 You're welcome back. It's still the breakfast on plus TV Africa and then we're taking our first hot topic And what we're calling our first hot topic is we're trying to x-ray how the first 100 days of the President administration has been like. How has he fared? What the first 100 days of the Tinnable presidency tells us like they say a Dog that will know how to hunt you will know it when it's still a puppy So we have joining us here public affairs analyst Nick Agoule to x-ray the first 100 days of the Tinnable presidency Good morning and welcome to the program. Mr. Agoule And good morning to our viewers Okay, it's going to be 100 days in about three days What do you think? It has been like so far. I mean, thank you very much for that question Topical question also 100 days being marked today by the expectations of the decision of the presidential election petition court whether it will be Granting president Tinnable the leave to continue Into the 101 days going forward or they are going to say that His election Is not in able so we were expecting your eyes On the court to see what that is going to have come up with in these 100 days now to x-ray and appraise The government of president Tinnable in the first 100 days my overall Rating of this government is that it is below expectations below expectations in the sense that first of all President Tinnable Has not made a departure From what previous governments that have failed have done You get to see someone Who has embarked on a trip? To know whether he will be successful or not if that person Is following the same food path of those before him Who did not finish well? Or whether the president is taking his own food path Which will show a departure from what we have had before President Tinnable has not shown evidence in his first 100 days That he is prepared to walk his own way Instead he's following in the same full steps of those behind there before and those who were before him and Who did not make it or who did not finish? properly and How do I mean number one? President Tinnable was elected in February of 2023 and got his certificate or return in that February Immediately he got the certificate or return He needed to have done upon him That he is now the president in waiting of Nigeria Then he has now got the mandate to lead Nigeria and what he needed to do Was to settle down immediately and begin to form his government So that on the 29th of May when he was sworn in his government will go into full swing From day one always President Tinnable John Keating all over the world was going to London going to France spending time over there And it had to take the law of Nigeria that he must form a cabinet within 60 days to force his hands to announce a cabinet on day 60 of his assuming office And even at that President Tinnable broke the law by not announcing the full cabinet He only announced part of the cabinet Just at the deadline of the 60 days which shows that If he was not forced by the law to announce his cabinet within the 60 days We could probably not have had the cabinet today And then when he announced the cabinet we would discover that it was not that he went shopping for Competent hands all over the world who are Nigerians that he will announce as his cabinet He announced the regular politicians that we know about ex-governors ex-senators and all of that Is this the kind of people that it took him 60 days after suerini or more than Five months from when he he was elected to announce to also to me He followed the full step of his of his predecessors Who didn't announce cabinet in time and he shows clearly that this is someone who didn't come to the job prepared That is the first one The second one is that President Tinnable in announcing his cabinet the Constitution forces his hands To announce 36 people as cabinet members because the Constitution says you must have a minister from each state Then I'm not 45 people 48 even because some we're not eventually cleared Hmm as a minister How can the president be telling us to tighten our best to endure the sufferings? That have come upon us with economy policies that he has sent back to pawns, but he is not showing that You know, what does he need 45 ministers for? You know, that's the second term the 13 sorry the 13 is that of All the ministries in Nigeria. There is this ministry called Ministry of Petroleum All of President Tinnable's predecessors in this third Republic as I found good Lord Jonathan Hope tightly onto the Ministry of Petroleum where they say they are minister And why expected that President Tinnable will make a remarkable departure from that and announced a substantive minister of a petroleum He has also heard onto the Minister of Petroleum where he say his minister. The question is that why? because you see President Tinnable is the one that got the mandate from Nigeria's To to to take over the reins of government for the next four years The minister that has appointed is only sharing in that mandate that was given to him minister So what is so special about the Minister of Petroleum that President Tinnable now feels that he must be minister What busy a president is? Why would the president now hold onto a ministerial position? Why would he give minister of finance to somebody else to share the workload with him and Now hold on to petroleum to me it shows that President Tinnable is not ready to be a man of his so is not ready to be different and then We look at the policies that the president has brought to bear the first thing is in his inaugural speech he says that Few subsidy is gone and Immediately the following day the NMPC who is the soy in Porta of Petroleum Fights the the price of petroleum from 180 190 to 537 on Nigerians Okay agreed Few subsidy has been a conduit that Nigeria's commonwealth has been looted over the years So removing it saves us from the banditry on our treasury But what is President Tinnable not doing to cushion the effect of this subsidy remover President Tinnable doesn't seem to realize that the few subsidy is only a symptom And what is the cause of that symptom? The cause is that Nigeria's four refineries have been allowed to die Since he came into office now 100 days The refineries in any of the speeches he never mentioned the refineries is inauguration speech when he said few subsidies gone What would have expected that you would have said few subsidies gone the Nigeria's Infineries are going to be up and running in X amount of time Then you will know that this is a president. Yeah, but they have said they have said that it's going to be running in December That the few the the refineries will be running in December. They have told us that Okay, so so let us go back to that point the Pohakor refinery that they are saying It was is going to start running in December. Remember that the Pohakor refinery Reformishment was awarded for an 18 month period by the then Minister of State for Petroleum and the me prever See my brother If I think very well when that award happened that award would have happened about more than two years ago And since that time we have been having this repeated Promises of the refinery coming on stream and it has no happen Has it not happened? It don't happen because the NNPC That has allowed the refineries to die is the one that is staying in charge Presidentinibu will show a remarkable departure and a sense of purpose and mission to rescue Nigeria's downstream petroleum sector if by now he had already finalized the process of either selling out to rightly those refineries to Global investors or in the minimum busy them out We cannot keep hoping on an MNPC It's a hopeless organization You know that that is the same way we were hoping on night there We kept hoping on night there to give us phones and we never saw phones until the MTS and co came in so I Could put a bet on the table now and say that in December of this 2023 That refinery is not going to work. I can put a bet if only anybody wants to take it So that is what I'm saying Presidentinibu needs to show a departure from the status quo the status quo is that we have handed over these refineries to the NNPC The NNPC has not been able to run them for more than 20 years If presidentinibu still continues with the NNPC was going to be the magic What we expected him to do was to walk away from what has been happening before that has not given us any results And I said we speak today Global downstream operators would have taken these four refineries and they will be on their way to delivery of the refineries So that is this does this about refineries now presidentinibu Makes an announcement About fuel subsidy gone. There's nothing on the table To show otherwise He talks about going to import buses and bringing them into Nigeria But he's not talking about great transportation for instance, which is the the the the more efficient more effective and The more affordable means of transport Okay, just this morning Sorry Nick just this morning that one of the headlines said that the federal government has asked the state governments to fund rail lines in the region So is that something you would welcome is that one of the things you are talking about that they should concentrate or Encourage real transportation and all that he said the federal the federal government has said the state government should fund regional rail lines I I am happy with that Because the states over time Have been visited with airports airports that is only rats and cockroaches and snakes That use over time You know the states needed to start building rays within their states and then connecting those rays to each other Such that you will not see that the southeast region is not central south to west south south Not is not west we start connectivity All the rail lines that the states have built over time So I work on such news, but let us not forget that as we speak today It is the federal government that has got red lines laid in Nigeria There are red lines laid in Nigeria I know that for sure there is a red line from Port Harcourt all the way to Meduguri That has been laid. I know that for sure because I have traveled on either that rail line passes through Makodi We are aborted the train in my teenage years to Port Harcourt It is the federal government that has got red lines from Lagos heading towards the north as well Why is the federal government not dealing with this ray infrastructure that they have now because it is Easier and quicker a low-hungry food to deal with the infrastructure that is already on the ground Than to go and build the new one that the federal government wants states to do So why is the president not leading that charge and like I said He doesn't need to spend a couple of fees money or federal government's money to do that He only needs to let this ray infrastructure that is already on ground add to the private sector in a Transparent process that we attract global capital and as we speak today would have been Would have got some of the global rail operators around the world already Refurbishing the ray tracks from Port Harcourt going north and from Lagos going north a start before He will concession the rest of the country out to global rail operators to start laying tracks So this is the kind of preparedness that is missing in this government one thought this government came prepared they were already aware of the of the of the problem that would be devil in the country and That will go to hit the ground running. That is not that doesn't look like it's happening Okay, to the issue. Yeah, yeah as as we're wrapping up now because Unfortunately time has gone as we're wrapping up now. Let's really answer the question that brought us here. What? The first 100 days of tinnable president to tell us so when yours you have said He did not depart from what the everybody else has been doing so you've given us a background if After the judgment today, he still remains the president. What do you see in the next four years? for Nigeria From what you have seen in this first hundred days Thank you very much. So if I president in the book continues in office The first 100 days of his administration were like a so administrator days Where president in tinnable failing to appoint a cabinet in time run government all by himself We're not hope that in the next 100 days After today if he's giving the mandate to continue with 45 men and women now forming his cabinet That government policy will not change from the status quo To a remarkable departure that gives us hope that this government is going to do things differently So we will need to reconvene again after another hundred days to not say What is a president in the book government with now with 45 ministers now in the saddle Promising or looks like Otherwise the first 100 days have been under women. They have they have been gloomy He doesn't show that the president knows what he's doing. I was just about to address the forest unification which He has done And he has not done anything about it because you see the forex thing can only be solved by two things Number one increase the dollar supply into the market number two reduce the demand for dollars President in the book hasn't done anything to increase this dollar supply. For instance, they are stealing one million barrels of Nigeria's good Oh, yeah, what has he done since he came into office if president in the book some of the service teams in his office I've reached the right up to them and says if they still want one Barrel one barrier of Nigeria could all of you are going home That's criminality. We stop and if we save one million parades per day at today's 90 dollars a barrier that is 90 million dollars every day that we get into our economy I haven't seen anything like that instead the private security firm that was awarded a contract Continued with it. I see the Nigerian Navy does not know what they are doing President in the book in his in his speech in August we say oh the interest rate that is charged by banks is too high So businesses are not thriving and that is true complete identification of the problem but under his watch on the right under his nose the central bank had an MPC meeting and the increasing interest rate Why did he know someone the active central bank government to his office and say come on Why are you increasing interest rate on a on a a cost-push inflation? This is not a demand pool inflation. This is cost-push. Why are you increasing interest rate? I want interest rate to crash to to single digit so that businesses cannot have access to cheap Credit and boost this economy the economy is not producing. We really need to wrap it up here We need to wrap it up here Nick. Well We've seen the picture that the first 100 days has painted and we do hope that there will be a marked Departure from the status quo from what has always been happening. We'd like to thank you so much Nick for coming on the program this morning Thank you very much and let's keep our eyes on the judiciary Okay, that was Nick Agouleh public affairs analyst who joined us from To join us this morning to accelerate the first 100 days of the tinnable presidency We'll take a short break and when we return we'll be looking at the weather the political climate in Nigeria It was the youth to thrive. Stay with us