Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has promised to restructure Nigeria and return it to true federalism by 2021, as well as reform the police, healthcare, education, and the energy sector if he is elected president in 2019.
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 yesterday, 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. 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.
