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Moghalu declares he’s in race for 2023 presidency
By John Eche
Former Deputy Governor of Nigeria’s apex bank, Professor Kingsley Moghalu has declared that he is in the race for the 2023 presidency.
In a series of tweets, the 2019 presidential aspirant affirmed that he is running because things are so bad in Nigeria and the country needs to be salvaged.
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2023: I will run because the people matter. There is no hope out of our troubles until Nigeria faces the leadership question and looks for capacity, competence, and a compassionate heart for the suffering poor.
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2023: I WILL RUN BECAUSE WE THE PEOPLE MATTER
1. What is the value of a Nigerian life?
2. We live daily today under the shadow of terrorists. Our economy is collapsing. Many families cannot afford the price of food. Millions of young men and women have no jobs and have no hope
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3. Our university students know more about ASUU strikes and long school closures than any skills they need to be competitive in the world of the 21st century.
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4. Only the rich and powerful can access quality healthcare in our country or abroad as medical tourists, because our health system, like most other systems, is broken. I lost my father, Isaac Moghalu, in December 1998 because he had a stroke but the doctors were on strike, and
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therefore we could not get him adequate healthcare on time.
5. Soon after we found a private clinic and moved him there, he went into a coma and passed on shortly afterwards. I was heartbroken. Today, 23 years later, not much has changed. Like many, I have suffered the
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effects of bad governance in our country.
6. With life in it increasingly nasty, brutish and short, the very idea of Nigeria is now almost meaningless to many Nigerians. Cries for self-determination fill the air in response to fundamental injustice.
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7. Meanwhile, politics in Nigeria does not bring change, and its benefits go to only one group – the political elite. Their message is loud and clear: we the people —you and I – DO NOT matter.
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8. The bodies of Nigerians are buried in cold corners of foreign cemeteries, strewn across the Sahara desert, and float in the Mediterranean Sea, as a consequence of a non-existent leadership. Our country can no longer speak confidently in the gathering of nations.
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9. Life as ordained by our Creator, that we may experience His Goodness in this land of the living, has eluded us as a people.
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10. Only the emergence of visionary, competent and inclusive national leadership, on the one hand, and a fundamental restructuring of Nigeria based on a new people’s constitution, on the other, can arrest Nigeria’s ongoing disorderly and violent degeneration into a completely
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failed state. We were not born to be miserable and to die miserable. Enough is Enough!
11. It is now more than ever necessary that we elect in 2023 a leader who is TRULY committed and has the capacity to initiate the constitutional restructuring of Nigeria.
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A leader who is competent to secure our lives and property, successfully manage our diversity, save our economy, and restore our international respect.
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12. For the sake of the youth of our country — including my four children — whose future is being drowned in reckless foreign borrowing, and for the sake of all Nigerians suffering and seeking a clear alternative to the status quo, I intend — with all humility — to present myself
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— again — as a candidate for the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2023 general elections.
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13. If elected, I will run a government with a dream team of highly competent Nigerians from all parts of our country. Along with strengthened, independent institutions, we will deliver results on a 4-point agenda in four years (4 by 4):
14. This is my SWAG Agenda for a 21st century Nigeria. I seek the support of all compatriots — of everyone who is tired of our present national situation. We also need the energy and support of our youth, the middle class, entrepreneurs, and our compatriots in the diaspora.
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These important segments of our population have in the past been reluctant to engage actively in our electoral process, ostensibly because of the flaws in that process.
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15. The National Assembly
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must now pass into law, without further delay, necessary electoral reforms that will make democracy yield real dividends for Nigerians. Our votes must count, and be counted transparently. The amendments should include a provision for
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Diaspora Nigerians to be able to register and vote in all elections in Nigeria from abroad.
16. I am only one face of a movement. A movement of silent and suffering Nigerians fed up with the insecurity, poverty, and a seemingly hopeless future for our country. A movement that
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has decided that Enough is Enough.
17. That movement, soon to be present in our numbers in every voting ward in Nigeria, will announce within the next few months the political party we will join en masse and seek its platform for the presidential, legislative and gubernatorial
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roles in governance.
18. We can do this. We can change Nigeria.
19. Together, let us walk this road to a Nigeria that, within 30 years of successive administrations, will have achieved the kind of economic and technological advancement attained by countries such as Israel,
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Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates within similar timeframes. It is possible. We only need to participate actively in the democratic process, and vote right when the time comes.
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20. We the Nigerian people matter. We the Nigerian people deserve better. Let’s do this. Because we can and we must.
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[Signed]
Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Ph.D. OON FCIB
Ifekaego Nnewi
June 1, 2021
http://Moghalu4Nigeria.org
http://kingsleymoghalu.com’
The aspirant has not indicated which party platform he is considering running on.
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu
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