 You're welcome back to the breakfast. Let's now start off the press. Let's analyze the papers this morning with Ms. Lachille Johnson. He's a chief lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ. Good morning, Mr. Johnson. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank God it's Friday. All right, not a lot of enthusiasm but let's see if the papers make us smile. Daily independence, PDP enlist former ministers, governors, ex-governors to end crisis. Says it'll emerge stronger, better, more united. At two Kusaraki elders call for calm reconciliation. Weakest storms out of meetings, says the condors dividing governors. Four NWC members withdraw letter of resignation. Sultan says we must not be deceived, things not getting better. 35 core members test positive for COVID-19 at Ogun NYC camp. Cannell elders ask court to hasten Southeast exit from Nigeria. Sensation, not solution to current challenges, that's according to Governor Ganderjee. Okorote says Ibu, not asking for special favors but level playing field. Group petitions US-EU to stop sales of arms through Nigeria. Messi, Barca pass ways over the Liga financial fair play. Also on the Daily Independence, bandits abduct Zampara speaker's father, uncle, five others. Lagos assembly slashes pensions of former governors, deputies by 50%. Seven states to the pilot federal government world bank, $50 million water scheme. The minister is saying water resources be all controversy instigated by misinformation. Lastly on the Daily Independence, O'Neill. Former Cannell Military Administrator is dead. All right now let's move to the punch newspapers. Let's see what we can find. The big one on your screen there says Relief for Secundice as PDP-BOT Tackles Weekend rejects interim ex-goal. PHF teams say Secundice must complete tenure. Fault party chairman's handling of crisis. Board set up a conflict resolution committee, caution members against unguarded utterances. Army arrests fake masked policemen with 50 bags of Indian hemp in Undo. Abducted Baptist students, parents Batu to raise fresh 300,000 levy. Angry Ocean residents storm police station as bank robbers kill constablery. Also Lagos assembly slashes ex-governors jumbo pay by 50%. We can also find here Federal Government and Holland float model Ruga Hub in Nassarawa, Wu States. Lagos gets 600,000 Moderna vaccine doses. Cross River gets 105,000. Also on the Pontus Monin, NLC demands electricity tariff reduction agreement implementation by December. Blame States not Federal Government for resident doctor strikes as a Haniri. Situation gets getting worse. Lack of food, fueling insecurity says Sultan. And smuggling, fuel smuggling, DPR to track 33,000 filling stations. These are some of the big ones on the punch newspapers this morning. On the nation, PDP crisis, elders fail to halt Uchi Secundice removal plots. 28 member panel raised, party chair reports rebel youth group to BOT. PDP addicted to crisis, that's according to analysts on the nation. Above the headlines, bandits attack 10 councils in my state daily, says Masari. Lagos assembly cuts ex-governors pension by 50%. Oye Tala promises action on NSAS panel report. 41% of choir teachers, Sean classrooms says governor. One killed in Oshun bank raid. Roe overproposed Iqiti 19 LCDAs. Koko Yab nutrients, good to combat COVID-19. 35 com members test positive in urban camp. Also on the day on the nation newspaper, World Bank, $50 million for water project in Delta. Iqiti, five others. CBN recovers 89.2 billion Naira for bank customers. Alas, they're on the nation or you're to repatriate beggars. The Guardian News whippers comes next. Crisis lingers as PDP Board of Trustees fails to reach consensus. Fresh peace panel set up to resolve crisis. Members split on wiki, Secundice feud. Also wiki's presence generates controversy as party confirms his membership of Board of Trustees. Third wave hits harder as 35 Ogun core members test positive, 18 in Niger. And fear grips residents as split to deaths rise to 40. Fulani government burns 75 houses. Also on the Guardian, DSS ties insecurity to misgovernance and injustice. Bandits attack 10 Katzina local councils daily, Masantel's chief of army staff. Don't destabilize Nigeria. Embrace dialogue. Federal government tells striking doctors. And robbers raid or shun banks kill too. Still on the Guardian, CBN refunds Nigerians 82 billion Naira for failed bank transactions. We'll say good morning once again to GD Johnson. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning and it's a pleasure to be with you. Let's start with the PDB issue, which is the major story across all the mentioned newspaper, where the PDB is working on the part of service talk. The same, and the early stop, the demon rich, the party is going to, the better for the party and the better for Nigerian democracy, but for us to have democracy, there must be two strong parties, so that meaningful opposition can be provided. You agree with me that PDB has not provided any opposition to this present administration like the APC provided to PDB, or MPP is here and provided to PDB in the past, because it's critical for democracy to survive by viable opposition to be imprisoned. The crisis affected the party system to be a cause for concern for everybody. In a sense that it's not only PDB that is going to crisis, even within the APC, there are crisis party and that potends danger for the election. If the party are not properly stopped on, if the party are in disarray, then definitely we are providing an opportunity for tenor elongation, we are providing an opportunity for extension, or the state of emergency or whatever, because if the two parties cannot hold their hands together and they can't stand above water and they can't float, I would enact conduct election, if I did not conduct election in 2023, because if the party don't present candidates, if they don't present candidates, I would enact conduct election, if I did not conduct election, I would be legitimate government in Niger. So these are all the issues we look at concerning this PDB crisis and the one growing APC. Hopefully these people will be able to put their house in order and it shows something that is really wrong with our country. In the sense that if people can't manage their party and you are not giving them the responsibility of managing the country, both parties have demonstrated over time that they can't manage their party, they can't manage their internal affairs, we now give them the external management of Nigeria to manage Nigeria, give them that opportunity, so some other cannot put his house in order, cannot manage the country. So we have seen the spirit of mismanagement of resources, the insecurity that has characterized our system, because both parties cannot even manage their own internal issues. So we now entrust them to manage Nigeria, it's an indication, a strong and viral party system will lead to a strong and viral democratic system and a strong and viral democratic system will give you good governance. So the rest is to, the foundation of our public governance is the party system and the foundation of that party system is absolutely in crisis, in matters, the center cannot hold an APC as an interior of a ring, which is antithetical to democratic discipline. PDP cannot put his house in order, both the governor and the national chairman that are from the same state, they are from the same political family are fighting themselves. God will help them to put the house in order, because they don't put it in order, they can't put up a critical challenge to the APC that is taking members from PDP, left-right, left-right and center. You take that story to the story of insecurity, because if the parties are having crisis and most of the actors and the players in the parties are governor, they won't pay attention to public governance. You see the governor of Zanfara, in Zanfara, the speaker, father, uncle and five others were taken away by Bandit and the governor of Kasinastin, the home state of the president, claimed that ten of his doku-kopen, technically, have been taken over by Bandits, is the state of the president, that's the home state of the president of the Governor Republic. And we say charity, because if the state of the home state of the president is there for crisis, if a governor is coming out to say ten of my look, which people or which country is he governing, is he governing, is he governing over? That means that government is filling in his function, in his function to protect the lives and the property of his citizenry, if it's in a proper, well-varied democratic society. We know that that cost for resignation, some of that can't rule, some of that can't provide the necessary act of governance. We take the honor of resigning from office. That takes us to the story of what the sultan said, the sultan said we should not deceive ourselves, that things are not getting better, that we shouldn't deceive ourselves. If that is coming from the substandard of Sukutun, the supreme leader of the Islamic Council of Nigeria, if that is coming from Medusitins and not, we are part from Tbilisi, Tundibakari spoke the other time, he received stones that stick for speaking. Now we are hearing from the sultan of Sukutun, we have heard from the unappointed spokesperson of Bandit in Nigeria, Sheikh Gumi, who have also spoken about things not getting better economically for the people. In our classes, we went for that to call for the resignation of the president, that things are not better. And it is evident the price index of Sukutun are high, inflation is high, people are going through stress. For those of us that are working, we know the number of this stress call you receive and text messages you receive in a day from people calling from one relief package or the other requiring you for parity when you are not in government, that you provide the welfare services for the people. I also want us to talk about the story that seems to be the buzz here in Lagos, where the Lagos Assembly seem to have slashed the salaries of ex-governors and jumbo pensions by 50%. We have heard talks about this for a long time. What do you expect of the implementation? Those ones are not serious, they are just deceiving themselves. They are just deceiving themselves. Why should the Lagos State Governor, former governor, collect pension? Pension for what? When Babadakondi left, they didn't collect pension. I've been to Babadakondi, to Babadakondi because many times he lived, before he died, he lived in Nigeria amongst his people. Why should the Lagos, which we are giving a pension to governors, whatever the other lawmakers, even if you see what is slashed by 50%, it's absolutely ridiculous. Why? Why should we give, why should we give pension to people that are made for the state, through state preternate? Why? Why should there be pension? Pension for what? You are elected to serve the people and while you are serving the people, you have been giving your views. Is he employing, is he employing me? Did he work for 35 years or 50 years? Why should they get pension? In the first instance, I'm totally against the pension scheme for former governors of Lagos State. They should be ashamed of themselves. They should, any one of them that has collected the starting for collaboration would have started it. It should be ashamed of himself. Because if you call yourself a democrat, these people to start in the first instance, if you don't have people put it in place in the first instance, that's loving people to pay for. They are making, you can't eat your cake at good end. And that's what they have done. They should be ashamed of themselves. What are they slashing? They should, they should, they should repeal that law. They should repeal, we are, everybody should tell me anyway in the law, in the world, where you have pensions from governors. It's ridiculous to whether they call you back. They are just going to devalue their deceiving themselves. Sadly, it's not just Lagos. A comment will come in and will require them to pay back. The time will come, there will be an assembly in Lagos that will pass a bill and it will require them to give back to the state, all they have collected from the state. Sadly, it's not just in Lagos State that we are seeing this. No, it's Lagos State initiated, Lagos State, Lagos State, Cos River State, Lagos State, Cos River State initiated in 2007. No, Lagos State is not part of state initiated in 2007. It addresses Lagos was, was the state that started it and its absolute nonsense. And some of us spoke to it in a visit before it got into the public domain. All right, Mr. Johnson. Yeah, sorry. I want us to, you know, still speak a little bit about insecurity. Pontius Monin says, abducted Baptist students, parents, Batu to raise fresh 300,000 Naira Levy. I want your response, you know, and I know that we've spoken about this over and over, you know, but it's going to be interesting too. You have resorted to self-help. Yeah, and that's what I, that's what I want to ask Mr. Johnson. How have we gotten to a place where, you know, Nigerians can be in captivity for this long and it doesn't seem like the Nigerian government is that, is concerned, you know. It doesn't seem like there's any extra effort that they wake up every morning trying to save those kids. I've not, I've never seen a hostage situation in any other part of the world that lasts this long and it, you know, there's no effort, you know, from the government. Doesn't seem like there is. Well, and the first, the way you want to have a government, a government is meant to protect the lives and property of its citizenry. That's the onerous responsibility of any government and we have been left to self-help. The parents have been left alone. If you saw what the governor of Agnosti said, he said it, and we have been made to believe that where government is headless, if anything, she happened to you, you are over it on your own and it's, as you see, it's, it's normal, it's normal, it's normal because you are not old, you are not held government accountable for its responsibility and people have lost faith in government. They have resorted to helping themselves out because what is the value of another Nigerian life? Well, people that don't care about the quality of roads they construct for you, to put down the road by accident, they don't care about the health sector when they are sick, the, the, the flower abroad. They don't care about the educational sector when they're, when, when as you go and start their own children go to school abroad. So what they eat for food are told you, all you need to do is to go to the state house banquet and dinner and look at what they serve every night is for the food. They close the border that we shouldn't import rice. I want to challenge you to go to every state house and see that it's imported rice, they are eating when they are eating rice. So it's, it's, it's, it's a case of animal farm. It's a case of animal farm. One rule for you, the other rule for us. We are both the law and there's nothing you can do, you can do, you can do about it. And if you come to, if you come to an air, if you come to an air, if you come to an air, it might not be in our own lifetime, but it might be in another lifetime that it will get you the situation that there will be good. People don't understand that in, in, in France, France was ruled by kings and queen in the past. He became a king of the past through French Revolution. And the people said, you know what, we are no longer going to be ruled by a king or a queen. And in one night, during the French Revolution, many members of the Florian family were gluten, their head were cut off and chopped off because the people were important against, against, against the oppression of the monarchy because of the insensitivity of, of the monarchy. And we have seen a situation whereby across both from local government to state, state to future, government being insensitive to the needs and the plight of the people. And they are comfortable with it. So, because the people see that when they learn to govern, government is not willing to help them. So everybody, everybody has decided to solve his own problem by himself. Take the good by his own. How will they kidnap school children in your country, in your state? Are you comfortable with it? Are you fit to call yourself in government? Are you fit to call, which, which state are you going in over? If you're to call yourself in president, which country are you presiding over? The country in which 10 of the local government in your home state are being taken over by bandits? My, my goodness, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is wrong. Okay. Lastly, Mr, Mr Johnson, sorry for that interruption. But, um, finally, I wanted us to talk about this strike with the National Association of Resident Doctors. It's been going on since Monday. And, uh, uh, Henry here is saying that, um, the people that should be blamed as state governments, not the federal government. But we remember that, you know, the reason why they say they're going on this strike is because all the grievances that he had put down and had been signed by the government in a memorandum of action had not been implemented but he's saying that the federal government is not responsible for that and that it's the duty of states. So my government would be into phone. Why should we have national association resident doctors? Why should doctors collect the same salary throughout my year? It should be state-based that will let each state have its own salary structure so that people still can attract them. It's only an example you have to invite salary structure. The health workers that work in NHS in United Kingdom don't collect the same salary. Those of them that work in London area collect more salary than those that work in other places because of the high cost of living in London. So why should the medical doctor in Ligos be collecting the same salary with the medical doctor in Shokutu? Why? Why should we have a national salary structure for doctors, for university professors, for lecturers of university? This thing should be state-based until we make it state-based. We will be having this type of nonsensical national crisis that we have that doctors will go and strike which is against the oath they swore when they are being adopted as doctors. Their responsibility is to save lives. However doctors too have their own lives to live because it is when they are alive that they can save lives. So when a doctor cannot meet the basic need of himself and his family and we expect him to perform the surgery then that's two days waiting to happen. So as I said my government would be into phone. One we need to separate this. Let the state negotiate. Let the state be state-based. Let's say it is because of the long years of military rule that has uniterized a lot of things that can federalize a lot of, let it not federalize labor, military rule, even uniterized labor in Nigeria and the other we go to that the better for us that we federalize labor so that each state has its own labor law and a payment structure for its staff and its workers. So that's the only way to solve this problem. Otherwise we're still building this cycle that doctors will go and strike and they should be in the hospital not having doctors to attend to them. In the meantime they've gone on strike. The minister of labor and productive they should be ashamed of themselves because he treats it for my doctor and can't find a solution. We'd have to wrap it up here. Thank you very much for your time and for your okay. Have a great weekend ahead. That's where we of course take a break out of the press. We're coming back with today in history and we're going to be talking still sports. The 3rd of August apparently was the day when Nigeria won the Olympic gold in football and you know that's what I'm going to be sharing. It didn't happen on this day but well sometime in August in 1996. Exactly I'm going also to 1996 to talk about when we had the first African woman win gold for the country.