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00:02:00of communities in kama local government area of
00:02:02of state have now regin the
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00:02:25let's bring you some uh good news from karate as
00:02:28a song people were been in captivity since
00:02:32February this year, we now uh be
00:02:36of meeting and we meeting their family members, we understand
00:02:40now that a coordinated joint security operation
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00:02:49of of the national security of advisor, the Nigerian Armed forces and the department of state services, the
00:02:51of national of counter tourism center and the Nigerian police and other
00:02:55security agencies
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00:03:01of across Kuara, Nija and Kibi states. Security sources
00:03:06of describe the operation as one
00:03:09of of the largest and most successful recent rescue missions
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00:03:16today. Among those rescued were
00:03:19176 persons abducted from
00:03:22a World Community in Kayama, local government area of Cara State. The victims
00:03:26of since been evacuated to the military medical facility.
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00:03:31of Wawa cantont in New
00:03:32of Buza of Niger of of State where they are
00:03:37me of receiving medical attention while security agencies continuing efforts to sustain pressure
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00:03:42of criminal groups operating across the
00:03:47of region. Good news for, I mean smiles on
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00:03:52of these people who have seen the wast in the hands
00:03:55of these terrorists. There's so much to talk about tonight on the state
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00:04:00in politics, elections of 2027 and the hardship lot of
00:04:04Nigerians agitated about the some of those who went to the streets
00:04:07in today, whether or not, they say the tunable government have failed
00:04:11them based on the promises made, will be finding out and digging
00:04:14into the situation the country ahead the 2027
00:04:32The House of Representatives Adhock Committee, investigating the alleged
00:04:36establishment and operations
00:04:38of the presidential foreign investment Promotion Council, is planning
00:04:42to meet discretely with the controversial Director General
00:04:44of the Council,
00:04:46of Mr. Adeni. The Committee chairman, representative Yusuf
00:04:50Gagdi, explains that Mr. Adeni is currently in the custody
00:04:53of the police and is been investigated by the anti-graft
00:04:56agencies. Meanwhile, businessman, Mr. Winga
00:05:00Collins who appeared before the
00:05:02of committee is claiming to have paid 400 million naira to Mr.
00:05:05Adimi for a contract to renovate and funnish his official
00:05:09residence. The African Democratic Congress in platus. state
00:05:13says it has started an alleged attempt to replace its
00:05:162027 governorship candidate, retired brigadier
00:05:19general John Sunday Sur retired following the party's
00:05:23primary election. Addressing the press conference in Jors, the state
00:05:27chairman the ADC, Mr. Duang, alleged that some individuals,
00:05:31backed by external political interests, attempted to hijack the
00:05:35party's leadership and substitute its governorship candidate. He
00:05:38adds that consultations with the party's national leadership in Abuja.
00:05:42refirmed Mr. Sura's candidature and reaffirmed the ADC's
00:05:46commitment to internal democracy to Cross River State where
00:05:50the chairman the National Youth Council of Nigeria Mr.
00:05:54Immanuel Olahi is urging youths across the state to shown
00:05:57electoral violence and other forms of electoral crime as
00:06:01preparations for the forthcoming elections gather momentum. He warns
00:06:05them against allowing themselves to be used by politicians to disrupt the
00:06:08electoral process addressing journalists in kalaba the crossover. state
00:06:12capital olaye encouraged olaye encouraged young
00:06:16people to participate peacefully in the elections, respect the rule of
00:06:20law and contribute to a credible and violence- free
00:06:23electoral process. he also called on political actors and other
00:06:27stakeholders to promote peace before, during and
00:06:31after the elections. ahead the 2027 general
00:06:35elections, residents of south and kaduna said they are excited and
00:06:38full of appreciation over the nomination of a christian. Jerry
00:06:42Adams a running mate to Kaduna State Governor, Senator
00:06:46Obasani under the platform the All Progressives Congress, the
00:06:50APC. During event held to receive the APC governorship
00:06:54running mate in Kaura local government area, stakeholders from Southern
00:06:57Caduna pleged to mobilize voters across the region in
00:07:01support of President Bolatinoubu and governor Ubasani's re-election
00:07:05bid. They said the nomination of a christian running mate has inspired
00:07:09renewed political participation and strengthened. resolve to
00:07:13support leaders they believe are committed to unity and
00:07:16inclusive
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00:07:33in Austin State, because the government of Austin State is
00:07:37being making heavy allegations, we're hoping that the economic
00:07:41and financial crimes commission. the AFCC will come and
00:07:44explain the situation because the government there says the
00:07:48account the state government domicile with Force Bank
00:07:52has been frozen 10 days before the August 15 governorship
00:07:55election, document saying uh by
00:07:59uh these uh organization indicates that the account
00:08:03reportedly used for the payment of worker salaries had been
00:08:06placed on post no debit status by the
00:08:10anti-graft agency the development comment comes hours after
00:08:14governormal alleged that EFCC was planning to freeze
00:08:18the accounts the state government and some top government officials ahead the
00:08:22election. a
00:08:25press conference today in
00:08:27Oshogo uh says that the
00:08:31situation is onward and the public and enlightenment
00:08:34commission also described the alleged move or the
00:08:38move as attempt to cripple government activities. governor of
00:08:42so maintains that there was no legal basis for freezing the state
00:08:46government account, arguing that the FCC lacked the statutory
00:08:50powers to take such action. however, it sorts close to the
00:08:53governor who spoke on the base of anonimity because he
00:08:57was not authorized to come and confirmed that one the state government's account
00:09:01had already been restricted. take a
00:09:11we receive letter. from our
00:09:13banker, forwarding letter from the
00:09:17EFCC, instructing the bank to
00:09:20freeze orsu state government
00:09:23account. this
00:09:26action was taken without any court
00:09:29order, we are supposed to be in
00:09:33democracy, we are the rule of law
00:09:37must always prevail, we will
00:09:40therefore, not as any situation
00:09:44where we have we have federal agencies
00:09:47trample on the constitutional right of subnational
00:09:51governments. this is a thread to
00:09:55democracy. if we all keep
00:09:58quiet and allow this
00:10:01illegality, very soon whatever is
00:10:04left of our democracy will be fully
00:10:08eroded. all i asked.
00:10:13is for the EFC chairman to explain to the good
00:10:17people of Fortune state and to the Nigerian in
00:10:20general, why it throws us state government
00:10:23account and show? proof to support whatever
00:10:26reason he presents,
00:10:30these and all and all
00:10:34illegalities being visited a shoe say
00:10:38is turning our democracy into a huge
00:10:42huge joke. governor
00:10:45of
00:10:46there earlier today to
00:10:49the streets of lagos and abuja, we are the take it
00:10:53back movement. stage protests in
00:10:56Lagas, Abuja and other parts the country over
00:11:00what they describe as worsening economic heartship,
00:11:04insecurity, inflation and what the organizers describe
00:11:08as political repression under the ballatinobu administration, the
00:11:12protests held under the banner the festival the
00:11:15oppressed, saw demonstrators in both cities calling
00:11:19for urgent government action on the issues affecting Nigerias in
00:11:23Lagos protest gathered. in the Maryland area where they
00:11:27sang and chanted slogans including Royal Revolution
00:11:30now before the protesters were dispersed by
00:11:34security operates. Security operatives were also deployed
00:11:37around a protest venue where tear gas used to
00:11:41disp the
00:11:42demonstrators.
00:11:45Today, August 5th, we have come to
00:11:49remind the whole country that the revolution is necessary
00:11:53and imminent. and that nothing can stop that
00:11:57revolution, not all these zombies behind
00:12:00us, when the people are ready, babaya will not stop
00:12:04us, the police will even join, the army will join,
00:12:08yes, but we have number of demands that we must retarate
00:12:11here, and they include that nigerian workers must be paid
00:12:15500,000 per month as their minimum
00:12:19wage, we have also
00:12:22asked that they release.
00:12:25the and unlawful
00:12:28detention
00:12:33from AS candidate and unjust one the leaders the
00:12:37revolution now protest which we saw today and some part the
00:12:41country. the conversation is growing louder and
00:12:44mergent, are the government's economic reforms beginning to
00:12:48deliver or millions of nigerians still struggling under
00:12:52the weight of rising living cos. shrinking purchasing power
00:12:56and persistent hardship, as a political class gradually
00:13:00turns his attention to the 2017 elections.
00:13:04questions are also mounting over the role of faith in politics, the
00:13:08performance the tunabu administration, the credibility
00:13:12the opposition, the state the nation's democracy, the
00:13:16independence the national assembly and whether there is enough civic
00:13:19space for decent and constructive
00:13:47as disastrous um government they have some opposition
00:13:51figures that say this is the worst that we have seen in the history of this country. "you
00:13:55are a leader the party and interestingly, you are
00:13:59also member the Catholic Church. yesterday we
00:14:03had Mr. Richi who says that this government is
00:14:06insulting the catholic church of about 35 million people. do
00:14:10you as catholic member feel insulted on one hand
00:14:14by uh the activities of this government and the
00:14:17hardship that the clergy and the bishops in their conference
00:14:21uh went to the president to say people are suffering in.
00:14:25Nigeria and the fear that the election may be
00:14:29re and they're asking for fairness. You think all is
00:14:33where with this country under the government of your party, the
00:14:48um, this is not the first time the Catholic Church are going
00:14:52to uh, President. in every
00:14:56country from DROC to Angola to South
00:14:59Africa to anywhere you call
00:15:03it, the Catholic Church and other
00:15:06churches, not only the Catholic Church, is always the
00:15:10conscious the country, and I do not see anything
00:15:14wrong in what the Catholic Church, the Catholic
00:15:18Bishops sayid and that
00:15:22- those discussion were not
00:15:25made, it was made by bishop
00:15:28Matthew Dana guru of Kaduna
00:15:32State, the president, the present president of Catholic
00:15:36Bishop. conference and not even on Naika
00:15:39himself, so since the military
00:15:43rule, since I was in my adulthood,
00:15:47every year the catholic bishops
00:15:50conference, they hold it, they issue a
00:15:53statement, they talk about the state the
00:15:56nation, for me uh,
00:16:00president is not an enemy to the catholic bishop, is one
00:16:04their best friends and um ' 'I don't
00:16:08feel any salted, it's just that the
00:16:11man who went to president, no means have insulted the catholic
00:16:14bishop, I didn't see it, but if you have seen it you can show you to
00:16:18me, have you seen the responses from the villa? No, the
00:16:22villa is not president, I was a governor, I had a press
00:16:25guys, so when a press
00:16:29communicator that is not the president himself
00:16:32talks, by your will not say what any
00:16:36other person will say there'. but by onoga is season
00:16:39journalist, he knows the consequences of going
00:16:43into argument with institutions like the catholic
00:16:56bola which is what you want to say, might have been excited
00:17:00to say or sleep of tongue or there about to
00:17:04say what he said, presidenti bu? have
00:17:07very good relationship with the catholic church, i can tell you
00:17:11that, because what's the evidence to show that he has a good relationship? no, he has a
00:17:15good relation, this is your friend
00:17:17and anyt they have asked for
00:17:20audience, he gives to them, because any
00:17:24president dodging the catholic bishops is dodging himself,
00:17:27because what politicians cannot tell the president, the
00:17:31catholic bishop will say it, these are people that have no
00:17:35houses, they have no uh children. they have no money,
00:17:38although Catholic Church is one the richest church you can think in the
00:17:42world, but these bishops do not use that money, it's not
00:17:46their money, so uh, they live
00:17:50life of a common man and a common person, even
00:17:54in eating, in everything they do in life, so I think their
00:17:58visit to president Tinibu was very successful,
00:18:02because what we politicians cannot tell President Tib,
00:18:06they can tell him.
00:18:07That is the truth, so you think that the statement was right, the statement was right, to
00:18:11tell the president that there is hardship in
00:18:14the land, of course yes, because let me tell you the president have stabilized
00:18:17economy, the economy have been stabilized from your own
00:18:20judgment,
00:18:25listen to me, as businessman I'm talking about, the macro
00:18:29side the economy have been stabilized, what we are suffering
00:18:32today is the micro side the economy where you
00:18:36see because the insurgence and all the rest them, people can't go to
00:18:40farm, people are running away from what they supposed to
00:18:44do because of badnit, so for me
00:18:47president have been able to stabilize the macro part the
00:18:51economy and the next level is to stabilize the
00:18:54micro senator, don't you think he's playing the austrich
00:18:58when you when you try to alienate president to
00:19:01nobu uh from the statement that came from the villa and and
00:19:05give you some the responses? that came uh as attack
00:19:09or
00:19:18me, these are some the respon said
00:19:21quote, politics as clouded the cardinal's
00:19:24judgement from the presidency,
00:19:28quote, presidentubu is not detached from reality,
00:19:32president remains fully in touch with reality through daily
00:19:35intelligence briefings intensive consultation and constant
00:19:39engagement with Nigerians and of court, the presidential
00:19:43spokes person send the direct through the presidency as criticized the
00:19:46cardinal public comment, he said also quote, there is something fundamentally
00:19:50wrong when confidential conversations with the president are public
00:19:54distorted in ways that inflame public sentiment rather than enlighten
00:19:58it, but let me be honest with you, the
00:20:01discussion the catholic bishop had with
00:20:03president is not personal, is not because they
00:20:07had cameras there, so it's public discussion, so you don't see
00:20:11anything wrong if Cardinal Nayekon had gone on television to
00:20:15say, it doesn't look like the president is listening, no, no, no, but
00:20:19cardinal Nikon did not go with other catholic bishops, that
00:20:23might be his opinion, there was a president of Catholic
00:20:27Bishop conference who read the communique, so any
00:20:31other cardinal and any other archbishop or any other
00:20:34bishop has his own opinion to say: possibly the
00:20:38way the cardinal put it is not what the
00:20:42entire catholic bishop conference meant because they have read
00:20:46their conferences that whatever
00:20:52have been saying the same thing since
00:20:541979 today when he was bishop of
00:20:58lore if you check history he was saying the same thing when he was
00:21:02made bishop of abuja it was also saying the same
00:21:06thing he has not spared any government as far as i
00:21:09know there's no government he has spared
00:21:13from uh the military regime to
00:21:16shagari to anybody to all the people you want
00:21:20say he is living on his own word to
00:21:23say things the way he sees say yeah some the
00:21:27response and some the things that cardinal
00:21:31said he
00:21:32said
00:21:36no mind you that cardinal gave different
00:21:39interview not from where then i understand and that's what i'm
00:21:42saying nobody no no i'm coming
00:21:46nobody the cardinal was present there he was there but
00:21:50interview he gave was not in the villa, the interview was in
00:21:53another place, it was a no, i'm coming, you
00:21:57cannot capate entire catholic bishops that they
00:22:00said, they they read the and that's why we're making we mentioning the
00:22:04name both
00:22:07of just i can play to remind nigerians what
00:22:10the bishops told president, yes of course and the bishop were
00:22:14right, yeah you thought that of course they were right, you
00:22:18agree that your party is... if if the bishop have said anything
00:22:22less than what they have said, it means they are no longer the conscious the
00:22:26country. the bishops you are right, let me let me then and president
00:22:30principle himself do not take
00:22:31any offense in what
00:22:33the bishop
00:22:35say no, but you said president did not take offense, this
00:22:39is what cardinal on said, quote, frankly speaking, he told us quite
00:22:43clearly that he did not agree with us and of
00:22:55me be honest with you, if I'm in position of
00:22:59a president yeah and somebody tell you something which
00:23:03you have not cross shake, you say yes, I don't agree with you, he
00:23:06said quote, we told him the economy is not helping our poor people, he told us the
00:23:10economy is doing fine, is the economy doing
00:23:23aspect of is doing very well, this polity is being
00:23:27stabilized, the exchange rate is being stabilized, the
00:23:30f price is being stabilized, everything you can see,
00:23:34foreign direct investment are coming in, so what
00:23:37is left, remember the problem we
00:23:41have is from the sahel, the problem is not just a male
00:23:45problem of nigeria, not the problem of buari again
00:23:48because I'm coming, the problem
00:23:51we have, whether Buhari or Tinibu or Basanjo, the problem we have is
00:23:55problem of sahil, when the arms out of
00:23:59Libya open up, arms out of uh
00:24:02Mali, arms out of those uh places open up,
00:24:06Nigeria is no longer safe with our minerals in the northern part of
00:24:10Nigeria, this is what we are suffering, and there is a worldwide
00:24:14reception as I'm talking to you now, whether you are in the US, whether
00:24:18you are in Canada, whether you are in UK, "there's a problem the economy
00:24:21because the two big wars going on, the Iran
00:24:25US-Israel war and the Ukraine Russia war is putting
00:24:28pressure under lot of economies in the world,
00:24:32so we are not exceptional, but so if you
00:24:35ask president, when you see the indices
00:24:39up there going on, unless you take people coming from
00:24:43the farms telling, oh we are no longer farming, we are not, this is
00:24:47why the microeconomy we are not gotten right." and a
00:24:50reform, it's not a christmas party, it's not
00:24:53a salar party neither
00:24:57way, a reform we will have to see the
00:25:00good, the best and the ugly, and that is what we are
00:25:04seeing from where we are now, we are going to go to the
00:25:07destination to be able to manage the microeconomy,
00:25:11which mean i am for economic
00:25:14growth, but in this is we are seeing does not
00:25:18mature because the pressure. from other countries in the
00:25:22world, not just Nigeria. Senator, uh,
00:25:25you talked about the microeconomy, uh, there are those who will say
00:25:29this government is cooking the books, uh, lot of things are not right,
00:25:33IMF has criticized the books of this government that there a lot of things that are opaque, you
00:25:37need to open it up, you are in the national assembly and there are those who
00:25:41wonder how some of you sit there and you are able to allow
00:25:45multiple budget segments to run in one single budget time
00:25:49when you have a situation where 70% of section the budget is being
00:25:53carried over to the next year that those who are worried that some of you
00:25:57who are leaders of this country you've served as gover two term
00:26:01governor and think are deteriorating in the man in which and these are some
00:26:04the things the the bishop's conference have gone to tell the president, but the president
00:26:08totally disagree is the veila uh
00:26:12oblivious of what is happening to the average person and you have mentioned that they might
00:26:16just
00:26:16remember
00:26:26views and the opinion tonight whether they
00:26:28have light to watch this television
00:26:30or whether they have money to buy food on their... is the fact that the bishops
00:26:34and which you agree, they have told the president there is hardship in the land, the president
00:26:38disagree with them, he said the economy is fine, you have said the microeconomic
00:26:41side of things have not worked, the president said leave it to me, i ask for the
00:26:45job and i'm going to fix it, but it's three years down the line, it has still not
00:26:49work, microeconomy, the poor people are more in this country, lot them
00:26:53find out to purchase and buy commodities in this country, isn't
00:26:57the failure of your party senator, no, i don't think so,
00:27:01but you agreed well let tell you it's not looking
00:27:05well yeah
00:27:06mean i'm a businessman i manufacture goods the micro side
00:27:10the economy is not doing that's
00:27:17before where you said oh uh president
00:27:21tid does he know that nigerian people are so i say yes he knows how do you
00:27:24know he knows because we discuss he disagree with the bishops no he did not dis
00:27:28the president does not agree that he said
00:27:32he what he
00:27:45dis he disagree with them on two things he said that he will not
00:27:48give red carpet to the opposition on one on the other hand he
00:27:52said that uh
00:28:02and let
00:28:03red campaign for opposition to come and be dancing around if you're
00:28:07a politician, you don't think that fairness is, no, it's
00:28:11fair, president is fair to them, they are not touched any
00:28:14them, unknowingly,
00:28:23the law the land, you live well in the country anyway in the
00:28:26world, you want to listen to what the president said, yes, I want
00:28:30to see,
00:28:31I want be a witness. Yes, no, I just want to listen, okay, because
00:28:35you say he assted the bishop, can you please put on the
00:29:15opportunity
00:29:15and like you mentioned are neutral,
00:29:19they've never never intimidated
00:29:23anybody, if political
00:29:27opponent,
00:29:30they are afraid their own shadows. and your
00:29:33certainty and the
00:29:35in the companies the keep, not
00:29:37me,
00:29:44I'm ready to say, but I won't give them
00:29:48right, I offer them the least to time me
00:29:51and rope me, no, we
00:29:55resume each other, to
00:29:58definition, that's the
00:30:09break
00:30:09up it, if you are, if I'm your enemy, will you give me red carpet?
00:30:13do you see opposition as enemies? no, no, no, if I'm fighting with you, will you give me
00:30:17red carpet? is that how you
00:30:18people, listen to me,
00:30:30I come and I will address... my room for
00:30:33opposition to come and leave and be insulting my
00:30:37children, then i will be a good man. no, it's not true. he said
00:30:41that we will have fair context if i had what he said, he
00:30:44sayid is not going to touch anybody, but we have fair
00:30:48context. any day
00:30:50president have disrespect to the
00:30:54opposition or have disrespect to the catholic church? i will resign from
00:30:57APC, your very good friend rotimach.