Professor Moghalu, who stated this yesterday, at a press conference in Kano, declared that the two major political parties are lacking the leadership credence to fix the current challenges bedeviling the country.
He advocated the adoption of alternative political platforms in 2023 to end the endemic failure of the past.
The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who is vying for a presidential seat for the second time under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), vowed to transform the political landscape of the country if elected president next year.
The ADP presidential aspirant worried that Nigeria is presently overwhelmed with rising negatives in the areas of unemployment, poverty, insecurity, inflation rate and other developmental indices owing to the absence of political will of the present administration to demonstrate quality leadership.
Moghalu, who insisted that Nigeria is not confronting uncommon security challenges, believed the country was only being overwhelmed by terrorists who are taking the advantage of ungoverned space to perpetrate dastardly acts.
He, however, pleaded to create job opportunities for the jobless youth to end terrorism in the country.
“Nigeria is not having security challenges but the country is being overwhelmed by terrorists. There are always challenges in security everywhere in the world, the ability of the leadership to manage the situation is what determines whether or not it is a challenge. It is only in Nigeria that life is not important to the government. If I’m elected as president of Nigeria today, the life of citizens will matter to me.
“Presently, Nigeria is having too many large ungoverned spaces and it is these spaces left in the control of the terrorists, that now resulted to security threats. And instead of the government ensuring terrorists face the book, hundreds of them are being released in the name of repentance. Who does that anywhere in the world?
“What is lacking is the political will on the part of the government to manage our security situation. The life of Nigerians will matter to me and that means, whoever is responsible for security sabotage will be brought to book, even if it is my cousin. You don’t take Boko Haram and tell people that they have repented.”
Reacting to the closure of universities in the country as a result of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, the presidential hopeful decried the poor management education while declaring that education would be the top priority if elected as president in 2023.
“I want to bring governance into politics because for too long Nigeria has been dept into politics without governance and that is the reason the country is gradually descending into a failed state. Our insecurity, poverty, unemployment are all rising while electricity supply, education, and healthcare are falling.
“Let me say that by the year 2023 if Nigeria failed to elect a competent person to do the job, the economic and inflation rate of the country would be worst. The job requirements of a leader include nation-building, meaning managing the diversity of Nigeria, our institutions are being destroyed and we must hold the president accountable for that.
“The country is burning and all we can see is politicians negotiating how to return to power in 2023. If by 2023 Nigerians failed to elect a competent person to manage the country, the ungoverned spaces will override the country because as the governed space strick the ungoverned spaces widen,” Moghalu noted.
