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| Professor Kingsley Moghalu |
Moghalu,
the first aspirant from the Southeast zone to aspire for Nigerian presidency in
2019 made the declaration at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja a few
days ago, where he said a combination of military rule, oil booms and busts,
and successive leadership failures of the political class have robbed the
country of its dreamed greatness since independence.
The
presidential hopeful served as Chairman, Board of Directors of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) and
the Financial Institutions Training
Centre (FITC). He is also the founder and President of the Institute for Governance and Economic
Transformation (IGET), a new think tank based in Abuja. While he kept mute
over the political platform under which he intends to achieve his ambition
despite the fact that Nigeria’s current Electoral Law does not allow for
independent candidacy, Moghalu said, “My focus, for
now, is the people of Nigeria and not on party platforms that have in the past,
been mere vehicles for capturing political power.”
He
disclosed that several political parties had approached him but said the
movement he belongs would decide which of the party to join, saying, “Such decision would be based on commonality of vision and
the imperative of a generational shift in leadership, and we will announce this
in the coming weeks.I am standing here today saying that it is time we shatter
the downward spiral to nowhere. I am here today, standing with the 110 missing
girls of Dapchi and their grieving family, and with the traumatised young women
of Chibok, those with us and those still in captivity.
“I am here today standing with 180 million Nigerians, in addition to
thousands of businesses struggling to share a measly 4000MW of electricity. I
am here today standing with the 100 million Nigerians experiencing crushing
poverty, living on less than N300 a day. I am here today because 33 million of
our able men and women are unemployed or underemployed, nearly 15 million
children are out of school, and only 60 percent of Nigerians are literate.
“I am here today because our hospitals are understaffed and
mismanaged death traps, and women are still subjected to horrific prejudices and
devastating early marriages. I am taking this stand, here and now, because
Nigeria today is divided by ethnic and religious conflicts, made worse by
corruption.”
The
presidential hopeful added that the Nigerian government has failed to secure
the lives of citizens, and that the country has lost its place in the world. It
is time to fix these challenges. He said Nigerians are collectively exhausted
by the antics of politicians, who have continually fallen in and out of
alliances with one another and care nothing about the ordinary Nigerian, saying
that such politicians aggravate our fears in the hope that we will continue to
keep them in power even though they offer nothing new.
Describing
Nigeria as a nation of great people, Moghalu said what the country needed most
now is a committed movement of the people, by the people and most importantly
for the people to move the nation forward and break with its troubled past. The
former CBN deputy governor assured Nigerians he has the competence, capacity,
and character to lead the country and transformed it into a viable and strong
nation among the comity of nations, saying, “My
colleagues, mentors, friends, and family could vouch for my character.”
According
to him, “I am not here to tell you that there are
quick, easy solutions to our nation’s problems. Decades of economic and
leadership mismanagement could not be undone in a few short weeks or months.
Things will be difficult and painful but choices would have to be collectively
made. What I am here to tell you is that: together, we can choose a new path.
Together, we can set a bold agenda. Together, we can deliver for ourselves a
different outcome.”
The
financial mogul urged the Nigerian electorate not to sell their conscience or
their votes to politicians that have nothing to offer or those that have
offered the country nothing credible since 1999 when Nigeria returned to
democratic rule. He insisted that every Nigerian should take the coming general
election as a matter of must and a task that must be achieved to change the
destiny of the country for good, growth and development, saying, “The best way to achieve this is for every eligible and
qualified Nigerians to obtain their Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC), which is
their weapon and strength to change the country, to determine their future and
that of the coming generation.” (Punch)
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