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  • Moghalu joins new party in quest to become Nigeria’s president

    Moghalu joins new party in quest to become Nigeria’s president

    In his quest to become the President of Nigeria, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has joined a new political party.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prof. Moghalu on Friday in Abuja announced his decision to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to pursue his presidential ambition in 2023.

    Moghalu, who also a lawyer and political economist, was a presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 presidential election.

    He left the YPP in October 2019 and did not join any other party since then.

    “I am pleased to announce to you today that I have joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC) which I feel ideologically aligned with. I am honoured to become a card-carrying member of the party.

    “In doing so, I restate my public announcement on June 1, 2021, making myself available to lead our country as a competent, 21st century president and my intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election.

    “I look forward to close collaboration with the party’s chairman, Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu, Alhaji Said Abdullahi, the ADC National Secretary and the National Executive Committee, and Chair of its Board of Trustees among others,’’ he told a news conference.

    He added that his desire was to take Nigeria higher and make her the envy of other nations if he becomes the president.

    Moghalu noted that since its founding, in 2005 to date, including in the 2019 general election in which the ADC presented the late Dr Obadiah Mailafia as its presidential candidate, the party had remained consistent.

    He said the ADC had remained consistent in its commitment to the emergence of true democracy in Nigeria and to the role of belief, passion and idea in nation building.

    “The party has shunned `food-is-ready’ and divisive ethno-centric politics,’’ Moghalu stressed.

    According to him, Nigeria’s big political parties have failed Nigerians and voting for them again in 2023 will amount to a waste of votes.

    Moghalu said the ADC remained a key player in the efforts to create a new and bigger platform through merger of several political parties to take over power in 2023 to begin the work of rebuilding the country.

    He said he had been part of a group of individuals and political parties working towards the emergence of a “Third Force’’ in the country’s political space.

    He added that Nigerians were tired of the failure of traditional politics and were waiting eagerly for the emergence of such platform.

    “For the party’s growth and expansion in the months ahead, I ask all my political supporters, including those aspiring to be elected to gubernatorial positions and the national and state legislatures to join the ADC,’’ Moghalu said.

    While welcoming Moghalu to the party, Nwosu said he had returned to where he truly belonged.

    “He has found his way to where he truly belongs; our handshake as a party cuts across regions and sentiments and we will together build a better Nigeria for all.

    “We welcome you proudly because you are a distinguished Nigerian. We need servants and dedicated leaders like you to lead this country’’ the ADC chairman said.

    He added that the ADC had been working with other political parties and institutions to achieve its desire of enthroning a better Nigeria.

    TNG reports Moghalu had remained an influential voice on national issues, including the economy, nation-building and governance.

    He was recently identified as one of the leaders of an emerging “Third Force’’.

    He recently served as the Special Envoy of the UN on Post-COVID Development Finance for Africa.

    Moghalu’s new party fielded Prof. Pat Utomi as its candidate at the 2007 presidential election.

  • Why I want to run for president in 2023 – Moghalu

    Why I want to run for president in 2023 – Moghalu

    Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, the 2019 presidential candidate of Young Progressive Party (YPP) has said he will run for presidency again in 2023.

    Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who had announced shortly after the 2019 presidential election that he had resigned from the YPP and had also quit partisan politics, said this in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday.

    Explaining he changed his mind to join active politics again, Moghalu said: “My decision to re-contest the top seat is driven by concern for the youth and to seek a clearer alternative to the status quo that would tackle challenges currently facing the nation.”

    He said he would not run on the platform of YPP but would decide and join in the next few months, a party of his choice.

    Moghalu said he would run on a four-point agenda which he code-named ‘SWAG.’

    “SWAG means Security for all Nigerians and Nigeria’s territory; War against poverty: skills, jobs for our youths and an innovation economy; Accelerated education and healthcare reform; Good governance: inclusive, transparent, effective and accountable,” he said.

    He said if elected, he would run a government with a team of highly competent Nigerians from all parts of the country.

    “Along with strengthened, independent institutions, we will deliver results on a 4 point agenda in four years,” he said.

    Moghalu tasked the National Assembly to pass necessary electoral reforms into law just as he canvassed for diaspora voting.

    “Our votes must count and be counted transparently. The amendments should include a provision for Diaspora Nigerians to be able to register and vote in all elections in Nigeria from abroad,” he said.

    Moghalu asked for support of all compatriots noting that the energy and support of the youth, middle class, entrepreneurs and compatriots in diaspora was needed.

  • 2019: YPP presidential candidate, Moghalu opens up on how his votes were ‘stolen, suppressed and diverted’

    The presidential candidate of the Youth Progressive Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, has said the party’s votes were “stolen, suppressed and diverted” on February 23.

    In his first major post-election press interview, Moghalu told The Interview that his party had “many credible indications” of the electoral fraud.

    He said he was targeted by those who felt threatened by his message, as a result of which they launched a wave of fake news attacks that he had stepped down for the two front-runners.

    “I was the only presidential candidate targeted with such fake news campaign a few days to the election,” he said. “The campaigns depressed our votes because many people in the Northern states (Buhari’s voting base) and the Southern states (Atiku’s voting base) believed it.”

    He, however, indicated that he would not challenge the result of the election in court, saying, “the question of going to court is neither here nor there,” and might have made sense if YPP came second.

    He said his focus will be to campaign for electoral reforms, adding that even though he was disappointed by the result of the election, it was a reflection of the mindset of Nigerians.

    “Anyone that complains,” he said, “should first look in the mirror. Did you vote? If so, for who? The status quo or for something new, different and bold?”

    He also spoke on the lessons he learnt from the campaign, the highs and the lows, and the endorsement he received from Noble Laureate, Wole Soyinka.

  • Ifeanyi Ubah dumps YPP for APC

    The Young Peoples Party (YPP) Senator-elect, in Anambra State, Ifeanyi Ubah, has dumped his party for the All Progressives Congress, APC.

    Ubah had often debunked reports that he had dumped his party, but his membership of APC was confirmed by Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the APC on Monday.

    Oshiomhole had announced Ubah’s membership of the ruling party at a meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with APC senators-elect in Aso Rock on Monday night.

    At a press conference on Friday, Ubah had said: “I am not yet ready to defect from the YPP. I am still in the YPP. In party business, you can’t determine what would happen next. Sometimes you wake up and you will start seeing one problem or the other. For me today, I am in the YPP and I hope to remain in the party.

    “The YPP is bringing a revolution of change to Nigeria. I must join a progressive group in the Senate since I cannot be alone. The YPP is the party to beat in this country. I won my election without the party having an office in any part of Anambra State.”

    According to The Cable, Governors present at the meeting were Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) and Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara).

    Others were Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe), Kashim Shettina (Borno), and Gboyega Oyetala (Osun).

  • 2019: No automatic ticket for defecting aspirants – YPP

    2019: No automatic ticket for defecting aspirants – YPP

    Comrade Chibuzor Onyije, Chairman of the Young People’s Party (YPP) in Enugu State, has said that there will be no automatic ticket to anybody defecting to contest for any position under the party platform.
    Speaking to newsman in Enugu on Thursday, Onyije made it clear that the party would stick to the best way of choosing qualified and credible candidates for the elections.
    “We have lots of people defecting to our party with intention of getting an automatic ticket to contest under the umbrella of our party.
    “YPP is not a money seeking party and cannot give any individual an automatic ticket because we believe and value our integrity.
    “We are taking over every position we are going to file a candidate because I believe that we are going to have the best of aspirants.
    “This party has the best of all others and you will see a paradigm shift as YPP has come to stay and designed to serve generation upon generation.
    He said that many people have picked the party forms for the House of Assembly and House of Representatives adding that it would hold its primaries on Oct. 6.
    “By tomorrow, we are going to come up with the list of candidates for each position and on Saturday the party primary election will take place at our secretariat,’’ Onyije said.
    He said that there had been massive registration of people who were defecting from other political parties apparently for failure to secure tickets to contest.
    Onyije noted that in any position the party failed to produce a credible candidate, it had no other option than to support any credible and people’s choice candidate from other party.

  • 2019: Kingsley Moghalu declares for YPP

    Presidential aspirant, Kingsley Moghalu, has on Thursday announced he will be contesting the 2019 presidential elections under the Young Progressive Party (YPP).

    Making the announcement, the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said, “It is time to change the narrative of our politics”.

    Read full statement:

    Having announced my aspiration to contest for election to the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on February 28, 2018, and faced in recent months with invitations from various political parties as potential platforms to contest the 2019 election for that high office, I thought carefully before making a choice.

    I thought about why I have joined politics — the imperative of a radically new political leadership for Nigeria, one with a vision and the capacity to build a new and different future for our country. That meant almost automatically that I would not be part of the old order of failed and recycled politicians that have run our country aground with poverty, insecurity and corruption as our national legacy.

    I also considered what I bring to this quest: love and passion for our country and its suffering masses, my leadership track record in nation-building as a senior official of the United Nations for 17 years, in economic management and economic thought as a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and as Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at the prestigious Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, and my extensive experience and vast networks in international diplomacy and global business.

    I therefore decided that I want to be part of a peaceful, democratic revolution that will usher in a new leadership and political order in our country.

    Would the party I would 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 nation-wide 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?

    Once I was done with thinking all this through, I knew I was ready — I knew I had to choose the Young Progressive Party. Because it answered my questions in the affirmative. The rest was detail, consultation, and 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.

    I weighed the case against casting my lot with this party. I heard some cynicism: ‘it hasn’t been done before’. And then I heard this: ‘Politicians will not take you seriously’.

    As they will undoubtedly come to see, the cynics are on the wrong side of history. I want to be part of that army that proves our hopes right and our fears wrong. Great leaders often take their countries and their followers along uncharted waters. They arrive at successful transformations made possible by the will to BELIEVE in possibilities. That belief has to be backed by the courage to act on their convictions.

    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.

    This is, importantly, an organizational choice. 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.

    There is also the symbolism, and there is no more powerful symbol of the kind of campaign that we have chosen to run. Rather than cast my lot with those who have brought Nigeria to its knees, I choose to make a bold statement: I choose to cast my lot with the youth of Nigeria. Not just by words, but by action.

    Ladies and gentlemen of our beloved country, our time has finally come.

    Our excuses have finally met their match in action, our dreams have finally found expression, our energies have finally found a machine.

    The time has come for you to stop complaining about Nigeria from your office canteen. The time has come for you to stop complaining about Nigeria from the comfort of your school hostel. The time has come for you. If you have been looking for a platform party with the machinery to disgrace those who believe Nigeria belongs to them, the Kingsley Moghalu Support Organization (KIMSO) and the Volunteers of our To Build a Nation (TBAN) Movement, together with the Young Progressive Party is the full and final answer to your question.

    I need you. I need every single Nigerian of voting age to join this party. I need you who are tired of the way Nigeria is run to pick up a form and join this party. And then if you want to run for office — and you should, if you have the capacity — then I also need you to pick up a form and contest for office. We need those who want to shake up the House of Representatives, to shake up the House of Assembly and shake up our Local Government councils across Nigeria to join us now, and to work with us to execute our plans.

    I chose this party because I want to inspire Nigerians to look to the future and not to the past. Without your help though, without your active involvement — without you choosing this very minute to go to www.yppnigeria.com.ng or a party location near you, pick up a form that you can fill in just 10 minutes, and join this party, then it will not happen.

    This is not about me. This is not about the Young Progressive Party. This is not about my colleagues. This is not even about the presidency. This is about you. This is about changing the way politics is done in this country. This is about transforming the kinds of candidates and elections we have in this country. This is about dramatically increasing the quality of the hands and minds that stand for election and become your leaders.

    Today, I have made a stand for Nigeria and for its future. And today I wait for you — to put your action where your mouth is. Now.

    Not tomorrow. Not next time. Not later, fellow Nigerian, now.

    Join me in the difficult work that stands ahead of us as we seek to contend with and then remake the political realities of this country and the path that we must take to show Nigerians that it is possible. It can be done.

    Let’s get to work.

     

  • 2019: INEC issues certificate of registration to APDA, YPP, 3 others

    2019: INEC issues certificate of registration to APDA, YPP, 3 others

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued certificate of registration to the five newly registered political parties in Nigeria.

    The parties are; Young Progressive Party (YPP), Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), New Generation Party of Nigeria (NGP), All Democratic Peoples Movement (ADPM) and Action Democratic Party (ADP).

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that INEC had last week announced the registration of the new parties.

    This brings to 45, the number of registered political parties in the country.

    Adedeji Soyebi, INEC’s Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made the disclosure at the end of the commission’s meeting in Kaduna.

    “At present, 95 associations have applied to the commission for registration as political parties. Two of the associations voluntarily withdrew their applications.

    “The commission today approved the applications of five of the associations which have fulfilled the constitutional requirements for registration,” Soyebi said.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the electoral umpire also announced its decision to register more political parties before the 2019 elections.

    The commission stated that the process of registering new political parties would continue until six months to the conduct of the next general elections as stipulated under the law.

    It added that the registration of the five new political parties was not final, noting that any political association that meets its requirements will be registered.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Founder of Daar Communications and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Raymond Dokpesi, alongside other notable politicians recently floated a new political party the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance, APDA.