BREAKING: Moghalu Officially Declares For 2019 Presidency

Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has declared his intentions to run for the Presidency in the 2019 general elections.

Moghalu made the announcement on Wednesday while speaking at the ‘The Bullion Lecture 2018’, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The professor and current President of the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation had revealed earlier in the month that he was consulting widely to run for the presidency in next year’s election.

According to him, the time had come for technocrats, intellectuals and experienced people to take power from Nigeria’s career politicians.

Mr. Moghalu, who did not disclose the political party he will contest, 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.

“I am taking this stand here and now because Nigeria today is divided by ethnic and religious conflicts, made worse by corruption. The government of the day has failed in its very first duty in securing our lives and citizens and we have lost our place in the world.

“The time has come for us to fix this mess,” he said on Wednesday.

The Bullion lecture is organised by the Centre for Financial Journalism (CFJ Nigeria), under the leadership of Ray Echebiri.

It is a platform “for lively discourse on national and international issues and is always delivered by first-rate academics and professionals,” said Echebiri.

Mr. Moghalu, who served as CBN deputy governor from 2009 to 2014, is a political economist, lawyer and a former United Nations official.

He was also a professor of practice in international business and public policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, U.S.

Born on May 7, 1963, Mr. Moghalu is a graduate of the London School of Economics. He also read Political Science at the University of Nigeria Nsukka.