A presidential aspirant of the Young Progressive Party’s (YPP), Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has described as inconsequential, the mass defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
He said the two parties were the same and that the defection would have no effect on the leadership of the nation.
According to a statement by his spokesman, Jide Akintunde, all that Nigeria needed was a break from the past in terms of leadership.
That, he said, would mean getting someone new for the leadership and doing things differently.
“It is time for someone new, someone different, someone bold,” he said.
He therefore advised Nigerians to get their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to bring about “a new independence; an independence from poverty and tribalism in Nigeria.”
Moghalu also stated that he would be waiting to receive President Buhari’s concession call on 17 February, 2019, as he emphasized that the country was due for a holistic change in leadership.
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The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria made the statement during the ‘To Build a Nation’ (TBAN) town hall meeting held at Banquet Hall, Arewa House in Kaduna on Thursday.
The presidential aspirant also decried the failure of the government to secure lives and properties of the citizenry, stating that “the number one duty that any government should provide for its people is to make them feel safe.”
He further highlighted his intention to increase the police workforce from 350,000 to 1,500,000 when elected.
Moghalu, the founder of the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET) ― a public policy think tank focused on contributing evidence-based solutions to help Nigeria and other African countries achieve inclusive growth and prosperity, revealed that, when elected as President, the country’s economy will run on innovation as “the secret of the wealth and prosperity of the western world is built on through innovation.”
Citing economic case studies of China, Malaysia and Dubai, the YPP presidential aspirant said Nigeria needs a nation builder, suitable economic policies, and appropriate national ambition to restore its global position.
“We have no one to blame for the poverty of this country other than our political rulers. It is in their favour for us to be poor so that every four years they can come and buy our votes,” said Moghalu.
He highlighted his plans to transform Nigeria through the implementation of a new curriculum that is technologically driven; the provision of a 1 trillion naira venture capital fund to enable the provision of jobs; and the establishment of vocational skills training centres in all 774 local government areas of Nigeria.
