2019: How I Will Transform Nigeria – Moghalu

The presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, has revealed how he will transform Nigeria if elected president in 2019.

Moghalu made the revelation during an interview with newsmen in Abuja.

He said, “I am offering the Nigerian people a different type of leadership. I am offering the Nigerian people the possibility of transformational leadership in the nature of Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, of Mahathir Bin Mohamad of Malaysia and Jinping of China.

“My presidency will create an inclusive growth environment that will address the real questions of economic development. We will address the structure of the Nigerian economy by moving it away from dependence on crude oil rents.

“My economic blueprint will be an innovation economy in Nigeria, where inventions and innovations will drive the economy. We will invest in those inventions, pipe them into the markets and an economic boom will ensue, eventually,” he said.

“We will reform the education system through teacher training and curriculum reform towards technology, science, skills, and entrepreneurship to produce human capital that is competitive for an economy led by innovation, not by crude oil.

“We will reform how our young people learn to be more innovative, creative and original, rather than just cramming and reproducing stuff during exams.

We will invest in educational infrastructure. We will invest in education holistically by moving the budget from 7 per cent today to a minimum of 20 per cent in my first year in office, while healthcare will be 15 per cent.

“If you don’t have it (leadership), you cannot have an economic vision. If you don’t have an economic vision, you cannot have an effective economic policy. If you don’t have an effective economic policy, you cannot have a successful institutional and market framework for the economy.
“My presidency will be transformational because we will come with a philosophical foundation for the Nigerian economy.

“I believe we should be an entrepreneurial capitalist economy, that is to say, capitalism with a conscience; not that the government will totally remove its hand for the steering wheel and the rich will be getting richer and the poor will be getting poorer. No!” he said.