 On the breakfast this morning, the House of Representatives at our committee said to investigate oil subsidy payments between 2013 and 2022. How viable is this and what are the implications for the Nigerian economy? Also on the breakfast, the Nigerian Debsite Insurance Corporation has advised Nigerians to be aware of Pons' scheme operating under the guise of financial institutions. And of course we have a daily look at today's newspapers, the daily newspapers and headlines, analyzing the biggest stories of the day on off the press. A very good morning to you, welcome to the breakfast and plus TV Africa reaching live from the studios on Victoria Island Lagos, my name is Kofi Bartels. Hi I'm Mercier Bokos, beautiful first day morning right here, thank you for joining us. It's right Mercier, you're back from your leave. Of course I saw you all over Dubai, Abu Dhabi taking pictures everywhere. Don't even go there, it's good to be back here. Today the breakfast has interesting conversations for you, we're going to be looking at all the issues advertised with in-depth analysis but as usual we start with a top trending segment, looking at what's been happening in the social space. The recent activities and floor activities around Governor Yerston's weekly of River State generated a lot of reaction and discussion from the beer palace to social media to the churches to the radio stations to television stations, people's homes, everybody's talking about it. Wiki has been on a commissioning spree of recent, recent days, commissioning fly-over bridges, commissioning dualized roads. For those in Podhakot, at least now they can use water lines. They don't have to go through, you know, they can use water lines and so that's that's a relief that traffic in Podhakot will be slightly normalized. The RIFP training week and the TIKU has been well publicized after the former lost the PDP presidential primary to the latter. However, he refused to take it lying down, immediately landed Podhakot to a hero's welcome. He made a statement, a speech, you know, berating certain governors from the southern part of the country who reneged on or he said reneged on an agreement to ensure that power returns to the south and he came in second, of course, I'm sure he, you know, we can't believe that he had the best chance to win. So he said they promised him the likes of Oqoha, the likes of all these governors, Akbabi and everyone, you know, the PDP stakeholders, sorry not Akbabi, he's in the APC, from the southern part of the country promised that okay we have an agreement, it was well publicized that they will then do everything to ensure that power returns to the south. However, you know, Wike was angry and everything, but the one that really had a straw that broke the camel's back was when Attiku chose his running mate, you know, there were talks that the PDP had formed a committee to look into how to, you know, resolve the issue and also to help Attiku more, very importantly, most importantly, select a running mate, select a running mate. There was a report of some, you know, voting which turned out about 14 of them voted in support of Wike to be a lesser majority, because I don't quite remember numbers right now, voting in support of Wike to be the running mate of Attiku as opposed to Oqoha and as opposed to Iman Uludum. However, Attiku chose Oqoha and Wike went to speak some more. Wike wasn't happy about Attiku's statement, if you remember, Attiku Bobakar Lahaji, Attiku Owakar Torakia Damawa, he said some things as to why he chose Oqoha as his running mate, and he gave the qualities of running mate. He says he must be, you know, forward thinking, he must be, he gave some, and he said he must be without drama and you could see the look on Attiku's face when he said he must be without drama, you know. So, most of the things he said seemed like he was spiting years on Wike. That's what it seemed like. He was, he was saying, you don't have these things, you know, visionary, you know, can bring something to the table, must have the ability to be a president in waiting, he must be someone without drama, and Wike wasn't happy. And in an interview with the television station last week, he poured his heart out. He spoke his mind and called all the things Attiku said to go as a liar, a liar about everything, and so the rift has been on, and he said he wasn't happy about the statement Attiku made when he was unveiling his running mate, you know. So the expectation was that Wike would be carried along. But Attiku said something, he said that he never asked any committee to sit down and get him, choose a running mate for him. It was merely a suggestion that he brought to him. He always looked at it as his choice to choose who he wanted to work with. Now, following on from that, there have been talks of, or attempts, let me say, to mend the fence between these two men, the PDP Board of Trustees had met, they formed one committee, they met again from another committee. Before the committee could do its work, Attiku and Wike met in Jerigan House in Abuja, and everyone expected that, you know, all was well. Only for Wike, two days later, invite some old governor of legacy to come commission a flyover in Port Hackett, in a company of David Umahi, governor of a Boeing state. Now, these are APC governors. Apart from that, there was a Twitter tweet by a handle, Suspected Wike's handle, where he put a picture of himself, and a picture of Saolu, and he put the hashtag, the word city boys. You know, so the rift has been on between the two of us some time now, and this has generated lots of talk on social media. That was a history down memory lane. Merci. Yeah, but you have some persons who have said that, for instance, one of the law maker Bob in Rivers State who said that, the reason for this rift is because of the disinformation that's been put out by Attiku's men, and that was intended to discredit and make nonsense of a person of Wike, yes I'm Wike. And we already know, according to the report, it can be stated that all of this started shortly after the primaries, so you won't talk about the fact that party politics, I mean, conflict would always arise, internal conflicts would always be there. Well, how is the capacity to resolve all of this? So, Bob at that time said that disinformation is responsible for what's going on, and it shouldn't have been what it is right now, because he said there were reports by Attiku men saying that Wike was not satisfied with the outcome of the primaries. That's on the one hand. And secondly, that he named the running mate of, he was expected that he should be named a running mate of the presidential candidate. So you have, you know, this lawmaker saying that all of this were not really true, it wasn't really his intention, but you know, all of this works. Now to some extent, you also want to agree that, or you want to look at the fact that Wike also after the primaries never reached out to say congratulations to the running mate, Ifan Yokowa, saying okay, congratulations and all of that. So some people have also looked at that as an issue. And the fact that he's a acceptance, he's saying that for them to have the efforts have been made to have a peace talk before all of that to become a reality, then you must have the national chairman resigning and reshuffling of the cabinet. That has also been, you know, one of the reasons that is given. So we see all of this, but it's quite unfortunate. Some people would say because you expected the people's democratic party should be an opposition ahead of the 2023. I'm talking about opposition, not just ahead, but should leave as an opposition. And one should not expect all of this conflict at this point in time. You know, it should be a party that should have an axe together. But unfortunately, that's not the case. And so from the fact that you have lack of transparency, the party level has also crippled the entire process. So this is what happens. Democracy at the party level, when you don't have transparency, all of that becomes an issue. And so you have confrontations and whatever you egos have been crushed or or you move to the issue of those who have the money, money, muscle pulling in the party, financing the party, and also all of that contributes. It's really, really unfortunate. But if you follow the trends and if you look what's going on, it feels like a lot of peasants are moving beyond the APC and the PDP and people are saying, hey, we do not even care about what's going on with this party to some peasants. But it would have been expected that the PDP should have their axe together before 2023 elections. Some of also, I mean, you know, you rightly said, mercy that the, you know, this talk of misinformation by Mr. Bob, I don't understand what it means by misinformation or disinformation. I mean, we can openly made his speeches. He expresses unhappiness at the outcome of the primary. He gave a speech. So I do not know what disinformation Bob is talking about. We can give an interview to television stations when he came back from Spain. I don't know what this is that disinformation. We saw him in live in color on TV, it's all over the internet. So what disinformation is Solomon Bob talking about? Of course, when we can has given his statewide broadcast regarding political meetings in River State, suspected to be targeted at members of the PDP who are working for Atticu River State, I mean, is that disinformation? When we can, you know, put out an arrest warrant or declared one House of Reps member wanted, talking about Dr. Faradagogo, you know, and he was suddenly arrested and prevented from taking part in the PDP primaries in River State. He's, you know, perceived to be an Atticu man, you know, and in the PDP in River State was a disinformation. You know, what about the request requests of the man that your child, you the chairman, like you said, or the PDP stepped out, you know, that Atticu does a one time, you know, some of these requests were here. We case not happy with the way things have been done in the party. He said it and he said it many times, you know, he said it many times and even he's, I think part of his pain is the way he's been treated. He feels that an agreement like, what's this? I don't know what actor sang again. He said agreement is agreement. I don't remember that. The name of it is not what actor. And Kimo was saying agreement is agreement to you. You know, so we agreed, we agreed that we are going to ship power in the party to the south. What have you done? You know, Atticu made the step of going to see Wike the morning after the election, the primary. He went to see some of the persons and went to see Wike, you know, and Wike said it's one party. One thought that would continue from there. But hey, these were there. But some people feel that Wike, having invested a lot in PDP, because of course after Jonathan left the scene, there was no one to study the ship. And Wike stepped in and studied the ship in the PDP. Some feel Atticu left the PDP, went to APC. He was part of those who were instrumental in bringing the APC to power. And he came back. He doesn't deserve to be where he is. But you see, it's politics. You don't have a sense of entitlement in politics. You can move to any party you want, any time you want. And Atticu is a presidential candidate. So I don't think it's anything about who moved or who didn't move. We're looking at now. That's what matters. I hope the party can pull together and then get its acts right. Yeah. Well, it might just be almost impossible. But we need to move away from that. Some of these issues we've mentioned where you have some powerful persons at the party level, you talk about the money, muscle pulling it. It becomes a problem. All of these are issues. But it would be a discussion for another day. Still looking at the top trending this morning, Keith Daniel apologizes to his fans in Tanzania and promises to perform a free show. And then I'm sure that you're very abreast with the current situation. I mean, Keith Daniel is the heat maker of the buga, you know, that very hit song. And some some persons have described that song like the baby shark, the adult version of baby shark. I don't know if you know what that means. Don't worry, you would understand very soon. And so Keith Daniel was supposed to. You seem to already understand it. No, I do understand. Is that something you're not telling us? I will tell you after. No, no, no, it has nothing to do with that. But I think that maybe you already understand. You will understand. But moving forward, we already understand what actually transpired between Keith Daniel and his performance in Tanzania. It didn't really turn out well. Unfortunately, he didn't show up. Let's come out to talk about the reason why he was unable to show up for that performance. And this is prior to the response after, you know, the show promoter had an interview on air with some personalities in Nigeria talking about all of that. And he made reasons saying that, hey, he refused to perform because his outfits or accessories were not available. And that's the reason why he refused to perform after being paid $60,000, as it was reported. But Keith Daniel said that he had issues with flight connecting flight in Nairobi and getting to Tanzania. And then his luggage had not arrived because he was in Uganda prior to this time. And unfortunately, he couldn't really, at the end of the day, means like his accessories were not available, his costume, whatever, however you want to look at it. And at the time he was willing to, you know, go out when it was time, the fans were already agitated and they had already taken action, you know, becoming very violent. And according to him, he said that his management had advised that, you know, he stay, he stays put. I mean, he stays down. For security purposes and all of that. And that was the reason why. But he's apologizing. His intentions was not to take his fans for granted. And as such, he will be putting up a free show. The question would now be, is it really a free show because we're very funded? All right, is it a free show? And what will the impact be? But it's a good thing. I mean, a lot has been said about Keith Daniel, there's a lot of boars on the internet. But that said, but what do you make of the situation? It's an interesting one. I mean, of course, such news will sell the money to spread his name far and far, because I mean, we're talking about him. So, you know, sometimes these guys do these things. You don't know if it's planned, you know, to get some, like what they call clout these days. You don't know if it's planned to get clout so they can trend, people can talk about, because it's been trending. You know, I remember when my good friend, Potacot Boyomale, was arrested in Uganda, you know, for one thing or the other. He was taken to court and he was trending around Africa. Some say maybe he's just trying to sell himself and to trend. But we don't know. We will never know. The fact is that we saw Keith Daniel being arrested in or being picked up by police. Let's call it that in Tanzania. I think it should have been Darius, Alam from his hotel. He had to, you know, sit at the back of a pickup truck and he went to the police station to answer some questions. But what we know now is that he wasn't arrested, but he was invited, you know, to answer questions, you know. Interestingly, what I had said before now was that we'll wait to hear the sound of Keith Daniel. The show promoter was on Daddy Freeze's Instagram Live where he gave reasons why Keith Daniel was, quote unquote, arrested. And he said the guy refused to perform simply because his baggage had not arrived at the time he, Keith Daniel, arrived Tanzania. And he said his gold chains were in his baggage and luggage. And he had that luggage to arrive and so he can use his gold chain to perform. You know, so people started saying, okay, now do you, or nobody do you beat that? So why, why does he want to use his gold chain? You know, that is to say in, in, in pigeon English or those who are listening outside Nigeria, is that not juju or voodoo? You know, so why would he want to use his gold chain to perform? And, you know, got tongues wagging, maybe he's put his hands in something. That is where it gets his power from, you know, blah, blah, blah. Oh, I really didn't get that part of the story. You should go watch what I'm saying. I've been entertaining myself a day for the past few days. I mean, it's a lot going on in the country. You know, so, but, but one of his, his associates, someone who is close to him came out to say, oh, it's a stage fright. It was stage fright. That's why he couldn't go on, on, on, on the stage or go perform. But I think that's probably didn't help Keith Daniel at all. Because I mean, people here, you have stage fright as an artist with such amount of hits. Is it a good thing or not? But finally, of course, yesterday Daniel, or I need to bear his name is, is, is called, did, did a press conference. Intelligent man spoke well, you know, well educated, spoke well, constantly good family spoke well. And he said that to give all reasons. But, you know, to some people who watched and commented on that, it seemed like he was just going around, you know, just, you know, just trying to say some things to that. And they didn't think he was an apology. Some people felt it was a display of pride. You know, some people who commented felt it was a display of pride. You know, he was buggering us. He was up. You know, so, so, but he said what he said that I mean, his luggage got stuck. I mean, the story was up, down, left, right. If you look at it, yeah. He said his luggage got stuck in, you know, he had a lead flight from Uganda. He had to go to Nairobi from Nairobi. He was left there. He got to Dar es Salaam at around 1 a.m. The flight, the performance was also 3 a.m. He had to look for a stylist. No, no, no, firstly, he was supposed to have like a practice, right? Yeah, do soundcheck and all of that. Because there was the crowd was already there, so his people really couldn't do much soundcheck. But if you collect money for a program, for an event like that, and the crowd is there already, as an experience act, you know, is this soundcheck that will stop you from performing? Come on. Pata Pata, you can do track one, track two, DJ, play track one. You do, you know, you lip sync. But if you also want to look at it, another part. You lip sync. They lip sync all the time. How many of them? When did they start doing soundcheck? I mean, Kiss Daniel, no offense to your professionalism. This is where they should be at. But they all started by doing track one, track two. I've seen this guy perform. You know, he's done it many times. So what is he talking about? I don't think it's soundcheck. What he said was that all these things were, sorry, mercy, were a reason. It's just saying it to show that he actually wanted to perform. You know, he now settled that after, you know, he was drenched and he now looked for something to wear and that at the final minute, you know, he said there was a disagreement with the organizers, but later they sorted it out. So why he said that was not why he didn't perform. And I said at the final minute that they said, his team decided that the place was not safe enough for him to go to and all that. And what we hear is that the police, you know, there was some destruction of property. There's a riot of some sort, you know, because he said the police invited him to ask him what he knows about the destruction of property at the arena. You know, so it seems that the fans weren't happy and they started breaking things. So maybe, maybe at that point for him, it was too late too. It was not safe, safe to go. That's what I think he should have said. Well, another thing that was also raised or concerned that should be looked at is the fact that if you have a performance, because prior to this time he was in Uganda on the sixth and he's supposed to perform on the seventh. And so why do you have to travel on the date of a performance? But he mentioned something that was very apt. And he said, oh, because I was in Tanzania, he would have just been great. I mean, I was in Uganda. It was just great for the people of Tanzania, you know, to also feel my presence and enjoy it. So I think it was just like a last minute arrangement, you know, because you're close by, then you should go because it would have been important. It wasn't a last minute arrangement because it's been on this Instagram for some time. But one would rather think that, you know, there should be proper arrangement because imagine that he had arrived, you know, Tanzania a day before all of this or three days to the event, all of this wouldn't have happened. I'm sure that it would have time, you know, have time to sort out issue of accessories and what have you. It's been on this Instagram, this Tanzania thing since 19th July. So 18th July, it's been there, you know, since 18 July. But however you look at it, would it be okay that you have, I mean, I'm just saying, so you performed in Uganda on the sixth of August and then you have a performance on the seventh apparently. So you have to leave for Tanzania on the seventh of August. It doesn't leave you time to arrange the plan, you know, the most important thing or the better thing to do is to get ahead of the venue, you know, maybe a day, two days ahead of the event. It gives you a lot of time. So even if you have issues with your luggage, it would have been important that you would make prior arrangement. I mean, another day would be not for you to get someone to style you and get all of your accessories if that it's the case. But we're just hoping that he can only get better with him and all of that. Another aspect of this conversation is the fact that, you know, he's been, it's not the first time it's happening to him. Babcock University was trending on the day he was picked up by Tanzania police and I was wondering why Babcock was trending. And some people said, oh, remember when, you know, he failed to perform somewhere and there was an issue. You know, people have raised the concern that it's not the first time it's happening to Tanzania, that this has happened before. Some are also linking it to maybe the problems he had with his label and everything. He said that maybe his attitude, his style, he needs to change. You know, though it's hard to judge people from afar, you know, it's hard to judge people from afar. I wouldn't want to judge Tanzania from afar. I wouldn't want to judge it from afar. You know, but this is what people said. We just have to tell the audience what people are saying. But this free concert, you know, it remains to be seen tomorrow, right? It remains to be seen whether the Tanzanians will accept it as apology, you know. Like I mentioned earlier on, if you say it's free, was there a refund? Because, I mean, people have to pay for this. People actually paid for this. There was no performance. Original show. Yeah, original show. So if you say it's a free concert, are we having, you know, persons holding by the ticket prior to this time? So you're going to have, if you're supposed to perform for 3,000 persons, maybe we're looking at, you know, performing for 5,000 persons or more than, but isn't really a free show. That's the much we can take now for free. That's the much we can take at this point because we're out of time. We take a break when we return. We'll be time for us to look at the front pages of a National Daily. Please stay with us.