PRESIDENTIAL POLL: Moghalu writes off Atiku, faces Buhari

Presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has expressed confidence he would defeat candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari.

Moghalu said he was going to defeat Buhari because Nigerians are “tired of recycled politicians” adding that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is not an option in the coming election.

He stated this at a town hall meeting themed “The Candidates” and organised by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and DARIA media in Abuja.

He said, “We will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari and the reason is very simple, Nigerians are tired of recycled politicians and the PDP is not an option.”

According to him, “Going for the PDP from the APC is like jumping from frying pan to fire.”

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He told the audience that if he emerges next president that his government would attack the root cause of corruption in Nigeria, which is the broken value system in the country.

He said that “no matter what we do, as long as we do not have a philosophical foundation, we cannot make progress.”

He also said if elected president, he’ll introduce the teaching of ethics in schools and ensure transparency in the budgetary system and the process of awarding of contracts.

The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said that he would ensure forensic checks in the process to enhance transparency, adding that if anybody commits a crime, the law must take its cause irrespective of creed or political party.

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