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2019 election: ‘We have no presidential candidate, our endorsement of Buhari stands’ – SDP insists

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has insisted that its earlier endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Candidate, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, for the Saturday, February 16 polls. The party’s position was reaffirmed by the Acting Deputy National Chairman (South), Dr. Olu Agunloye, at a press conference held in Akure on Tuesday evening. According to Agunloye, “It is too late for SDP to begin campaign for its candidate with few days to the general election, hence, the reason for the adoption of Buhari.” Agunloye, who also stated that the party was reorganizing itself in the country to be an alternative platform, added that it was imperative to work for the victory of other SDP candidates vying for other elective positions aside the presidency. “The vision and goals of the party are beyond endorsement of candidates for the 2019 general election, but improving the gains of representative democracy in Nigeria. “SDP is to be strengthened beyond the February 16 election, what is very important for us at this critical period is building this party as a formidable force and alternative platform political for the future. “We will maximize every opportunity at our disposal to ensuring that all the House of Assembly, senatorial and House of Representative candidates win the forthcoming elections across the Federation.” The Deputy Chairman maintained that the decision of the National Working Committee, NWC of the party for the adoption of the APC presidential candidate was due to the crises that ensued between Prof. Jerry Gana and the former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, over the party’s ticket. Agunloye, expressed unalloyed loyalty to the new Acting National Chairman, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, urged the party members to work for the success of all SDP candidates at the polls. Read the full article

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General Elections: SDP Adopts Buhari As Consensus Candidate . . National Executive Council of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has adopted President Muhammadu Buhari as the consensus candidate for the February 16, Presidential election. . The endorsement follows the recent legal battle between two candidates Jerry Gana and Donald Duke who jostled for the Presidential ticket. . . #2019elections #sdp #DonaldDuke #jerrygana #Buhari #apc #naijaupdates #blogs #news https://www.instagram.com/p/BtlvsZ9g35M/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1edzwptgsadc5

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Donald Duke Dumps SDP, Joins PDP Former presidential candidate, Donald Du... Read more: https://bitly.com/3wvvu5g #BukolaSaraki #DonaldDuke #PDP #SDP #Politics #NigeriaNews

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DONALD DUKE ON THE FOUNDATION OF GOVERNANCE

PLEASE NOTE: This is a transcript pf the interview not a composed Content, so watch out for grammatical and typo issues

Be sure to also share your Thoughts   Welcome back to hello, Nigeria, thank you for staying with us. We have a very special guest in the studio with us today, the ex-governor of cross rivers, States and also an aspiring presidential candidate, and that is no other than Donald Duke. Thank you very much for being here, sir. Thank you. How are you doing today, depending on your questions, and we promise to be nice and fair I'll? Be nice? Ok, ok! So, let's go straight to the points now you've tasted politics before as governor, and you did have quite an impressive track record. However, usually they say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Why did you decide to come back again? Is it a thing of you know it's a bit difficult to let go of power or for 12 years, so, ok, first, that's some letting go. No! It'S a politics to me is a vocation and not an occupation. I was doing something before I opted to serve. I went back to doing what I was doing and I think we are in a crisis right now and there's opportunity for good volition, and so I'm offering again to serve interesting. And what we're seeing now is that the policy has become very dilapidated in itself. We'Re seeing a lot of defections going on and, of course all of this is leading up to the elections. Everyone is in campaign mode and, quite frankly, a lot of people are making an embarrassment of Nigeria as we speak. How do you feel about what's currently going on in Nigeria's polity? One word sad. Another word another word, a majority yeah, no we're better than this. Unfortunately, it's all up we're now in the politics of self. So all the defections and the musical chairs all about placing oneself in a position of opportunity. So if I think, for instance, if I want to run for presidency and I'm in the APC - and I know that there's no vacancy there and I'll go to the PDP - why I stand about a better chance of. But it's not based on principle no base in the nation is based on self me myself and I it happened four years ago it's happening now and if we don't sure it will happen for his hands. So it's unfortunate now I had a conversation once with a former governor who served at the same time he served and he stated that he does not have a B. He doesn't believe in our generation, the younger generation. Why? Because the older generation has set a precedence of corruption, such thoughts, people go into power to amass wealth, it's bleached, our Commonwealth and just basically to satisfy their own personal interests. Now we find out that has sort of set of precedents for a lot of younger people who do not want to go there for the right intentions. What'S your take on younger people, because we're going to see a lot of them in 2019 running for elections? What you take on I'm an incurable optimist right and you need to have in place faith and hope that tomorrow will be better than today. Just because we didn't get it right there, our forebears didn't get it right doesn't mean that they wouldn't get it right. We need to keep on encouraging them. Idealism is more prevalent in younger people than all the people, all the people who are see who I've seen it all end up, just feeling that nothing's gon na change anyway, and all that, but we're gon na, have youth and IA youth. You can breathe some elements of idealism, so I think that we shouldn't you know generalized or stigmatize and say this is gon na. Be this way. No, if a society gets better if the country gets better, if we're are yearning, czar being met, then certainly we would would have a new and improved generation of Nigerians and we're gon na write them off at all. I believe in them I believe, they're better exposed than we are. I believe they want this country to be as good as the best of nations around the world. I believe they're even more frustrated than we are because they're the prime of their lives, and they see the opportunities beckoning on them, but they cannot express themselves our caution, though, that youth is not the only reason to get into politics. In fact, you through that experience, is a very potent explosive bump. Okay and I'll give you examples when you're young you're bursting with energy, but if you don't have any experience right, then that Energy's uncontrolled and we saw it in 1966 when we had young officers at the age of 27 28. Without any experience you know they go. The wipe off the political leadership, the wipe out the military leadership which inevitably led us to us at war if they were much older or more experienced, don't necessarily all the more experienced they would have probably would have done it differently. So we've got to be careful. I i like youth, i'm a beneficiary of youth. I was younger to commissioner 30. I was younger to Governor at 37. I gathered some experience because I've been in the public space since I was 19. I was remember the Students Union - and I was very, very knowledgeable in history and all that I was politically active and I cut my teeth at the age of 30. Anand went on 37 right from 30 37 hours in public space. I was member of the National Economic Intelligence Committee, any member of the national economy council, so I could say that I gathered experience and I want as many young people as possible to be given the opportunity to gather similar even better experience so that when they go Into the public space they have something to offer, but going straight from school to becoming a counselor or a member of the House of Assembly. You really have nothing to offer. It becomes an occupation rather than a vocation, and that's what we must avoid. Okay, now I want to use your governance as a model and apply it to your aspiring presidency. I would say the one of the largest issues that we have in Nigeria today is the fact that there is no nationwide database in terms of data collection for the people, 200 people can pass away and we don't know their names. We have no story to them and we can't attach any emotions to that person because, unfortunately, there's no data collection did you do anything with regards to data collection as governor of Cross River States, and if so, how can we now start looking towards applying that? On a nationwide scale, during my time as governor we had, that was the advent of the national ID card program and rather than duplicate efforts, we supported what the federal government was doing and it was. We had a pretty good roll out in cross river. I still have my national ID card, but, like every other thing was checkered after the government moved on after the change of government that was stopped. It was started again, I'm not sure where we are in that exercise, because no one has approached me for an update or review of what we had. So I think it's really stopped, but we did have it and we did encourage every one of our citizens to get registered and we had the database retained with us. We went beyond that. We had what we call the auto photo. Mapping of our state, where it's not just during a map of the state, is more like a pictorial digital map of the state, so every inch of land in the state we can zoom in and tell you the topography and even tell you the number of people. While they're at the particular time the shot was taken, and so when we were having our issues with over Bekasi in you know, with cameroon, the map we had of the area was far more sophisticated than what the military had. They had to lend them their maps and part of the problems of military. You don't have a good maps, you're liable to ambush and all sorts of things. So, yes, we collected data in, like you, said the right thing, data and data collection or the absence of it. There'S a huge, been in our planning. We don't know you're talking about identification of people and all that we don't know how many birds we have. We don't know how many deaths we have. We don't know how much infrastructure facilities that we need to bring in all that, so we're shortchanging ourselves completely, and i hope that we will review or restart that that program every citizen of this nation should be identified. But realistically, how long does it take to actually achieve something like that 200 million people? It could take you up to two three four years right to do it and to do it right if I were gon na, do it today I'll do it with the background of a census, while collecting all the data right of for census, I'll also collect the Dna of each and every Nigerian in the storage, so we know who is who it will help our crime lab you'll help identify folks if there's a national tragedy or something I can go there, get at the end and immediately tell you who that person is and All that, so it's all about data in a digital world. You know it better than I do it's data data data. So if you we can't, we can't operate in a world today. The way forbearers did it's everything, because you're planning for it for individual that it puts everything in perspective, which is absolutely true. We need to up our game with regards to data data, it's a skink now giving the benefit of hindsight and your time as governor. If you look back, are there any things you wish? You did differently? Well, there's one guy should have fired with my left, I'm serious because he stayed on and he did he did. I think he did a lot of hurt to a particular program, the tourism program, but I didn't fire escape so everybody's anything. You ought to have done that you didn't do yes, I should have fast so now. Let'S bullets really relate that. So our Corinth polity, we find that there, many people currently in office that the Nigerian people have advocated that they should be fired. What would you say of certain offices that are still you know being certain position that I still been occupied? How would you say we should have fared with regards to firing certain people, for example the IDP of police? At some point, people have clamored for him to be fired. Let me take a now say this very broadly, the near absence of consequences in a in our governance as a result of his resorting to where we are today as a nation we're a nation of anything-goes. So you mentioned 200 people. It'S one of the people died in Plato's state right and the people who are paid whose job it is to protect from the policing in form of intelligence gathering in the SSS. It'S in form of the army. There'S a brigade in in just and nothing happened. Nobody bore any consequence for that. The first thing you do is to ask what happened: how come Marauders, whom you claim are not Nigeria coming to your country and and kill 200 people? What have you done thereafter? Why did it happen in the first place? There'S an absence orders were all reactive, we're not proactive and - and you should investigate it and if they were found wanting they should be. They should be consequences for that. I would go as far as even taking them to court for criminal negligence. People died, you know and let's not trivialize death death is final. It'S over it's over for you in this life, there's no you're, not gon na wake up in 3 years time, when you come back again, so we should treat it as serious as it demands, but nothing happens. The folks are there, and people are still saluting in there big men and all that and as if nothing matters, so the word is consequence. We must ensure that we have a nation of consequences, and sometimes I tell religious folks that you know this thing about consequence was not it's not a dhama do convention, it was still by the Almighty. He gave you ten commandments right and the consequences for not living up to those. You know, and that's that's that's, for every action there must be a reaction, so consequence is not only negative is positive. If you do well, you should be. You should be rewarded accordingly. Interesting, we were I'm I'm glad you mentioned that. We also had recently that a few policemen who said whoever sets out on will had been rewarded. We have alerts of drama going on in the police sector, there's so much with regards to killings, police brutality and, more recently the NCAA's campaign has been going on for a while now interviews from the powers that we have said that you know the NCS campaign is Just a joke and people actually because they're not directly affected, they seem so distant from the problem and that's a thing that people who are governing you are not in tune with you. It'S like being a shepherd and not in touch with your flock right and says. Is real people know let's get up and and why would you I'm someone without a uniform in the first place? Why would you I'm someone give him all those ammunition and he's not identifiable if I'm on the road - and I see someone without my instinct - tells me that this is like a rubber okay and I want to get away from it and he happens to start shooting At me only to find find out that he is you know, what's ours or something like that, so I think it's it's executive irresponsibility they're not totally out of tune with it and you know, while you may blame the IGP and all this there we have representatives Of the national and at the state level we have governors right if I'm governor of a state - and I have this going on in my state and I'm chief security officer - I'm gon na call the police withdraw all of them from my state. I don't want them any longer here period, so it's not just the IGP right. There are various levels of governance that should have checked this and if it's not if the folks in the National Assembly are not inviting the Inspector General police to ask questions and all that and the folks in the State House of Assembly are not inviting the Commissioner Of Police or ask questions about this, then the governor can put a stop to it. Okay, now this week marks the world day against human trafficking, and human trafficking is one of the greatest problems that I would say we have in Nigeria today. Unfortunately, however, modern slavery is ignored to a certain extent. We do have Nats if we do have the arrow state task, force, etc and we're seeing a situation now where we're calling on the global community to come and help us to curtail the problem that we have with human trafficking in Nigeria. Now. This is something that I think we need to speak about, and I want to ask you how you feel towards human trafficking and how you think we need to start getting proactive and putting a stop to the issues that we are facing. 36,000 people crossed over from Nigeria to Italy alone in 2016. These are the numbers, you know. Yes, exactly. No, you see you I smiled when you said you know: we've invited the international community to come, help us and all that we always deal with symptoms and not the problem. Yeah, okay, people just wake up and start walking across a desert right into Libya. It'S not a one-day journey or three months journey. Sometimes it takes years. I'Ve interviewed someone who took it took him three years to get to Italy. He went through slavery, he was sold, he saw death use, you you sleep in the desert scorpions and by stinging you you wake up the person next to you is dead only to get really and be repatriated. Those are the symptoms of a deeper problem. The deeper problem is a failure to provide opportunity for them if they are per tuned in their country. Why do they want to walk across it then go through such hardship? We need to go, sell them themselves on streets in Italy. How do we revamp our failed? Well, you got you've got to revamp the entire economy to cater for the huge number of people. This is not a small country. 200 million people is a large number of people. You'Ve got to expand the economy to cater for them to provide opportunities for them. There must be safety valves in the society. You'Ve got to educate them. You'Ve got to ensure that they are your health care system can provide for them. If you each one of us, has one idea or the other one thing I could do and all that you must make as many people in our society as an entrepreneur as possible. If I have a great idea, I could employ ten people, that's ten people who would have gone to Italy and now with me and gainfully employed and those 10 people can fend for their families. So it's a near absence of opportunity that frustrates them and you're not going to go abroad and get an answer to that. The answer is here: if you provide for them right, they wouldn't migrate and we're talking about the poorer type, that's a lower segment. Those are the ones that walk across and go to Italy, what about the educated ones? What about the professionals who are daily migrating? They go abroad, ostensibly for holidays and never come back. I met a guy in New York last year who got to New York and came. He was, he was gay, this guy's as straight as an arrow, but he said he was gay and he was there with his best friend, but right and they're, both straight guys, but they came, they were gay and they but got back to ninetieth away. We persecuted and all that they're having a ball. Of course they got there. They got to put them on a welfare program, got them jobs and all that and I and but this is they just wanted to get out of the country, and there are many many more like that. Professionals dad look. We we are doctor. Citizen ratio is ridiculous. We should have like one doctor for every 600 people we have like one doctor for every six thousand. Meanwhile, we have five thousand doctors in South Africa, 15 thousand doctors on the NHS and all the people are here so 10 percent of the medical profession in the United Kingdom. Not the babbly, I'm Nigerian, exactly ten percent, that's one in every ten medical personnel in the UK is in Niger. I know of people who, in their old age, has studied medicine because the plan is after a few years. I want to relocate to the UK and it boils down to a major problem. We have a structural problem, we have a poverty problem. The poverty problem spirals into different symptoms. Now we see, another of our fears is in 2019, we have the elections. Coming. Lots of people have expressed fear with regards to the fact that we would have the people sell their votes, because people are hungry, people need to eat. How do we guarantee that in 20 nights? How do we ensure that people do not sell their goods because there is a poverty problem and they need to eat? And how do we really get rid of our poverty problem in India? It'S beyond for selling votes for election is beyond the poverty thing: it's total disillusionment. They believe that, whether they vote or not, what would be will be so just take the money and do whatever it is. But I said earlier on that the real problem, the migration, the social ills insecurity in the society - has to do the fact that our economy is no longer embracing one of us. Okay, the people who are their kind, who are within the economy such a small number. So well we run what I would call a goodwill economy right. I have a job, so I look after you, you begged me. I give you some support. I give you tips, but most folks survive that way, not because they're earning anything and you that have a job. This pressure on you is so much that you're liable to do and try and steal or get corrupt so that you can get more money because the dependents are. Are there, nothing will change in nineteen except we change this narrative. Okay, it's not the elections. We hope that we will get the right person coming in, but beyond that that right person will just get the right things done, expand the economy deal with the issues that I right effect credits because you can't grow an economy. We don't have affordable credit deal with the infrastructure issues right and ensure that we galvanize the vast resources that we have, because without that, we're very resourceful nation and that's that even makes it more pitiful. And you can see where the Nigerians take to the excel. Whether it's good or bad they excel, but there's a lot of frustration in the land, a lot of it all right. Let'S quickly take a look at our Justice Department and the politicians. Now we find that lots of people have lost faith in the Justice Department because we feel they feel rightly so. Yes, they feel, like you know, we see the big fishes being exempted from cases now, thankfully we have to collect justice. Banjo go who's now referred to as 14:14 president and there 14:14 a judge, and there many people who have gone into office, stolen money and gotten away with it. Nothing has been done to them, which brings me to this question. You'Ve been governor. What'S your take on the immunity clause, many people have advocated that it be totally expunged as it's protecting a lot of people who are in power from being able to love governor's and such a lot of people who aren't powerful being able to be large are common. Even so, then, the sarap report that came out three people were even given presidential pardon, also based on this clause. The immunity clause I think, has been taken out of conduct and have been abused. I think it was put there to protect governors and precedent from being distracted by also surface matters, but the governors themselves have abused it and they think they immune from corruption and all sorts of things. I think it should be amended certain classes of cases that you cannot exonerate. You know if it's if it's a case to do with murder or even corruption, it should be investigated. Why should we try it on it, but so it's something that we really have to address it shouldn't be an open blanket. I said: well, you know the same clause that talks about means. He also doesn't exonerate the government from treason, for instance. So it's already since there's a this room already there for revisiting. I think we should. He should be taken out not completely because there's some there's some merit to it, but largely so, if it's so that you don't have I've heard of cases where governors are involved. In the death of people here and now they have killer squads and all that shouldn't have immunity for that. If it's, if it's a corruption case before you prosecute, they should really be proper investigation, because you don't want the governor distracted from his regular work. Otherwise, all you'll be doing you know is, is in control. You know it reminds you, of course, when governors go to court on election matters until the case is properly settle and sometimes goes on to the Supreme Court and takes about two or three years of that tenure. They'Re totally distracted is every you know, you're dealing with your lawyers and all that you're, not sure if you're gon na remain in office or not, but it shouldn't be carte blanche as it is today, there should be some check to it. Okay, I'm talking about the judiciary, just as the ladies justice denied, so you can't have a country whereby you go to court and you're in court for three four five years on one case: they're going to exhaust the personnel court, they're gon na gon na cost a Lot of money, so we should revamp or review our judiciary system whereby a case once it's filed in a court at the lower levels within ninety days, it must be adjudicated okay, and we can do it so in within ninety days. On the preponderance of evidence adduced, the judge will take a decision. If you don't have enough to to file a case, then you don't go to court. You wait until you have enough, and the case is filed within 90 days. If you can't answer, then there's a problem somewhere, and so I will put 90 days for first 45 days to 60 days for for for appeal and not every case should go to the Supreme Court if it has nothing to do with the life or constitutional matter. You shouldn't get there and it causes Supreme Court should be at liberty to determine which case they want to review or not. But now everyone goes from the lower courts, even from the magic Magistrates Court to the high courts to the appeal court, the Supreme Court. So the whole system is bogged down. We don't have enough judges to deal with it. They are so poorly paid right. If we need to talk about you mention that poorly paid, not just the judges or lawyers themselves, because I was privileged to be in a forum of young lawyers and one of them AJC's that he complained about was remuneration for your lawyers. So I think it's very important I would take need to revisit the whole thing. If you talk about what will you talk about, it say about the policeman, the police, who you expect to go after? If you, if you, if you're, unfortunately, nothing your your car is robbed or you have a case of the police, you've got ta buy fuel for them. You'Ve got to provide vehicles for them. You'Ve got. How can you run a system like that, so we're gon na look at it, you're, not the entire judicial system, which includes a police or so, as we reviewed you know, we really need to start all over again together, Scotty right, because you say this for this Sector you go to the next sector. If you go to education, we'll say the same health. I want to help. You go the same thing, so we really need to started. I was actually going to say, let's actually touch on some social issues that we're facing in Nigeria. Today I would say the one of our greatest problems is drug abuse in Nigeria. Today it said that 7 million youths are addicted to drugs. 10,000 are dying every single year we saw the BBC documentary that came out on codeine right. The government came in and enforce certain policies after that, however, has the problem really been curtailed. We still have porous borders where things are coming in and out from and quite frankly, drug abuse continues. How do we start to curtail this problem? Well, it's probably not being curtailed, probably being exacerbated on two fronts: there: those who do the social stuff, social drugs that do the hard drugs heroin, cocaine and all the fancy dogs, because they can afford it and their particular lifestyle. But there's also very broad segment of Nigerians war on drugs out of frustration right and they just want to get out of here, it's a night to see it as an escape. So how do you deal with that? It comes back to the issue of opportunities and you know it's it's even more prevalent in affluent homes because, yes, there are from affluent homes, but they are frustrated they're, not that maybe educated. There are no jobs, then, at the lower levels you have those who are so frustrated, so they take they're the ones that take codeine and all these funny things and all that so guess what some of them sniff glue, yeah right. So then sniff petrol. Just to take their minds off it and unfortunately we don't have the institutions to deal with it. We don't have the medical personnel trained to deal with these issues. So that's why I said it's getting exacerbating it's getting worse by the day and I'm afraid I don't see any. I don't see any rain by the end of people, do not see rainbows, which is why I wanted to take a little delve into mental health, because I believe it's very important now we, your lawyer yourself how you knew that an attempt to commit suicide is punishable By law and it's unfortunate that we're seeing people constantly trying to kill themselves, we're not really enough totally alien to us. It'S part of the frustration people killing themselves and if they're by any means, do not succeed in killing themselves. They are arrested and they're taken to court and they've been tried for attempted suicide. How does that really make sense? Alright, adding to that the nigeria is the 30th most oppressive country in the world, and we have a 20-18 mental sorry, there's no mental health budgets in the health budget. We have a 20-18 health budget of 4 % just to make matters worse. Need, i say more said it all: we need to start right from the beginning, go back to the basics, to get this country right our priorities, our whopped. It took Bill Gates to tell us that we're investing infrastructure and total total ignorance of human development, human capital development, given the infrastructure that they say they're, investing we don't see so what's going on the country, is skewed in the wrong direction. So we've got to redress it totally from the basics. You'Ve got to look at occasional curriculum, but the teachers themselves need to be taught the infrastructure to support teaching the vast numbers to be taught. You go to the health care sector, patients die and doctors are not queried for it. You know there should be a responsibility right for patients and patient health care. You know they get some diagnosis and you go then II find that it's absolutely rubbish. You know, and there are no consequences for it. We don't even have a working health insurance scheme for every Nigerian cross over under my under my beat was the first state to sign on to the National Health Insurance Scheme, but the scheme, a number of states didn't the skin itself scheme itself was a good start And I supported, but it should be made compulsory. The essence is those who can afford or pay for those who cannot afford because they don't have jobs, but I said having a job in whore approaching should be a right of every citizen, so we should be so contributory that if I'm ill, I should be able To walk into any hospital and get treatment, I'm not the first question asking deposit ten or twenty thousand before the doctor even sees you doctors shouldn't, be you shouldn't? Do that it's it's, it should be it. Should you lose your license for asking that treat first, and so they it's part of a nation that has no safety valve completely and that's when we talk about migration and all that the fellow I spoke to who walked all the way to Italy said to me That he had come to a point where living here was living death, so dying, trying to do something, but him was better than just resigned himself to dying anyway. You know it's we're better than this. We know it. We certainly are: let's lighten up the conversation. How long have you been into music for all my life? What'S your favorite, I think I hear music from the womb, but consciously from the age of three okay. Remember my first music teacher lady. Oh, an English lady called mrs. Matcham right and she taught me that piano and then did some voice training. I sing by the way yeah I think I enjoy singing even more than playing then the one I was in secondary school. I tried my hands on the guitar no primary school. I played that beat the flute and still continued with the piano in secondary school. I tried my hands on the guitar then later on, I got to meet fella and I got pretty close to him actually and fell in love with the saxophone. So at what point you agree now, what was a plan for you at the end of the day? What was the future? You saw yourself as a lawyer as a thing. It evolves. Remember the age of twelve or thirteen. I wrote a letter to my father, saying I wanted to be a musician and my father knew this is a dangerous boy. So let me just I have to handle this carefully, so he he wrote me back a very kind letter saying that fantastic idea I mean yes, yeah, it's a gift, a talent but get go through school graduate. So, even when you become a musician, you'll be a better musician at that. So at that stages as 12 13 you know it was a era of the Jacksons and all that. So you fancy yourself being potential Michael Jackson as it were then, but before then you know. Okay, I want to be a doctor and I got into secondary school and I hated the sciences at the time by the time I was getting into university. I actually wanted to study history Wow right. I liked history, it's storytelling, it's his story, you know and her story as much as I want to say shoutout to those who studied history. I think Chloe is such a dignified profession. Well, that's what that's what I was told, but you've just said it at the lawyers are frustrated silence in the dignity I mean, but it's a good profession. It gives you an incredible background. I think what I whatever I am today, that background of being a lawyer and I have a master's at law - actually started a PhD, but I got I got tired of it. It was. I started school at the age of three and here I was what I was 23, then so for 20 years non-stop, all in school. So I got tired and I left and besides I had a good job offer in the United States. But beyond that the law background there is a fantastic background. It just opens your eyes. The skills are taking off your eyes and you see things differently and you know you're confident. I like history, because you know when you write history, you're writing about stuff. No one was there, so you can invent your own story and say it as it is. You know and all that I enjoyed history a lot and but I was dissuaded to do something else prospectively, if you has become the next presidents of the federal public ledger, an explicit okay. You know me from this side of the sofa. Are we going to see history back in our schools? One of the saddest aspect of our educational curriculum is the absence of history. In our curriculum. I don't know who took that decision. I said in words I would use, but I'm on camera, so I wouldn't use them, but I don't think those people are fit to ever lead our society. I won't be part of this society if you don't know where you're coming from. How do you know where you're going? They say? Oh they're, because you see a good, you know we're very young country. A lot of the actors in our history are still very much around, so it was done to protect them, but you can't live a lie right and now history is not the worst. I mean if you go into black history in United States, where, if I go to Argentina, you know in all of South America, you have blacks everywhere, except Argentina. They literally wiped out every black, but they don't deny that it's a history, they did it. Their forbearance. Did it you've got to live it? You know you've got to come to terms with it, so we are living a lie a few in last year it was last year, I said on occasion the summer Massacre, and it took some very. I now call them Patriots right and they put together and documented it and some of the people we hero-worship in our society today well behind that Massacre, but it doesn't take anything up. You know every family there's hardly any family. You know Sarah that was not affected by the massacre. You don't sweep it under the carpet, just as you wouldn't super the fact that some and again soldiers went and slowed to the sat down and his family or killed my malaria or did certain rubbish bad things of things are not acceptable. It'S there. It'S a fact. We should document it so that it never happens again. Absolutely so now, that's a very fantastic, but I'm hoping that would actually get to see that happening. We get to see history back in our books and in our schools. Finally, if you were not run into what's becoming president of Nigeria 2019, what would you be doing and what you and the sages? How do you plan to retire I'll return, a box okay about to be lowered into the ground? That'S when I retire, because as long as you have breath in you, you can, you can be of use to one person or the other. You can help if I wasn't running and while running still doing all the things, I'm not just that and that alone there are many things. Folks, like myself could do. We have a context. We have the leverage to make things happen. I would, I would not be too focused in being a millionnaire any longer, because if you haven't done in your forties, forget it but I'll rather be doing things like helping in people in society, actualized, my wife and I for instance, we we have a Health Foundation. Neither was our doctors, but we have medical missions called quarterly right in caliber, so we have these doctors some from overseas, but the bulk of them from Nigeria and they offer one month of free medical care. I like to do more of that, because it's it's so rewarding, you can put into words. We had. We have cases where people have diseases or ailments have been holding on for four years and you relieve them of it. You know the gratitude the way they look at you. We without uttering a word of thanks. It'S written on their faces, it's priceless, so you get to stay in your life. You are, you know, you've been taking and taking you've got to start giving you know and and that's what makes life life was worth it. It'S life is about giving and taking breathe in, and you breathe out. If you breathe in you, don't breathe out, you die. If you bring out all the time when you don't breathe in you will die, so you must grow that healthy balance. Okay, one last question: before we round up: what do you think about people that don't like plantain, because my co-hosts are sitting here, insults me at least once a week for not like a cleansing? I share that, with her I'll tell you something I said it frying plantain, not eating, fried fried plantain doodle to be precise at about the age of four and we were privileged. We had a cook steward and all that he couldn't cope with my demand, so he taught me how to do it myself and I have a number of scars on my stomach to show whether oil, if you don't like plantain by doing like fried pie, they would Like any plans, unfortunately, yes, I, like boiled, no Jamie I've had so much of it. No, I don't beans he's a nut on a regular basis. Why would you like me anyway, with Miriam from knows No Boundaries you're getting tired of plants? Ok, the current presidential aspiring. Thank you so much so I enjoy more of this. Our bunker videos, when you just watch press this button to subscribe on top of our YouTube page, you go love her Read the full article

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Last month, I wrote an article titled *Want to create transformational change? Recruit candidates to run* in which I said "The political elites, like the ruling All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, convince their cronies to seek elected office, map out a path to victory, and then marshal the voters and resources to get them elected. This explains why administrations change, but circumstances of the working class and poor don’t. If we are going to move beyond the cycle of power capture and recapture simply for the trappings of the office, influence and personal enrichment, into building and sustaining a good society, we must go beyond simply registering and showing up to vote on election day, to actively participating in the sourcing, engagement and nurturing of candidates for elected office." A month later, the worst kept secret in Nigerian politics unfolded as Donald Duke threw his hat into the ring. Today an article ran in the @guardiannigeria with Donald Duke (pictured in the back talking to Aliko Dangote in this photo by @oziermuhammad titled “Scavengers” taken in 1999 shortly after Obasanjo won the general election), saying he’s not Obasanjo’s Stooge. Lol! But people still out here shouting "get your PVC" smh. Like I said, if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu #nigeriadecides #election2019 #donaldduke

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Court declares #DonaldDuke SDP presidential candidate The appeal court has declared Donald Duke presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, (SDP). Mr Duke had been declared as the presidential candidate of the party after the primary election held in October 2018 in which Mr Gana was also an aspirant.

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Breaking! Buhari’s endorsement: I’m still in the race, Donald Duke insists . . The former governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke, has said he is still in the presidential race and on the ballot for the 2019 elections. . The National Executive Committee of the Social Democrats Party had yesterday met in Abuja and endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress as its party candidate. . In a statement issued on Thursday, Donald Duke said the SDP’s endorsement is rather unfortunate and betrays the desire of majority of members of the party. . He blamed the crisis on an aspirant who lost at the primaries and queried his suitability to contest for the presidency on grounds that he (Duke) came from “the wrong part of the country.” . . #2019elections #sdp #DonaldDuke #jerrygana #Buhari #apc #naijaupdates https://www.instagram.com/p/BtoU6f-g3aW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jq20amq4sl92

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Victor Osimhen has netted his eighth league goal of the season to help Sporting Charleroi maintain their five-match unbeaten run, defeating KAA Gent 2-0.

In a match that had plenty of Nigerian interests with Anderson Esiti starting for the visitors whilst Awoniyi was named among the substitutes, both teams failed to produce any momentous opening as the first half ended goallessly.

The second half…

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ON THE COUCH WITH FALZ & LAILA Aspiring President of Nigeria DONALD DUKE On the Interview

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Please be sure to give your Opinions regardless This season on the couch, falz, the bad guy and Laila Johnson salami place your presidential aspirants on the hot seat, the truth. Okay, do you think that, right now, people who have a certain sexual orientation are being discriminated against? I don't know, I don't believe the excitement and the totally unscripted nature - oh wait, but what is on the couch relax? I don't want anybody to calm me. I'M tight so shakes from the face. This kind of setting relax its on the couch with thousand Leila. What'S up what's happening, my name is fouls. The bad guy AKA, president of the association and I'm laila johnson salami welcome to another episode of on the couch, and today we have the former governor, of course, river states aspiring president of the frm go ahead and hysteresis. Also, you guys have too much energy aspire to leave this great country to greater heights. Okay, nice! Before we get into that, though, let's, let's keep it calm and casual to begin with, so tell us a bit about yourself: okay, happily married three daughters to have found their way out of my home. Thank goodness for that they don't know they have taken over. My problems, I am from cross of a state - grew up in Lagos, went to school in Lagos, so good he's area and the United States lawyer businessman in my past, life have been commission of a financing cross river governor cross River for eight years, and I think We'Re an underperforming, an underachieving nation and the basis of our problem is poor leadership. What is the greatest passion? What is what you're most passionate about life? Seeing the improvement? Seeing people achieve the potential it's exciting because you see each one of us is a value addition to the entire realm of our society and each one that does not achieve that. Full potential is a frustrated person, and that is the basis of all the problems we have in our nation. So my passion really is actualizing our true potential as a nation, even every single individual can actually do potential. At least they should be given the opportunity to right now, most of them. I feel frustrated from even thinking, let alone acting it out. What is what is that? One thing that you always like: just your life motto: yeah your mantra, oh really gone to others. Try to do unto others, I feel like, as you want them to go on to you trust, it's very high, hmm. So what I'd like you to do once? Was you guys I think country? Oh, I would like to do for Naija. What really Naija has done for you? I just been good for me, I mean whatever I am today is because of the opportunity that Niger has afforded me. Could it have been? More? Probably I don't know, but the reason were conducting this interview. There is reason I'm aspiring to be. President of Nigeria is because I'm opportune through education, through exposure through opportunities that have been afforded me most people in Nigeria. Most Nigerians do not have that same opportunity. When I was in government, I should tell members of my Executive Council and we sit around the table and the reason why we can sit around the table and discuss the fate of crossover state is because one way educated and where opportunity to do so. The least we could do is provide similar opportunities for other coastal areas to achieve that, whether they make it or not depends on the zeal and their individual volition, but at least the basis of of achieving that is ok interesting now. The primary essence of governance is security, and welfare of the people and governance is basically a c4 sense of a citizen's welfare. What would you say is the starting points under a potential Donald, Duke administration? What would you say your starting points would be: let's go into your first 100 days, get a few things right right now, we're embroiled in a war, a civil war. You don't want to call it that, but it's a civil war when you're fighting when brothers are fighting brothers for regardless of the reason it's a civil war, so we have a civil war in the northeastern part of the country. We need to deal with that. You need to deal with the chequered assaults on our people in parts of the country, aka heads men, crisis and farmers, and all that, but you've also got to deal with the economy that has frustrated so many Nigerians from achieving their full potential right now. Every sector is in dire need of attention, but if you deal with the economy, if you get your credits right, if you get the credit the financial system going, then that will exacerbate or curb some some problems or some challenges that folks are facing. But because of where we are it's difficult to say, this is one thing I would do. You'Ve got to do a multiplicity of certain things. You'Ve got to get the army sufficiently motivated because I believe we have a capacity to deal with the insurgency called book around, but I think there's a motivational problem going on there I mean I could tell you, for instance, that if you, if you pay a soldier 500 naira in a war zone too, for his feeding - and I know that sometimes about 20 30 soldiers have to come together, pull their resources together to be able to feed that has to do a lot with motivation. So you've got to deal with that, but even beyond that, you've also got to get the credit system working. The reason why seven countries go faster because their innate their citizens can borrow money and and build on their businesses. But that's most people don't go to the banks for credits in Nigeria, but there is a multiplicity of things that you've got to do. I hope I've answered your question. Okay, so I'm policy-wise. What are you looking to introduce in the area of education? You know we have wise policy wise you've got to you've got to redress the whole thing. The curriculum has to be revamped to deal with a society that is going into that is in the digital age. You'Ve got to train the teachers right, motivate them train them to deal with that curriculum. You'Ve got to tie teachers careers to the students passage, in other words, and we did this in cross river. If you have 80 students going or 100 students going for an exam and 80 % of them, don't make it all 20 % of them. You know you can't promote the teacher and all that you go to, but you've got to motivate the teachers for you to do that. You'Ve got to amend the curriculum. But, more importantly, you ask yourself this the first of all right. I we need to build so many new schools you in a primary school. You ought not have more than 300 students trained in a class two classes, six classes, that's 300 and in the secondary school three classes, not more than thirty. In a class six classes to go that's 540 students, then you need to have the right ratio of students and teachers, but again you've got to also look at the curriculum, so you've got to build a lot more schools. You have schools that you have to 3,000 students that doesn't allow for learning. You have classrooms and have over a hundred students that doesn't allow for proper learning, so you've got a tailor. The number so because teaching is requires a lot of interface. I need a class where the teacher knows all the students by their names and can relate to them and can tell the weak ones and the ones I need extra help. So the policy really in a summation should be one. We'Ve got a speedily amenda curriculum. The curriculum we're using today is totally outdated. It at best teaches you how to read and write the world is gone beyond reading and writing. So you need to include in your curriculum digitalization. In other words, you've got to be able to do programming and things like that. That'S that's an essential tool. The second thing is that you've got to also train the teachers for that build the required number of schools and, of course, at the end of the first eighteen years, your senior secondary. You should be able to leave school with a requisite skill. So, regardless of whether you go to university or not, you are able to fend for yourself. Ok, ok, let's talk about security, I think being a policeman idea a bit of it. You can stop joking stuff. Just I mean definitely the police force is Oliver. Leek list is quite shambolic to be honest: what how how are we what's the way forward policy wise because citizen, I am scared of the Nigerian police force, yeah yeah, I mean we hear numerous stories about individuals being harassed by members of the sukhasan. I take that from someone. First of all, we have only 300 whatever on the 400,000 per D slain in Nigeria with a nation. I think the statistics should be one to every hundred, so we need about two million, please manager, so we're on the police. Now, with 300 or 400 that we have, half of them are escorting VIPs and VIPs, and all that so only about half of them are to get work and that's why there's an increasing clamor for the State Police and all that. But people don't understand you believe in the state policeman, I believe in state, policing, right and I'll explain it now, you, if you couldn't get someone to protect society, you've got to a properly trained the person right. I think there should be a minimum qualification to join the police force and I don't think it should be school set. I think society is far more sophisticated today than it was because today's school set is equal to first living certificate of years passed today. I think it should be an HND or degree to join the police force then remunerated emma cording, you cannot render it. The man who's gon na spend all night on patrols. The same way you'll remunerated, someone who is working in an office, so you need some insurance policy. He needs to know that, if anything happens to him, his family is well secured for to the point where his children out of working age and that they're not gon na, be destitute. His take-home pay sure to actually take him home right. If you, if you don't, do that and he's liable to extort money from people see today, so you've got to correct that, but they've got to go through training and discipline and just scrap these sighs. Of course, I would because I do not subscribe to a force where people carry arms and they're not in uniform, because I don't know who you are: there's zero discipline in the service. You know zero motivation, but I was talking about policing, state policing way, the the it's. It'S almost impossible to expect the federal government to employ 2 million people to please all of Nigeria, so you've got to get the local government and the state governments to contribute now policing is more of is 80 % gathering of information, 20 % enforcement right okay. So if you know everybody who lives within a particular area - and you know what they do, you can be afford to be proactive. You can stem activities before they happen. You need to have a system of policing where the federal, the state and the local government get involved at different levels: the local government and state government more on the level of information gathering and general policing. But enforcement should be more on the federal level. But my concern when it comes to state policing, I think it's one of those that's pretty much a double-edged sword because on one hand, yes, it makes all the sense in the world, but on the other hand, we have reports that reach us stating that 14 states In Nigeria today can't even survive on internally generated revenue, so they're still depending on federal allocation in order to survive we're seeing cases where public servants are not being paid their salaries. We saw recently would like the eddo sweepers protest and then a basic. He ended up sacking the commissioner etc and we are having this problem within the states. So if we bring policing down to a state level, how can we assure an improvement in the welfare of the police officers? Well, you don't need to employ new people. Oh, my experience is that most state public services, civil services bloated anyway, so you can conveniently take two three thousand people who are just fooling around in the service, really get them trained in policing and give them other responsibilities to do. Without you know, you could without really dealing with the salary issue, because they are not doing more of enforcement. They'D be more information, gathering information, so it's it's. I wouldn't wouldn't puncture their budgets at all. There'S hardly any service in this nation, whether local, state or federal. Right that is not bloated, okay, but that's that's all well and good, but I would say that one of my major issues - and this actually really upsets me - is the fact that I feel as though, as the Nigerian populace were very fooled and I'll give you an Example now I was reading a report recently there was speaking on the pension allowances of ex governors of states right and it was going down. I think it's under a provision in the Constitution called the RM something I cannot remember. However, some of those entitled early mobilization of fiscal. Thank you sorry of MC, that's without very much there we go now some of those provisions included family holidays or paid holidays, a new car every three to four years. Yep I mean so changed, wait. So, basically, the reporters 30-day holiday new car, this for the state government or from the federal from the state governments. Now the fiscal commission, I will go back on double checks, either way either way. Next governors are, governors are getting certs and pension allowances from the government. Whether it's state or federal level and states like okay, they gave an example about she: states right and billions had gone in to this pension fund for ex-governors. Yet it's one of Nigeria's poorest states. In 2017 alone, forty billion naira went towards this fun. For ex-governors I mean what's this all across: yes, you, I think you are not a beneficiary of no unexplained. I think you have it a bit mixed up. I think the mobilization Commission makes a recommendation nation to the states of what payments should. What pensions or allowances should go to political office holders right, but it has to be passed by the State House of Assembly right for remuneration. Some states have some states have known. I know states like Lagos require Delta. I do know about bouchy, but a few things have that a good number of states have it also at different levels that some that you may consider excessive and some like the one in Cross River is hardly there right. Actually recently, the governor called me to speak to me about it because I'm not getting anything right. I didn't. I didn't provide that a lot because I thought he was unethical for me to provide pension for myself and I was hoping that my successor would do what he didn't do it you know so, but in some states it's very, very accessible. Your name you're. Clearly, not a beneficiary of any such game, and even when I become - and I hope I become a benefit of some pension of the other I'll be honest with you yeah, but there's absolutely no way Cross River would would afford some of the excesses enemies all right. Something I need yeah, I need to live with the conscience. I need to be able to I'm not averse to receiving a pension. It must be something that is justifiable. Okay, and what do you think about the fact that our lawmakers received 13.5 million naira running costs? Every month, because, personally, I think it's quite absurd, especially juice the fact that you're in plenary for weighs it Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday or you and the rest of the time you know what you're chilling, okay, our walls, I've also asked that question. I think it's it's it's! It'S excessive there's a lot of excessiveness in our society. Today. I'Ve spoken to some senators, who tell you all. You know that money is not just for me and pay some stuff we're doing research. For me. I know they don't research into Jack. You know that's a story, you know, and all that, and that amount has been growing from 1999 to date, every every time they coming they up it now the leadership must have the political will to stem this okay, because if you compare what the legislators are getting To what the judiciary is getting, which is another mo governments, it's it's it's ridiculous. What a judge, even a Supreme Court judge gets, is a far cry less than what a legislature gets and they didn't so. But what is lacking is a political will at the the box tops of the president. He must sit down with the president and the leadership of the National Assembly see this. This is not justifiable, so what do you think is justifiable? What are the justifiable circumstances for a lawmaker like what? What would you say is fair for a lawmaker, it's difficult, I can tell I don't work with them. I think my example. I think that a lot of what success, but I can't tell you what they see, for example, I think that every lawmakers you have is the job like you have what you do. People are proposing. You are just doing this and proposed that it should be part-time. Yeah, it should be part-time shouldn't, be full-time. People have proposed that shouldn't be anybody. Does it does make some sense, because because then people are now running because they're going away, I think they work for days in a week. I don't think it does not even time job he's, not a full-time because of all these seasoned spokes. Everyone agrees it's excessive. Let'S talk about. Let'S talk about light as in electricity or sunlight, God said let every night well yeah. Do you plan to give every Nigerian 24 hours electricity, I'm sure you speak to any aspirin hotel? Yes, the challenge is: how do we do it yeah, that's what I was going, so everyone will say. Yes, we should have electricity and all that, but when it comes to, how do we do it, how are you going to do it? Okay, let me give you a basic premise of Governments. Anything that is essential must be local. The problem with power. It'S now in the modern world is an essential item, but you generate power. One end of the country transmitted to the other end right, if you, if you're, generating the power set with j-b and you're transmitting into Kaduna. If you generate a hundred megawatt Sidhu gaining by tell me guess who kinda late to be less than 40 or 30 okay, so I talked about the Flair of gas that will flare about. I want time we're playing about 2.5 billion cubic feet of gas daily. It'S come down a bit, but we still flare rather than flare pipe less gas throughout the country right so that the gas is the fuel the fuel is available. All I need to do is put turbines equaling, for instance, of Victoria or aquarium Victoria, and combined should have his own power station right. It shouldn't depend Egbe, most of them gave us get our power from a new power. Plant egg mean does about maybe under a thousand megawatts now, but it's really supplying the entire southwestern part of Nigeria. It can't work. You need to localize the generation, okay, Lagos being the most industrial part of Nigeria, literally every sector of the state. Every local government is large enough to have its own power generation facilities so that you you you don't have transmission lines that I interstate. So right now, if it's a problem of failing the transmission system, you can have a national shut down and you hear of it from time to time where they say it's a total shutdown, there's no pilot, a whole country, that's a security risk. You need to have several plans. What I would do is to ensure that there's gas, for instance, available throughout the then I can encourage you fault right. The state government can give you a concession to generate power. The gas is available, you buy the turbine, you have affordable credit, don't forget I kept on talking about a photo credit earlier on, so you go to the bank and say: listen. The government has given me concession to provide power for all of you either right. There 20,000 homes in Victoria, each one should pay X amount of now. If you give me a loan at 7 % or whatever over three years or five years, I should be able to repay the loan. I think, and Lagos or Victoria Island has its own local power station right now. Victoria Island gets its power from a be okay by the time it gets yet several things could happen along the way one truck would run into a pipeline to into a tower and disconnect. So we just live by luck. It shouldn't work that way, but if it's like, I said anything that essential has to be locally available, that's how society should go. Would you also focus on renewable forms of energy, so low course, of course, of course, of course, so do you think that your greatest achievement as a person was becoming governor? No, my greatest achievement was being a good father. Okay, it's still Travis right. That'S that's! Really. What matters you, okay, I'm being a role model to others, getting people to see, and so I like to pattern my life after certain so person. I think that's the achievement, governor's come and go there, many of them, and so it's not it's not it's it's something. To be proud of, but it's certainly not the greatest on our part in everyone. Ah, that's a good question. I I saw that coming. I will make an announcement this week, so you're not entirely sure. Yet are you defecting from the PDP? Are you correctly? I said I'll make an announcement this week, well you're Carney in the PDP, yes, okay! As to whether you're going to run on under the PTP, with the likes of otaku, Quan, Chi saw, etc anyway, so you wan na make it defecting, maybe Felina a senator's footsteps. It depends on why you're defected if you are defecting, because you seeking a platform to run an election, that's a different thing. In my case, I've stayed with the PDP. I am not pleased with the party. I think a party that the country gave such incredible opportunity to has shortchanged the country whether it is a viable vehicle to seek the presidency at this time, make up my mind speaking, have you ever been accused of corruption or anything like that? Well, look. People are gon na accuse you of anything, that's politics, you know the first thing, they'll say: oh yeah, a thief, that's accusing is not. The problem is being convicted for one people have written petitions that I did this. I did it. Someone wrote a petition that I own 10 Appa and I said it was a prayer I would like to own it, but I don't own it. You have never misappropriated public funds, not intentionally. No, no, but seriously. No have not, and I don't have a case with any of the agencies they never have. Do you have any corrupt acquaintances mmm. I love quite a few people. I know quite a few. I shared yeah, oh yeah acquainted with them yeah in politics. Politics is not about a Quentin with a good, I mean Lord Jesus said he didn't come here, for you came for the sinners bad right. Thank you. If you want to deal with a reformed society, you've got to deal with everybody, both the good and the not-so-good and other horrible. How do you plan to ensure that these these corrupt acquaintances do not form a part of your government? If you won't, they won't have they just my government. What is pretty, I know, Ted with them yeah, if they're, showing you fool. If there are, you know that, if they're rolling with you, because they believe that you are the man and then when you get there, are you just going to turn your back on them? Are you gon na handle that that won't be the first half time of turn, my back on people questioning Buddha, my loyalties to Nigeria, not to an individual? What are your views on capital punishment? Nigeria has some of the highest statistics for people on death row in the world. Frankly, I don't believe in death row when I was governor, I never signed it. I always committed it to life because the nature of our courts - you don't know, I look what, if the guy's innocent in law, you know we have this adage father. I don't need. How do you still remember this? It'S better for one person to go for a group of people to go scot free that one you know yeah, so we have that our rather err on the side of caution question. So I don't freedom. I just committed to death to up to life in prison. Big one: oh sorry, I've been a good bit of My dear boy. I could have done a lot better. I think. Has it been free play yes or no for about you see what a lovely contesting for love interesting back to your favorite food, though it changes. I used to love the other one time. I was crazy about the beans. What have you ever gone on in new rice diets? No rice, yeah? Are you living in Nigeria? Listen! Look! Look next to you is not me me, no wonder your smooth today! Yeah we get most of our Cubs from that, but it's good! It'S healthy, yes, and then I think my face is too much carbs in our food right. You know you look you go to the typical book you find at the gallery or the party yeah. This way this should be just two pieces yeah. I'Ve never invested that. Like your apology on will be like this and then I don't worry about gender and I'm gon na take up a question about gay rights and stuff like that. Okay, I want to talk about that. Hmm, I don't understand it because I'm straight right, I don't understand the emotional feelings. A gay person, for instance, would have to or someone any sense of their sexuality. I don't understand it mm-hmm, but I will not criminalize them right. I would I would ensure that they have the protection of the law, but if they want to exhibit their sexuality, that's enough front on the norms of society. The current norms know: what is what? How would you define it? Does it make your skin crawl when you like ceiling, I arrived at New York and went through the airport and at the passenger rank two guys came together and were kissing right, okay, so public display of affection, yeah the airport, but then it's my girlfriend taking about The norms of society - I guess the society - accept that as it long so you would have that day. You know this is personal. The day you try and kiss me, I'm not gon na crack. You see because we'd like to see how I know seriously. You cannot jettison the normal society Society, a certain owns the certain things you do in America. You can't own the England or nature that you cannot do in Saudi Arabia, for a sign. You'Ve got a respect with most of the same Mary, I'm coming when you're wrong behave as the Romans don't go contrary to the Romans. Those swim against the tide because we're not there. We can. You have a gay person in your cabinet. He sexuality is private to him. I don't want to know if you got my business, but businesses can he perform yes and that his that has been a side to him yeah. So you shouldn't ki. She wants to marry another man, he wouldn't what the law doesn't like to marry. Another man understands not if he wants to live with another man. What about civil partnerships when they just sign off? Nothing like the Lourdes narro does not recognize civil partnerships. If I go, we needed to do something for us. Tell me just this camera right here: mmm! That'S a camera! Okay, so you're in a music video! Okay! Classic Sunday morning, I heard my thing come off of my room. I heard her say that he thinks it was a great big toy wearing nothing. He can't do you want me to rap yeah. Do not attempt to just from where you are cuz. There'S nothing wrong we're taking control to bring you this special show, and we will return it to you as soon as your groove. Okay, welcome to Powell's show top of the charts in Lagos. 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