 I seal the breakfast and plus severe Africa the African action Congress have condemned the use of caustic and abusive Divisive and threatening words by supporters of some leading presidential candidate in the 2023 elections the party through a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Femi Adeo on or Maintain that such use of abusive and caustic words have been heating up the polity The party maintained that by the action of these supporters of some presidential candidate The all-important 2023 general elections are being reduced to a regional Strive and scuffle that's ricks of religion bigotry and ethnic Jingoism the AAC stressed it's a matter of fact that the Nigerian space has never been this Polarized since it was established. No, thanks to the nepotistic clueless Regime that has further widened the division among Nigerians through very dangerous social and economic Inequalities now should we as a people and the space then continue to widen the trench through Divisive rhetorics of valent threats to one another all in the name of campaign These political party and groups stress that its presidential campaign slogan we cannot continue like this Speaks to not continuing on the path of ethno religious division that had kept the nation on a Retrogressive plane it other that we are clearer than getting out of the Quagmire and would not be through the parts that brought us here in the first place there must be a 360 degree Turnaround which definitely includes the respect for humans irrespective of age social status Religion or tribe and that's why a pan african party We urge a young people not to fall for the antics of the ruling elite This people you support even with those valent threats you used to one another have always been friends And will continue to protect their own class interests our path is the only party today that has put its interests Through our people-oriented Manifest and we continue to mobilize with without issuing threats to anyone adherence to Non-adherent the AAC will not Mute the idea of gagging anyone or group as we're Them believers in the freedom of speech and after speech well The the conversation might just go on and on and on but less quickly You know share the thoughts of our guests this morning for me a day who joins the conversation this morning via zoom it's good to have you join us All right Well, I don't know if this used to be something that's very common But it is actually generated a lot of consents from different quotas I mean this morning you also have the police who is saying and asking this presidential candidate You know to call their supporters to order. What are your thoughts? Sleepy It's actually a network issue. It's not asleep, you know, but we'll get back to him I think he's a national publicity secretary of the of AAC or the or your state public That's something we need to clear With him to know where the ways ways he's coming from but the African Action Congress They mess what we met where it was part of a statement. They issued and I don't know Is it because some things I want to say, you know, sit well with him. So I have to be careful But I can say them. I don't I think the party maybe I would like to ask him I would like to ask him if if this isn't a this isn't a AC Grasping at whatever I can grasp but to try and remain relevant in a 2023 conversation because nobody is talking about a No, no, no, but apart from that also they've helped and puffed, you know, they've done everything revolution now Nobody's talking about so you think that this might just be a strategy. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I want to I would like to ask him So, I mean, I'm sure you had the banter the conversations So is this a Like a young people say Jason cloud Even though I would have not to answer that question in another way or we go banter for banter, but I think we should not do that That would be falling for the antics of the people who want us to reduce those old campaign, you know to Some kind of banter and I'm leaving the very serious issues that should actually populate The 2023 campaign. So this is not a AC for clouds It is because we understand so well that this is the antics of the rolling class. They are the ones who This ethno religious conditions. They are friends. They don't fight Provided your class interest are fine. They are okay. The only time them fight is when there is a share Oh my family are you there? Okay? I think we're having that Okay It is not Every time for the antics of the rolling class the idea was when it is ethno religious They are trying that you see on Social media and that is why we are pushing the address like we have always done even during the revolution now Protests that you have to get to we have always called Nigerian's house to say see this is the path We need to move home. You cannot stop a 360 degree turn around Yeah, for me, so we'll say it could be argued it could be argued right by people that you know AC is trying to remain relevant, you know, nobody's talking about a AC Yeah, I'm just I'm just I'm just coming to the point. Yeah, you know, no one is really talking about your party In the 20th a conversation in between hardly here. I mean we don't have really hardly anything We know those who have been talked about and But a AC doesn't get any coverage. Nobody is even is even mentioning your candidate And some will say well, you've tried to be be relevant with the revolution now protests Nigerians didn't jump on it Then you try to be relevant in the answers protests Your presidential candidate was booed away by the young people in acts to go back and then in this current conversation Your presidential candidate has tried to turn Nigerians that they should be discussing him not another candidate who is Attracting getting some traction on social media that he is the one they should be talking about not that person You know, so it's it also is a pattern of trying to try very hard to attract the attention and support of the Nigerians Especially young people and it seems not to have worked so far for your party All right I can send you a YouTube link, you know, it's I even discussed it extensively. It's on the internet. Just Google it. Google it He said People should talk about Peter. He should be him. He's the one who's been fighting for Nigerians all this while It's on the internet. Please go on YouTube and look for it. All right, family idea. Do we see have you? What else Okay, did you not see that you don't see that clip? I have seen a lot of things You know, I have seen a lot of things, you know talking about him Not Peter be that he's the one that has been fighting for you want to talk about those who were laying down the lives for and he has a point He has a point, you know, but I'm seeing that he did say that, you know, it's what I'm saying I don't know if it's back. All right, so for me. Yes, okay, family. Yeah, if you're back, can you speak to what I did? Yes So Of a tipu was keeping quiet I didn't know I spent when our presidential candidate was on the streets He was fighting was arrested or five months was detained was And so many other things So talking about readiness is also to say that out of the 81 political parties that were around in 2019 That has not been reduced due to the registration that we do not subscribe to We are still very much around Out of the 18 political parties that you have now half of 16 political parties that are going into the elections There's the very much around this is the party that was just created in 2010 You want you don't want to compare it to the labor party that has been around since 2001 to be yet Trying to gather 5,000 votes in the 2019 elections. We went into the 2019 elections just five months old Yes So I was talking about The By anybody The discussion about the media I think the journalists Should be asked this particular question The media blackouts. They're trying to do It should go down to the journal Come on You're you're national TV. You're here You're here when talking to you You're accusing us of a media blackout No, but you're accusing us of a media blackout. We are talking to you We've not even had a pdp or liberal party spokesman on this program. You're the first You know Okay, so from your day, I mean, I think it's important that we stay All right, okay, so can we stay with the issue on ground now, you know the the issue of That's fantastic That's fantastic We we don't have so much time because in no time We'll call it a wrap right here on the breakfast But quickly on the issue of I mean, it's a good thing It be because if you look at it no matter how you want to You know put it there seem to be a lot of consent that have been raised by different quotas including your party I mean, we also have the police who was saying on the one hand. We need to call You know supporters need to call themselves. I mean Presidential aspirant and those who are vying for political officers need to call their supporters together Because of you know, the troll wards and all of that But this will really not be the first time where you have propaganda that has been used as a tool In 2019 very prominent was the fact that you had the governor of kaduna state eruphi Describing pitao be as a tribal begot That was that was a very big one at the time. That's because at tico abu baka You know, what's the presidential candidate of the people's democratic party and then of course there was a major So was a combination of a larger tico abu baka and pitao be as this running mate And then he felt like it was a big threat to the pdp. I mean to the apc at the time And so this statement was actually put out, you know to incite a sudden group Now we also have that again as a repeats where you have the meti Allah saying Hey, we are asking all of the fuller knees not to vote for the person of pitao be So this has been going on It's not the first time that we're having all of this kind of comment The polity been heated up by comment and from supporters and what have you so what is really different? Why are you guys Making a statement now. There's really nothing new. It's been going on for a while Yes, you see the fact that you've been doing something but We're very long time does not mean that it should not be cautioned And for us you will agree with those that Is here's what you consistent in our message, you know, like We are fairly diverse of freedom of expression We're fairly diverse of freedom of expression of speech and even after speech But the fact that something has been happening, you know over time does not mean that it should not be cautioned We've been really asking for and that's what we are saying what we're saying. This is the game of the elites It is not the ordinary man on the of the streets That is that is that will just make up your mind that start talking about any division The people who cook off all of these things, they are nearly Look at what you just said about last year, if I call you the Particular candidates ethnic bygones It started at how this thing starts So what we are saying is that we cannot continue like this To see that you cannot continue to divide the people And know all this ethnic and religious Lines just to fill your political ambition and that is what we are saying So it is not something that we just make up our mind and we are saying this When the initial decision started in this country, we came up with a very good statement I see that it is not by dividing Nigerians Or dividing Nigerians that you saw the problem of Nigeria The problem of Nigeria is not about the personnel or about Sogeographic space It is about changing the system and it's something you change that system And the personnel who are already in that system Nigeria is not going to move forward We are called slaves at that time Although you are not supporting the people, you are not supporting the people But we need very clear that we need to bring everybody together And then we solve the problem of Nigeria So Femi, because of time, let's quickly bring this question up I looked at your statement It didn't particularly tell us which words, which caustic words Or abusive words you were referring to Which political parties or presidential candidates you were referring to In terms of their supporters now being abusive So can you come out straight and tell Nigerians Which candidates are you referring to when you say they ought to caution their supporters I guess maybe you didn't read that part of the statement There were examples of some of those caustic words Words like, if you call to Lagos to campaign Or we'll see who goes Lagos There was a particular example in that statement That we'll see who goes Lagos if you come to Morali at Lagos We had, you know, that was an example that was written in that statement We are very strange people We will not make words or we will not form words with the real candidates Because we need your votes So who will tell you what we have to do Without, you know, making your votes about it We also, in that statement, when you find out the place we reported Some of those things that are being said That no NEC candidate should come out of the Southeast No PSN should come out today To Anambra places like that What we are saying is that nobody, nobody Ask the rights to determine where you're running Nobody has rights to determine where you campaign It is the Nigerian people who decide how to campaign And this campaign must be devoid of ratios and benefits Femi, can you, can you pin this? Femi, can you pin this on the political parties? Yeah, Femi, can you pin this These comments on the political parties and their candidates If somebody, if somebody stays in his room Yeah, Femi, if someone stays in his room And puts out such a tweet That Thinbo doesn't know who that person is Or someone says don't come to the Southeast And will be, will be, will be picked up It doesn't know who that person is Can you pin it on them? Because all sorts of people can tweet anything Everywhere, we don't know who they are It is, it is clear It is clear that the statements made it very clear That there are reports, you know, in the social media space Of some of those extremist rhetoric Do you understand? And what we're saying is on a general view Is that Nigerians should show all of these extremist rhetorics Which is still to the issues Nigerians who base is, is, is, is, or elopressivists All right, I'm not taking Nigeria out of the precipice It's one of these extremist rhetorics Okay, we have to go And that is what the international press Is about to tell me it's worth Femi Adei, thank you for joining us You're the publicity secretary of the AAC In all your state, I believe And we appreciate your time And of course, clarifying the issues on the table this morning Thank you very much Thank you very much Thank you very much All right, all right That's the size of a package right here On the press, it's been quite interesting With interesting conversations and analysis this morning Well, that's it If you miss out on any part of the conversation It's fine To follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram And do subscribe to our YouTube channel We're at PlusCVAfrica and PlusCVAfrica live sale My name is Messi Bukal Have a fantastic Monday And my name is Kofi Bartels We'll return tomorrow, good morning