Kingsley Moghalu. |
Former
Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and Presidential candidate
of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, Kingsley Moghalu has come out very strong
against the Federal Government over a statement credited to the Vice President,
Yemi Osinbajo, where he asked for the votes of the Yoruba nation in other to
secure their slots at the presidency come 20123.
Mr.
Moghalu took a swipe on the Vice President for vomiting such at the palace of
the Alafin of Oyo State, saying that the statement was a sad and disappointing
appeal to tribalism in leadership selection in the 21st century, especially
when it came from an educated personage as Prof. Osinbajo shows us why we must
turn our backs collectively on the recycled old politicians as represented by
the APC and PDP.
We
must say NO to tribalism and ethnic irredentism, Moghalu continued, the twin
evils that has caused much damage to our national unity, leaving us a broken
country when we should by now have become a real nation. If elected
President of Nigeria in 2019, my government will unify and heal Nigeria of
extreme tribalism by establishing a philosophical foundation of the Nigerian
state that will unite us around a common national ambition and a national
identity instead of tribal ones.
According
to him, Senior officials of the APC-led federal government have been peddling
ethnic identity politics in order to win bloc votes in the 2019 elections. Boss
Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has reportedly
assured the Igbo of the Southeast geo-political zone that they essentially will
be “granted” the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 if they vote to re-elect
President Buhari in 2019. And Raji Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and
Housing, has argued that the presidency should return to the Southwest in
2023.
This
duplicitous and primordial politics of the APC-led federal government,
alongside vague promises peddled by the PDP of an “Igbo presidency” in 2023 is
proof, assuming any was needed, that politicians from any part of our country
who believe that anyone will “grant” them their constitutional entitlement to
leadership aspiration in Nigeria and determine when their “turn” for national
political leadership has arrived, are living in a fool’s paradise. This
political inferiority complex could consign parts of Nigeria to second-class
political citizenship and hamper the realization of an inclusive democracy in
our country.
Our
old, recycled politicians, with their incompetence and their tired, divisive
politics, have failed. They have given us poverty instead of prosperity,
unemployment instead of jobs, and a comatose economy instead of the wealth of
nations in a globalized world. We must now reject them at the ballot box in
2019 and vote, based on merit and not the backward approach of “zoning” that
recycles mediocrity, for a modern leadership that can take our citizens out of
poverty and our country into the 21st century. The YPP presidential candidacy
has a plan – rather than a mere promise - to do just that, plus a plan to
execute the plan.
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