 Let's seal the breakfast in Plastivia, Africa. We take you through the pages of a national dailies. We call it off the press. Tunde Kola Wale, legal practitioner. It's on standby via phone to be part of the conversation. Tunde, Kola Wale, it's good to have you join us this morning. What money are you going for? All right, thank you so much. We look at the bold caption APC PDP orders acts INEC to adjust 2023 election timetable. Senate will bring back federal government and ASU to negotiation table. Ahmed Lawan has quoted on that, urge a student to avoid confrontation indeed. Insecurity in South East not targeted at headers may tee Allah. And just before we move away from the daily independence you have, Senate amend electoral acts makes elected official party delegate. 2023 presidency if Jonathan runs it will be wonder of the century. Umai, David Umai is quoted on that and PDP decides fate of presidential aspirant today. 35 people killed in North East in a decade. According to a report 2.5 million people displaced. 2023 presidency it's the turn of South East. Former president Lushagun Abbas on Joe and Adeban Joe quoted on that. Nigeria to end 663 billion dollar annual medical tourism. Threats to strike after expiration of 21 day automaton. These are the headlines you find on the daily independent newspaper this morning. And away from that one, we'll move on to the nation newspaper. Uncertainty in APC over Jonathan and Mephile Deshina. At the mother clients ex-president's proposal, CBN governor in dilemma, AFDB president mom, submission of forms closes. Why refineries are marbund by NNPC, TAM. Poorly done, that's and turn around maintenance. Electoral act amendment-widened primary's participants. A Navy arrests 117 suspected IFVs, six vessels. More protests over ASU strike extension. Let's see if we can take more. INEC rejects parties request for adjustment of polls timetable. Chidimma stabbed Atega several times says, witness or your senator joins APC, Dallas Kercity pushes more transactions to parallel market. Those are all of the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper. Let's check out the leadership this morning. PDP neck holds crucial meeting over zoning today. 19 days to party primary, Senate Amends Electoral Act makes president, governor's order statutory delegate. I take that again. Senate Amends Electoral Act makes president, governors and others statutory delegates. Underneath you find reps summon emergency plenary to carry out own exercise today. Act undergoes three amendments in two months. CSOs insist on resignation of political appointees. INEC, IPAC disagree over extension of party primaries by two months. APC, that closes sale of forms. Mogalu picks ADC nomination form. This are the writers underneath the board caption. And for 2023, Southwest, South, South, aspirants betraying Southeast. David Umay is quoted on that. Southwest, South, South, aspirants betraying Southeast. David Umay is quoted on that. And Nantes give federal government and ask to nine days to open varsity, or what will happen? I'm sure that this is some of the questions. Fioscursity extends to Northern states. May 29, handover is San Cro-San, says presidency. And Chidima confess to drugging and stabbing and killing Tagore police tell court. The headlines on the leadership this morning. And finally, we have the Guardian newspaper. The lead story just below the pictorials there. 2023, PDP may dump zoning as neck mits over at home report. Several stories also by the left and the right of columns. TUC threatens action over ASUS strikers. COED, that's Colleges of Education, workers issue 21 day automaton. 18 political parties seek extension of deadline for primaries, INEC rejects plea, insists on June 3. Federal government gives occupants 30 days to vacate. Lagos bridges. Sex condor, police of rainfall, Chris Lentz school's teachers. BAMI-She, BRT operation manager narrates how Omini Koron run away. Other stories on the Guardian this morning and editorial there are political parties and obscene money politics. PDP are running a distant fed in Egiti governorship polls. Cesar Sovey, a feniferae condemns emphily's involvement in politics request for restraining order. Pro Silva, area where a group urges Northern presidential aspirants to step down. All right, tenure extension. I will hand over May 29 next year. Buhari replies, clock. Cold the Bronx week is $50 million fraud allegation. Dagogo faces first charges to take plea May the 16. And Cross River PDP aspirants reject consensus. And those are all of the stories on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. Tunde Kola Wale, it's good to have you join us this morning. Thank you. All right, let's start with a daily independent newspaper. No, I beg your pardon, let's start with the Guardian. It talks about 2023 and PDP dumping zoning as neck meets over, or Tom's report. Now, we also know that zoning is part of the constitution. I mean, the constitution of the People's Democratic Party affirms zoning. But it feels like PDP is moving away from the principle of zoning ahead of the 2023 elections. What are your thoughts? It's moving to the next step of the nation. For any of its frontline political parties, it's going to be brilliant. If you want stability in this country, if you want some inclusive governance, if you want all the different regions, sides and sections of the country to have the center to build them, then the party should seek to defend humanly agreement that they have entered to be accepted into the presidency and some of the other plunge laws between the North and the South. That's the reason why we should do this. We should not allow personal ambitions to override the overwhelming pressure to come through. Do we still have to? Okay. Yes, I'm fine with that. All right. Still on the Guardian, there are other stories making headlines. But let's just take one that is particular to Lagos. It is something actually disturbing. Well, federal government gives occupants 30 days to vacate Lagos bridges. It is still sad that in the year 2022, most Nigerians are still living under the bridge. How do you react, Barista Kolaoli? Well, I didn't get that. Okay, I will take that again. Federal government gives occupants 30 days to vacate Lagos bridges. Okay. That is the difficult you have to call. How so? A lot of Nigerians live under the bridge on the same bridge as the North. And some of these other occupants are living in Nigeria. Some of the people, also in their living, sitting or kissing on those bridges. If they have a chance to go to a place like the ocean, they are flying. So most of the Nigerians are flying. You will be shocked about the many people of people that you are flying. Flipping on those bridges, are flying their sails or trying to hide these people under the bridge. Last Sunday too, I was at the Fenskinima-Ageki area. And I also noticed that hundreds of people have also started slipping and ending their living under the overage bridge that has been consulted at Ageki. It's a thing that does not decrease that people should vacate the place. Why are people occupying those places in the first place? That is the question we should ask. I would want to say that most people reside in those places now. Simply because accommodation in Lagos has not only become very scarce, but it has also become very, very expensive. That most Nigerians, especially people coming from outside Lagos, cannot afford to comforted me rent a house and living there in Lagos. Some people too, will find little more impossible to rent a shop or a space from where they can define their faith or sending whatever purchases are good they might want to sell. So, we should tackle the problems on the route. It is not the best that people should sleep under the bridge because you find out all sorts of kinds are being brewed from those places. You also sit on young Nigerian boys and girls making babies and rearing them under those bridges. You also find out if we're living under those bridges, there will be more sorts of narcotics. And God, if we have a nation who want to take care of those people and show that some of these mischiefs that I've mentioned are taken care of, we must be looking at providing very cheap or pyrno-accommodation for the less prejudices in the society. If you stop pulling down people's shop and stress it from where they are going, they are losing their capacity. They are losing their capacity. This is because we want a scenic environment. The primary responsibility of government is not to provide security but also provide means of livelihood for the Nigerian people. These are areas in which all the government that we have had since 1999 have shown Nigerians who are free. So make a decree a thousand times that people should park under those bridges that should stop replying themselves on top of the bridge. It is never likely to be threatened. No matter how many are left to make on the negotiation. Alright, let's move away from that now. Looking at a daily independent newspaper, the Senate is saying we will bring back the federal government and ASU on that negotiation table. But what difference will this make? Or what difference can this make? 12 months, ASU is saying that, I mean three months have been your part. Extending the strike by another three months. Now also ASU is also asking that the students avoid confrontation. We'll like to show your thoughts on this one. With these strike has been going on for so long, if the family or the national family were protected, if they were protected to the right of the students and also that of their teacher, they would have intervened before the situation generated to this level. I mean, this is common, there's actually less. But it is better to be made not to play with their thoughts. If they are able to come in and bring the ASU and the federal government to the negotiation table and the society, I think it's a plus, plus. For education in Nigeria, it's also the good news. So the industries is there and there are students. But I have my doubt that the proposal of the Senate will work. If we take a cue from what the authorities or from what the federal government has said, what the federal government is saying is that we do not really stop this to meet the demand of ASU. So if the authorities are not there and ASU is still insisting on those demands, then education might not work out the way the Senate would have wanted it to work out. The other area is there. The root of the ASU is far deeper than we are feeling. I have a suspicion that the ASU people have embarked on these bitter strikes mainly because of the kind of humble solidarity and allowances that the people in the national assembly that the Nigeria politicians are receiving because when you look at it, the university teachers who have taught a politician to earn a degree cannot earn $5,000 a month and the stupid all the students have taught if any biotech jobs become the position it has to earn millions of dollars on a monthly basis. The ASU is probably considering that this is not equitable at all. I have always advised that this is an capitalized stop that we have got to this country will need to end of their own rest. I will prefer for anybody who works for any Kedah government institution I would have preferred anybody who works for the state should end salaries from $1,000 to $3,000 as provided in the civil public store shop. What should be different is maybe the popularity of the allowance that they will end. The university professionals, for example, will end matching allowance the poor researcher allowance the poor end wardrobe allowance and some of these others will only allow us the drugstores and mercenaries to end other allowance nicer allowance and then some of these others allow us to and then we can take it like that if we have the university professionals and we started passing jobs by virtue of them for the people who end Zimbo problems, I mean Zimbo salary and the rest of the society is one another's property. Tunde, Tunde Kola Wale the question here is what difference do you think it would make with the Senate intervening in the issue of this disagreement between us and the federal government? Would he yield any result? Would he change anything? I doubt it. I doubt it. Just like I said, if I don't make the result, furthermore we must realize that there is no such a part of our life that is properly funded, you see. In both of your cities there are comatose sources when you look at the infrastructure the infrastructure that are run down but the issue but the issue of ASU is not just limited to finances or funds I mean you also have an issue that some persons have described as a bone of contention we're talking about the payment system. Yes, this is an order. Yes. What they are speaking is a criminal project that personally may should not have been visited by the federal government. Why would you ask that all investors, professors, all investors should be put on the same payment platform like those many people have done? What I would expect that this university should have is on payment platform which is linked to the National Investment Commission. So if you want any information you can access the payment platform of those universities to the university commission or you put a letter to the student that is the boss that is the way things are going don't do anything about it yet but today the federal government has awarded a contact with some information we are getting as part of the company and I just have a case for this company if not if you put them inside the material that is to say we will be paying those who are running the service for them in our currency problem and say what is difficult in designing a payment platform that the media people cannot do that the media can't do what the federal government cannot do that the university people cannot do but don't put it somewhere once you have all these contacts so that it will be paid me where you will be paying the company in our currency and be taking its own key back to in our currency. Alright Baistakalawali. I think we have the next government if people are doing it for animals by virtue of giving that contact to the company involved well noted Baistakalawali yeah so because of time so we can actually cover much ground let us look at all those stories also making headlines let's stay on the daily independent from what we understand the PDP the People's Democratic Party is actually going to decide the fate of the aspirant for today but in the news in the daily independent 2023 presidency it's the turn of southeast or Bason Joe and the Banjo are quoted on that one would the PDP deciding fate today how do you see it's rolling out do you see any preference given to the to the southeast for the presidency in Nigeria. If we are going to the equitable we should agree to the southeast I agree with both of Bason Joe and Mr. Dipan Joe the majority will work and therefore many others will and if it has ended there is no procedure whatsoever not to have totally integrated the southeast into the power equation in Nigeria we are assuming that we have the resources to do it in terms of maybe the activities of the ICOP in terms of the activities of NASCAR and some of these other things are good we will probably not have them back if we have done the needful in long time we will go so we will be considered to submit two or one second of the country continue to hold on to power when in fact indeed they are now to qualify hands in the southeast so I would refer the both the PDP and the ACC consider this critical issue and continue the presidency to the southeast but I also want to appeal to ICOP MSOP and some of these other things interminator groups so please keep their course because as long as they continue to achieve what they want to make away from Nigeria the rest of the country may not be comfortable giving the presidency or handing over the ruling of the country to them because the care will be as they might use it to achieve the objective of ICOP and NASCAR and some of these other groups are being accompanied for for a long time they go the MSOP the ICOP should adopt the Gandhi strategy which is not downright to achieve the objective they have made their point and they hope to clear this decision and I think the entire country exactly before a few people are now better disposed to the total integration of the southeast into the Mexico, the Nigerian nation Tunde Kala, well quickly we know that this would be a crux of a conversation but we'd like to share your opinion on this one it talks about the APC the PDP amongst other political parties asking for adjustment of the 2023 election timetable that's on the daily independent newspaper what are you talking about? what do you make of this? what the one speciality are trying to modular the political timetable because of their own inertia because of their own sadness because of their own selfish objective look at the running that we have continued to see in all the major political parties giving these political parties their life activity in change on the INEC timetable even new why didn't they put their hands on and follow the timetable this timetable was released in 2021 so there is no reason whatsoever for anybody to be clamoring that the timetable should be adjusted the other we would say that the different political parties should be willing to the INEC timetable and whatever conventions and nominations they want to do in selecting their flag bearer it should be drawn in tandem with the timetable of INEC we don't want anything that will disturb that timetable and also create the impression that the government that is in power today will not want to leave on 2023 insecurity is a major issue what's this thing with the daily independent and it talks about that if five people killed in the North East in a decade according to a report you also have 2.5 million people displaced also Métis Allah is also saying that insecurity in the South East not targeted at headers yes there is no doubt about this problem there has been too much feeling of you know 10 people in this country but that there is no longer any kind of meaning in Nigeria and that's for one of the reasons why this government are going to take it to task as regards its responsibility to provide security for the entire people of Nigeria as its primary responsibility but if I tell them I'm not even sure that only the Nigerian civil war that will not as much as ratified caldron people in the northern and the south-west part of the country it's majorly in the South East that the war was recombining too but now insecurity is no longer localized it is all about the country we should have a mission find a way to stop all these non-state actors from distorting our lives and from shedding the smoke of terror in the same people with what is happening in the South East I have also always said that blaming everything on myself blaming everything on my fault is not the best way to go or saying that my fault is the one targeting the full and the other might not make too much sense sometimes you might have a chance of a dissuade people just want to create run-in questions do propaganda do blackmail who target certain persons kill and name them and try to blame them on some of these services and make a goal in the South East you will recollect that not too long ago in the South East, yeah certain people were arrested who were engaged in kidnapping and they were trying to address like the people are needed for to carry out their nefarious activities invariably they were trying to reflect the attention that would have the focus of them if they address properly like your government they want to shift the blame to the full and the people and I think it's not the ultimate contrary to the reports that we've been having especially with this administration that I mean the security situation of the country we're on top of it and that we have handled it do you think as a country because if we're talking a decade we're looking at 10 years panning do you think that we have been very we have been in control when it has to do with the fight against the banditry or we're on top of the situation in terms of security 2.5 million people have been displaced mostly we have nothing in control of anything the government of this day and even the one before New Zealand will tell you they're on top of this just not to please a family among the people just to give the people hope is that a diplomatic way of having education they know there are nothing in control we have been at this war for about 10 years it started as a tiny thing in the North East and it has now engulfed the entire country even on top of it they would have put this in the box a long time ago but it is still not impossible to reinvigorate these non-state actors that are making life very difficult or impossible for our people if the political will is there what I have seen is that on the part of the government on the part of the head of security and the rank and file the political will is not there it would have helped for me that not many people are convinced and are ready for a topic enough to die for Nigeria so do what is required so then this is security because Nigeria is seen as a no man's land a nation that is not worth dying for and so if you have between the security between the government that are not ready or not specific enough to lay down their life for the nation when you are in the war thank you so much we have to let you go at this point we appreciate your time thanks for having me right thank you you are the best thing we wish you the same thank you so much to Nikola Wally he is a legal practitioner has been part of the conversation on the papers this morning looking at the front pages of the papers but the question comes to mind if we have leaders who pay attention to the news whether or not it would be anything to go by verifying and following some of this report that we have every other time on our national dailies but it would be a conversation for another time that's the size of it on the paper review this morning we will definitely let you know what happened today in history and when we return we head straight to our first major conversation right here on the show please stay with us