another. And that is what we find ourselves where we have found ourselves. We've been talking about the year that the reality we should be here. And it is there. And everybody should be here. So even the rich and the state that in their movie or Mexican opera rich also cry. So I'm not surprised. This is the leadership issue of Nigerians cutting down on their lives. I'm going for what we call cheaper, as they say cheaper goods. But cheaper goods also come with his own problem. Because when you engage in buying cheaper articles of goods, there is a possibility that the fallout of that may not just be good, but what options do we have between the development of that is what Nigerians have found themselves now. Let's quickly go over to the punch. We case overtures to the APC or the meeting with the APC governors in particular. So all of Lagos state and the devil mahi of a Boeing state captured on video. And of course, this is after the likes of Rotimi I carried alone, you know, and someone who had earlier visited him in Porakot Steel. But the punch is saying that peace talks suffer. We kid descends on articles men, probably referring to what he's been shouting or fire and brimstone in river state and warning anyone who cares to listen to be careful. The paper believes that he is going after articles men in river state. For instance, they've taken a statement from Senator Lee Mayba, who, like I said earlier, is he's been wikis in a circle and they go everywhere together. They say Lee Mayba is saying that the reverse governor is uncomfortable with his closest article. So, Chris, can you wonder why we thought that we can article meeting in Abuja last week that things have been on the mend between these two and in the PDP? You know, last meeting, they had a meeting addressed then to Professor Jerry Ganna. And from what we heard, the meeting, they came out of the meeting and the work went through that to a suitable and they are good to be more in treatment. Then let me just, let me talk on the basis of Governor Wajite San Wulu and the governor to reverse the article yesterday. He was there to commission. So, Walu was invited to commission a bridge that was given by the reverse governor. I don't think he has anything to do with politics. If you have been following the wiki in the past few years, you have been doing that. You have been inviting people and governors from different political parties to come and commission projects in reverse across party lines. It's not today's doing it. So, I don't see that connection between trying to move to a piece or not moving to a piece. No, it is not true. First of all, I'm concerned except there's any other minister in hand that has seen several in the past where he has invited governors from opposition parties. I have also seen that even where he invited the minister of works and house in Paschala, he has invited the vice president. He has invited some other governors from APC and other political parties. Even the Governor has invited several times in the past. So, I don't see the connection between whether he wants to join APC. I don't see that. But the fact for me is that all this slangling and all this rhetoric statement taken to Mr. Wiki and his handlers, I'm finding it very uncomfortable. It is high time that they come to a conclusion on this issue. The presidential primary was held. Wiki participated in that. Nobody stopping from participating. And at the end of it all, the party article, Abu Bakr, as a flag bearer of the party. And I remember vividly that during the Wiki came out categorically to say, can never be a vice president, which I can't get anybody. It was on tape. So, at the end of it, if I'm in your call, I don't know of that as the running mate. I don't see anywhere, sure, Wiki is going to come up with the rest of them. He's categorically stated that he's not going to be a vice presidential candidate to anybody. So, I think that the best thing in the situation within the party is to make sure that they are getting several consigns. But to me personally, I just see this statement being created to Wiki every now and then. It's just a total distraction to the party. And as a participant, I expect that the issue of the primary should be a thing of the past. And to join hands with presidential candidates. And the vice presidential candidates have been picked by the party so that they are will and will to take over power from Wiki in case it would be a reality. I hope that will be done as possible. And all this is being created now, talking now. For goodness sake, Uberspeak is just one out of his administration. There is no way, and the time he rules the president of Nigeria is not possible. Well, Chris came to one of the governors, the governor said that nobody has taken it to the table. He finally means that Uberspeak is still one out of his administration. They may be able to bring up a high level of vote, but Uberspeak votes do not have the time to take the president of Nigeria. And here they have the Uberspeak of Nigeria to do that. The better for him that it is the high time that it causes strength with the presidential candidates of his party to be able to make sure that they win a lead shot in 2020. The issue of the coming and as a presidential candidate of the vice presidential candidate is gone. And that is my own personal opinion. All right. I think you've covered all the issues as far as that headline is concerned. So let's move to some other ones from the punch on the front page. You see pictures of protesting Shiites in Kaduna. You see one particular picture that shows a gentleman on the floor. And the paper says that the security agents in the Shiites crashed in Kaduna. It also says that six people were said to have been killed in that incident. What are your thoughts on this? I feel that the issue of Shiites has been put to rest for a long time since the release of Erzavaki by the court. And I know that he has been at home. I don't know where this came up again and where Shiites are now confronting security agents. I don't have the full details of that crash. But this is not the best of time to take it because Kaduna has a serious security problem inside of Kaduna that is a problem. The bandit, Kitapas and Royals riot in Kaduna. You remember the train attack that was moving between Abuja and Kaduna. Also remember the attack at the Kaduna airport. There are so many other legals and the Kaduna-Abuja expressway is a no-go area. So there is a lot of security challenges facing Kaduna already. So bringing the Shiites into the map. I hope that this will be as quickly as possible. I do not degenerate into another track that is going to add so much short to the insult at what level of Kaduna. Okay. What are the people saying that a short statement by the IMN, that's the Islamic movement of Nigeria as a shared group, is known as stated that the incident occurred during the group's Ashura morning procession in Zaria Kaduna. So they have this morning procession they have from time to time. A morning procession which was observed according to them in their own statement peacefully across Nigeria and in different parts of the world. Okay. This procession was what started the problem between the security agencies and the Shiites. Remember with me that that procession happened in Kaduna where the convoy of the tentative of Amistad was blocked or something and they couldn't give him a right of way. That is the truth in and of so many Shiites in Kaduna so led to the arrest their leader and his wife. He was attacking himself not about four or five of his seven sons in that attack. So with the hack of security in the country now, I see no reason whether people are not peaceful. How the Shiites will start going on processions. Now we have been zero security challenges in Nigeria. Why would they say that they must have that procession and they have the possession in their compound or in the compound of their post-co-welfare. I don't think it's the right thing. I believe that this is not the time for such procession whatever they call it. If you say now the security situation might be there for NATO's no cost for that and they should be cautioned. And if they decide to do what they have to build them in competition with the military and at the end of it all they will be the user. They've lost so many members and I talk by now. I'm not the minister by make point in time. The cautious people move, the cautious people try to head down their level of activities in Kaduna and Taran, Nigeria. Nobody is getting get engaged in all this kind of content. We can be hijacked by bandits, by hoodlums, by kidnappers and on the other hand make the security situation in Kaduna and so many other parts of Nigeria make it very insecure. So I totally disagree with that procession. If I thought and the reason being given point. Okay, you're sounding like some of our security agencies who normally would get security reports where they're saying such a procession could be hijacked. Yeah, it could be. No, the part is that all of us have to security control. All of us have to the security control. It doesn't even need to be, it doesn't need to be an ideal to know what is happening. All right, all right. Let's move on to the nation newspaper and if you look at the top of that front page the paper is telling us that four months after they got their pardon Dariye, Joshua Dariye, former governors Joshua Dariye and Jolin Yamey have been released from prison. Dariye being the former governor of Platter State and Reverend Jolin Yamey being the former governor of Tarabah State. You know, they regain their freedom from the Kuje Correctional Center Abuja, the same Kuje that we've been talking about. This comes four months after they were granted a state pardon by the National Council of State with 159 others. So they're finally out. Your thoughts, Sir Chris Kenyanya? Governor reminds me of that song by African China, former West China, West China, John Mordee, who parented by the Khan Fighters and parented by the Khan Fighters. I hope you remember that song very well by African China. What is only trying to tell you is that the rich always have their way. Before we always have, we also always be used as a guinea pig when it comes to well, constitutionally, there's nothing wrong with what has happened. The National, I think, the National Council of State granted the governor of Dariye and Yamey presidential pardon. The word that has been described by the president progressive of MEST, they'll be released. And this was done about two or three months ago. I think that they just have to allow them to go. They are not the only one. There are some other people. But to me, this is a complete delegation of our fight against corruption. If this formative circuit is in their hands in the course of their state and allegedly, it wasn't allegedly because they were sent by the court. So they have been accused of stealing billions of Naira. I believe that they're supposed to have been allowed to go through the process. As a deterrent for so many other upper leaders who presently are also treated, to give this history, a feeling of need for an exiled country to wallow in abject poverty. I am totally against that pardon. Who am I? If the federal government, through its messy approaches, decides to set them free and give them pardon, oh, well, I'm good. But to me, it's a slap on the face against corruption. And I think that agencies like and the like will not be so happy with what has happened. Nothing they can do. But interesting, interesting, interesting. Chris, thank you very much for your time and for joining us on the breakfast this morning. It's been a through having you with your expert analysis as usual of these new super headlines. I wish we could take more, but unfortunately, we're out of time. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much. We'll be back with more as we drive straight to our first conversation this morning on the breakfast. We have standing by the national president of ASU, which is the academic staff union of universities, Nigeria's universities union. But before that, let's take a look at what happened today in history. And we'll be back on the other side. We're almost there. Just wait. Very soon, you will hear where we are going next. Of course, clearly, you know my stand. And my stand is my