Professor Kingsley Moghalu announces 2019 presidential bid under Young Progressive Party (YPP)

Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, the 2019 presidential candidate and 
former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has announced his 
intention to contest under the umbrella of the Young Progressive Party 
(YPP).

Moghalu called for a bold response among Nigerians to join the party so 
as to usher in a new leadership and political order in the country.

The former United Nations official made the announcement as he declared 
his formal entry into the party during an event at the Nicon Luxury 
Hotel, Abuja today, 24 May, 2018.

Speaking on his aspiration, the presidential candidate explained that 
despite invitations from various political parties to contest the 2019 
election, his vision for a radically new political leadership for 
Nigeria – one with a vision and the capacity to build a new and 
different future for the country – led to an automatic choice to 
separate himself from the old order of failed and recycled politicians 
that have run Nigeria aground with poverty, insecurity and corruption as 
its national legacy.

“Would the party I join share my vision of leadership as one of service 
and accountability? Would it be focused on the youth and our future 
while inclusive in its membership? Would it be nationwide in its spread 
and appeal as opposed to an ethnic or sectional focus? And would the 
party, from the standpoint of electoral strategy, be a viable platform 
with a structure to prosecute the struggle for a New Nigeria that is 
focused on the future and not the past?” he asked, raising several 
points on his decision to join the new party.

Professor Moghalu explained that due to these reflections, the Young 
Progressive Party became the right choice for him, a decision further 
re-emphasized through detailed consultation, a wide-ranging accumulation 
of data and information across the country and across a series of 
hard-nosed operatives, thinkers and doers.

“The Young Progressive Party is a great dare, a tantalizing promise, a 
notice of evacuation to Nigeria’s recycled political class. So I am here 
today to announce that in response to the parties of the past, in 
response to umbrellas that block out the light of hope, and brooms that 
sweep away truth and replace them with lies, in response to the parties 
of tired old tricks and tired old systems and tired old men, I and 
millions across Nigeria will choose the Young Progressive Party – YPP – 
the party of today and tomorrow,” he said.

Calling on all Nigerians of voting age to join the party, the Young 
Progressive Party presidential flagbearer beckoned to those who are 
tired of the status quo to also contest under the party in order to work 
collectively and address Nigeria’s socio-economic issues.

“The Young Progressive Party has over the past year set up full and 
final structures – extensive offices, with an extensive pool of party 
officials, operatives, volunteers across the country. This is a 
grassroots-oriented party. Matched with our historic network and cell 
leaders across Nigeria in every one of the 6 geo-political zones of the 
country, this is a union made in possibilities,” he stated.

Describing it as a powerful symbol of the revolutionary campaign he has 
chosen to run, Professor Moghalu called on Nigerians to act on their 
dissatisfaction by disgracing those who believe that Nigeria belongs to 
them and join him in order to remake the political realities of the 
country, and choose the path that represents immense possibilities and 
solutions for the suffering masses.