Politics
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.