lagos—A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu has announced that he is consulting widely to run for the presidency in 2019.
Moghalu told journalists in Lagos yestrday that time had come for technocrats, intellectuals and experienced people to take power from Nigeria’s career politicians.
Kingsley Moghalu
He said he would not be deterred from joining the race, in spite of speculations that 2023 was the year slated for Igbos to have a shot at the presidency.
Moghalu argued that politics in Nigeria should be detribalised for Africa’s most populous nation to grow and take its rightful place in the comity of nations.
“It is the turn of any competent Nigerian to aspire for the post of presidency because career politicians have failed Nigeria,” he said.
He said zoning, which had been used by the major political parties, might have been relevant in the past but that it was no longer necessary because competence should be placed above tribe in present day Nigeria.
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