Kingsley Moghalu wins Young Progressive Party’s Presidential Primary Ticket
Professor Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, today emerged winner of the Young Progressive Party (YPP)
presidential ticket for the 2019 elections during the party’s national convention and presidential primaries, which held in Abuja on Saturday,
8 September, 2018.
With other candidates for the party’s nomination stepping down from the race on the eve of the convention, the former United Nations official
was officially declared the party’s flagbearer to contest for the Nigerian presidency against the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari on
16 February, 2019 and other candidates.
Speaking after the primaries, Professor Moghalu stressed the importance of putting the concerns of Nigerians at the forefront of the political
debate. Moghalu said that the 2019 election will be “a choice between freedom and slavery under our current political class, between poverty
and real prosperity for Nigerians, and between stability and continuing instability of our country.”
“Right now, our politicians, having fed fat on our resources, are exercising by practicing ‘jumpology’, jumping between the APC and the PDP—which only tells us one thing: that neither party nor people matter. In the end, all they care about is what is best for their pockets or their safety from prosecution. It is up to us to make the case that their way does not work anymore; that it has only left us in poverty and insecurity; that it has led to many fleeing this country because they feel there is nothing for them and their children here,” said Moghalu.
The candidate also emphasized the need for Nigerians to ignore the prevalent thinking that things cannot get better, or wishing for political messiahs who promise to set everything right, stating that there are no magic wands but just him, the members of the Young Progressive Party and every Nigerian working to truly transform Nigeria.
