 It's still the breakfast and plus CV Africa time for us to take you through the pages of the National Dailies as always We have Chris and one do who joins the conversation and like coffee would tag him Determinize Niger is good to have you join us this morning Chris one do Thank you so much I told her yesterday she she refused to accept I did it Thank you for for for confirming sir Thank you so much Chris. Well, we'll start off with the punch newspaper this morning as always our attention would be on the top stories quite interesting You have the subsidy saga. I'd like to say label fumes is IMF. That's the international monetary fund once the federal government against fresh borrowings and IMF says Nigeria likely to depend on CBN overdraft to fund the 2.6 trillionaires subsidy Do away with funds advise loans to you see NLC tells the federal government because they understand the dynamics, but usually what happens when you go to borrow you You just probably become a slave to whoever is lending to you away from that electoral act group defy presidency and holds protests today and You also have I have chronic diabetes other carry tells courts Hmm, I regret your last faction governor's aid disagree as minister groups ford's the primaries Asu tax federal government as renegotiation starts today and Just before we move away APC shifts convention for a thought time and fixes March 26 as new date Coffee, don't you find that interesting? Really really this and MPC introduces trans sheep in chargers and depot owners to raise fuel price You also have another one saying my generation should step down says or see bad Okay, I beg your pardon. That's a former president of Lushagon of Basangio Really really because some people would say I mean at some point he almost All things would have been equal. He probably would have been doing a thought time Bills proposes punishment for corrupt officials siblings or the beneficiaries. That's also what you have here Clearing Agents ground ports operation and beginning definite strike over Sibian's E Evaluation that's what the the punch captions and the South South APC lawmakers and Dorses Yahya bellow ahead of 2023 NSC DC arrest six Benny's for smuggling petrol out of Nigeria. This are the headlines on the punch this morning Okay, let's go straight to the leadership Newspaper today With the lead headline day is saying that they were the ones who exclusively reported The story of the APC national convention not holding So they have this kicker as exclusively reported by the by leadership and the headline APC National Convention would hold in February and the following writers party shifts exercise to March 26 holds Zono Congresses March 12 stakeholders kick as professionals back booni led Kertica committee more headlines on the front page of the leadership needs for electoral bill. No cause for alarm presidency I wonder if those alarm bills will go off anytime soon impeachment Zanthara deputy governor Shans pro panel. It's going down really hot there in Zanthara state new NNPC charges may trigger Increase in petrol price. We don't know what's going on I think a case of the more you look the less you see 15 million out-of-school children are potential terrorists or Basan Joe 15 million out-of-school children are potential terrorists or Basan Joe Interesting one there mother sells own baby for 120,000 Naira in Adamawa Lord have mercy and Oromani Lagos DPP's interim report inducted. Doen College staff Police. All right It's interesting one come in the front page of leadership, but there's a there's a picture there I think with some familiar faces mercy to you and I You have the governor of cross river state Ben Ayadeh deputy governor and my former vice chancellor varies who? the commissioner for finance In cross with some some known faces and them this must have been the youth rally They had in cross river state on the same day that the PDP was scheduled to have its own Rally at in the same city of Calabar. That's those are stories coming in front page of the leadership newspaper All right away from the leadership newspaper this morning We take a look at the daily trust and on the daily trust boonee committee daily dales on APC convention and Exercise fix for match 26 you'll be governor or this one's convention and primary same day Ex-governors quoted on that no ulterior motif in our decisions all eyes and Buhari as he meets governor's today What's Boko Haram told me in 2020? 2011 Former president of the federal Republic of Nigeria Ulusha gonna bass and just quit it on that and just a quick one He didn't mention that at the time he wanted to find out what the interest the path from being Interested in sharia that they had mentioned that their followers had no job and then the government was gunning them down And so that was also an issue but he's constantly also talked about The fact that people have had access to these weapons since after the civil war and that has continued to threaten You know our country Federal government loses three point six trillion narrow from delayed Takeoff of e-customs as what reps quoted to say and just before we move away federal government projects ongoing Despite Chinese loan delay lie Mohammed And that how terrorists bombed ncdc NSE DC commander five orders in Niger Presidency to critics don't play politics with electoral bills a unidirest student accused of killing Girlfriend turns deaf in court. This is some of the headlines on the daily trust newspaper And we move straight to the nation newspaper with these Headlines the big one there a PC shifts convention to March 26 and made grumbling is interesting the paper uses the word grumblings Governors protests change indefinite postponement plan and those are some of the Stories there on the front page some quotes. We have a number of people who have been killed in the last few years They have been killed in the last few years They have been killed in the last few years They have been killed in the last few years Some quotes We have we've agreed and approved that activities for the party's national convention Will commence from February 24 and terminate on March 26 at Eagle Square Only time will tell if the party can stick to what it says it will do There's also a small matter of zonal congresses of the party that have not held a shadow to hold Um In March and if you have not held your zonal congresses, can you go ahead and hold your national convention? These are the questions that The leadership of the apc will have to answer more headlines coming on the front page of the nation Government losing 8.8 billion dollars yearly to e customs row Government you're losing 8.8 billion dollars yearly to e customs row more loot refund coming from u k government I wonder if Nigerians are concerned about that as they will be concerned about what happens to the the refunded loot Inge gay asu meat over strike. All right. No love lost between those two Let's see what comes out of that caught declines. Aba carries release request Cup leads up leads ill health. He says is how had diabetes and stuff for some time Don't take vp slot or haneze cautions equal politicians I wonder if Chris candy one who has a did travel as Nigerian will bet that no single Igbo politician will hold hit that that that that that word of caution Tinnable urges or yet all act to be magnanimous in victory. He wants him to draw those who lost To him closer Many feared dead in Niger state explosion really sad electoral act don't rush buhari This is the special advisor to the president and media publicity saying that eagles versus black stars tie Shifted or culture for court today The man is he's going through a lot to wish him the best Mali junta sets five-year transition. Those guys are not ready to go away anytime soon We have another one. This is very important. May see the picture there has a headline Warriors over alarming sabotage of rail tracks Warriors over alarming sabotage of rail tracks and you can see a picture of some sabotage some thieves basically these guys go around Just basically stealing the metals and the steel On the rail tracks to sell. It's really worrying and really sad Court throws out suit challenging articles eligibility to run for president As well, those are some stories coming on the front page of the nation as well We'll leave that this point and quickly bring in our guests Chris kinder one like we call him the the tribalized Nigerian Mr. Wanda, good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time Good morning once again. Thanks for having me. All right very quickly. Um for ohanese telling Igbo politicians not to take Any vp slot? Are you confident that? No, Igbo politician will take a vp slot simply because ohanese in Igbo has said so So if you are you asking me because I'm an Igbo man, you are not just an Igbo man. You are you are you are also your bad man and the tribalized Nigerian Yes, we can't ignore the cameo Well, um to me it's not that here not there Um for me service is service at any given point in time where you are called about yourself In any capacity you should be able to put in your best whether as a president or whether as a vice president whether as a speaker Even senior president or even as a minister. So for me it's neither here nor there Yes, there is this agitation that the service For one deserve to have a shot at the presidency and come 2023 and There's a need for the major political parties to give the service a an opportunity to do that um, and I've always said that Um, the presidency is not something that just drop on your laps You don't just sit at home and wait for the president to be dropped on your lap You have to do a lot. You have to convince Nigeria's From across all regions to be able to support your cast candidate and it can say I give them the reason why So you don't just say that just give us the presidency one the president It doesn't work that way You have to work for it and you have to convince every session of Nigeria on the need to give you That and also be able to bring People that you think they have the capacity because it is going to be is a competition Um, and most often there are Nigerians who always go for the best want to go for the best So, uh, you always have to bring your first 11 Your first 11 must be able to play 90 minutes non-stop In order to be able to deliver The trophy to you. So the um The advice by onnes and ego that Is Candidates Pick up the vice president Slots is neither here nor here one. I've asked myself What have the onnes done to be able to be capacity within the political parties? Because it can't just stand and you can say give us the deal You have to party if you're not participating and you are not within the mainstream of the political parties Then there's no way your candidate will be picked as a presidential candidate So what they should be working now is be able to make sure that they bring for them. Don't forget in the last discussion There were so many South southern South easterners that I contested Um, b2b was the vice president to article of bubaka Kingsley moha lo was the presidential candidate of one of the political parties. So I come that they didn't get it So I will still restrict myself believing that there is the need for the onnes and ego and the people of the south Is from which I come from they have a lot to do to be able to convince Nigerians We have the people We have the people to do the job and I believe that given the opportunity they can do it But the senior citizen in their bedrooms and finishing Warnings and the rest of them they need to go out by nice The onnes said to have started moving around the south west south south the north and everywhere I'm trying to convince other regions on the reason why they believe that their son should be giving the ticket And people should be voted for and not just sit down and issue But there's a some If I'm correct, uh, once somewhere Yes, he's he's from the the particular region and so far we have been seeing his movement, you know across the country Also That's why I'm saying that we have So many candidate from the south is that uh, once it begs what I'm saying in the sense that Or onnes and people cannot just sit down in In southeast or in enugo or wherever they have their head office and issue By now they should be moving around and trying to call me. I expect to see them misopoto Going to see the various uh policy or social water valley does within those the north Try to serve their candidate And they have to what they have to do is to try as much as possible to narrow down the candidates to about two So that I just can have a choice when you have a little or so many people then there's a That's going to be a problem. So that is what I just say that I rather just be shown first Please answer that. Um, should we take off this or that? Is neither you're not there for me. All right. So let's take a look at the punch this morning and uh on the punch The caption says label fumes as I am if once federal government against fresh borrowings And now for the consent of you know TUC nlc saying the government should do away with funds advice and loans That's what you're telling the federal government. Don't listen to this institution. Don't borrow from them because uh, this The IMF has also been concerned about uh, how nigeria intends to you know fund a subsidy. We're looking at 2.6 trillion narrow Merci, I'm sure you even yourself You you will not believe that the government will not we listen to them government will not listen come with borrow This government have become a government of glory and they'll find it in their way and their gene that you leave where they can survive of a booting remains most of their Most of the problems they made to nigeria is the glory a boring only you need to see our death profile You need to see our death profile from 90s 20 2015 to date you need to see the death profile is running into trillions and trillions and All these worries are no worries. This government is not good. It's not going to pay back This government is living in the next one year. So they are boring for generations yet unborn Our children may be the ones that will end up paying back is intense First and foremost, let me also reiterate this for that. I have no problem with borrowing If you borrow the fact remains that what do you use the boring for? It has to be for capital project It has to be for projects that can be able to give back interest that we should be able to pay back Even the United States of America boards. There's no country in the world that doesn't borrow But in our own years that what we use it is sort of using our for capital using for a country current Used to pay salaries. We have to use it to fuel Government officials traveling across the globe who used to pay Legislators ate we used to pay simple service and rest of the at the end of it So you come to realize we are practically done except for one or two sectors Maybe you're looking at the rail delay Once they were the roads and one or two other stuff. I don't see what they do you use it for And we have a national assembly that is so blue side And that has become a rough bastard And they say the senior president said when it was the greater that whatever the president bring that they go to And there's no position to go. Whatever they bring they just pass on and pass on and that is it So if label like let's go from here to kingdom come This government will not stop itself from borrowing the country to borrow it But as rightly mentioned in the course of introduction He who goes at burrowing who's a story who continues to worry if you continue because we are not being creative in what we need to do economic Has actually not you know provided an alternative I mean if you're saying that the federal government should not listen to the IMF and all of the International financial institutions or borrow then what are they offering what what what other way are they asking the government to You know look towards Let's say i'm a journalist. I'm not of nlc I am speaking from the point of a journalist and i'm saying the fact that As far as i'm concerned we can be more creative economically We can look at there are so many things that we can be pretty What the problem we always had is that depending our dependents or you as only source of income and that is where the problem So we always Held on within this way with this this way that what's anything happen within the international market you are you set up then We run into trouble What is happening to our people to make see a lot of want to go and look at the The the top 10 Billoneers the high-term top 10 richest men in the world Do you know where they are in where you find them it It is the way to go that is where the countries are going. It's not all nobody Mercy in the next three in the next three years so many countries are doing the work with oil More vehicles are the main engine of oil. That's where they say but most of them are going Most of this is the companies are going into electric cars Okay, all right Let's move on to more stories from the national delizion because of time all the papers have Look at the The apc national convention not holding anymore in febru I think the leadership newspaper is touting itself as the one who first reported or called this the the the shift in the convention your thoughts on that because some are saying the party is confused and Such a confused party may not be the right party to lead Nigeria into the future The letter apart from these headlines the letter circulating Of the notice for the conduct of zonal congresses for instance and some is saying that it's it's shameful You know to fix a national convention without conducting zonal congresses And then saying that the party now went to pmb to get his approval for a convention knowing fully well That is a by-election on the same day only to then cancel again. What do you make of this this? inconsistency and sort of confusion that some have called it in the ruling of progressives congress That is what I call consistent inconsistence on the part of And maybe see this is the story that I was putting the And conversion don't forget that this conversion was supposed to go on the fifth of february this year before the movement Yeah, some of us knew that it won't go But let me Kofi The people have forgotten the fact that the current ketica committee of Bpc was selected to conduct the basic responsibility of this committee was to conduct this conversion That was where they were selected But two years down the line. They have not taken up the position of national executive council or committee of apc the the office They are so comfortable running the apc A situation where a thing of no one's supposed to be sitting there in the state and running his state Junketing from one state to another and move around the statistics state and And the fcd dealing with issues of apc rather than just being in the state and conducting the affairs of the state in the past two years is not And for me, this is just the way the big apc have run is government since 2015. You can see the This is just on the between what their ruler and what they say and rest of them. That has have to be ruled What's stopped them from conducting? Is it now you are knowing that you're supposed to conduct as you now Congress before your National convention and rest of me. We have barely they have barely won you and why everybody's interested is because of the fact that apc is the ruling but whatever Every aspect of Nigeria of Nigeria and so Whether i'm surprised that that convention wouldn't have started. Of course. I know the body language hasn't shown me They did not put anything in place. Don't forget that they said they want to read the president Unfortunately, the president jetted out to Euro and it just came back. They're meeting him today. What do they want the president to tell them when to hold the The congress is that the future of the president? The president is the president once he elected you are the president of the federal republic of Nigeria and not the president of apc The president are going beyond just being a fact. Oh, yes We're saying to be the leader of the party, but he has become a national figure Is the president of Nigeria is our president and I don't think it should be We're starting with the responsibility of Chris Let's also take a look at another one Let's look at another story on the punch newspaper And this talks about a bill where the senate is considering this bill seeking to prescribe punishment For family members confirmed to be beneficiaries or who have benefited from proceeds of corruption Especially by a civil or public servant. Do you think that this would help with the fight against corruption? I don't know how that will help Because it says you prosecute your families. I wouldn't know. I've not read the stories. I don't Beneficial is I mean the bill is seeking to say that if it becomes law So if you have a public servant or a civil servant who has been found to be corrupt And those who benefited from them would also be punished At times, how do you know that the whatever your basis is from corruption? Yes message if I come to you now, I say oh christ my my party Please stay this way. I just take Take enjoy yourself or that I have an issue. I have a problem. I walk to coffee as my party Please can you just give me some and we decide to just okay Send you send your back and cut and I just get an alert back down to million for which I know he can always give And tomorrow you not start executing coffee For corruption. We are not coming to meet me. I say oh because I benefited from How on earth do I know that? I don't think I think we should our But but don't you think that this this bill is actually seeking to take corruption To another level of being personified. I mean individuals would now have to be querying You know friends cronies and what have you about what they get? Messer our problem is not long. We have enough lot to do with the show for Russian We have Even the police we have the police. There's a fraud unit within the police There are so many lost our problem is not they come up with us of loss Our problem has always been implementation and not happy. We have enough love with the show of corruption. That is not an issue That is how they were going about the media bill and you know bill and rest of them It is that that is not the issue my own my own Problem is that how do you better the life of Nigeria? How do you put how do we put food on the table? How do they arrange in Nigeria feel the effect of democracy? Most Nigerians have no faith in the dividends of democracy From 1990 days and is it that because we have leaders who have their own sufficient Trust at heart not the interests of the people they are representing So when you say you are going about yes, I don't see anything If the law will be able to better that fine overland better what I'm telling in essence is that We have so many laws That that handle issues of corruption and rest of them these guys we always find ways of Subverting it and that is the fact if you do most of those that have arrested what happened today They take them to God and they just get sand. We just get them out of the book and that's just it Okay. All right. Uh, Chris can you want to let let's look at one issue that has been Uh, very very important to Nigerians and the papers have given it The needed coverage today The leadership needs super has his own version We're talking about the electoral bill or the electoral act whichever you choose to call it The leadership needs super goes with this headline electoral bill no cause for lamb presidency The punch goes with this particular headline electoral act groups defy presidency Hold protests today and that defy presidency is something we look at we go with They also go over to the The guardian he has his own take presidency warrants against stampede cheap politics Over electoral bill and that's the most interesting of the lot. I think presidency warrants against the stampede cheap politics over electoral bill And just a few lines on that from the guardian says the presidency yesterday urged nigerians to refrain From stampeding and this is an interesting word stampeding Muhammad Buhari to ascend to the new electoral act amendment bill insisting the president has 30 days to look at the document Uh, in a statement signed by the special advice on media and publicity Or the presidency said there was no need for a civil rattling On the issue it accused some interest groups of cashing in on what they consider delay in signing Of electoral billing to law by the president to foment civil disorder and the muddy waters Over to you chris candy wonder We as nigerians have the right to stampede the president. That's what we elected him We have the right is our rights is within our rights. So nobody should tell us not to stampede you Because we know the kind of president we have if you don't stop beating me We will not do what is supposed to be most often than not just go to the cooler And say he takes his time in taking decision as for us and all wait for him to take that to take his time to take that decision Um, let me tell you that the fact is that That electoral being at whatever you call it Need to be signed as quickly as possible because the inek has a time free to release timetable for 2023 election He has a time free and it has been stated that I don't know the sessions of those That um, I like um Art that you have certain period within which maybe to make this way if you don't that means give that time free Lapses then it becomes it is possible that we can take you to court on it For us, I don't know what the president is waiting for. He has said he needs to be He has said it before now But for people will say oh You know the the inek position know that you know, we need to you use the word quickly or as soon as possible with the words And but the president is through fermi addisino is saying quote people like you that one can just pity the ignorance on constitutional requirements, so He's not talking about you, but you're talking about uh, the president doing this quickly He's saying that people like you are ignorant about constitutional Uh, requirements that the president has a 30 day window within which to sign the bill or decline to To commit his assent to that bill or a signature to that bill to use a green pen on that bill So We are ignorant good. We are ignorant. We know nothing. They are they are all knowing you know, they are all knowing We are we know nothing. We are we are very ignorant and just ignorant But let me tell you of a fact that whether 30 days or not 30 days the president had 30 days when the initial Bill was passed to him to be able to sign that and he saw some flaws according to him Why he couldn't sign it? I send it back to the national assembly must we wait for the 30 days for him to be able to sign it? That is what we're saying Do you have to wait for you give you get specific? Instances what you wanted the national assembly to do you are talking of the issue of a direct primary That is what the president Have a disservice to admittal and he wanted that to respond. The national assembly have done that So I don't know which area don't forget also the agf came out to say that he's still going to look at the law As fast again And if it's not in the best interest of my engineers that you are very present But he has 30 days now What you're saying according to the presidency through feminization amounts to stampeding the president You're trying to rush him into doing this While since he's within his rights within the law, why not wait for the 30 days? We have to say we are repeating the same thing Profit the president had 30 days the first time he was passed Don't forget this is the third time that this bill is being passed to the president and he never signed So Nigerians already know that this possibility for the president not to sign So there is a given why it was not signed 2019 It was too close to the election and Nigerians What the the basic fact is that We have elections coming up before 2020 There's going to be the ocean election and I think that's going to be another election in a heat I'm not mistaken before 2019 and I think I've said that part of this Bill and this law is what we're going to use to implement. So it is not for us. It's Ina that's crying. It's not my gender I actually Is Ina, which I have said that except this Is signing to law that his heart seems to be tied that he cannot do anything So we are urging the president since we are very ignorant of the law and we don't know We're urging the president to please sign this so that we can move on so that Ina can start preparing for 2023 I don't think that is too much of a guess as in the president Well, well the president has so to march one If we're to look at the 30 day window, let's see let's see what happens within that time frame All right, let's also take a look at what the the former president of the federal republic has Talked about as regard security and Boko Haram and some people will be surprised that so we know the persons who are committing this crime How come we haven't I mean as a government who has the apparatus who has the powers What's going on? Is it bigger than the government? However, former president had said that yes He wanted to find out what has been going on and that's on the daily trust With Boko Haram and then one of the concerns he found that that apart from being entrusted he was told that Yeah followers had no jobs And then of course government was coming at them He also had mentioned made reference to the fact that the access to weapons has also become a major issue Since after the civil war and that has constantly, you know put us where we are now Talking about insecurity, but I'd like to show your thoughts on this premise what the former president said Well, the former president Has a right to what he said And I give it to him. Don't forget that he was a former general And he has been a three-time President of the Republic of Nigeria. So anything coming from a person I take seriously So because he's speaking from the point of strength and the knowledge But we all know that poverty breeds insecurity to a larger extent But the far remains that is it only in the north that we have poverty? There's poverty across the land In the south west in the southeast south south and rest of them So anybody just sitting down and says because of poverty that he goes he went into crime on rest of them That to me is not Is not good enough and also Come to look at it The first remains that the issue we have now is much much bigger than most people believe Because it has taken an international dimension before used to be a Boko Haram now. We haven't asked why and the rest of them Within the within Nigeria attacking our In the military attacking civilians attacking targets and rest of them just yesterday We heard that a bomb went off in Nigeria state and some Officers are one of the security agencies where kids so many people have been killed and rest of them. It's not just about Boko Haram now kidnapping and of people have become a norm. We are seeing all sorts of Killings going on in all parts of the country, especially in the north now. So I agree with the president. What I should be thinking is that the former presidential giving selections also But we're talking about arms Nigeria has one of the most porous borders in the world So many so even if you mind the borders the major borders They have been places where instances where these arms come in and rest of them and it's very difficult to mud them up But I believe that that's okay to agencies to continue to do what they are doing trying to take the word to the To the bandits and also to Boko Haram as to learn and make it sure that This war are getting security is well thought to a standstill if you are not able to do that Then that the country that in this step was also there in the election coming in 2023. Don't forget that Prior to 2015 we have so many places in in bonus data some other parts of that region There were the hands of Boko Haram and that less the movement of the election for some weeks Before we had a lesson and the nation is coming now If you don't be able to do that, then that means that some parts of Nigeria's will be franchised during this period as well All right, interesting Thoughts and analysis there from you Chris came the one do I guess this morning He's a public affairs analyst and he's joined us on off the press right here on the breakfast Thank you very much for your time Chris and I hope to see you soon Thank you very much for having to have a night. Hopefully by the time we have you next on the Show that's a minute. You would have been would have been signing And then without this into Ross All right. Thank you very much. Well up next. Let's take it. What happened today in history today being the 22nd of February 2022 We'll be right back on the other side to dive straight into our first major conversation