 You're welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's now time for Off the Press and we've invited Mr. G.D. Johnson, Chief Lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. Good morning, Mr. G.D. Johnson. Good morning. It is a pleasure to meet you and welcome to our viewers of the report. All right. Thanks for joining us. Okay. Well, beginning this morning with a punch news paper. The headline reads, Open Grazing and Spare Paths Comparison. Malami Under Fire as Akiridulu South Stakeholders Lampoon AGF. The writer's reads, Comparing Open Grazing to Spare Paths Sale Betrays Terrible Mindset. And that's according to Akiridulu. Senate spokesman once Malami fired, says, AGF under primordial sentiment. Stand thoughtless, prejudicial, or uneasy. Comments nonsensical, says Faleno. Above the headlines on the punch news paper, experts cap at CBN say serial narrowed evaluation threatens economy and Nigerians. Governments fred as CBN insist budget support repayments starts May. NLC meets and Governors' 318-hour-per-litre patrol proposal today, experts want FG. Suspend June Electricity Tariff hike, National Assembly tells NERC. Also on the punch news paper, FG sets up nine-man panel to address Kaduna, NLC face-off. Abdul-Sarami here say, Divert infrastructural funds to tackle insecurity. Also on the punch news paper below the headline, we see a picture here of a fighter jet and lots of people here posing for a group photograph. The caption reads, NAF takes delivery of 26 fighter jets, CAS boost of enhanced capacity. Five killed as hoodlums clash over election banner in Lagos. Police dismiss bumming rumour, one dies in a Bassenger's library explosion. Local government poll or your declared Friday holiday, APC in court demands postponement. Soldiers avenging airman's death arrest, Lagos residents destroy vehicles and that's in Oshudi. Fourth wife stabs husband to death for impregnating new lover. Ayadeh becomes APC leader in Cross River state, says state must join centre. Those are the stories on the punch news paper. The Nigerian Tribune, let's see what we can find over here. The big one there says, open grazing, you are wrong, lawyers tell Malami. Lanik Perkun Rotimi-Williams, Ubani Abari Bay, Middlebelt Forum and others slam the AGF. We will implement ban with vigour, says Akeridolu. Northern Governors Forum, a Governors Forum banned open, I'm not sure what that is. Or rather, okay, Northern Governors Forum banned open grazing before Southern Governors Forum, says Falano. And also open grazing outdated, says Mieti Allah's patron. We can also see here Oaneze reacting, also saying his remarks are prejudicial. Yes, we built 30 million Naira Mosque in Barnau and that is from Agriculture Ministry. There was a leaked memo showing 30 million Naira contract awarded to build a mosque from the Ministry of Agriculture and that's what they're responding to. I left PDP for APC because of Buhari's attributes, Cross River state Governor Ayadeh says. Petrohops subsidy removal, oil marketers back governors. Gas explosion, Roxo Bassinger's Presidential Library, one feared dead. And also now is the time to revisit a 2014 Comfab report to rescue Nigeria, says Laby Durujayi. Oshimbajo wades into Governor's CBN dispute over budget facility repayment and Boko Haram leader Shekau seriously wounded after attempting to kill himself to avoid capture. We can also see here Federal Government directs Kaduna government to follow principle of redondancy sets up a man committee to negotiate and lastly reps hard-proposed hike of electricity tariff, raised concern of a 2020 IMF report and probe discos of a transfer of debts to new users. These are the big ones on the Nigerian Tribune. On the nation newspaper, anti-open grazing ban, AGF Malami on the fire. Governors CBN differ on loan repayment plan. Abdul Salami to government forgets projects fund insecurity. Controversy over Shekau in Boko Haram is swapped clash. Negotiation on patrol price ongoing says NNPC. Gas explosion kills man in a Bassenger's library. Woman stabs husband to death. I dumped PDP for APC to take cross-reversed data center, says Ayadee. Also on the nation newspaper, World Bank rejects debt cancellation for Africa. Also bandits kill Emya's son and lastly 10-man panel to set a Kaduna labor dispute. Those are the stories on the nation newspaper. All right. Good morning. Once again, Jedeh Johnson. So many of these very interesting stories. I guess we can start from anywhere you choose. Well, I think we should start from the comment of the attorney general, who happens to be the chief law officer, whose pronouncement gives a direction and indication as to what the administration and dispensation of justice should look like in the country. I must say this that I was not only disappointed, I was disturbed that if this is the quality of thinking and the level of intelligence that governs the kind of council this important office gives to the president with respect to administration of justice, dispensation of justice, adherence to constitutionalism, then we are in danger. We are in danger of entrenching dictatorial powers that existed under the military regime whereby the pronouncement of the head of state becomes the law and whatever decree that they settle after classes, that takes away the power of the courts and probably the attorney general is still a system in the era of military regime. But this is the democracy, even though we have not gotten into democracy, we are still in a civilian administration because if it's in the democratic side, the attorney general will have the force to resign. And this will come as a surprise to many Nigerians because over the years and the last six years the attorney general demonstrated some certain disposition towards non-respect for constitutionalism and issues that has to do with due process. For example, you remember when the National Assembly summoned the president, I remember the Azobre in his first term, he was the one that counseled the president not to attend that, he's not duty to attend that particular that particular program. Now if the attorney general is speaking, he's the attorney general of the federation, he's not the attorney general of the defense council, but the attorney for cathedrals. And if governors in the south, if his governor in the south cannot ban open crazy, I don't know where he wants governor to, to, to then we can do open prostitution on the street of Nigeria, we can do open prostitution on the street of, of the north. And I don't know what he has done or his pronouncement concerning Isbar police arresting people during the month of Ramadan for eating, when it is the constitutional right of, the constitutional right of anybody to fast or not to fast. I don't know what he has said concerning the nothing governor's banning the sale of alcohol in the north and yet with the highest level of hypocrisy and playing the off-stretch collects revenue that were collected from part on our quality consumption. I don't know if any nothing governor will allow the sale of pork meat in the north. So when such statement came from the attorney general of the federation, you must be disappointed, but beyond disappointment you must be disturbed that if this is the quality and the level of intelligence that governs that office, that there's more to, there's more to be desired. Just, just look at the comparison. The analogy is faulty. It's, it's not really planned. It does not just make any kind of sense. There's no justification for such, and I love the reply of the industry governor. I love the reply. Who happens to be the person that coordinated the meeting of the southern governor's in worry? He was the one that coordinated the meeting. He knew he came out and he said that he was not the chairman. He just coordinated. He was just appointed. And he came up with a fantastic statement to that effect, telling the attorney general to let them meet in the court. Sometimes you begin to wonder how the sonship in Nigeria, how it is given, because I'm not to show. I'm not to show the kind of statement, analogy, and comments we got from the attorney general of the federation. It's like the, it's like the statement or counsel you get from a senior advocate of Nigeria. You're not a senior advocate of cow, cow liars or animal husbandry. You are senior advocate of Nigeria. And you are the attorney general of, of the federation and minister of just, and you could see from left, right and center is received. I'm sure that interview with the benefit of insight, you will have regretted taking that particular interview and taking that, but it is very good for us because it gives us an indication of his mindset and it gives us an indication of the totality of what our dispensation, administration of justice is like and adherence to constitutionalism. All right. You've seen our bigger agencies of government have issues, particularly under this person, that institution. All right. Let's move away from there and move to Cross River State where Governor Ben Ayade, as you know, defected from the PDP to the APC, says he is joining the APC, you know, of course, to help President Mamadobar remove the country forward. And because of course, he enjoys the ideologies of the President. After many years, after many years, after six years in PDP is not joining, when the administration of power is coming to an end. Duke, it's Nigerians are loosely over politicians. The politicians are, no matter how hard it rains and you cannot, the rain cannot wash up the tax spot in the Leopards. There's no difference. I said it, it's there in the public domain. I said it as of August 2015, as of August 2011. There's no difference between Nigerian political parties. They are just the same. They are just, they are chameleons, they are PDP in the morning, APC in the night, APC in the morning, PDP in the night. If we check the actors and players in the political landscape, it is the same set of people that have been ruling us since 1999, that are there. You are still worried out of the equation. It is the same set of people, even if you put worry into the equation, as we are not being part and parcel of those that have been ruling us since we were young. It was at our state, while I was in secondary school, now president, after I've left the university and I'm giving back to children and my son is in the university. So while I was in secondary school, was the president, was the head of state, while my son is in the university, is still the, are we moving forward, we are moving, we are moving backwards. So I'm not surprised by the character of the political class and this is not just the last, this is just the beginning. You see movement. You see that the politics is shaped around personality. I have this question as far back as 2015, that we are looking at the issue of personality. Are we looking at the issue of competence? That beyond the personality of whoever wants to elect to office, are we looking at the capacity of the person to deliver? There's no way you will give, you will enter a flight with a pilot that has no, that has no qualification, that has no degree, that has no competence, that has no knowledge of flying and then it, because he has integrity and you enter the aircraft with, for him to fly you from Lagos to Abuta. You will not enter the aircraft no matter the integrity. I said beyond integrity, we must look at the capacity and some of us that studied it in 2015, we look like idiots, we look like fools, said that we are looking for someone that has integrity. I said beyond integrity, you must think about capacity, you can never, that was the analogy I gave, you can never fly an aircraft whose pilot does not have the competence and the knowledge of flying to aircraft no matter how the level of integrity. And that's what I found out. People like Ayati, look, let me tell you this, have you seen how the governor of Korsinova, I remember when he was elected as governor in 2015, I happened to go to Calabar for a program and I saw the governor having our six, seven title in front of his name, Doctor, Professor, Chief and this and that. So it takes you, the character, they will still move, the governor of the state move, the other governors that will move, the last time the PDP governor went to Zamfara to present, to prevent the governor of Zamfara from crossing over, the governor of Bachi was elected to have moved and he came up with a statement that is not moving. They will cross carpet because what is being done with it, someone wants to become president, they want to save their political future and they are looking at other equation on how they become reliever. It's not about take value out of, out of the equation, it's about their own political, it's a deep state. And I look, in the present cabinet, present cabinet was in PDP, Amici was in PDP, they are in the present cabinet. If you look at the configuration of the National Assembly and the parties, you discover that they move, they cross from one party to the other, they don't care. You know what I use for this? I use this Michael Jackson song. All I want to say is that they don't really care about us, they only care about themselves. So, don't be bothered about a hidden movie, it's about comparing PDP to APC, it's like saying six and a half it doesn't, what's the difference between the six and the others? They are the same, they are the same. So I'm not, I'm not a dog, I'm not the stop, it's just the beginning of people moving that are moving because of what, it is they are moving because of Nigeria. I'm moving to ensure that there is, there is, there is deliverance of deliverables of democracy. He said it's moving after six years, it's not serious. And then there's a need for us to come up with a strong constitutional provisions that if you leave your party in the course of you being elected, you should forfeit your city. When we do that, we have serious money, not people jumping, jumping sheep from one party together. And you could see how the wasted state resources, some governors of APC left their state and went to Calabar to welcome him. Even the chairman of APC, the chairman of APC is the governor of UBC. I'm not sure he has been to the state to govern that state. He's busy running, junketing and trucketing Nigeria. It's because we don't want them accounting and that's why we can do all this nonsense that I'm crossing over from one party together. It's political prostitution and that's what has characterized our political dispensation since 1999. So what do you expect to prostitute? All right, hold on. Hold on. You did not get any political prostitution. You will not give you anything. You can't want them to, they are heartless human beings. They have no integrity, they have nothing to shoot for it. Kindly hold on. There's conflicting reports about Abubakashakao either being dead or seriously injured. Some reports have it that he died yesterday and of course the papers this morning say he was seriously injured after trying to escape being captured by ISWAP fighters. Quickly, also let's get your thoughts on that one before we move to another topic. It's a cat with nine lives. How many times has he died? How many times has he been injured? That we have had a story. He was dead, he was not dead. He was alive, he was not dead. I think until we see footage of when Usama Bin Laden was captured, we saw footage of us was captured. When Mama Gaddafi in which most Africans are regretting that was gotten rid of by the Western powers in Libya, we saw footage of it. When Abubakaddi, the head of ISWAP, was gotten rid of, we saw footage of it. He's here with Chekawa died many times and he has come back to life. In fact, his own resurrection is more than that of Jesus Christ. He has resurrected as many times as possible. So don't stick this with the pinch of salt and wait whether Chekawa will resurrect. Because over the years he's been injured. But the question we need to ask is, is there an injury that the Nigerian military cannot get through? Over the years, I don't know. But as far as I'm concerned, until we see footage of his dead body, we will not come to the conclusion that he's dead. Mr. J. Johnson, we'll still continue. Yes, I would like to ask you about the NLC, Kaduna State standoff basically. So the call of the strike and the Kaduna State government said they would constitute a nine-man panel, or a 10-man committee basically, to look into the situation. So firstly, does this not sound familiar? You know, the setting up of panels and Nigerians expecting to see the outcome of that. And also, let's also give you thoughts on the NLC meeting on Governor's 318-hour petrol proposal today. Yeah, that's a larger story. Nigeria is a product economy. Last week we spoke about commodity price index and we talked about inflationary rate. We talked about standard of living and cost of living. And we said that we've seen that cost of living has been on the high, on the increase. And then the standard of living of the Annabelle Nigerian has dropped because of the inflation. Because over the year, whether government printed or not printed money. And we said the price of goods is an indication of whether government printed money or not, because inflation is when there's too much money, pushing a few goods, and your supply can only talk to a demand. So that created a problem. Now, government wants to, if there's a government that has split on the intelligence of Nigerians, I think it's this present government. And I stand by the conviction of my opinion. Because we were told that there's no subsidy. You see, we just have to ease this up in global. We were told that there is no subsidy. Yeah, are you going to get this? If you increase the prices, if you hike that of petrol from $3189, they've been saying it, they deny it. Once governments buy the kite, they want to prepare a mine towards the deficit, it's $400, over two months ago. What do we have? What would they cost somebody to transport himself from one location to another? One, two, what would it cost to move goods from the north to the south? In very plain Nigerians, we pay for it. What do you think? Anything that will put money in the pocket of the government? They will support it. You see, the government went and the supported that. Because they know we will not say anything. We are not holding them accountable. The money they've collected in the last three years, what have they done with it? The money they've collected in the last 22 years, what have they done? Excuse me. So, NLC, just see anything that involves NLC and government. Just know that it's a fake account. As this NLC, old government accountable, are they old government by the scroll of the net? Have they achieved anything from this government? They will go for the negotiation. Once they go for the negotiation, they will intimidate them. They will put, they will dangle carrot, they will use carrot and stick, are put. Some of them will compromise themselves and adhere to it. They will say, okay, we have reason with government, let government do this. You see, market has, I'm coming, just give me a minute. The market has also, the market has also said the supported government. Why would market has no support for federal government? Why? For example, if anything would put more money in my pocket, will I not support it? Why should we hear the views of marketers? We should hear the views of Nigerians. What is the national assembly saying concerning that the executive, the loan cannot wake up and increase the price of a particular product without an input from the legislature? But we told Nigerians, we told them that the current structure of the national assembly, the leadership is one of the most vulnerable and each day we put them in the rightful place they belong is one of the most vulnerable in active, insensitive leadership we have ever had. And most of the, look, lawan, the Senate president has been in the Senate, has been in the national assembly since 1999. The speaker of the House of Representatives has been in the House of Representatives since 2003. Do they want to die there? Is it their father's property? And actually, they are far away from reality. And the legislature that should serve as checks and balances on the executive requesters, they are not doing that. Rather, they will go to Asurok to meet the president. Instead of the president coming to the national assembly to come and meet them, they will go to themself with their tails in between their legs, they will go to Asurok to meet the president. Well, we get the price of leadership we pay for in Nigeria. As far as I'm concerned, let them increase it. It's just a matter of time. When Nigerians are satisfied with this, we all go through it. There's a particular thing in my look, Udale, everyone before will not fall on the head of one person to fall on the head of everybody. But I'll close with this on this matter. Everyone involved in this decision don't buy fuel. Everyone, involved, that will take decision that affects, don't buy fuel. They don't buy it. They don't pay for their DSTV. They don't pay, they don't pay for their business. There's also thoughts on a hike in electricity tariff that the reps have halted. That's another one. They don't pay those bills. They don't pay. I'll ask you this question. When was the last time the minister of transport used his own personal fund to pay for his utility bills, for the cars he drives, or the minister of works and housing, or the minister of labor and productivity, or the senate president, or the speaker of us of rep. When? Because they don't pay with their own money. They don't, they are far away from reality. And when they travel, they travel with convoys, and they are convoys, and people will run into their convoys. We have situations which we have in the Shuku with before we came on there, with the issue of, or your state governor, denying whether they were involved with my convoys, or they are not involved with my convoys. Why should the governor use siren to pursue his employees out of the road? Why? Thank you very much. They were elected to serve us. No government official should use siren to send the citizens away from the road. All right. The car they are riding stacks pay us money. Why should you use siren? If you are going for an event, go early. Don't go late for the event. And don't disturb people that you use their money to fund, to fund your government. It is unbelievable. And these are the caregivers of military administration. We have some situations. You will not get to the end of this story of that young girl has been killed. We never, we never know whether that young girl will become a governor in the future. That this thing has been concreted out of the recklessness we need to go. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You're fired up this Friday morning, but it's for a good cause. And we appreciate your time and your thoughts. And the bottom line is what marketers said. They don't care about us. They will move from PDP to ABC. They will form another party. Let me tell you the truth. They will form another party before 2023. And they will all move to that party. They will change their identity. They have used the concept of granting and a management of perception to distributors. All right, Mr. DD Johnson. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Good morning. Stay with us today in History Comes Up Next. What happened on this day in many, many years ago? And we're back to the year 1972. The birth of one of the biggest and most famous rappers in history. I'm going back to the year 2011 to tell you something we've seen many, many times. The prediction of the end of the world. Do so with us.