2019: UPP Endorse Prof Kingsley Moghalu for President

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, political economist, lawyer and former United Nations official, is Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

He is the Founder of Sogato Strategies LLC, an emerging markets risk, strategy and macroeconomic advisory firm, and a Senior Adviser of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF).

He is also a Contributory Editor of Central Banking Journal. In 2016, Moghalu founded the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a think tank focused on the achievement of inclusive economic growth and effective public policy in developing countries.

Moghalu obtained an M.A. degree at The Fletcher School of Law of Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he was the Joan Gillespie Fellow and Research Assistant in the International Political Economy (IPE) Program, in 1992. He later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) at the University of London, UK, and the International Certificate in Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) in London. He is also an alumnus of advanced executive education programs in macroeconomics and financial sector management, corporate governance, and global strategic leadership at the International Monetary Fund Institute, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY (UPP)
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT, ABUJA

13th February, 2018

PRESS RELEASE

UPP ENDORSES KINGSLEY MUOGHALU

The leadership of the United Progressive Party (UPP) is delighted to read that Prof. Kingsley Muoghalu addressed the media in Lagos to announce his intention to contest for the President of Nigeria in the forthcoming presidential election.

UPP wishes to commend him for his courage and noble intention. Prof. Kingsley Muoghalu is eminently qualified and endowed with both the intellectual capacity and international connections to undertake the project of contesting to be Nigerian President in 2019.

He is within the age bracket preferred for such enormous national project and sufficiently detribalized to take Nigeria to a greater height. We believe that time is ripe for Nigerians to put forward a President that the World Community will respect and be prepared to do political business with. We believe also that Prof. Muoghalu will bring tremendous value to bear on the contest for the 2019 presidential election.
With Prof. Muoghalu on the ballot for the 2019 presidential election Nigerians will be presented with a credible alternative option.

Although Prof. Kingsley Muoghalu in his statement said that he is still consulting widely, we in UPP do not hesitate to encourage him to increase the tempo of his consultations. In the same token, without any reservation, extend our hand of fellowship and collaboration to the new entrant to the presidential race for the 2019 presidential election.

We wish to recall that when the present leadership of UPP founded the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in June 2002, the party directed its presidential focus to the South East geopolitical Zone to encourage eligible presidential aspirants from the zone to contest the presidential election of 2003. The party took steps to offer the platform to about 6 eminently qualified persons on the APGA platform to contest the presidential election. But they declined the offer one after the other on reasons that bothered on lack of courage. When it was about two weeks to the close of nomination of presidential candidates the leadership of the party practically conscripted the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who was before that time a member of the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). It was by this singular initiative of the party leadership that resulted in his contesting the 2003 presidential election on the platform of APGA.

Unfortunately in subsequent presidential elections those who hijacked the party through several conspiracies decided to reward the sponsors of the crisis in APGA by adopting the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2011 and 2015 presidential elections contrary to the original vision and policy directive of the founding fathers of the party.

In 2012, the United Progressive Party (UPP) was founded to among other things, promote the vision of encouraging qualified and credible presidential aspirants from the South East geopolitical zone to have the opportunity of presenting themselves to Nigerian people as presidential candidate.
Unfortunately, the 2003 scenario re-enacted itself when nobody from the South East geopolitical zone summoned the courage to contest for the presidency of Nigeria. In that circumstance the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party unanimously presented the National Chairman, Chief Dr. Chekwas Okorie and the then National Secretary, Barrister Bello Umar to contest for President and Vice President respectively. Their nominations were ratified by the National Convention of the party at Aba, Abia State in December 2014.

In June 2017, in a well-attended non-elective National Convention of the party held at Awka, Anambra State, the party reaffirmed its policy of seeking for a credible presidential candidate from the South East geopolitical zone. The party, UPP, similarly ratified its updated manifesto which included the Self Determination of Nigerian Ethnic Nationalities, Restructuring, Referendum, Unconditional Release of Prisoners of Conscience, Resource Control, State Police/Community Policing, and True Federalism.
It is therefore a thing of joy to see a highly qualified and credible Nigerian in the person of Prof. Kingsley Muoghalu stepping forward to be counted.

We are receptive to collaborating with other political parties that are similarly inclined like the UPP to give Prof. Kingsley Muoghalu the necessary boost and encouragement to march forward to contest for the office of President of Nigeria in 2019.

IN PROF. KINGSLEY MUOGHALU, NIGERIANS HAVE A CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE OPTION.

CHIEF DR. CHEKWAS OKORIE
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, UPP

For their pocket

Welcome on board Prof!
but.......
Sai Baba!!

modelmike7:
Welcome on board Prof!

but.......

Sai Baba!!

ur one of our problems

There is need for Technocrats to pilot the affair of Nigeria

nero2face:
ur one of our problems

Too early to reply you in like words, misguided youth!

Welcome prof. I hope your people vote for you.

Who is he....
I nor know am oo

Will all the retrogressive almajiri child voters, donkeys, camels and towel-head from Niger and Chad who unfortunately determines who rules the zoo understand all the qualities on the C.V of the 'infidel yamiri'.

You noise-making southerners don't know how deep in sh1t you are in the zoological contraption with these gambaris.

It's unfortunate for this man that Nigerian still vote based on ancient parameters of religion, tribe na s sycophancy and not common sense