 It's still the breakfast in Plosivia, Africa. I am Messi Boko and it's time to go through the pages of our national dailies We have G.D. Johnson who joins us This morning to share his thoughts on some of the big stories on our front pages. G.D. Johnson is good to have you join us All right, then we'll start off with the daily independence hoping that we're able to establish a great Audio communication with our guests and on the daily independent the PDP crisis is still Making the rounds article rejects bead to substitute we care for or core as vice presidents pick Away from that federal government launches 2.3 trillion our plan to close countries infrastructural gap You also find caught disqualifies or borrow worry as PDP Delta Guba candidate Recognizes eddy via a divide and Delta PDP calls for calm hints and appeal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned after 54 ministers quit La one lambast Nigerian correctional service over could a jail break and 16 firms pre-qualify for five power plans privatization Acura Maddu's court rules kidney donor not a minor John to August the 4th Acura Maddu's court rules kidney donor not a minor adjoins to August the 4th and Again, you find Buhari orders leaders to write to raise $93 billion to boost economic capacity of Africa That's what you find on a daily independent newspaper Let's take a quick look at the punch Could Jay prison invasion into Paul gets a fleeing inmates data and bother security fighting I Take that again into Paul gets fleeing inmates data and bother security heightened 4,300 inmates on the run after 18 jail breaks La one laments e-swap That's a you know, that's a ride on his own La one laments e-swap recruiting 5,000 fighters says report and fall in our blames the federal government. So you begin to ask yourself if you have four thousand three hundred inmates on the run After almost 20 jail breaks and now we hear the government saying or report saying we have been able to capture Those inmates that have escaped It just looks like we're a disaster waiting to happen Terrorists trooping southward. I carried the loot cries out Terrorists trooping southward. I carried the loot cries out All companies rejects federal government's penalties over gas flaring marketers depot fight over 16.6 billion liters fuel Diversion and reps probe custom over auction PMS others You still have 16 fire pre-qualified or I take that again 16 firms pre-qualified for five and IPP's privatization It was also on the daily independent and ncdc confirms 84 monkey pox cases and three deaths Commuters grown in Lagos a button as per Sway grid log Salah, but you also want to agree with me that apart from the fact that yes They might be Salah the the queues have returned and we know what happens when you have Vehicles actually queuing to get petrol in different petrol stations that really are on the road But I said this morning on the punch just before we move away from the punch You have kidnappers demand 20 million narrow for a kitty travelers and whole priests Federal government declares Monday Tuesday public holiday celebration of Salah Driver remanded for throwing feces at last mouth fish or a lot goes on and over 940 can pilgrims stranded government very hopeful hopeful about what? caught sacks occurs candidate Ibaris loyalists wins and Mark a very big present as United Kingdom court reminds a Kourimadu and his wife That's it on the punch. We take a look at the nation has been made available by a paper Vendor The Koojee attack Senate shocked by no CCTV poor security indeed You also fine Do may I urge a sanction for those who filled in their duties prison not designed to resist external attack says minister Buhari summons emergency and security meeting the riders you find underneath the boat caption and Oshun 2022 for injured as PDP APC supporters clash in a day Quank was so present flag to NMPP candidate and Student and doors or yetola a delicate. I wouldn't let Obas down talking about the election for Oshun state a Kourimadu organ donor not a minor United Kingdom court rules The Kourimadu organ donor not a minor how to achieve global economic recovery This is what the World Bank is saying to Niger. I mean, I just like the fact that the World Bank is very very Petrotic of the Nigerian economy Boris Johnson quits to remain as British Keterka Prime Minister That's what you find right there. That's the much we can take and quickly. Let's check out the Guardian newspaper quite interesting headlines the NAFD AC That's a NAFDAQ joins research Institute strike food safety threatened NAFDAQ joins research Institute strike and food safety threatened Agric medical water Soil Institute paralyze absence of NAFDAQ at Port spells doom for food and drug safety Port congestion worsens and product Approval delayed riders underneath torts making Nigeria's football league competitive more like an editorial and you find Don't your cookies withdrawal as obese vice presidential Pick caught this qualifies Delta PDP candidates you find Catholic priests abducted in Benway nine die 12 injured in Kaduna Zarya wrote crash Fluto wave faults money laundering claims from Kenya You just have I actually saw that video Where you have a Kenyan expressing a lot of this special over Nigerians and her activities outside of Nigeria But that's the much we can take this morning on the pages of a national dailies less quickly have GD Johnson We're in on some of the big star list this morning on the front pages of a national dailies GD Johnson, thank you for joining us this beautiful Friday morning Thank you Loud and clear Front going towards 23 election are in process and as far as the PDP is concerned the new of your concern for for the PDP Establishment because we can see factor is one of the people that stabilize the party and the rest of article the likes of article Tamboa Saraki left PDP to join it In 2040 actually brought the party to power if he likes of we can let the partner So it's important for them not to manage that crisis because a major crisis and if the party really wants to have its function in Come to a military not to manage this particular This particular Now if you go if you take that story Down to the state you even discover that the state where I compete is running with the crisis bring up in that state itself Now grab is do somewhere by the court as rejected the the PDP nominee for the for the for the data stick gubernatorial Election who opposed to the lawyer list of the government That's you buy presidential running meet for for article for your core Has been replaced according to the court judgment by the lawyer list of games You could see that at the national level of course having a pressure from from Establish groups within the At the state level you have me you have you have seen the contractment yesterday That I moved of course Was a preferred candidate the kind that actually won the permaries from me the flag bearer for PDP in Data state of a natural election. So you see the entry to add in a man Of course having a dish at the state level An issue is he not is it not related to? to Wiki article Vice-presidential colleagues all is there for us to see much much more later, but my advice to PDP is that if they want to have a Structure it you must be able to see their post primary Crisis otherwise they have already sound sign. They are there for now concerning that election Quickly, I'll go to ocean state with respect to a story we read that talked about for being injured PDP and members Ocean speed and For who have injured the ocean gubernatorial election is a test major test case for for for Ina is a major test case for the security agency because these are in the case about the last election And is a high-stake is a high-stake election one it's a state controlled by APC and We could come up on the twenty nineteen with respect to this particular And this particular state election that took place Consonant this election where the result will not be clear as a result of the cheap as a result of the Tony officer the phone call to declare the election Unconclusive and we knew what happened now the state is even higher in the center It's an indication of what will happen in twenty twenty three election. Don't forget Incubaric of now is a constant to be to the APC APC flag bearer in this in this election and the PDP also is interested in that so the security agencies I like Attention of Nigerians and the world On a new state election, and I hope I net and the security agencies will ensure that this election takes place in a peaceful manner And the will of the people is Respected with respect to this. We don't want to repeat of what happened in 20 in 2019. It was this time I mean the fact that you have stakeholders lobbying to have we came in picked by the former vice president also The presidential flag bearer of the People's Democratic Party larger Ticua bubaka What what's what's the influence that we K the governor of river state Has on the party and what becomes of you know the PDP in twenty twenty three if You know he's not been picked because he feels like he's a foster reckon with and This crisis right now that the party's experiencing seemed to be centered around the fact that His interest I mean we saw the the primaries his interest is not to some extent being reflected Even though he's not even outrightly said that well Okay, if after a pity, there's no that about that Pdp will have been long dead since 2015 because The likes of like I said earlier the likes of a tickle the likes of Sarah the likes of tangua People the national Chairman of PDP your child and many many many like that left PDP to join the PC We join the PC and that actually have the images of PC as a national party. So Those that stay behind the PDP to ensure that the party did not die I'm feeling a grip and there's not that they are too Political parties there are caucuses Now they are the caucus of those that left and the caucus that stayed behind Now if we can't belong to the caucus that stayed behind and we can Well, when you look at the election there were two major factors a tickle faction and we case faction Oh, come on from the onset he launched today action And as far as the other groups are concerned they felt that one the faction that won the presidential ticket actually also peaked Running made for the party which they felt shouldn't be at least the other function That's the behind should be involved That's the thing here and if you check what we have read we guys not left alone You've listened to the governor of of a new state. You've listened to the governor the governor of of Of a dusted you the governor of your state has not spoken Because the former governor of a kitty say I become the former governor if it is dead as spoken So as far as some of these caucuses are concerned, we have not won the election We are already being eliminated. We already been sidelined. We are already seeing him We not takes all our food from our presidential candidate that has not as good the office of the presidency When he now has zoomed the office of the presidency, which the 1999 Constitution as amended has given the power of an empire What would it do? So that's that's the fear of people that belongs to that To that camp. They are just calling for a sense of belonging. You could see how it is pretty difficult For a PC to pick his running mate a PC is being cautious. Don't let me say difficult Cautious Because it wants to As many stakeholders as possible in the process So we just keep fingers crossing might just be a lot for the People's Democratic Party and As a no position a lot of people think that they haven't Had your acts together putting your act together is what a lot of people had expected Looking at the role that they play in the politics but Let's quickly stay with the prison break La one lambas Nigerians correctional service over the Koojee broke Jake jail break That's what you find on the daily independence now away from that the nation also talks about the prison attack Senate shocked by no CCTV and Poor security the president also had mentioned that his probably dissatisfied, you know with the failure of intelligent system and These are some of the stories not on the punch. They talk about the fact that Interpol is getting these Prison prisoners or inmates They have their data and they have actually heightened security the security at the borders What what do you make of all of this reaction just one and the same thing? Blaming the correctional center for the failure of all of that You also have the minister saying that the prisons are not meant to repel attacks well, I Just imagine what happened in Great Britain Where ministers resigned? What the prime minister to resign now not Resigned even the minister of the period not the head of prisons and correctional facility Not a single head as the head responsible Rather, we are seeing people shifting clean looking for over the plane You are in a society where people do not have step dignity That's that's that's just that's just the truth of the matter the way you are the Senate President asking question questions that is Elected and and selected by his colleague to provide to provide answers to what does the Senate committee? in the Senate committee on on material I Could not do Is oversight function on correctional facility in a budget how they carry out oversight function on correctional Across the length and breadth of this country You see the systemic failure is systemic failure occurs for people to resign Across both because they are afraid to fulfill the oath of office and the oath of allegiance to the Constitution of this federal republic that is to protect The lives and property of the citizen and they need to ask yourself this question How did this number of people how are they able to go disappear into the Just like that when the reason when the break When the break up on why can't we activate our security agencies? We have different formation You have police post your career command you have your DSS in states you have them in local government You have different intelligence agency. Can't you activate them around? 24 48 hours activation of security agencies Across a budget because this group. I'm sure they cannot take flight. They can only move by road You can only move around so how can we activate that to prevent that? And then we start the president is looking for answer the Senate president is expressing show There's no CCTV in In that in that facility and the minister is saying that prisons are not designed to repel attack How low can this people think? And how is density added to the plight to the plight of Nigeria? It's it's it's unbelievable What is happening is it is it is ridiculous? For a prison of that calibre especially a prison that holds a very very high Suspects or what have you those who have been charged with the act of terrorism? Do you think that there should have been some level of surveillance? I mean, you should be properly guarded understanding than the kind of persons that are kept there and my question is what What is the level of our intelligence? You see preventive crime has to do with Intelligent gathering and if you check the money we spend on security vote And you spend the money that is spent on intelligence because the the question you need to ask Is what communication you talk about these people using to communicate our our security agency is not able to intercept the communication network of this Of this terrorist. How are they not able to? They are using the normal phone lines They are using so so how they why are they able to mobilize themselves to move from wherever they have come to that to kujin To carry out that terrorist attack And then for them to ever quit Those that have come to rescue and to move to a safe location And we have not been able to gather intelligence to that effect That can only pay open that can only happen if there is complicit On the part of people that were given responsibility to gather intelligence to provide security in Nigeria That's that's my thinking. I might be wrong, but that's my thinking And I'm entitled to my opinion Of course, no one is disputing that with you Jide Johnson Another one that calls for a lot of concern. It just feels That you know, the public health might just be on the threat, especially where you have You have NAFTAG saying that they are joining other research institute to strike And so food safety is being threatened. It means that they can't go about you know, carry out their duties of Ensuring that your products that coming food is actually safe for consumption You know the police threatened to strike As so has been on strike Now you see a situation whereby the research institutes are NAFTAG. So food and drug safety is threatened What have not gone on strike in Nigeria Everything we are in a state of overdose In a state of harmony Are we safe? There is this false sense of safety in Nigeria But that false sense of safety does it guarantee security? How secure are you to go to wherever you want to go? And I'm sure every one of us that Are living at homes to go to an expected place of work We always say, and our family members are always on their feet praying for our safety back home That is the situation we have in Nigeria. It's a state of harmony. Where is it going on? It will perhaps augment at every day Because there's no government because even after what the reason behind and we have a minister of labor who doctor I miss feet and freedom To call himself and provide himself as the minister of labor when every sector on that people Back to one form of strike or the other But if you look if you look at you know As as much as it's valid and some people would say it's it's okay to And back on you know the strike action. Do you think that unions and other sectors of the you know the country's bodies actually Explore all the options before you know resorting to strike As a last resort What's the benefit that we are from minister of education with respect to as to strike Yes, there's a added degree of insensitivity From people that have been appointed into offices take responsibility and address you Especially the various ministry department and agencies of government. They have been appointed to to to to carry out oversight And oversee the activities of of of these agencies Hey, it's the i degree of irresponsibility. The world responsibility Is the ability to respond? the world responsibilities Response plus ability now when that is not in place It shows that very responsible when you are disabled with the ability to respond it shows you are irresponsible And it is very clear because before issue now issues we come up But before this issue degenerate into crisis What are the things that you have done to deal with this issue when you don't deal with issues when they arise It turns into full-blown crisis. Now, this is um, this is a labor issue Now, how have you dealt with the labor issue? What level of engagement have you gone in doing in dealing with the various unions What level of meetings have you had? What level of negotiation? have you done Before this thing leads to total breakdown That eventually leads to strike strike is usually the the last resort for any labor union And it shows the insensitivity or the unwillingness Of management and money money this contest is government Mm-hmm Yeah, I mean if you look at I mean we're talking about NAFTA here because it looks like you have Everyone just waking up and and backing on strike without considering other means You know of negotiation or communication or trying to reach out before the strike Just imagine what happens, you know to the public to the public health where you have An agency as NAFTA and backing on that strike and you have all the Institute as well. It is really really disastrous. So What are we dealing with here? Yes, you are talking about public health You are talking about public health People that don't care about public safety Will care about public health Let's see. It's we are in the town street And it shows that the present government has gotten to its which end And then the capacity are not sure that the present government has the will with that But the capacity to solve the added problem facing Nigeria and which they are part and parcel of creating All right, quickly just before we call it a wrap on the daily independent Do you think that this is rational? Fan is going to shut down the Lagos airport runway till September Uh to fix the air field lightning Is is this a rational thing to do as much as there's need to fix the problem? Let's see I can hear you I don't know what technology we use in Nigeria Because we are not in we are not even in a global feeling. We are not in a global legal room. We everybody are Assetters to whatever You see people constructing airport up in bridge in which some in this And then here in Nigeria you see us still doing things as if we are in the storage That's that when while you are growing up Roads were constructed here at night not worse but by companies like Strabag, Guvanti people in my direction will tell you Strabag, Guvanti Jilosbeka Sonebone Now this this construction companies they construct roads here at night They make major construction there in actual sense in order not to affect the traffic flow They construct the The the major roadway traffic button in the night But what do we have because these people want to prove to us that they are working so they make a life on very good Just you see how many constructing roads and without make providing alternative routes And then you also see this construction company Not the people themselves And they are doing us a favor. We elected people to government to make life easy for us But they will come into government. They will make life difficult for us when they want to go to about their own amount business They will use siren to go to traffic club job They will drive against the one way and they will make us to go to plane and achieve Because you are elected in your office. Gide Janssen. Thank you so much. We have to let you go. We also Appreciate you every other time you are part of the breakfast We look forward to sharing more of your thoughts on some national issues Thank you. Thank you. Have a good friday Well, that's the size of it on off the press. We take a break when we return We'll be heading straight to our first major conversation right here. Please stay with us