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You're welcome back to the run-up. We're being joined by Mr. Theo Philos Akatuba and what our concern is is that the collection of permanent voter cards PVC has begun. The independent National Electoral Commission, INEC last month, they commenced the distribution of the all-important PVCs at its local government offices nationwide. The commission had announced that Nigerians can now obtain their cards between the 12th of December and 22nd of January 2023. The commission also resolved to devolve PVC collection to the 8809 registration areas and wards from 6th of January to 15th of January 2023. That's from tomorrow to the 15th of January. And media reports so far indicate that the collection process has been anything but smooth. Just like the registration process, the collection exercise has been a crowded experience. I didn't say that we have been joined by Mr. Theo Philos Akatuba. Mr. Akatuba, good morning and welcome to the show. Yeah, good morning. Happy New Year to you, Yango. Good to be with you on Plus TV Africa. Same to you, Mr. Akatuba. We're hoping to be joined also by Mr. Phil Badong, coordinator and founder of Kaduna PVC Hangout. I don't know if he's here available already. If you're here, good morning and welcome. Okay, Mr. Phil will be joining us a little bit later. So Mr. Akatuba, we were told, even as of yesterday, the figure of uncollected PVCs still stands at or still stood at 6.7 million PVCs. That's a whole lot of PVCs not collected. So this low turnout and the heat cheese trailing the collection of PVCs in Lagos and beyond, how is it going to affect the 2023 election? Well, obviously, if you don't have a lot of PVCs that are collected, it means that the voter turnout will be affected. It will immediately tell you that there will be a relatively low voter turnout. And so there is a need for people to collect their PVCs. So the INEC is bringing out these records and this report for those who have not collected their PVCs to do so, because there is a direct relationship between collected PVCs and the number of people that are qualified to cast their votes. It would be a waste of time to ask people to come out and vote if they do not have their PVCs. So PVC collection is sacrosanct. It's very, very critical to the level of participation of citizens in the electoral process. And it is, in fact, one of the most important tools that the voter needed to participate in the vote. It's not enough to agitate. It's not enough to be on social media and begin to call for or support a candidate without you having your PVCs. So those who have not collected their PVCs, this is the time to go because without the PVCs, you cannot cast your vote and then the turnout will be low. And then candidates that are not supposed to win are likely to win, especially those you do not want to win because it is your vote that will bring victory to your candidate. So it's very important. It has a lot of effect. And again, a low voter turnout sends a signal of apathy and disinterest of citizens in the process of governance of their country. And to that extent, it also has an effect on the legitimacy of the elected leader. Because if you have a population of, say, 20 million voters and the election that brings victory to a candidate is less than 2.5 million or 3 billion, it sends a kind of message of illegitimacy because you are representing a small fraction of the voting population. So it's very important that everyone goes to get their PVCs. Very important. Okay. But the question here is that all the concern is that it's likely that the people who have not collected their PVCs might just be those who registered newly. The old voters still have their PVCs and possibly can use these PVCs. So are we not saying that, if that is the case, are we not saying that every voter or every person that has been voting before that has been putting whoever has been put in in the place of authority has not had any change of heart whatsoever to make a difference in the forthcoming election. Let me explain this. Now, if 100 people were turning out to vote in those days and getting someone into that place, do you think the voter education now, the awareness, the level of awareness of the electoral process and the confidence that be vast, for instance, has put in the minds of the people? Will that be enough to make the electoral process this time have a different outlook? Or is it going to be business as usual if the new people who registered will not go get their PVCs? Will there ever be a difference? All right. Thank you. In the past, elections are determined by most times the total number of registered voters in an area. And then it didn't have any correlation with those who presented themselves for accreditation. Most times politicians in their localities award the votes to themselves. Whilst they look at the register, they are able to determine that, okay, we have 10,000 registered voters in this polling unit or polling area. We are given to party A, 6,000. Based on settlement and all the agents, the connives with the highest bidder and award the votes to that person. And then they do the term printing to correlate. That has been a common practice. Before then, when the cadre also came, you also had the same situation where you have incident forms. And so what we thought we escaped from, they did it even more in many reverend area of my state, Delta, for example. It is common knowledge that votes are located without the voter being present. Now it is practically impossible for you to do that because the voter must present himself. It must be electronically accredited by biometric and facial features or facial features with a machine that transmits that accreditation to a database outside of that area, which can no longer be altered. And then the outcome of the election, the actual vote cast must tally with the accredited voters. So that is why if politicians think that they can dissuade the people from collecting their PVCs and therefore later award votes to themselves, they'll be wasting their time. So too with those people who have been buying or taking PVCs from voters or buying their PVCs in order to make sure they either do not vote or on the day of election, they are asked to queue up for their voter card and they are given money to influence their direction of vote. All of these have become even more difficult. So collecting your PVCs is actually something that is the completion of your voter registration process. You cannot say I am a voter when you have no PVC. Even if your name is in the voter registration, the voter register, without that PVC presented, you will not be able to vote because it is required for your accreditation process to complete. So I implore all Nigerians, especially the new ones that are registered recently, the zest with which they did the registration, I am sure they should go and complete the process by picking up their PVC. I picked up my PVC in the Niger local government area. I used to vote somewhere around in Agege, I used to live somewhere in New Dairy farmer state and my voter place was some primary school around the Agege area. So I moved away from that area and I had to transfer my vote and my new PVC was given to me at Akeja, Aenec office, Akeja local government Aenec office. Initially, I went to the local government of Akeja and a sign was placed there that the Aenec people have moved to Muizban area around the JRO area. I had to go there and I took my time, spent the time, waited in the queue and so many people were restless as usual and I was playing the role of a pacifier, educating them to become that every process is painstaking. So I got my PVC and I'm ready to cast my vote on election day. Without that, you won't be able to cast your vote. You won't be able to actualize your dream of the candidate you want to govern Nigeria or to who govern your state, be in the assembly. You will simply be someone who has a desire that you cannot implement. There was no turnout. He chees that trailed a collection of PVCs in Lagos. There was a, in parts of Lagos yesterday, the independent national electoral commission Aenec commenced distribution of permanent voter's cards, PVCs to voters. Report has it that the flag of the collection yesterday was trailed by a low turnout of people in some of the local governments visited. In some local governments, many people that turned up to pick their PVCs expressed disappointment that their cards were not available. At a Gigi local government, it was reported that most people that couldn't get their PVCs and they were asked to come back next week. And that's how the story has been. Aenec is decrying the low collection of PVCs in Bernou in Kogi as well. They are decrying the low collection of PVCs, same as in Delta and in Bernou state and so many other parts of the country. But for us to be sure that they were not just crying wolf, the people who are complaining about inability to collect PVCs are not just crying wolf, what amount of time do you need to spend? Like you gave the example that you went yesterday and you had to go to another place and you were a pacifier. But people were restless. Those were your words. How much is someone likely to wait on a queue before you can get this PVC so that we get to know which part is the fault of Aenec and which part is the fault of the people? Well, I believe that Aenec has a huge... They've been doing a lot of work. The work they do is really, really tedious. I was restless until when I got in there to pick my card and I saw the process, the documents that I need to sign, the process of ensuring the card is given to the right person. That process alone, for only me, if you multiply by number of people they will be attending to in one day, that will tell you how long it takes for them to deliver a card. Whether the process is right or wrong, my call is that Aenec will need to do a lot of consistent orientation, continuous conversation. For example, when the registration area or the card collection was moved from the local government at Quartinecaja, there was not enough information either on the social media or Aenec handles for people to know that quickly. That, I think, is discouraging and Aenec should do a lot more in consistent, because the current generation is a very mobile generation. They are not stagnant in one place. It's not in those days that you can catch them on television. You've got to use all of the channels of communication to reach the people. Because if you look at Lagos, for example, Lagos has 1.6 million card uncollected. And there are not a category of people whose cards are not ready, but they do not have that information. So you see a lot of people coming in and they say, okay, your own card is not ready. Your card will be, so we need to know whose cards are ready and which batches are not ready, so that people do not go there, get discouraged. Some people whose cards are there now might have visited the place once or twice and they were told their cards were not ready there and they are no longer having the space of time to go and collect. Other people too have traveled because the time this collection started is close to the festive period. Many young people could have either traveled or relocated, or many voters have traveled out to their hometown. Some have gone for religious activities. Some have gone to a religious camp. I believe, hopefully, that as soon as the business activity starts next week, we'll see an upsurge of collection of these cards. I believe so. Okay, we are being joined finally by Mr. Phil Baddon, Co-ordinator and Founder of Kaduna PVC Hangout. Mr. Baddon, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, you are Co-ordinator and Founder of Kaduna PVC Hangout. Tell us the scenario playing out in Kaduna, for instance, regarding PVC collection and all. So, we have been, we are currently planning a PVC collection after, but for the collection in Kaduna State in general, it's really going on. We have experienced a few challenges because, like I said, we are trying to embark on a PVC collection drive because we've already done the PVC registration drive. And one of the challenges we encounter is that, is distance. A lot of people complain about the distance. You know, every local government has just one INEC office in the local government. And then one local government has about 12 wards. And it's that big and that large. And those 12 wards are, like, a long distance apart from the center where the INEC office is. So, we've been trying to find ways to mitigate, because that has been like primary, primary challenge for people collecting their PVCs. And we also, we also try to mitigate that. And we also got an information, actually, that the INEC office are going to be sending the cards, the ready start. Oh, we seem to have lost the audio. Distance challenge. Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Bidong. All right, all right. So, I said that would ease the, distributing the cards to different wards would ease the distance challenge that a lot of people have been complaining about. But yet still, if that can be achieved, we are going to know that it's going to commence next week, between next week, we are going to do that. So, if that can be achieved, it can go a long way to enable people to get their PVCs, because a lot of people are busy, a lot of people work, and the INEC office has staff as well. And the staff work, the staff have their working hours. And their working hours is almost the same, for the same time, with the working hours of the people that want to collect their cards. So, if they can share this card to the different wards, it brings the collection closer to the people. And I feel like that will enable an easier access of collection for the PVCs. But generally, I will say the same challenge everywhere. A lot of people are reluctant, but we just keep pushing and sending out the message as much as we can for people to get their water started. Okay, let me go to where I should have gone first anyway. Caduna PVC Hangout. What does that really mean? What do you do? Well, let me finish the interview and go. Caduna PVC Hangout. Basically, what we did was we did something that we are my friends, we came to Canada to do. We saw something like going on in daygalls and play two states at the time. So, I just made a tweet, and I'm like, oh, we should do something like this in Caduna. And I told one of my friends, Ayobami Bologna, and we came up with a strategy, and we came up with an idea. And then we put it out on socials that we are looking for team members, we are looking for volunteers actually. And then we got volunteers. We did the best outreach. And then along the line, we got donations from individuals and organizations. And then we partnered with the global shippers organization, the Caduna branch, the Caduna Shippers Hub, and we partnered with them and we continued. Overall, we had about 30 locations, went to different locations, went to about 30 different locations. And in total, individually and collectively as a team or as a group, we were able to attend to about 5,000 people in Caduna states. And so what we're doing, we're doing pre-registration. We were doing transfer and updates of information, change of pooling units, all those things that could be done on the INEC website. And then we created both SMSs to follow up to people and ensure that they see through to the biometric process. And then on one or two occasions, we were able to work with INEC officials and we brought them to a certain location to do the biometrics capturing for them. And since then, we have, after the registration was over, we have not really done anything until now that we are planning the PVC collection right. Okay. Mr. Akatuwa, let me come to you. If you're there, you said the process is a little bit tiring as it is. You needed a lot of patients to do what you need to do. And you talked about information. If you were to advise the INEC, what things do you think they could do from now to 22nd of January where the PVC collection will be ending to make the process more seamless than what you found yourself and other people in Lagos and beyond find themselves? Well, my first advice is voter education. They must step up. They must use various languages. They must use all the channels that can be utilized. If they didn't have the budget, they've got to look for that money because you can't really mobilize people. They are not well informed about what you're doing. Because if the time that I went to the INEC office to pick at the Ikeja local government head office, if they informed me that they have moved the address, the location, they moved to their own site at the GRE, I'm sure the time and the resources I spent to go there would have been saved. And then the annoyance, my having to travel to a new area would have been completely eliminated. And I would have gone there with a more relaxed mind to be able to wait for them. So this type of annoyance and lack of public information and mass mobilization can affect even the collection of the PVTs. For example, during the registration, some people did their capture in a different local government other than where they reside. I think because of the ability to register online. A lot of people were registered while they were in the marketplace or somewhere in the Ikeja, whereas they live around a limo shop. And I saw people who came there and they were told that their collection center is at a limo shop. It was really annoying and discouraging to them. In fact, as usual, they express their anger the way the common, the ordinary Nigerians would show disappointment and blame INEC for inefficiency. But I saw the cost of lack of information. On the other hand, in terms of the internal processes, I do not see much that they can do. The only thing they can do is to increase the number of people that attend those who come to collect the cards. But do they have the budget for this? It's another matter. So you see, my advice is if they can look for some more ad hoc staff so that the process of collection will be a bit seamless and those who can come there spend one hour, two hours, or less than one hour, they picked up their card. It will encourage more people because some people now are looking for the right time, the auspicious time to be able to go because of the experience of what they have for all those who have gone there to collect. I think that day I spent about two to three hours, which I think was too much for the collection of the PVC. Because at the end of the day, if you don't collect it because of two hours, the regret might be more than two hours or two years or two tenors. So I hope it is what's it. I'll come back to you, Mr. Akatuba, for one final question. But let me go to Mr. Badong right now, Phil. When you talk about this, your organization, the Kaduna PVC Hangout and what you do, you interact a lot with the people who are supposed to collect the PVCs, who are supposed to vote, and who are supposed to do the needful to make sure we install whoever we want as individuals or as citizens come February 25. But what is your level of interaction with INAG like? How do you relate with INAG to make your job and their job a little bit easier? Okay. I personally, I had to get in touch with someone that works in INAG because at the beginning, I think one of our first two or three out switches, we had a breach of communication. So I had to get a direct contact because as I did, we're working on the MCMC, someone would come and see who they see that INAG is doing this or they see that INAG is doing that, and then people were misinformed. So eventually, we got, I have about two or three INAG staff on speed dial and a couple of my team members have INAG staff, INAG staff, sorry, INAG staff, sorry, that are on their, that they are in contact with. So basically, we just reach out to them to establish the perfect information, you know, to understand what people are supposed to do and how we can help them do it. And fortunately for us, or luckily for us, we got recommended, we got recommended by INAG staff to say that they need their work easier because we're passing on information to people. A lot of times, someone might come in and their PVC is probably misplaced and they will now want to apply for a new one. Meanwhile, you can just apply for loss or damage on the website. So when you apply for a new PVC, there was going to be an issue when you go for a biometrics because your biometrics have been captured before. So that is just an example of a couple of the other challenges that we experienced during the PVC outreach that we had. We're still here and talking about the low turnout of people to collect PVCs and the low collection generally of PVCs because as I said yesterday, it was still in the news that 6.7 million PVCs have not been collected. And how do we go into an election, especially in an election that the bulk of the people that have registered do not even vote? But now that people seem to be more aware and more excited, what is happening to the collection of the PVCs? We're trying to see if there are challenges and if they can also be corrected. We've been talking with Mr. Theo Philos Akatuba, a media consultant and public affairs analyst, and also with Mr. Phil Badun, coordinator and founder of Kaduna PVC Hangout. Let me start with you, Mr. Phil, before I go to Mr. Akatuba, because we are going to digress a little bit, but still on iNEC and the election. Mr. Phil, what are your expectations for 2023 general election? Because you've been involved in these, I'm sure, not in the past but right now because of this election, in the next election you are so involved. What are your expectations of the 2023 election? Peaceful, good turnout, awareness, everything you want to talk about. To be honest, I have a lot of expectations, but at the same time I'm also aware of the fact that anything can happen. To be honest, I don't think this election might be all that peaceful, and that is just me, I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything, but that's just me, from the reality of what we see present, it doesn't look like it's going to be a very peaceful election, because especially in the north, where there is a majority part in almost every northern state, and this is one of the first elections in recent times where we have three major political parties or three major contestants. Previously, it's always a battle between, most times for the presidential election, it's mostly a battle between the pardon me, it's mostly a battle between the APC and the PDP, and then this time around we have the Labour Party. So I really expect that people will turn out, especially youths and young people, people that are voting for the first time, because one of the things we encountered during the BBC hands-off was a lot of shock, because I mean it's understandable if someone who is 25 or below 30 is registering to vote for the first time, but when you meet people that are 30 plus in their 40s, approaching 50s, and you've not voted before, it's quite questionable and it's quite out of sight to an extent, but overall I feel like people are going to turn out, but we can't really say due to, because presently we're talking about low collection of PBCs, but hopefully in the next one or two weeks, we can or would try to be able to mitigate that. I feel like another way to mitigate it is if, because I know that for international states for example, the state governments gave a two-day break, a two-day break for state workers sometime last year for PBC registration, so I feel like if they can replicate that again for PBC collection this time around, and if it can be done in every other state, that would actually aid this PBC collection that we're talking about, but overall I think that yeah people will turn out, and I'm expecting they will turn out as well, and it will be very important if we have a peaceful election, but from the look of things in some regions, it might not be so peaceful, but overall it's just I expect, what are the things I will look forward to is resilience. Resilience because one thing I know a lot of people patrol with during election season is the challenges and the struggles of voting, sometimes you go under the sun for hours, suppose you stay two hours, you know I'm going home, you know, sometimes it can come the ad hoc staff will like sheep, you know, adjust, stay on a street file and who doesn't like I'm going home, so this time around I expect to see resilience, because already there is already a mindset among young people that whatever will happen, whatever may happen, anything, anyhow, when you have it's going to be, we are still going to ensure we vote at the end of the day, so if it takes you one hour, two hours, five hours, ten hours, sixty the whole day, I expect citizens to have resilience and just make sure that they get what they come to the polling units for. Okay, we will come back to you for, because you just finished almost with something of security, we'll come back to find out how it is and how it might affect the election next year, this year, sorry, but let me go to Mr. Khatuba, a little bit of digression here, on the news we have heard that some people went to court asking that the INEC chairman be sacked and not only should he be sacked, but he should be barred from holding any position for the next ten years, I just want to have what your take on that scenario is, how do you think or what do you think about it generally before we begin to feel about if the way to succeed, how it could have impacted the 2023 election? Yeah, it would have impacted it very negatively and immediately damaged the credibility of the election and then it might even have the effect of affecting the schedule of the election, therefore they would have thrown spanners in the works of the nation in its democratic journey, make no mistake even in God's kingdom, the influence of evil came upon Lucifer and he was able to take a stand against God, so we as a people must know that we have evil people in our midst who on a daily basis are screaming evil, in fact we have people that are evil personified and there's a lot of people with bloods in their hands and they are all part of us and they are all part of the democratic, some of them can even be contestants knowing full well now that they have they will lose, there are many people who are contesting who have no hope of winning and a majority of such people who do not have another motivation for contesting, we want to damage the electoral process so that their complete humiliation at the polls will not be recorded or will not happen, so we are grateful to the court for being smart because as it is right now if you can incapacitate the INEC chairman then you immediately you flew chains in the legs of INEC in his ability to conduct the election, so we I believe that we are maturing and our courts are becoming wiser if you remember if we've seen things like this in the past in various shapes and colors and as we make progress as a nation the bad ones we should be able to distance them from our national life, we are happy, I'm happy when I heard the news, I didn't even know you know you, we heard that there are people fifth columnists that are working against the elect, we've heard alarm by the CUP, is it coalition of political parties they have also raised alarm because various people are in various courts attempting to do something tricky and funny but smart judges are wise and they see that these are phantom allegations upon which an order cannot be granted and so I'm happy for Nigeria, I'm happy for the government whose image would be smeared if anything untoward happened to the electoral time table and schedule, Bwari would be blamed that his men have attempted to perpetuate him in office, there's so many things but we should be happy for our nation because the world is watching and they are taking note of how we are progressing and how we are moving. Watching and that gives us a lot of concern because a few days ago it was the central bank governor that people were attempting to even the DSS not just people but the DSS which is also an instrument of government was trying to get arrested that he was a financier of bandits and terrorists and all that and you know some people let's say had a theory that the governor of the central bank came up with policies that are biting very biting on the politicians and suddenly they found that he was sponsoring terrorists. Now the INAG chairman brought beavers and has refused to make beavers a second kind of option that it must happen that beavers will be used in the elections and suddenly they are found out that he did not declare his assets well. When the international community watches us, when they look at us, what will they think of Nigeria? It begs the question how politically mature or how patriotic a country or its people are by just finding faults in the instruments that are supposedly trying to make the policy better. How does that speak to our image outside? Any of such development does not promote the country. It makes the country look like a place that is not civilized, a place that you cannot relate with if you have many of such people in our system. But we must understand that there is no system and there is no country where there are no evil ones. What the good people do is to isolate them, expose them and treat them. You heard of the cryptocurrency collapse, the crypto exchange. You heard of bank fraud, even internationally. There is always going to be a wicked one in the midst of good people. The good ones must be consulted in ensuring that such bad people are removed. So the judge has seen through their mischief and has stopped them. The same thing with the DSS. The DSS is being used by the enemies in our midst also. They have seen that this attempt by the CBN governor to change the currency and us also restrict and place a cap on the amount of cash that can be available. Politicians who have never won election will never be happy. Because they know that every victory they have had have been bought and they believe the future is available for them to keep buying. That's the reason they have massed the wealth, they have massed in the first place to distort the outcome of election in their favor. So they went all out to get the CBN governor with phantom accusation because the DSS must investigate allegations, especially when it comes to national security. So they would have cooked up all the stories and presented this before the DSS. And the DSS, as usual, would want to do his job. Thank God again, a court has stopped the DSS because they can see through the maze. So let us, I believe that this is dangerous, not good for our image, but we continue to fight until even the international community we know that this country is making a lot of effort to weed out the wicked ones in their midst. If that is consistent, the confidence of the international community will grow again, will improve in favor of Nigeria. I like that. I like that. What is intended to be something to dampen our image or to spoil our image, to dampen our spirit, will now turn out to be good. I like the way you put it. But Phil, let me come to you. Another worrisome thing when we are thinking about the 2023 election is security. And Kaduna is one of these places that is so volatile. And you made mention of security maybe being an impediment in the 2023 election. Walk us through the security situation right now in Kaduna and how you think that will lead to 2023 general election, how it can impact on the 2023 general election if it is, or it will remain in this way at that time. All right. For the insecurities in Kaduna state, it's a very contextually nuanced conversation because we have the Kaduna central, we have the Kaduna north, and we have the southern Kaduna. And the insecurities majorly have been tilted towards the southern Kaduna, and it's left out of Kaduna central and Kaduna north. So for the southern part of Kaduna, honestly, from the look of things, insecurity is going to pose a major threat to elections. And it's terrible because I don't even think the media is reporting it as much as it is, because now Kaduna central is surrounded with IDP camps. There are a lot of IDP camps because people are being displaced from their homes. If we had a lot of mass burials even in my village because I'm from southern Kaduna as well, but beside that, Kaduna central, we've had a lot of mass burials, mass train walls. It's crazy, honestly, I wouldn't lie. And it's going to really take a lot for elections to actually hold in those areas because for peaceful elections to hold in those areas because as of now, it's like it's somewhat like an ethnic cleansing. And a lot of people have been displaced from their homes. And I don't even think any staff, many of them, the ethnic ethnic staff would pray or would want to go get to work because it's a very volatile environment. So it's a lot, honestly, it's not something I can say much about, but the security situation in Kaduna state as of now, is very terrible because even in the city, the Kaduna central, obviously we do not have bandits, but kidnappings and robberies and all still thrives in some areas. And it's really crazy, honestly. It's a lot. Okay, but is there something because from now, today's fifth, we have like 45 days or more or so, we have a more than a month to the election. Are there some things that can be done between now and then to improve the security situation? Honestly, I feel like if anything can be done, it's going to be, it's going to take a lot of work. So it can start and hope to finish before then. Because I mean like the military bases have been attacked, it's almost like nowhere is safe on that side of town. So it's going to take a lot. However, I feel like if we employ, if the state governments can employ security agencies, that will go a long way. That will really, really go a long way because they can help curb the insecurities. And it's not just even employing them or deploying them to those areas, but it's to equip them. I mean, you could see, I don't know if you've got to see that, but last attack, one of the recent attacks at Kaguru in Colorado government of Cardinal States, when you see the bullet shells that were left after the attack, you could see that these people have very sophisticated weapons. So it's not just about deploying security officers, but then to equip them to be able to fight back in case of compensation with the terrorists. So that aside, I don't think there is anything that can be more than that because people have taken all the safety precautions, all the safety measures that you can take as a human being. But then there is just so much that we can do in a large state. So that would be the solution on this. Okay, Mr. Akatsuga, let me come to you for just the final thing. Your projections for 2023, because of these PVC collection and all the other things that are surrounding this election of 2023, what are your projections like? Where will it go to? Who will have the most votes? And who do you think it might favor in these situations? And then you throw in also a word of advice to Nigerians who are waiting patiently for 2023, just to wrap up. Well, it would be difficult to say who it will favor. But what I can say is because of the fact that there are uncollected PVCs in some very large number like 6.7 million, the question is which of these political parties will this be disadvantaged?  And so we do not know exactly how that will play out. But as it is, if you look at the collection of the not in metropolitan areas, areas like Lagos, Abuja and many centers, I've just lost my electricity. I hope I'm still able to be seen. It's fine. Yeah. So in many areas, I am suspecting that Peter Albiz seems to be trending in metropolitan areas. And it appears that not collection of PVC is higher in these areas. If any obedient is listening, this is the time to get busy to ask more of the people in the urban areas who are a lot more obedient in my assessment. Then, but in the rural areas in far north, there's a high number of collection. If you look at the records that have been presented in Southwest, there's too many people not on your state is having 700 uncollected PVCs. But the consolation is this, a lot of the PVCs that are not being collected are old PVCs from 2019. That means many voters at that time, when they were not, a lot of those people are not real voters. They were double, I don't know whether they were double or they were people that were box or ferried into register with the hope of coming to vote in voting time. I do not know what they are, but a lot of the many of the new registrations, they are collecting their PVCs. They are anxious to collect, but you will still have a backlog of those old registrations. So for me, I will always say that people should be vigilant and that people should make sure they get involved, they vote, but I will not be able to say on television who I think it will favor. All right, thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Akatuwa. Well, gentlemen, it's been a pleasure having you to talk about this and we hope Nigeria will go higher and higher and not go back to the olden days. Thank you to you, Mr. Phil Badong, the coordinator and founder of Kaduna PVC Hangout. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you very much. Pleasure. And Mr. Theofilo Zakatuwa, media consultant and public affairs analyst. Thank you so much for being a part of the show. It's been a pleasure being with you, Yango. Take care. Okay, we'll go now and take the news and then when we return we just say our goodbyes and that'll be it. Stay with us.


What is crack-a-laden everybody welcome on into the heat check fantasy podcast powered by Number fire that is right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire comm today We are getting you set for UFC 249 coming up this Saturday a full slate of action for DFS coming your way We're gonna learn the ins and outs of the sports with Austin Swain. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire comm joined here as mentioned by Austin Swain You can find him on Twitter at a swing three He does number fires UFC DFS coverage also does NASCAR and NBA so Austin Kind of an interesting time for you UFC kicking things off NASCAR is a week after that. How you doing today? Yeah, I'm doing great Jim I I definitely am excited I don't know why why I was picked so luckily that my next sports happened to be coming back first from quarantine But I'm excited about it. It'll be fun to get real life humans playing sports. It'll be a lot of fun Yeah, and it's gonna be a wild stretch because UFC has a bunch of cards coming up right away And then NASCAR has I think like seven races in 11 days one of DFS for all those But like you can bet on those and that's still pretty exciting I'll take that happily the problem that I have Austin is I know literally nothing about UFC I am superbly squeamish. I cannot deal with any sort of blood So I know nothing about this. So I'm not gonna give literally any advice I'm gonna lean on you and I hope you're okay with that. Yeah, that's that's totally fine with me You know, I've I've been hardcore into UFC for for about five years now So, you know, I think the sport at first glance if you're watching at a bar with some buddies It looks like kind of barbaric, you know, people punch at each other There's blood coming out But there's actually a lot of science and actually a lot of statistics behind the fighters and how they're performing in there So a lot of fun to bet on and a lot of fun for fantasy as well Statistics music to my ears So we're talking UFC 249 here, we're gonna go through the rosters on Fandall how scoring works Fandall is Just recently offering UFC just started right before the quarantine light lit up So it is a new sport will go through Fandall scoring rules will go through the roster slots How scoring works where you can find data all that stuff lock is at 6 30 p.m. On Saturday night But first Fandall sportsbook is now available in Colorado. But what's a sportsbook with no sports? Well, it's Fandall anything book Fandall's newest free game each day You will pick one free prop like the weather stocks anything you pick it, right? You win five bucks in site credit then play again tomorrow play Fandall anything book free only on Fandall sports book Must be 21 plus max bonus is $50 visit fandall.com slash audio for terms gambling problem call 1-800-522-4700 All right, so let's dive in here to UFC 249 before we discuss the actual card for this weekend I need to know the basics because I I know nothing about UFC and I'm guessing a lot of you listening are getting into UFC in order to really amp up your you know your DFS play once again, maybe you've gotten sick of playing league of legends or Top chef whatever it may be we've got over on Fandall right now So we're gonna try to give an introduction to USC while also sprinkling in thoughts on the slate So awesome to start things off. You're very basic when you look at Fandall How does scoring work for UFC DFS? You know, that's that's a great question Because there are a lot of different elements But I think the first place that you'll want to always start when looking to pick who who to roster if you're a Fight is who's gonna end up actually winning the fight. That's the important thing That's what most people bet on and if you look at Fandall scoring breakdown Say a guy's incredibly dominate in a 15 seconds. He knocks out his opponent He'll get a hundred points for finishing his opponent in the first round If it if the fight goes the entire distance because neither fighter can really gain that type of physical advantage You only get 20 points if the fighter actually ends up winning and there's a variety of different bonuses in between But winning quickly is not the only thing that you're targeting when looking at a roster here on Fandall A fighter can be a valuable DFS play because of the stats that they can earn throughout the fight Those are called significant strikes which are any strikes at distance or hard ones that are on the mat or when they're clenched together There's also takedowns Which are kind of like tackles of an opponent if somebody's a wrestler They may look to shoot for more of those and you actually get points on Fandall for if a takedown is denied So good takedown defense also can earn you points as well If somebody's into Brazilian jujitsu or a different type of martial art like that They get points for trying to choke or submit their opponent as well meaning that they end up tapping The otherwise they're gonna end up with a broken limb or get choked out unconscious So you get points for attempts at those as well I think the best way to do it is if you look in real practice at the scoring system on Fandall The very last pay-per-view card back in May UFC 248 you on a JJ check She was in the co-main event with Wei Lei Zhang. She scored 186 significant strikes, but lost She still got 112 points as a DFS play there And then you take a look at the main event that followed right after a couple of guys that were not nearly as active Israel Adesanya won the title. He won the belt, but only landed 48 strikes He only got 28 points in a decision win So you can see the great disparity from somebody who actually lost their fight to have it to someone who won their fight And that makes a huge difference when choosing which fighter to roster writes And it's I mean that's horrifying these these words like sound horrifying like takedown Like a significant strike you get point six points for for significant strike. That's right You get five points for a submission attempt six for a takedown and three for a takedown defense So a lot of different categories, but like you said, it does kind of revolve around winning So when you're doing research, are you looking at betting odds first? Where do you go first try to decide which fighters you want to roster? Yeah, absolutely A betting is the first place to start because despite the anonymous anomaly I just mentioned with you J check and Adesanya in the last pay-per-view card the conventional and positive expected value for a winning fighter It is for a winning fighter as somebody who actually ends up winning their fight whether it be a swift knockout Or it can be somebody that's really beating on their opponent building up those strikes and then they win by decision That's usually the conventional method to find a higher performing fighter If you take a look the last three UFC pay-per-view cards They all had exactly three first round knockouts and in the largest entry on draft Kings Which is another daily fantasy site that has had MMA for a little bit now the overall winner of the largest contest had all three of those fighters in Their lineup, so I'm still looking for first round knockouts The strategy still to find six winning fighters and build off of that. Hopefully my MVP would have the most points. We'll get into that later The only potential argument I would see for starting somebody who believe you would lose would be expected volume Based on the particular style of fight or if you're expecting a five-round fight for a championship fight There's more rounds. That's more points. That's more strikes available to you So really you would be looking at those rare situations, but overall I'm looking for winners man So I'm looking at those one thing that you mentioned there that is interesting for me again knowing nothing about UFC is that some matches are different lengths and that can give you the potential for additional volume Obviously, it may not break that way if the the fight ends before that but which matches on this card are Scheduled to be longer. I don't know if I'm phrasing that right. Yeah, I know nothing here You're exactly right And so just some basics and this will be explained before the pay-per-view as well if you're gonna watch on Saturday night Is the basics are is that most fights inside the acting on their three rounds long any title fights? So it's a belt potentially exchanging hands in a given weight class or the final event of the night If there are no title fights, those are all five round fights So the two we have on tap on Saturday that will be five round fights will be Henry so Hudo and Dominic Cruz They're fighting for the Bantam weight championship. That's at 135 pounds in the men's division As well as Justin Gaichi and Tony Ferguson are fighting for an interim lightweight championship. That's the main event That's also five rounds. So those two fights are five rounds for those four fighters in the player pool So how much of a bump do you give to those bouts given that they are Longer ones. Is that worth altering the way you view the fighters within those just because there's potential to go longer? Or does it not matter as much given that they're a decent odds. It doesn't even get there to begin with You're right in that it comes down to the particular style of the fight You know, I think a great these two are a great dichotomy of that and that you look at Justin Gaichi and Tony Ferguson They go in there violence violence in mind I'm not expecting a five-round fight So it may very well get less than the three rounds I would get in a normally scheduled fight and then I look at Henry so Hudo and Dominic Cruz They're a lighter weight class. So they're smaller. They're smaller guys So they don't have the same type of knockout power It may be more strategic and it may end up seeing a judge's decision I might target volume in that fight expecting a longer fight And many sportsbooks break break odds down by how the fights going to finish so you can see there's prop That's on how many rounds it's going to last what the type of finish is going to be and by whom So you can use that to kind of get a sense if you're not familiar with the fighters and their styles Kind of what the what Vegas is expecting as far as what a fight is going to look like stylistically yeah in general leaning on sportsbooks if you don't know what you're talking about probably a pretty good route for sure and Fandal sportsbook specifically does have Outcomes as well in addition to who will win and the money line there now I think one thing that's interesting here Austin that you alluded to before was all the different scoring categories and how those may be Depended on the fighter. Where can we get that data? Like where can we see how many significant strikes a fighter gets in a Typical match and stuff like that. Where can we find data on UFC? Well, it's it's very very nice and they about a year ago the UFC released their own internal stats portal at UFC stats comm it has most of the necessary stats you need to see as far as predicting an offensive output from a fighter Yeah, you can deep dive a particular fight So if you're looking how somebody did in their last matchup or against a similar style fighter You can look at the striking accuracy. You can look at striking averages per minute It can break it down by whether it was to the head or the midsection or somebody was targeting the legs Any grappling and scrambling metrics will be there as well And as well as it breaks it down by round so you can say, okay Maybe you have a gentleman who's a fighter that he's a strong starter He comes out of the gate throwing a lot of punches and kind of tires himself out or somebody who kind of lets it build over The course of the fight and get stronger as they go on I think of a guy like John Jones that many people know of he's he's the type of fighter that will get stronger as the fight Goes on by conserving energy. So you can see I think a great way You can also do it is to look by fighter So if you have a fighter that's on the card like for UFC 249 you visit say Justin Gachie's stat page in the main event you'll see he's never attempted a takedown in the UFC So which is crazy. He was an all-american wrestler at Arizona State But you can see when you see that zero point zero zero in his takedown per minute average He's not trying to wrestle. He's not trying to take things to the mat Justin Gacy's trying to throw punches from the feet at distance and knock somebody out cold And so you can kind of begin to stylistically see what a fighter really specializes and by visiting their fighter page as well So all that all that data encompass at ufc stats calm I use it primarily for my research and and I think they have just about every metric I could ask for and I think that they do have all the the scoring categories on fangirl Those are all listed in the ufc stats calm And I think the good thing is for someone like me who may not know the different fighting styles It's helpful to see How much they how often they do these various things because I know nothing about these fighting styles But Austin is you're someone who does watch ufc and you do know what these fighting styles are like What kind of fighters, you know are there fighters who can rack up a lot of fantasy points in a hurry because of their style Is there a particular fighting style? We should prioritize when looking for that. How does that break down? Yeah, there certainly are a different breeds of fighters, you know There are about three or four different general categories. I would say and that you have fighters who are typically like Gaith G They're trying to stand at range. You're trying to knock people out. They're more of a boxing type I think if Conor McGregor is a guy who's very popular Conor McGregor is a boxer. That's why he got into a match with Floyd Mayweather. He really prefers to stand on his feet You think of a guy like Khabib Nurmagomedov He's a wrestler So he's primarily trying to use his punches to set up opportunities to wrestle and get to the ground to the mat because he has strong arms and a strong core muscles that can really keep people down As well as you have submission artists I think of a guy like Crone Gracie or or maybe Charles Oliveira in his earlier days where really they're just trying to grab a hold of you so they can grab your arm and get it into a position called a submission attempt where It could potentially be broken unless the other fighter taps out and says, okay, you win So there's a really the three dichotomies of styles. There's a lot of different ones That you can see pop up in particular styles like some people like to use leg kicks as a kick boxer But really that's what you're mostly looking at to target matchups is to somebody like standing Do they prefer wrestling? Are they really not trying to throw any punches or wrestle at all?  I think that works try We'll go whichever way we want to go here. I think that what's helped me again No, it's someone going in totally new to this is having everything sorted out by the fighter and like showing You know, there are submission attempts and things like that There's significant strikes and just showing it all together so you can compare different fighters and see how they match with other Other fighters on this card because I think that's kind of the context we're looking for here So that's been helpful for me again knowing nothing about the style and USC stats You do have to account for scale because some of them are per 15 minutes and some are per minute So make sure you are accounting for that if you're putting it all in one sheet and try to calculate Fandal points per minute and stuff like that, but it is a pretty major crutch there let's go back to the wind discussion Austin because you know, you look at the salaries here for the slate and It's almost exactly based on their moneyline odds to win in descending order So that makes it tough. Are there any Fighters who you think may be undervalued by the betting market who have a legitimate shot to win any underdogs out there Who you think are pretty good DFS players because they may be under priced Yeah, certainly, you know, there there are that's the beauty of mixed martial arts is that you know that Matchmaking is getting better with UFC So underdogs have a legitimate chance to win I'd say more so now than any other time in the sport You take a look back to 2018 Which is a couple years ago But that's when they finally have the dust settled with every UFC sanctioned event around the world 33.9% of the time the underdog actually won the fight the the listed vague So you can be assured in this 12-card fight about three or four underdogs are probably going to end up winning When you take a look at underdog under underdogs I like I've already talked about the two fights when mentioned they were title fights, but you take a look at Justin Gaichi He's a guy. He's got incredible power. He knocked out Donald Soroni He's a plus 150 underdog against Tony Ferguson in the main event He's he's gotten a first-round knockout in his last three events So you're looking at the fantasy potential there But also his two losses that came before that were guys who actually ended up winning championships as well Ferguson everyone believes is of that caliber one of the best fighters in the world, but hasn't been a champion yet So it's it's been a high level of competition I think something that's important that maybe factors into MMA other than Than other fantasy sports is the fact that these guys are actually cutting 15 to 20 pounds of weight right before the fight To get down to their weight class Tony Ferguson a guy with a reputation is kind of crazy He went through with his entire weight cut last in when he was fighting for April 18th And he got on the scale of 145 pounds Not the smartest thing probably physically to dehydrate yourself and then again have to do it to cut down to weight again here Three weeks later But that's just pretty typical Tony Ferguson fashion, but he could be physically hampered because of that And so a guy like gay shoe hits that hard. It's something. I'm definitely concerned about for Ferguson as a favorite So I like gaichi there as was the code main event as well Dominic Cruz is he's only $12 on fan duel and he's a plus 200 underdog right now He's one of the best ever to fight at 135 pounds, but it's been three years since Dominic Cruz fought He's fought off a variety of injuries He's a voice familiar to MMA fans because he does a lot of broadcasting for them as well He got this title fight three years out of Retirement for a reason and that's because Cruz is one of the best ever do it he'll fight Henry Sehudo who's only five feet Portal he's a very small guy. He usually fights at 125 pounds But crew but he's moving up to 135 where he actually has the belt. He stepped in as an interim there Cruz I in my opinion. I think Cruz should be favored in this bout But we just don't have any we don't have any tape on him and so because it's been three years We have no idea what he's gonna come out of retirement looking at but he's a much bigger fighter He's not afraid to wrestle in Sehudo. That was his claim to fame as he was a gold medalist as an Olympian as a Wrestler he can wrestle with Sehudo and he's actually larger which will make it harder for Sehudo to gain top control on him Striking it striking cruises the numbers are a five by foreign cruises favor Cruises is around three and a half strike significant strikes per minute As well as it's against better competition, you know, TJ Dillishaw two-time champion of the world Cody Garbrand Was the one who beat Dominic Cruz But a lot of great Strikers that cruises used to facing and so who does just not really been on that level take a look at so who does last two fights mighty Mouse Johnson not even in the UFC anymore They traded him away imagine imagine getting traded out of the NFL that was Demetrius Johnson He was traded out at the UFC for Ben Ascrin who has since flamed out And Marlon Marias has looked pretty pretty terrible in his last couple of fights in that he had the lead on So who don't ended up getting knocked out and then you take a look after that He lost to Jose Aldo on an out on a weight cut that Aldo was looking like he was about to pass out at weigh-ins from How bad the weight cut was Aldo almost ended up beating him So the competition level questionable for Sehudo as the champion So I really like Dominic Cruz in this fight overall, you know, like it's anytime you say I think this underdog probably should be favored in my personal opinion That's a guy you're looking to target for a Fandal roster. Yeah, Dominic Cruz Plus 180 and just $12 on Fandal Justin Gaichi is $15 and plus 150. So interesting names to consider there in Gaichi's Significant strike numbers poppin. They're poppin on the spreadsheet again. I know nothing about this But hey, I know that we're the spreadsheet. It's a pretty good there Let's talk one more thing one more question you're about winning because I think that is kind of the crux of Building a lineup, but I think that it can be difficult on Fandal where you have the Salary set essentially by the win odds Does that make you stride to be a bit more balanced with your lineup or do you feel Confident enough in your ability to find underdogs who can win where you're okay going a little bit top Have you may be getting up some of those higher-priced fighters? Yeah, um, you know, especially in cash or low or lower stakes tournaments I'm definitely looking at the caliber of the stud that I have Wins targeting value plays, you know If I have a stud that I can trust you take for example somebody like Valentina Shivchenko Nobody's run around against her in a year and she's only lost to one woman in the UFC She's gotten at least two takedowns and four of her last six fights She has a pretty high floor about her scoring output And I know those two fights with Amanda Nunes that she lost actually still went the distance and she still scored some Points I have a very high floor with a somebody with Shivchenko. I have a high body of work I've seen her fight before I would really target stacking her in a spot that I like her in because I know what type of Outpook I'm getting I think I go back To a month that may have scarred certainly scarred me as an MMA veteran and daily fantasy players at UFC 241 Gentlemen by the name of Devonte Smith was a minus 750 favorite sounded like from all sources and experts It's a shoe in that he's gonna end up winning He got knocked out cold in the first round by his opponent comma worthy as a minus 750 favorite And he had a huge significant strikes per minute marker 6.88 like you said it was popping off the charts But he only had two fights in the UFC at that point and the sample size of just a few minutes of fight time wasn't large enough for For us to really get an idea of how he's how he was gonna match up Stylistically so finding value plays is always gonna be in an X in exact science because if you're brand-new to MMA DFS I can't wait for the first time you experience where your fight fighter statistically should have won the fight on the judges score cards And then it goes the other way and so you don't end up getting the win bonus on the decision So it's always in an exact science So I'm always building around my confidence of studs and starting there And then I sprinkle in my value plays based on if I feel like it has a legitimate shot to score Well, yeah, and then furthermore is the winning odds of the underdog as well And I think that based on the way you've talked about this slate Specifically, it sounds like we'll have options in the cheaper end where you may be able to go a little bit Top-heavy here too, and hopefully that's not the same Davante Smith who was playing for the tip may vipers in the Michigan We'll hope it's a different dude. Okay, so let's go back to Fandle here where we have an MVP bonus And if you haven't been playing like Single match football or playing League of Legends anything like that You may not know what an MVP slot is but on Fandle you get a 1.5 X multiplier for the player the fighter You put in that MVP slot So let's say a fighter scores 30 Fandle points, and I don't know if that's realistic or not But let's say they score 30 that sounds a little low regardless you multiply that by 1.5 X They would get 45 and the salary to use the player in your MVP slot is the exact same as if you want to use them in any other Slot so essentially what you're doing is you're picking the highest scoring fighter on the entire slate Austin for you who stands out as being an option for that MVP slot Well, you know, it's it's not incredibly sexy if you're doing similar single game NFL You pick a guy like Omar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes most expensive player in the player pool They usually have a pretty high floor as well as combining that with a good ceiling as well And I know it's gonna be somewhat an interesting to do the same here But the first guy that comes to mind the most expensive player in the in the player pool. It's Ryan span He's facing Sam Alvi Ryan spans $22 on Fandle, which is the highest price of any fighter in the pool But I think he might be worth it It's the first fight of the card at 205 pounds. So right when it locks at 630, these guys will be walking out for their fight Spanned. He's a big athletic striker. He's won his first five MMA events He's not he's not really a ground. He doesn't really have any ground game that's been tested He eat down to win over Luis Henrique doing that And he likes to try to he likes to try to knock opponents to the ground using his fists and then look for Submissions to finish. That's a good way of changing things up in case your opponent thinks you're hunting your One knockout potential. He's undefeated in UFC and he takes on a very very well-known veteran of the sports smiling Sam Alvi not incredibly not incredibly Technical not incredibly athletic, but he's just as tough as a $2 stake You know, he's gotten by on grit and just very savvy Knowing when to shoot and when to strike but now he's aging as a veteran. I have my qualms with span as a prospect He's pretty untested in the UFC, but all these aging and if you take a look at less his take down Take down attempts per minute. It's in the point three area He's not really ever trying to get the ground get the fight to the ground get on the mat Wrestle do anything like that.  He's taller He's he's more athletic at this point in this career because of his age and things related to that It really a good wrestler one day is going to knock span off his game and probably derail his hype train a little bit But all these not really built with that sort of toolkit the thing that the thing that I would be afraid of for Alvi is that he does have that toughness and If if span ends up not knocking him out in the first round I'm worried for Alvi that this might pile up significant strikes Against him as he continues to keep fighting through just to make it to the end of the decision But span should have no problem keeping his distance at the feet mixing in his combinations And should greatly improve on if you look at him statistically He's only got 3.26 significant strikes per minute So you say I feel nervous about paying $22 for a guy like that because the fight you can you can tell what the styles going to be You look at spans last few fates He's got a couple of quick knockouts in there as well as a wrestling match So he hasn't really been able to do what he wants to do which is strike at distance and Alvi will let him do that Okay, so Ryan span $22 on fangirl. He is minus 440 on the money line Nobody else is shorter than minus 330. So a pretty major gap between Ryan span in the field So like you said sometimes the most expensive fighter is the most expensive fighter for a reason and the other higher salaried fighters You are considering for this card. Yeah, I love Francis and Ghanu at $20 I think he's the best play on the entire slate very similar reason why I love Ryan span It's because I can predict the fight stylistically You know he and Jair Rosen strike neither of them are wrestlers or submission artists In fact a MMA fans will remember Francis and Ghanu's volume fight against Derek Lewis Only 31 total strikes in the fight and then gone who only had 11 of them mostly because it was just a wrestling match with no Punches being thrown Fans were booing at the end of the fight because there was no action daring it That's not the case which are gonna get with Rosen strike and in gun who they're both gonna stand at distance You know, unfortunately, there is a little bit of a drawback in that this fight when they're standing toe-toe They're not gonna throw a lot of punches, but one whichever one connects with a face is going to be very very hard These are two large men both sitting Upwards of six foot three and over two hundred and forty five pounds They're big guys and typically at heavy weight like these guys are fighting at one punch is usually all it takes in in Ghanu the reason he's a minus 280 favorite on the board if you look at them statistically Rosen strike actually got has more Significant strikes per minute. It's against much lesser competition in Ghanu's fight guys like steep a Mio chitch and Alstra and They both fought Alistair over him, but Derek Lewis as well He's fought guys that have fought for the belt Rosen strike took five full rounds to dispense of Alistair over reamed a couple years after in Ghanu fight him and got it took about five seconds or closer to that Okay, so in Ghanu certainly with the common opponent there did much much better against Alistair over him I think it's a level of competition gap where Rosen strike probably took this fight because it's good money to fight Francis in Ghanu. He's a very popular guy very a lot of fun to watch because he is nicknames the predator And he looks just absolutely jacked out there. So, you know, it's a good money fight for him But I don't like his on-standing actually end up winning it Vicente Luque is another guy that I target. Yeah, he's $18 on Fandall He just got a striking class in his last fight from Stephen Wonderboy Thompson Who's one of the best 170 pound strikers to do it takes a giant step back in competition and not only fight IQ on Saturday He's facing Nico the hybrid price price is the UFC fan favorite He's he's typical. He's a typical warrior.   He's very he's very technical trains with the trains with one of the top camps down in Brazil He's incredibly smart fighter and you take a when Nico price bought a guy like Luque last he got knocked out by Jeff Neil Luque a pirate pile up the significant strikes to 163 of them when he when he brutalized Brian Barbareta If and he actually knocked him out and finished that before it went to decision and he broke platinum like Perry's nose And Perry really hasn't been the same since he landed 84 strikes in that fight So Luque is a guy who has a good combination of power and volume He's taking on a guy that doesn't always put himself in the best position I think worst-case scenario Luque is probably gonna point his way to a decision just by knowing how to accumulate those points a little better But if price isn't careful Luque can really really pack a punch as well So I think you have a good good shot at a knockout there with Luque to be sent a Luque is 18 dollars minus 270 on the money line Which is shorter than most fighters in that range. So that definitely makes him intriguing from that perspective I want to go back to Francis and gani. It sounded like based on the weight level here You're expecting potential the potential for a short match. Does that? incentivize you to consider in Ganyu at the MVP slot if you're trying to pivot off of the span or Does the the lack of striking and the lack of lack of potential volume lower the upside of in Ganyu What's the kind of balance there? Oh, well, absolutely I think that well, I mean I I don't think that it lowers the volume because certainly You know, you're looking at the length of the fight being short for either way I'll have exposure to both sides of this matchup in tournaments by the way because Rosen strike He's a big guy too, you know, he could get and then all of a sudden you differentiate yourself with Rosen strike as well in some lineups probably not in an MVP slot But I would go to in Ganyu at MVP. I have a longer track history on him than I do span So I'm a little bit less nervous about Any sort of unforeseen complications or anything like that. I know what product I'm getting from in Ganyu at that point Certainly, I think he's worth considering pivoting off of as well The one place I would not pivot off of is to Calvin Cater I think Cater is $19 on Fandle, correct me if I have that wrong. He's 18. Yeah. So yeah, he's 18. So Calvin Cater He's a tremendously technical fighter probably looking at a decision win there And so because Cater because Cater's never really trying to knock you out. He's trying He's a very technical striker Well, it tries to out point his opponent sometimes in the process of brutalizing them They do get knocked out but he's really mostly trying to point and win decisions That's a place I wouldn't go but any type of knockout potential is certainly something you could argue Making a case for the MVP slot. That's really what you want either one a first round knockout in your MVP slot Or you want just some sort of brutalization that that encompasses over a hundred significant strikes If you take down attempts where really the opponent was just largely outclass the problem is This bike card because of the long layoff because of the quarantine stuff the matchups are too good to really have that large of a disparity You'll see you'll see odds as high as minus 1,000 on some cards But you saw only largest favorite a span at minus 440. So the fights are all pretty tight You had mentioned Rosenstreich potentially getting exposure to the other side of the Ingani imagine He's only $10 if you want to go that way on fangirl as well Any mid-tier fighters who stand out to you potentially better than what their salaries would indicate? Well, you take a look if you're brand new to MMA Maybe you play NFL DFS and that's why you happen to be lurking around fangirl these parts Draft just happen you're looking for some sports stuff. You might remember former Panthers and Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy He's blackballed. Yeah, he's blackball.  He's very polarizing and Hardy draws viewers to the television That's why he's had a spot on pay-per-view cards despite being relatively untested as an MMA fighter And the thing that's interesting about Hardy is that he's actually had a better MMA career than somebody probably would have expected His last effort was actually his best. He lost to Alexander Volkov, but Alexander Volkov is a ranked heavyweight He's number seven in the entire world and he stood toe to toe to him and he definitely lost his fight He lost the decision, but he looked like he belonged in that fight. It didn't look like he was outclassed in any way He he toasted Juan Adams as well and was on his way to doing that to Ben Sassoli before an illegal need disqualified Hardy from the fight So, you know, he takes on Jorgen de Castro in this fight I have all of two minutes of date on Jorgen de Castro He made his MMA debut last fight against Justin Tafa and knocked him out cold Again, these guys are back at heavyweight, which is a really a fan favorite because you have the shorter potential there You have bigger guys hitting harder Hardy though, I have some date on and he's an efficient striker 4.77 significant strikes per minute as pronounced athletic advantages A lot of that coming from, you know, being an NFL body fighting in MMA four inches of height He'll have on on de Castro He'll have 15 pounds and at least six inches of reach at heavyweight and I think he's gonna be quicker too He's training with American top team, which is one of the top MMA gyms in the country So, you know, he'll be even better than he was against Volkov And if the guy that fought Volkov shows up to fight a prospect like Jorgen de Castro, Greg Hardy is gonna be in for a very successful evening It's just he they're not on the level of ranked heavyweights yet And so Hardy might be trending that direction though. And so that's interesting for the former NFL player Interesting anybody else in that range who you really like if I would rather lose money than use Greg Hardy You mentioned I guess like Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaetje are kind of in this range, too Are they the other guys who kind of stand out to you around here? Yeah, absolutely. I think also in this rain, which are range what you could be looking at is I Certainly kind of targeting a kind of higher volume fight between Donald Cowboy Seroni and Anthony Showtime Pettis You certainly because of the potential lack of defense involved both Unfortunately have had their Kate faces caved in their their longtime MMA stars But the lack of defense makes for a potential large striking output I'll have plenty of exposure to both signs of that match up as well I think I think you look at a guy who's a slight favorite as well kind of like Hardy is a joker a Suza He's facing Uriah Holland in a matchup that I can't quite put my finger on stylistically in that Jockery is a he's a Brazilian kickboxer So he mostly likes to work at range with his legs and Uriah Hall He picks a new style every time he's in the Arctic on it It certainly plays to his level of competition in that he'll perform really well If he gets a higher ranked fighter and then he's lost had some bad losses over the course of his career So if you don't if you'd rather lose money than play Greg Hardy, those are a couple So you can kind of look at in that same type of balanced pricing tier. Yeah, jacada Suza If you're looking for him on UFC stats certain to that name and the fan to a player pool He's under Ronaldo, which caused me a lot of confusion on Friday Eventually, so we're working on it. What about value plays you talked before about like Dominic Cruz potentially fitting there He's $12. Is he the main value option for you on this late? Yeah, certainly Like like I said, you know, if if I had a and I'm not an odds maker for a very good reason But if I had looked at this fight stylistically and I checked all the boxes about physical advantages higher IQ level of competition Really, the only thing Dominic Cruz is missing his recent footage or form You know if we had a fight from six months ago and he looked even 90% of himself He'd probably be a minus 250 favorite over a guy like Henry Soho that he's much bigger than we just I think the Unknown there. The assumption is ring rust. He's gonna be worse than the last time we saw him, but I keep going back to When George St. Pierre came out of retirement to fight Michael Bisping Michael Bisping liked guy Questionable level champ, you know, we weren't sure of his path to the belt That's I get those same type of vibes with sehudo George St. Pierre came out of retirement We were worried about the rust there and he really quickly dispensed of Bisping because there were levels to the fighting game there And I feel like something similar is going to happen with Dominic Cruz where I really feel like he's the one to build around Against sehudo you have the five round floor there as well since it's a longer fight with Cruz So even if he ends up taking a tough decision, you have the the baseline points there in cash or lower-stakes tournaments So I'm really building around Cruz primarily a couple of underdog options to keep your eye on as well though It's in a couple of prelim fights. These won't be on the pay-per-view card. They'll be before on ESPN plus Michelle Watterson, her nickname the karate hottie. She's been floating around the women. Yeah, great nickname, right? She she's been floating around the women's MMA title picture for a while now Incredibly well-rounded fighter you take a look. She's facing Karla Esparza Karla Esparza. She's five two and which is the Which is an incredibly tiny for a hundred and twenty five pound fighter She let usually attacks likes to wrestle and water since more of a striker at distance You can see that with her three point three five strikes per minute as far as is only at two point two two Which is very very low And so I I feel like Watterson with her physical advantages. She's a couple inches taller She'll have probably a weighted advantage realistically inside the octagon They'll both weigh in at a hundred and fifteen Watterson will probably be bigger when she rehydrates I feel like as far as is gonna have a tough time controlling her with her wrestling like she usually tries to do and the level of Competition hasn't been close Watterson's been fighting Joanna J check her on the title picture Esparza just barely got by Alexa Grasso in her last fight, which is which is lower end of the top ten So I like the competition disparity there Watterson's actually an underdog. She's only $13 on fan duel The only reason why I'm not pulling the trigger on her They're like I would a guy like cruises. I'm a little worried about the low scoring potential Just over time women's women's fights usually see have less fantasy points and the reason why they're more technical They're but they're better quality mixed martial arts But it's not it's not quite the same fantasy points as a first round knockout or just a brutalization of the other dude But so that's why I'm a little trepidatious, but I really like Watterson to win outright Especially I think I think last check on them on the odds on Friday.  They both might be playing whole 18 together But we're doing we he was knocked out cold last fight by Alex Volkov Greg Hardie's last opponent as well Align it actually beat a much lesser opponents in Marie screen. I don't really know what physical condition I'm getting either fighter in at this point at 42 years old But what I do know is that a line it has a style I can trust He is nicknames the boa constrictor because he actually throws punches to set himself up for opportunities to just simply get his Hands on you and as soon as he gets his hands on you He's got an 80 inch reach for a 205 pound person, which is it which is a gigantic year That's what you're looking at with an NFL defensive and pterodactyl exactly Yeah, and and so what he's doing is he really tries to get a submission attempt there And so I think that we're doomed at 42 years old isn't gonna have the athleticism to keep his hands off of him And so you'll get a line if he's only $9 in the fan to a player pool But what I'm talking about is that if he can get his hands on him and somehow get a first-round submission win Then obviously you're looking at least at least a hundred and seven fan to a points out of $9 That's tremendous value if Olinik everything goes according to plan problem is in his last five fights He has gotten that submission three times. He's also gotten his skull cracked in twice So it's kind of a it's a two outcome fight here But I like Olinik's chances against the athleticism ridden Verdume in that fight as well and this shows a value of pulling those stats from USC stats.com because that fighting style shows up In the stats he's he has the most submission attempt for 15 minutes and then he fired her on the entire card He is also second or third in takedowns for 15 minutes So like that shows up in the stats So it's kind of nice to have that crutch to lean on if you're like me and know nothing about the style of these Fighters Olinik nine dollars plus two sixty on the money line there anything else on this slate Austin We have not covered yet I think we've gotten some quality options in each tier but anything else you want to add here Yeah You know the card because of because of the long lay off the card is loaded with absolutely great matchups If you're a fight fan or or new to fighting you're gonna let a lot of different tastes of different styles The fight should be very close which it which is good You don't want a bunch of fights where it's kind of a non non competitive three-round beating Down you know you take a look we talked a little bit about a guy like John Gray Suze against your eye I talked I don't really stylistically know what I'm getting from a guy like your eye a haul or what the fight's gonna look like I'm fascinated, but there's also a potential they just lead potential They just lead on each other and I get less than 50 points from both fighters So you fade a fight you kind of fade a fight like that I think certainly it'll be very intriguing that we have two title fights with very very live underdogs So that should absolutely a play to the interest of this card as well I'm very fascinated by the Fandall scoring system I think that they covered pretty much any statistics or Basises that you could have in an MMA fight. So you're not really Behold into one type of style you can get points with a submission artist You can also get points with a striker on their feet as well So a very very intrigued to see how it's gonna go and and I'm very excited to see some real life human sports again That's for sure. I am as well. It'll be great like having the WNBA and the NFL draft is fun I've enjoyed the discourse around those however Actual sports which involves actual stuff happening. I am very much pumped for and it will be a whole lot of fun That is Austin Swame Make sure you find him on twitter at aswame3 his helper for this card will be up. I believe you said thursday, right? Absolutely. Yeah, I got one more thing. Yeah, I'm a born and born and raised Denver native Very excited. We were the 14th state to to lead live sports betting here and open up Fandall sports book And a lot of things like that. So very proud of my state legislatures and uh, very happy about that development Absolutely, very happy day. It's a good time to be Austin Swain. That's for sure Uh, man, and you just get this perfectly with like UFC and NASCAR coming back. Absolutely I might need to visit With proper social distancing being taken into account as well Let's make sure you follow Austin on twitter at aswame3 again to a NASCAR ufc and nba over at numberfire.com I am Jim Sonnis combined me on twitter at Jim Sonnis j i m s a n n e s You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to Calvin Theobald our video producer for one of the videos side of things here today Thank you Cal as always and thank you to everyone for tuning in. Hopefully you can enjoy this ufc card because There are a lot more coming up. We'll have NASCAR podcasts next week pump for that It's gonna be a whole lot of fun. We'll talk to you then. This has been heat check fantasy podcast powered by numberfire