A former
presidential candidate, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has announced his intention
to vie for the top seat in the land in the forthcoming general elections.
Moghalu, declared his interest to join the 2023 presidential race in a
statement on Tuesday, about a year and nine months to the scheduled date of the
poll.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had fixed February
18, 2023, to conduct the elections.
While he contested the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the
Young Progressives Party (YPP), Moghalu said he would announce the political
party he would join within the next few months.
He also unveiled his SWAG Agenda for a 21st century Nigeria and sought the
support of those who were tired of the present situation in the country.
Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),
promised that if elected, he would run a government with a dream team of highly
competent Nigerians from all parts of the country.
Read the full statement below:
2023:
I WILL RUN BECAUSE WE THE PEOPLE MATTER
What
is the value of a Nigerian life?
We
live daily today under the shadow of terrorists. Our economy is collapsing.
Many families cannot afford the price of food. Millions of young men and women
have no jobs and have no hope.
Our
university students know more about ASUU strikes and long school closures than
any skills they need to be competitive in the world of the 21st century.
Only
the rich and powerful can access quality healthcare in our country or abroad as
medical tourists, because our health system, like most other systems, is
broken.
I
lost my father, Isaac Moghalu, in December 1998 because he had a stroke, but
the doctors were on strike, and therefore we could not get him adequate
healthcare on time.
Soon
after we found a private clinic and moved him there, he went into a coma and
passed on shortly afterward. I was heartbroken. Today, 23 years later, not much
has changed. Like many, I have suffered the effects of bad governance in our
country.
With
life in it increasingly nasty, brutish, and short, the very idea of Nigeria is
now almost meaningless to many Nigerians. Cries for self-determination fill the
air in response to fundamental injustice.
Meanwhile,
politics in Nigeria does not bring change, and its benefits go to only one
group – the political elite. Their message is loud and clear: we the people
—you and I – DO NOT matter.
The
bodies of Nigerians are buried in cold corners of foreign cemeteries, strewn
across the Sahara desert, and float in the Mediterranean Sea, as a consequence
of a non-existent leadership. Our country can no longer speak confidently in
the gathering of nations.
Life
as ordained by our Creator, that we may experience His Goodness in this land of
the living, has eluded us as a people.
Only
the emergence of visionary, competent and inclusive national leadership, on the
one hand, and a fundamental restructuring of Nigeria based on a new people’s
constitution, on the other, can arrest Nigeria’s ongoing disorderly and violent
degeneration into a completely failed state. We were not born to be miserable
and to die miserably. Enough is Enough!
It
is now more than ever necessary that we elect in 2023 a leader who is truly
committed and has the capacity to initiate the constitutional restructuring of
Nigeria. A leader who is competent to secure our lives and property,
successfully manage our diversity, save our economy, and restore our
international respect.
For
the sake of the youth of our country — including my four children — whose
future is being drowned in reckless foreign borrowing, and for the sake of all
Nigerians suffering and seeking a clear alternative to the status quo, I intend
— with all humility — to present myself — again — as a candidate for the Office
of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2023 general
elections.
If
elected, I will run a government with a dream team of highly competent
Nigerians from all parts of our country. Along with strengthened, independent
institutions, we will deliver results on a four-point agenda in four years (4
by 4):
—
Security for all Nigerians and Nigeria’s territory;
—
War against poverty: skills, jobs for our youth, and an innovation economy;
—
Accelerated education and healthcare reform;
—
Good governance: inclusive, transparent, effective, and accountable.
This
is my SWAG Agenda for a 21st century Nigeria. I seek the support of all
compatriots — of everyone who is tired of our present national situation. We
also need the energy and support of our youth, the middle class, entrepreneurs,
and our compatriots in the diaspora.
These
important segments of our population have in the past been reluctant to engage
actively in our electoral process, ostensibly because of the flaws in that
process.
The
National Assembly must now pass into law, without further delay, necessary
electoral reforms that will make democracy yield real dividends for Nigerians.
Our votes must count, and be counted transparently. The amendments should
include a provision for Diaspora Nigerians to be able to register and vote in
all elections in Nigeria from abroad.
I
am only one face of a movement. A movement of silent and suffering Nigerians
fed up with the insecurity, poverty, and a seemingly hopeless future for our
country. A movement that has decided that Enough is Enough.
That
movement, soon to be present in our numbers in every voting ward in Nigeria,
will announce within the next few months the political party we will join en
masse and seek its platform for the presidential, legislative, and
gubernatorial roles in governance.
We
can do this. We can change Nigeria.
Together,
let us walk this road to a Nigeria that, within 30 years of successive
administrations, will have achieved the kind of economic and technological
advancement attained by countries such as Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, South
Korea, and the United Arab Emirates within similar timeframes.
It
is possible. We only need to participate actively in the democratic process and
vote right when the time comes.
We
the Nigerian people matter. We the Nigerian people deserve better. Let’s do
this. Because we can and we must.
Signed
Kingsley
Chiedu Moghalu, Ph.D. OON FCIB
Ifekaego
Nnewi
June 1, 2021
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