Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from 2009 to 2014, says he is consulting widely to run for the Presidency in 2019.
Moghalu told political correspondents in Lagos that the time has come for technocrats, intellectuals and the experienced to take the power of career politicians saying he would not be deterred from participating in the race, despite rumors that to the presidency. Moghalu argued that politics in Nigeria should be decribalized so that the most populous nation in Africa will grow up and take its rightful place in the courtesy of nations insisting that the zoning used by the major political parties is relevant by the past. was no longer necessary because jurisdiction should be placed above the tribe in present-day Nigeria. The former head of the CBN said the first part of the progress for Nigeria is that people start thinking differently and beyond the tribe by choosing who would lead them.
“It is the turn of any competent Nigerian to aspire for the post of the presidency because career politicians have failed Nigeria,” he declared.
“Zoning was an internal arrangement by political parties that was not constitutional. It should no longer matter where the president comes from.
“The future of Nigeria rests in technocratic interventions. We need thinking people that will take Nigeria from the politics of stomach infrastructure to politics of mental infrastructure.”
Speaking on a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari, Moghalu said that the President had the constitutional rights to seek re-election.
“I don’t fathom how anyone can say the president should not run for a second term. It is his choice, the decision on who becomes Nigeria’s president in 2019 rests with Nigerians,” he said.
On the nation’s economy, the economist pointed out that “the economy was in a delicate situation before the present administration” adding that “the handling of the forex crisis though was misguided.”
He said Nigeria must look beyond continued dependence on oil and encourage independent institutions to flourish saying “the drop in oil prices actually affected the value of our currency but government should have simply allowed the naira to find its true value which would have reduced the inflation rate.”
Moghalu, a political economist, lawyer and a former United Nations official, advised Nigerians to eschew docility and become more forceful in demanding accountability from their leaders at all levels of governance.Räägi sõbrale... #AFRICA ... spill TEA ABOUT THE TOPIC ABOVE.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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