Kingsley Moghalu gets YPP Presidential Ticket

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Professor Kingsley Moghalu has secured the presidential ticket of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) for the 2019 general elections.

Professor Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the central bank of Nigeria, emerged after a delegates’ election at the party’s first national convention and presidential primaries on Saturday in Abuja with 243 votes from 253 accredited delegates to beat his only opponent, Donald Igwegbu, who stepped down for him.

In his acceptance speech, Mr Moghalu said Nigeria needs a leader of international repute, not politicians that had failed the country.

He said, “in pursuit of a knowledge economy, education shall be the hub of our development quest since no nation can grow beyond the quality of her education,”