 The search for a running mate has started with the emerging self-former governor of Lagos State, Ashwa Jubola Ahmed Tinbu, as a presidential candidate of the all-progressive Congress. Now, what are the options before the APC and its implication? Oh, also on the breakfast, Niger's road to Ivory Coast in 2023 kicks off with a much-needed win in Group A of qualifying face with Nigeria defeating Silverloin. Don't forget, we'll also be looking at today's newspaper headlines analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Interesting morning today, we're here with the breakfast and plus TV Africa, Mercy is looking so bright. Because of one word? I don't know if you want to blind the viewers, but you're looking immaculate this morning. Thank you so much and you're looking great as well. Yes, yes indeed. There was no presidential primary for me that interested me to keep me awake last night. So, you know, the thing has come like a football match. You want to see who's going to win, you know, the drama and all that, but that's the beauty of democracy. Of course. And I think the good thing that Nigerians can take away from all of this is that democracy is actually at work, whether you like Tinbu or not, whether you like Atiku or not, whether you feel like they're the devil, the fact is that the people voted who they wanted to vote. And so, democracy is at play. Kofi, you know this conversation would actually not end if we continue with this pattern of thoughts that you hold right here. But a lot of businesses are saying that, you know, the outcome of every election is not necessarily because of the choice of the people, but it's been influenced at the end of the day. And so, you have different factors. When you say that poverty is top on the table and therefore you have the money back politics playing, then you can always predict what will become, you know, the outcome of every elections, be it primaries or the general elections. But a lot of businesses are very... But a lot of politics are not... But a lot of businesses... ...voted and they voted counted. Of course. That's what we're saying. We're saying that whether or not, you know, these elections actually happened or they were actually influenced by different factors is another, you know, conversation like I rightly mentioned. Well, we need to move away because we cannot. I'm simply saying... Kofi, we need to move away. I'm simply saying that at least... Yes. The process actually took place. There was a process that was transparent, whether influenced or not. No, you can categorically state that it was transparent. And Kofi, that's what I'm saying. We need to move away because if we need to go through an election happen and that's it. Whatever happened behind it, it's important. Well, let's go to our top trending stories today. Mercy. Well, it's good to have you join us this beautiful Friday morning. A lot of people would say, thank God it's Friday, but I'm not sure that those in this profession might also be saying all of that. You know how it is. Well, set up with our top trending conversation, top on the burner for us is the fact that those terrorists or terrorists, if you like to say, responsible for the award church massacre have been apprehended. And these terrorists were talking about the killings that happened in that church, St. Francis Catholic Church at Orwell, and those state. We hear that they've been apprehended and been taken to Accura. That's the state capital. What a lot of people have been asking. And if you look at the reaction that have generated following these attack is the fact that the persons are saying those who are responsible for this act should be brought to, the law should take its course. Justice should actually have its way. Justice should be meted because we see time. If you look at it, whatever the situation is, whether it's blasphemy, whatever it is, for every time you take the law into your hands, the Constitution is very explicit. We're talking about the criminal code here, and mother is mother. And we say that the police has settled with the responsibility of ensuring that the civil rule, I mean, you know, in the civil society, it's the responsibility of the police to maintain all the protection of lives and property. That is the core responsibility. But fingers across, it sounds like a good thing that those who are responsible suspect have been apprehended and let justice actually take its course. Well, we're told that the National Security Council yesterday blamed the Islamic State West Africa province. Sorry about that. I swapped for the attack on that St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church yesterday. There was a National Security Council meeting in Abuja, presided over by President Buhari that held at the Federal Executive Council chambers. Now, minutes of the interior, of the minutes of interior, I wish I was addressing press men said that the security agencies had been able to narrow this down to icewap. So this is a new development to see the confirmation that icewap is actually behind activity not just in the northeast or northwest, but in southern Nigeria. The game has changed, mercy. And the war has been brought to our doorsteps. It's been at our doorsteps, but for those of us in southern Nigeria, we've had to only hear about terrorist attacks and pray for our brothers and sisters up north. But now we have to pray for our brothers and sisters up north and also pray for ourselves as well. Don't know if you've seen the pictures and the videos of those who were said to have been apprehended and the daggers that were seized, those daggers are very, very quite scary. I mean, I'm sure we won't swipe, it can just kill anyone. But it remains to be seen what level of threat, because terrorism has to have different levels of threat that they can come with. But the police have been directed to apprehend everyone who is involved in this, not just the, or incident, but involved in terrorism in the southwest. But the interior minister is saying that our attack has no ethnic or religious connection. You know, saying it's not an attack on Euro bars, I wish I live myself is one. Having been a governor of this same understate, you know, this same understate, it was governor of this same, same, I think it was governor of Washington state rather. So, but he's a, he's a Yoba, he's on the southwest. And for him to come out to say that this attack is not on, doesn't have an ethnic or religious link or connection, I think that we can actually take his words to be serious. He says the group has nothing to do with religion, but it's called Islamic State in West Africa province. So that would be hard to sell to Nigerians who, especially those on the southwest who think that it is time to arm themselves or time to defend themselves against the intruders. You know, people who have a different idea of how to implement the religion of Islam. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Scourages are on top of the situation and we've seen people being apprehended. They've been able to tell us who is behind this, you know, so I think it's progress has been made. Unfortunately, the debt toll keeps rising and those who have died cannot be brought back. So that's the sad part of all of this. Well, we move away from that. Now, top trending, we get to the order story or conversation that's gotten a lot of Nigerians talking. It's about an activist Aisha Yusuf, who slams Nigerians for always voting people who don't care. And she lished out on Nigerians for picking politicians who don't care about them to lead. That's shortly after, you know, the APC primaries and she's just talked about that. So you have a lot of people reacting to that particular comment, following the fact that she's very prominent activist in Nigeria. Indeed, Aisha Yusuf is, people forget, do you think Aisha Yusuf is from northern Nigeria? She's actually from Medo state, you know, so she has a balanced way to balance things out. Speaking as somebody who, you know, has an understanding of different aspects of Nigeria. When it came to the ensign's progress, she was very active. When it came to the, what do you call it again, to bring back our girls movement, she was very active as well. So she is someone who when she speaks, people like to listen, always active on Instagram, on Twitter, you know. And so she is telling Nigerians, you know, maybe we don't, we're not ready to elect the right people, you know what I'm saying. This outburst of her came, hers came after former governor of Lagos State, Ashourjibola Amitiri, we've merged as the APC's presidential candidate. According to her, people should stop hailing the politician. That's Ashourjibola as a smart man and calling his move politics 101. You know, people have been hailing his political sagacity. I saw someone on Twitter saying that likes of King Sivogalu and Chikoka Moehu lost to a relative unknown contender should go to Ashourjibola School of Politics, ASP. Someone said a bit of a message, they should go to Ashourjibola School of Politics to understand the matter so they can know how to win in their party priorities. But she's saying people should stop hailing Ashourjibola, you know, she says in her words, in her words, quote, that Ashourjibola's emergence is called pure wickedness, you know, he says pure wickedness. The man is not fit for the job. And she said that she won the adjourns in 2014, you know, but they didn't listen. As a head of the 2015 elections, they didn't listen. And now she says history is going to repeat itself. And so maybe we deserve the people we're electing. You know, but I think what Aisha should know is that party primaries are different from many elections. I mean, party primaries, you won't call those people ordinary Nigerians. These are politicians, party men. These are the people who sit down to decide how to do things in the political party. So I think what she wants to see is what will play out or should play out at the general election. So party primaries allow the parties to do their thing. Let them select who they want to select. It's like we're saying in Pigeon, them, them. You understand? You can't believe Nigerians, the ordinary man on the street, for what a party and its delegates decide to do. So it brings us back to that conversation that we have not really paid attention to and we have constantly ignored. I've seen several comments and reactions following, you know, Aisha, Yusuf's comment. And then the people say, don't blame Nigerians, but of course this delegates are part of Nigerians. And so you can't take them out of the equation. But however it is, you have the fact that before an election has been conducted at the party level, you know, people come together to say, hey, this is who's going to become a flag bearer, you know, governorship elections, you know, the presidential flag bearer, what have you at least can almost be, you know, countless. But this is what people are saying that delegates should be blamed. Don't blame Nigerians, but these delegates are not from Afghanistan. They're not from other parts of the country, you know, the United Kingdom, whatever you, the Nigerians and they're part of the entire system. But do you blame the people? Because in a situation where you seem to have like a two, as much as we say, we practice a multi-party system in its reality. It feels like it's a two-party system. And that's why the people who have constantly feel like you just have only two. Even ahead of the 2023 elections, what are we seeing? What energy are we getting? What are the conversations that are going around? It seems like it's just between the dominant party. You have the APC and the PDP and to be very factual, we do not operate, you know, a two-party system, but we operate a multi-party system. But what's going on? People are just focused on the APC and the PDP. How do we change the dynamics? Because that's what it is. And people feel like, hey, this is what we're being faced with. This is who you have projected and we have no option. We have to choose between the devil and the... There we go again. The devil and the Lucy. I don't know if they see here at Oniru Beach. But anyway, we have to look. Let's look at the clip and we'll be right back to talk some more. Many of you shouting, oh, politics 101. What Bola and Metinubu did. Oh, it's politics 101. That's how to do. No, it's not politics 101. It is wickedness 100. That's what it is. Somebody who knows is not fit for a job. He's not physically and medically fit for a job. Takes on the job just because he can either wrangle his way through or there are people who over the years he has helped and then it is now his turn. It's a sense of attachment of his turn to now rule. And you're there gleefully laughing and, you know, all the permutations or whatever. Your life is being wasted. It's your life and that of your children and your children on board are going to be wasted. All our lives. That's what it means. Let me give you an example. I'm 48 years old. I have arthritis. I mean, sickness is something. As you come with age, these are some of the things that you deal with. What I could do eight years ago. I can't do them now. There are things that I could do when I was in my 20s. Very well, I count. So just imagine for a moment that because I have certain connection, I've placed people in certain places, then I not say that, and there's always been my dream to run for the Olympics. I will not go and put myself to run for the Olympics because I can. And then I can get my way through there. When there are people who can actually go there and bring in the gold medal, that's exactly what we're doing. And this is what Nigeria's have been doing. You keep people who do not care about you. Look at Artiku. Where has he been all this while in your life? He went out, he's chilling. You have people who are chilling in Dubai and chilling in London, coming to be your leaders. You're bleeding fully. This is the time. All the prayers you've been doing, the miracle you ask for, this is the time for that miracle. But no, you would rather put in people who cannot, you can truly see that they cannot do, they cannot even deliver on the job that we have. The same thing I was saying, 2014 I was saying the same thing. Why was Buhari running for office? Why didn't he bring somebody else? And today we are here. The same thing again. It's eight years of wickedness, right? All of us we suffice. There's enough evil to go around for everyone of us. Keep voting in people that are going to. So I think what I share with you is saying is the reaction of people who are, some people who are hailing in Tirupu as a deft and astute or deft political politician who's able to place political cards right and well to come to this point. But I share maybe overreacting because for every one person who is saying politics one-on-one in her words, you can find a thousand who are not happy at the result of the APC presidential primary. So I don't know if this is fair on the entire country. But A, like I said, it's a party. They have their reasons. APC is not only a party in Nigeria. You have 17 other parties as well. And so if one party decides that this is who they want, I think that is their decision. The voters are the ones who decided they want that person or not. And why we fixated on one party when you have 17 other parties out there? And I think Aisha should take it a bit easy because the people out there did not put Bola and Tirupu they didn't have a say in his decision. They didn't have a say in his decision at all. It was delegates. So delegates, of course, are elected. Delegates, of course, represent the members of the party. It's sort of an indirect way of primary. So it could be said that the decision reflected what the members of the party want. So what she's saying is important, Mercy. What she's saying is very important for people to be aware. I'm not gonna speak against any candidates, but we all know what Aisha is referring to. But like I said, there's 17 other political parties there, which I mean, I've seen the comments online and I would say that at least 80 to 90% this is just a rough estimate of those commenting online condemning and saying- But if you want to look at- The party didn't choose the best candidate he's not afraid for, to be old, blah, blah, blah. But like I said again, Nigerians have 17 other parties to choose from. I think that the issue of morality comes here to bear that's the number one issue. But you can take out the fact that when you want to talk about strategy, a lot of the Nigerian politicians have always told the part of the Machiavellian kind of politics where the end justifies the means. I mean, it doesn't really matter how you get it as long as you get it. So the end is the most important thing. So however it is that you get it, it's not important. The most important thing is the fact that you have gotten it and that's what we see play. So for the reactions. I mean, you would want to say that Aisha Yusuf is a moralist. She's coming from that particular angle and that's why she's actually arguing. I'm not sure we have a lot of time to go through top trending this morning on our plate, but we'd definitely take a break right here. We'll return on Monday with more interesting conversations generating different reactions in different spaces. That's it this morning on our top trending and we'll return to looking at the front pages of our national dailies. Stay with us.