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00:01:16Welcome back everyone, the national chairman
00:01:18of the ABC, professor mentally you why that is our
00:01:22guest on the program tonight, thanks so much bro for your
00:01:26time, controls your parties campaign.
00:01:30we have
00:01:31in the the chairman of organizational campaign
00:01:34of council
00:01:34of next who is the vice chairman and myself also the
00:01:38vice chairman two vice chairman then
00:01:41we have the dg under us and all
00:01:45other people in the campaign council
00:01:49as as
00:01:49it is now we've not inaugurated our campaign council because there's confusion in
00:01:53me your camp no there's no confusion when are you going to release the revised
00:01:57edition of your campaign list no? you do
00:02:01um the official list of a campaign list has been
00:02:04released, you can't begin to discuss about the campaign council without the council being
00:02:07inaugurated as far as so the list we saw in
00:02:11public that was released by a party we should ignore it, no
00:02:15you're not ignoring it, it's our list, so you will review
00:02:18of it and the the
00:02:19you
00:02:21the the the rev list it, but the list will became have
00:02:22life only
00:02:26when
00:02:26is uh inaugurated, when you announce a committee, the committee can't not come to
00:02:30life without being inaugurated, so we have a list, yes, has
00:02:34been inaugurated, no, if if it has
00:02:37only inaugurated, it can be amended, so is it going
00:02:41through amendment now, of course, when are you likely to
00:02:45of reinforce the numbers, what we
00:02:47of have uh, we need for inclusion, so that
00:02:50of average everybody in Nigeria
00:02:51of will look at the list and feel he has inclusion in it, that's what we doing, what's in the list we
00:02:55released was wrong, no, but we want to build a more robust list that when
00:02:59you look at it, every Nigerian will have feel, will have
00:03:03belonging to the least, that's what do when are you likely to release it?
00:03:07no, asks when are we going to when are we likely going to
00:03:10inaugurate and give them life? when are you like most likely next
00:03:13week sir? most likely next week, next week, in the
00:03:17coming week
00:03:18that those who argue and might be the style of your party, in the second
00:03:21republic you will find out how supreme the
00:03:25party is and those who say how can the candidate
00:03:28of the party chair the campaign? so and put the leadership
00:03:31of the party benit it
00:03:33now that have a problem with that this
00:03:35of this is
00:03:35a difference
00:03:36in a party uh structure the president the leader
00:03:39of the party so it places him in charge
00:03:42of the party in terms of management
00:03:45of the party itself as a party leader and you defer to him on all on all
00:03:49issues but the question is that and ask can
00:03:52ally support sunubu for president why
00:03:55a supporting opponents of APC candidate elsewhere the big question
00:03:59is that your party seems
00:04:02of to have assimilated rainbow coalition, have you endorsed the rainbow coalition? mark you,
00:04:06in this general election 2027 that people that have not come out
00:04:09to tell
00:04:09you that they will vote president, i can tell you that there
00:04:13are part political party have no president
00:04:15of candidates, labor party doesn't have
00:04:19it, they do, i don't know the present, mean they
00:04:22have, maybe you don't know the man, but i know him, there are many other political party
00:04:26have no present candidate, is that okay, so and
00:04:30their members, some
00:04:31of their members are saying they they are going to support us, but
00:04:34of what is the stance
00:04:35of the APC as
00:04:38the your leadership on the issue of rainbow coalition, and
00:04:41you know the objective
00:04:42of the rainbow coalition, support b met, but in
00:04:45other uh um elections, you support the other
00:04:49party, do you have you end, do you agree with our party
00:04:53of we will not choose for an opposition, for example wik is in my
00:04:56party, i can't go and enforce for wik
00:05:00who should support if he will not support the president will
00:05:02support other political parties, he's in
00:05:06PDP, he has the right of choice of what you want to do, if you say he will support
00:05:10in us, we can fine if you say will support all our candidate and Okay with that, I'm okay
00:05:14with it, but your governor seems to be no,
00:05:17the governor are not offended by it, they said that's not the
00:05:21case, no, what the
00:05:22governor,
00:05:27listen, listen, the governor said that
00:05:30they will support their candidates from top to bottom as
00:05:34governors, even as a party chairman,
00:05:38we support our candidates
00:05:40as as APC from top to bottom. "I will not support anybody,
00:05:44I say my party, but if people are preaching, if people are
00:05:47preaching the support for your party under the tag of rainbow
00:05:51coalition, and as a party you don't have a problem to convince people to
00:05:55support your party across board, it then means and the position the governors
00:05:59at that, excuse me sir, is the fact that they
00:06:03think that your party is a risk, if you have
00:06:07senators who are not members of your party, you have house of reps members who are not
00:06:11your party, your..." president if he wins the election is going to
00:06:14be a man alone in governance because
00:06:18everyone that is around him are from other political party and that's the
00:06:21position the governor who are saying the interest the party
00:06:25should be the party should be why as a
00:06:28party we're not supposing we're not supporting any
00:06:31candidate and the governors who are members of our party
00:06:35we encourage them not you just said that you you have endorsed rainbow
00:06:39coalition no listen
00:06:42uh uh said we, he is a different political
00:06:45party, i cannot make a choice of who he will
00:06:48select or he will vote for in the general election, so
00:06:52you are not opposed to what wik is doing, i'm not opposed to anybody who wants
00:06:55to put president, how do you reconcile the governors and the weak case
00:06:59stance,
00:06:59and that's i keep on telling you, the governor's position, they are
00:07:02promoting that their own party in their state, they will
00:07:06support only APC, your excellency, can you tell
00:07:10us what pathway? does your candidate have in
00:07:14this election? there those who say that in the
00:07:17reality, there's no way on earth that your
00:07:21candidate can win this election, and they have given reasons. the president
00:07:25has said on October 1 that here comes the era
00:07:29of prosperity, and there are those who will say, you've made Nigerians go
00:07:33through pains for the last three and a half years, why should they trust
00:07:36you? in the last three years, what have we been doing first
00:07:40when we came? the
00:07:43PSCN, the generating companies were
00:07:47being out billions of n, today
00:07:51we to offset all those trillions of nail that they were owing
00:07:54the generating companies, we're owing the
00:07:58pensioners from railway to air to
00:08:02to to to to Nigerian airways to several other government
00:08:06agencies into trillions of n, today we
00:08:10offset all those bills. from this thing when
00:08:14president came, most airlines have withdrawn,
00:08:17international airlines have withdrawn from Nigeria, so most Nigerans even who want
00:08:21travel by Brish airways, they have to go to Ghana before they
00:08:24travel, today he has offset all those bills
00:08:28for them, most companies that invested in Nigeria, they
00:08:32couldn't rec the money because Nigeria couldn't get enough dollars to offset their
00:08:36bill for them, of what over 7 billion US dollars,
00:08:40today we've paid all those bills and I can go on and on
00:08:43and on and on and tell you what we have reset in Nigeria, so I'm wondering,
00:08:47because the language of is the one who said that he wants to reset
00:08:51Nigeria, because Makin believes that under this government and the
00:08:55APC, you literally destroy the the wellbeing and
00:08:59the power of every any citizen to be able to uh make ends
00:09:03meet, the question I'm asking you prof is that what do you
00:09:07tell when you go to the campaign, the people that have been going to
00:09:11pains for the last them? but
00:09:15and have you listened
00:09:16tell a to half what years, i but said? what yeah, do you you said the president has done this, the president has done that, excuse me, the
00:09:20fundamental is the money in their pocket and the food and the quality of food on their table,
00:09:24good, and that's the same reason we given you giving
00:09:27nigerians, the what we are passing through for
00:09:31example at this moment is temporal,
00:09:35the increase in cost of - foil is
00:09:38temporal, how do
00:09:40you say that to the hungry man, of course? you're coming tomorrow there
00:09:43will be food, but she believe you, Nigerians believe in us,
00:09:47unlike you who is less on TV, I'm a journalist, I'm just asking the
00:09:51question, that's i'm asking you the same thing, now for somebody who
00:09:54knew
00:09:55who who also know that there's a fight in the the
00:09:59war between uh Iran and US has
00:10:03completely cut off the major about 30% the source of -
00:10:06across the world and Nigerians believe in us, they believe st we have taken
00:10:10also we've capped
00:10:12the cause of... well the the the
00:10:13the the price of uh the
00:10:17price of petroleum per liter that's what article said it was going to do so you're
00:10:21coping
00:10:24no and ours is not actually bringing a subsidy, he said he
00:10:27he subs, we are not bringing back subsidy, we said that the cost
00:10:31has been defray now, when as a cost the the
00:10:35the the price of crude goes down in
00:10:37the national market, that part can be defray by the
00:10:41same market as as the cost you comes
00:10:44down, so there are two different, you are given one month of petrol
00:10:48discount, yeah at 66 n yeah, what does that amount
00:10:52to?
00:10:53now now you say what what?
00:10:55why that amount does it mean with 66 n does it mean
00:10:58anything because those who believe that why are you doing
00:11:02it now you just want votes bring
00:11:04that's up this
00:11:05is global is global even even in us they are given
00:11:08tax on petrol products because of you are doing it for one
00:11:12month after one month and the same people should go back to their pays no we
00:11:16have to look at the you know normally these are temporary issues so you have to
00:11:20study the the uh international community what directions
00:11:23are because this can end tomorrow, it can even end
00:11:26today, the same article so that he will sell the
00:11:30refineries, ab, he
00:11:34say we sell the refineries, he will removed subsidy that he
00:11:38will not leave for one day, he specifically said that we study the market forces
00:11:42and keep on adjusting the price until we return
00:11:46back until we remove subsidy, so who is
00:11:49deceiving, these people don't actually have message, which means that
00:11:53he also want to remove subsidy. a way, but he wants to learn
00:11:57Nigerians to vote him by saying that you will reduce
00:12:00prices,
00:12:02you don't think nigeran should listen to, of course, article has said that you you
00:12:06have your party shamelessly copied his own
00:12:10policy, which policy policy price
00:12:14modulation of price, his
00:12:17wasn't, give a moment, we need to go
00:12:19on a break, but when we return this time around, it's going to be a
00:12:23question of what? will be saying
00:12:27to voters, what exactly would you like to
00:12:31hear him say? how does it convince you? if you
00:12:34are there and you are able to vote, whatever you may be watching. my next question
00:12:38to professor, is pathway, is
00:12:42asking about the pathway the APC in this
00:12:45election? well be right back everyone, tell us
00:12:47again.
00:14:35general election they near us like this, independent national electoral commission INEc
00:14:39talk say from Friday night reach Thursday 15th of October 2026,
00:14:43then go display the national register of voters where they go use conduct
00:14:46election for 2027. This display go help people where don't
00:14:50register to check till their name day for the register and make them know their
00:14:54polling unit before. election day, inside that period, people where register for
00:14:572025 go fe collect their PVC, people where
00:15:01transfer their registration, replace PVC we don't lost or damage during the first phase will
00:15:05still feed collect their PVC from the INEC office where did their local government from
00:15:0816th of October 2026. All the PVCs where people never
00:15:12collect from before before registration exercises will still they available for
00:15:16collection. I like to call on everybody where register during this period say make them
00:15:20no waste time to collect their PVC because now their power to vote, now I need
00:15:24bring a this message.
00:15:46Thanks so much everyone for staying with us, our concluding moment with
00:15:49professor, prof, as we wrap up
00:15:53this conversation, uh, there will be a fundamental questions in the
00:15:56mind of lot of people, yes, will imagine that, and
00:16:00your party has agreed, yeah uh, that Nigerians are going through
00:16:04lot and you are hoping that, you will make the
00:16:08lot better, but the question is whether they will believe
00:16:11you, but you know already we have policies that's free, like told
00:16:15that policy we are doing that free more money to nigerians, for
00:16:19example, most of our social intervention of government and people look
00:16:23at social intervention as only programs come from we cannot track
00:16:27it, listen, listen, listen those intervention
00:16:30program, let me start, can you track
00:16:34tax if we do tax the form
00:16:38that are free more money to the people, when i was in university my tax was about
00:16:4225%, 24%. today the
00:16:46somebody who ends my salary, my my type of salary is tax
00:16:4816%, which means that more money has come in the hand of
00:16:52people, before now there was no rent uh
00:16:56relieved for workers, today there's a rent relief for workers
00:17:00upward of 15% of your own of your total income
00:17:04already also regardless how much you're earning 8'. thousand is not
00:17:08taxed from your salary, so we have lot of things
00:17:11we've done as a relief for workers,
00:17:15low low income earners and also the one people in the
00:17:19country, this is also for tax f that we've met, so that's
00:17:23in itself is social protection for the vulnerable
00:17:27people, that's number one, the health sector will
00:17:31defray the cost of uh dialysis for people have
00:17:34kidney problem, we
00:17:36have we have done the same thing for people. pregnant women, we've done the same thing for malaria, we've done the same thing
00:17:40in other sectors in terms of health, now these are also a
00:17:44form of social protection for them people, that same tax reform
00:17:47you know pharmaceutical you know materials and
00:17:51equipment and medications are not
00:17:54tax, house no housing building
00:17:58materials are not tax, food are not
00:18:01tax, all these are form of social protection for the vulnerable people
00:18:05because these are basic thing that vulnerable people need need and they
00:18:09are not taxed so they can reduce the cost for them,
00:18:12thirdly we have also the social protection in terms of housing that we've
00:18:16done also housing for the vulnerable on the new housing
00:18:20initiative which which reduces the cost the
00:18:23which which diff part the cost for them also these are some the
00:18:27vulnerable some the uh the the social pr
00:18:31giving to the people then what we have also the credit
00:18:35carb is that okay? I give room for you to have
00:18:38access to credit, consumer credit,
00:18:42we provided that one also so that uh salary earners
00:18:46uh nigerians who are on who don't have
00:18:50access to credit before that even allows
00:18:53the sms to access credit without uh
00:18:57going to the banks bank system that that they access a very huge
00:19:01interest and all those things interest about
00:19:041.25% is is little so it allows people. who are doing small
00:19:08small business also to access those those opportunities? these are
00:19:12all social protections. i can go on at least lot of social protest
00:19:15system. the protest, the protest we see on the on the street
00:19:19of northern Nigeria, yes uh tinubu must
00:19:22go is growing every day. and those of your members
00:19:26who are af that this growing tension, agitation against
00:19:30junubu might cost you lot, you see
00:19:33that there's rejection of your party and tunabu in northern Nigeria, you
00:19:37see if opposition have rally and you wear a
00:19:40t-shirt go that's not what
00:19:44Nigerians are saying I does not Nigerians now that's no
00:19:47but the generation of Nigerians is a group of people that are saying must
00:19:51go and how many them in numbers this same location this
00:19:55same places this same place we also have rallies and
00:19:59we are numbered them in terms of appearance
00:20:02you know you saw
00:20:03it in cano you saw it in casina you saw us in in bor we saw
00:20:07different states, so if a if a little bit
00:20:11of people in their number who are in the opposition where a
00:20:15t-shirt, the political party members of an
00:20:18opposition, we know they are members of political party, normally
00:20:22what should they even say, they must say must go because they
00:20:26in opposition, so they just saying the - they
00:20:30just saying what normally they say even at campaign ries, what if the
00:20:33majority of nigerians say that by their votes in 2027?
00:20:37but -
00:20:39she who are the majority of nigerians
00:20:40the talking about if the voters we've done also a sentiment
00:20:44analysis, we've done also our own research, we've done also a fact
00:20:47finding, why
00:20:49are leading?
00:21:21don't you think that can be skilled
00:21:22easily? it is based on that
00:21:26research that we even conduct that best no research and all th spolings that we
00:21:30had our own retreat, we look at our lapses and
00:21:34work on it, we closing up every day, even even though we're
00:21:38leading but we say we
00:21:39need to improve, so every
00:21:41day, my problem
00:21:44with the opposition is that they only do
00:21:46shows, they only come on tv gather people. and
00:21:50just say the demonstrating and then you do your rallies and you
00:21:54mention now they don't even have rallies they just gather about 10 people 20
00:21:58people to to just come out and wear some t-shirts where have you seen them
00:22:02even do majority anywhere in
00:22:04Nigeria
00:22:06if if if the opposition are able to come together and form an
00:22:09alliance is that not the end of your party never we
00:22:12are not afraid at all you don't even want them to come together I don't even
00:22:15blink because you have done your homework
00:22:18in you decimate the opposition, look,
00:22:22how, but that's our job, that's our job, that's my job
00:22:26to scatter them, of course now, and you vertering
00:22:30them, very happy, they scattered, if i
00:22:33work, for democracy, now
00:22:37if i work hard, if you as sherun, would you
00:22:41like one day that almost all the viewers of television are viewing
00:22:45their own channels because of our credibility, good, the same thing credibility, the same
00:22:48thing we're doing here. credibility that is making you to sc the same doing,
00:22:52the same we're doing, is that okay? but what if by stroke
00:22:56of lock they come together? that's the reason why every day you take
00:23:00for you, that's that's why you take take to make
00:23:02your own station more attractive, you make a program more attractive, you
00:23:05make, so everyday we work out to make our party more attractive,
00:23:09to make our party stand better than any political party, this
00:23:13is a game badly, all this like again, what if the
00:23:17vote has now send president bolatinu back to legos? what would you
00:23:20say? which voters? which voters we talking
00:23:23about? which voters? the nigerian people? except if you
00:23:27have some other voters somewhere, that's what I keep asking you, that's
00:23:30what I keep asking you, because these
00:23:33same Nigerians we are seeing in elections, we are seeing people troping in every to accept
00:23:37us, we see most Nigerians who believe in us, we see people come on
00:23:40TV, captain of industries who before now they come companies are
00:23:44closing, they are saying that they now they're now on the part of of
00:23:48profitability while seeing als... so that we have a stable exchange rate, we
00:23:52see also that we have th plus which means that what the
00:23:55production they claiming we already achieving
00:23:58it, so these same Nigerians who are who are exporting
00:24:02every day, they are making more money,
00:24:03you you're telling that they shouldn't vote us, are you able to commit
00:24:07tonight to tell the average Nigerian people that
00:24:11your party going into this election will not intimidate
00:24:14opposition, I've never interpretated, they
00:24:17alleging that
00:24:19you're you're running this way. with intimidation, now if we
00:24:22intimidate
00:24:24plans of manipulation the listen, the election we lost, we lost
00:24:28ocean, we won equity, we
00:24:31won some sen election, we lost some, we won
00:24:35some, party was rejected in and that same
00:24:38thing, but let me just tell you one thing, but let me just
00:24:42tell you one thing, in all these elections, the top
00:24:45opposition are nowhere to be
00:24:47found,
00:24:51see and ndc have not won any the elections, so that
00:24:55gives you in
00:24:56the mid of all these things we're talking about,
00:24:58that gives you comfort, of course now, which means that we
00:25:00are not actually competing against them,
00:25:04so you have confidence that was PDP that came second,
00:25:08it
00:25:09was nowhere to be found, i think they were there
00:25:11to to campaign for the candidate all th, but they were now where oby was here
00:25:15in his excellency ob was here
00:25:19in fct when we had election going from market to market campaigning
00:25:23for ndc's company is a
00:25:26party yet the couldn't get a counselor
00:25:30adc could win the counselor was just
00:25:34between APC and PDP
00:25:38in it was APC and PDP in Oshin
00:25:42was APC and APM ap
00:25:44that sp the president election also now if
00:25:48you see bchi it was. and uh
00:25:52and uh and APM that we lost to
00:25:56all the rest we won now so in
00:25:58in
00:26:00um in ambra it was APC and not
00:26:03APC and PDP or APC and uh
00:26:07ADC, that's the state of ob. All right, so his
00:26:11party could
00:26:11not even come second, party came fort, and he was there to campaign for a week,
00:26:15prof, so no, wait, wait, let me also finish my part,
00:26:19so we are not actually contesting against
00:26:21ADC, you are contesting against Nigerians,
00:26:25we are contesting against Nigeria and Nigeria support us, so anywhere that we're losing we came
00:26:29second, anywhere we're losing. we're second
00:26:32i always second to the party that is neither
00:26:36ADC or NDC and even those parties that we competing
00:26:40against us, after winning they said they're supporting us, abga,
00:26:44they say they're supporting us, apm, they say they're supporting
00:26:47us, all right, as we as we
00:26:51wrap up, what will be your final word for these
00:26:55election for those the supporters of your party and those who
00:26:59don't even like to hear the name of your party as we go into
00:27:02this election, the 30 seconds of your final word, my final word is that one
00:27:06thank Nigerians for always believe in our party, Nigerians
00:27:10for for the last three years, they been patient
00:27:13with us, they believe in us, they trust in our policies and we
00:27:17are doing our best, and let me believe belief you, believe you
00:27:21me, the next coming election decision between going
00:27:25forth and going back to the part of that days that
00:27:29we are having before, this this part that we've taken. prosperity is
00:27:33by the door and by our side already we don't most the cleaning
00:27:37the mess in this country, already the figures are turning green,
00:27:41so we are sure that giving second chance to place Nigeria in the better part of
00:27:44prosperity. professor, abc
00:27:48national chairman, it's a pleasure having you talk to us on channels television, thank
00:27:52you so much, thank you so much, that's our conversation with ABC national
00:27:55chairman, professor, many thanks everyone for watching,
00:27:59i'm sh, god bless Nigeria
00:28:24One good turn they say deserves another for the
00:28:28construction and rehabilitation of federal roads across Abya
00:28:31state.
00:28:43we say thank you for the approval of abya
00:28:47airport with help housing project in bende and other
00:28:51communities the 7.5 mva injection substation in
00:28:54umaya, the sexual assault referral center in aba, the
00:28:58nsia diagnostic center in umaya and
00:29:02support for Abias student, we say thank you,
00:29:06dear Abians and southeasterners, let us
00:29:09reciprocate this gesture by massively voting for
00:29:13president and all APC candidates in
00:29:16the fourth coming general elections, one good turn deserves
00:29:20another, this message is brought to you by the former minister of state science
00:29:24and technology and obvious states coordinator of renewed hope
00:29:28ambassadors chief emry eco under the chairmanship of governor
00:29:32hope. Sadima, director general and national coordinator of
00:29:36renewed help
00:29:36ambassadors.
00:30:15Now this may look like rock, but it's
00:30:18actually a coral, and do you know
00:30:22what, corals are living animals? many colonies
00:30:26come together to form reefs, colorful
00:30:29underwater cities, that's Right, Chris,
00:30:33Ancora Reefs cover less than 1% the
00:30:37ocean, yet they support around a quarter of all
00:30:40marine species. They also act like natural
00:30:44seawalls, absorbing up to 97%
00:30:48of wave energy and helping protect coastal
00:30:51communities from currents, waves and
00:30:54storms. But these ecosystems are approaching
00:30:57a dangerous threshhold.