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9 months ago
By Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji

ONE evening in Medford, Massachusetts in March 2017, I was seated at the back of an elegantly designed classroom at the renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The master’s degree students were from various countries including the USA, Japan, India, Switzerland, Canada, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The Fletcher School was jointly established by Tufts University and Harvard University in 1933 as an exclusively post-graduate institution to train leaders in the field of international affairs. Its curriculum covers international law, politics, economics, and diplomacy. Its privileged students typically end up in leadership roles in governments, business corporations and non-profits around the world.




Kingsley Moghalu
The teaching slides lit up with the caption: “Business 273: Emerging Africa in the World Economy. Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu. Spring 2017”. The topic of the day’s class was “Foreign Investment”. For two hours, the erudite former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) lectured and led a class discussion on foreign investment, economic policy and the business environment in emerging market countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the “transition economies” of Europe. He holds the formal title of Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School.


‘Professor of Practice’

Prestigious American universities confer the rare title of “professor of the practice” on leaders in their fields who combine intellectual knowledge with outstanding achievements. This Nigerian is the only black man on the teaching faculty of one of the top schools of international affairs in the world. I was a 2017 Mason Fellow and Master of Public Administration (MPA) candidate at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, just five miles away, and both Tufts and Harvard are located in Greater Boston. In the months that I was at Harvard I saw some impressive professors, nearly all of them white men and women. Kingsley Moghalu is in a league of his own: knowledge, experience, humility, and eloquence, all rolled into one.

I was excited when I heard that there is a Nigerian professor at Tufts University. I was even more surprised to learn that it is Kingsley Moghalu. In 2013, I spoke alongside then CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi at the Leadership Lecture of the Isaac Moghalu Foundation (IMoF) that Prof. Moghalu had founded in memory of his deceased father. Maryanne Moghalu, Kingsley’s wife had invited me to speak at the event, and is the Executive Director of IMoF. I was impressed by the Moghalu family’s powerful vision for the education of poor youth and children in Nigeria’s rural areas, which is the mission of IMoF.

I emailed the former CBN chief and secured an appointment to see him in his office at Tufts. After we reviewed my experience at Harvard, I decided to sit in on his class. Intrigued, I asked the distinguished professor afterwards to tell me the journey of his illustrious life. From academia to banking and finance, from economic development to international law and diplomacy, from the global stage to national service in our country, this remarkable man has made an impact as a leader and a change agent.


Early life: Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu was born in Lagos in 1963 as the first of five children of his parents. Nnewi, the famous commercial town in Anambra State, is his hometown. His late father Isaac Moghalu, a retired Permanent Secretary, was a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer in the 1960s. Kingsley and his parents lived first at Webb Road in Ikoyi, Lagos and later in Geneva, Switzerland and Washington DC, USA in his early years. His mother, Lady Vidah Moghalu, a retired dietician, is now a Christian evangelist. Kingsley’s Igbo name Chiedu literally means “the Lord is my shepherd” or “led by the Spirit of God”. Little-known, he also has a Yoruba name, Ayodele, given to him by the late Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti who was a friend of his parents in the early sixties.

After secondary school education at Government College, Umuahia and Federal Government College, Enugu, Kingsley graduated in law from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) assignment as a Legal Officer in Shell Petroleum’s headquarters in Lagos followed. He then worked in the late 1980s as the General Counsel of the now-defunct Newswatch magazine, the leading light of the Nigerian media at the time. But his sights were set firmly on the global stage. To further burnish his CV, he moonlighted as a special correspondent for prestigious foreign newspapers including South magazine in London, Christian Science Monitor in Boston, and Africa News Service in North Carolina (now the Washington DC-based AllAfrica Global Media) in the United States.

Kingsley was admitted to the M.A. programme at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1990. With a letter of recommendation from Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, a former Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria and an alumnus of the renowned institution, The Fletcher School awarded Moghalu the Joan Gillespie Fellowship for future leaders from developing countries. The young man with the determination of a long-distance runner turned down an opportunity to become the company secretary of one of several new-generation banks sprouting in Lagos at the time and left Nigeria for Boston.


Kingsley Moghalu graduated with an M.A. in International Relations in 1992 and was appointed into the international civil service of the United Nations as an entry level officer on his individual merit. He worked in strategic planning, legal affairs and executive management roles in Cambodia, New York, Croatia, Tanzania, and Switzerland. A man who admits to having “workaholic tendencies”, he studied part-time and obtained a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science while working as a senior UN officer assigned to The Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland. Shuttling between Geneva and London, and in between frequent international official missions to various countries, he completed his 500-page doctoral dissertation in 12 months, shattering previous records at the University of London. As if a Ph.D was not nearly enough, he studied further at the UK Institute of Risk Management in London and became a professionally certified risk management professional.

Hard work and professional competence brought recognition. By 2006, aged 43, Kingsley Moghalu had attained the highest career rank of Director in the UN system, and served for six months in New York (at the rank of Under-Secretary-General) as a member of a high-level panel appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to revamp the accountability, regulatory and internal dispute resolution system for the 60,000 global UN workforce and management. His interests now began to shift to the private sector. In December 2008 Kingsley resigned from the UN system, deployed 100,000 Swiss Francs of his personal savings as capital and established Sogato Strategies S.A., a risk management and global strategy consultancy in Geneva. This calculated risk later paid off in unexpected ways.

Sogato Strategies soon acquired impressive clients like the Swiss bank UBS and Syngenta, the Swiss agrochemicals multinational. Life in the private sector was looking up. But an encounter with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa in mid-2009 changed Moghalu’s trajectory. Sanusi had just been appointed Governor of the CBN. He was looking for a deputy governor to help him execute an ambitious agenda of banking sector reform after the global financial crisis. The governor was on the lookout for an executive with credibility, international exposure, and knowledge of risk management. Kingsley fit the bill. Sanusi persuaded him to return home to Nigeria as a deputy governor of the central bank and recommended him to President Umaru Yar’Adua, who appointed Kingsley to the coveted position. By November 2009, after his confirmation by the Senate, the new Deputy Governor was at his desk at the CBN heading the reserve bank’s Financial System Stability (FSS) Directorate.


He left the CBN in November 2014 after completing his term of office. Does he have any regrets? “No, not at all”, he replied. Does he miss the central bank? “I gave my best in service at the Bank. But, in hindsight, it was best that I moved on to other things when I did”. A man with a strong global pedigree, just weeks after he left the CBN he was appointed a professor at Tufts University and a member of the Advisory Council of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) in London, UK. In addition to his academic duties in Boston, the professor’s schedule is packed with public speaking engagements around the world and consulting assignments. He has advised the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and global private equity and asset management firms such as Actis, TPG and Eaton Vance.

Devoted family man

Kingsley is a devoted family man. In 1994, while living in New York City and working in the UN’s headquarters, he married the then Miss Maryanne Ezike, a banker, lawyer and a daughter of the late medical doctor and former Permanent Secretary, Dr. Christopher Ezike. Kingsley and Maryanne Moghalu have four children. A short while after we left his classroom at Tufts University, Prof. Moghalu and I had a memorable encounter with Hillary Clinton, the former United States Democratic Party presidential candidate, at a dinner event at Henrietta’s Table restaurant in The Charles Hotel at Harvard Square in Cambridge. In conversation as we took selfies with the famous American politician who lost her bid to become her country’s first woman President, it turned out that she has read the professor’s Emerging Africa, and she told me that I have a bright future.

I tweeted pictures of my encounter with Prof. Moghalu at Tufts University and it drew many positive responses. As in America and around the world, the ex-CBN Deputy Governor is well- regarded at home in Nigeria. One typical response from one of my tweeter followers, @ibsanusi read: “Kingsley Moghalu…one of the best brains of Nigeria. Unfortunately, we don’t know how to maximize our best hands.” As we left Henrietta’s Table after our time with Mrs. Clinton, the global professor inspired me as we parted. “Our country belongs to us all. We have a duty to make it better for our children and our youth”, he told me. Nigeria has not heard the last of one of its most accomplished sons.

Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji was a 2017 Edward Mason Fellow and MPA graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/global-leader-kinglsey-moghalus-inspirational-life/amp/

Sadly, they'll crush this man with all the resources available to them.
The North and by extension the South West have proven over time to be more anti-IGBO than pro-Nigeria, assuming this over qualified young man happens to be the flag bearer of the PDP, our South West neighbours would rather help reinstall Buhari than let an Igbo man be president.

Don't quote me to vent your frustration, argue with your conscience and history.

Impressive!!! I'll vote this man with all my strength but as usual hmmm.....

Quota system individuals don't function outside Nigeria, we Igbos believe in merit.

Anyone can run, but everyone knows he is wasting his time

I would vote for him instead of that clown called sowore .

BTW, I will prefer him as governor in Igboland .

We need much better leadership in our states so as to unlock our potential as a region and develop beyond the Nigerian limits.

Nigeria is not ready for decent leadership, I hope igboland certainly is.

It is good that he is contesting. We need credible people in government and he fits the bill. Even if he doesn't win, he might build more exposure and be given a parastatal to head. Imagine someone like this being made Minister of Finance.

OP, are you linked to the campaign?

No be only Chiedu, na Chiashes

Rubbish!

Nossa:
Sadly, they'll crush this man with all the resources available to them.
The North and by extension the South West have proven over time to be more anti-IGBO than pro-Nigeria, assuming this over qualified young man happens to be the flag bearer of the PDP, our South West neighbours would rather help reinstall Buhari than let an Igbo man be president.

Don't quote me to vent your frustration, argue with your conscience and history.

Frustrated clansmen like you are a plague to the aspirations of your fellow Igbomen who do not suffer the same disease as you.

There are many overqualified Nigerians across the different tribes of the country.

Any overqualified Nigerian that dares to present himself/herself as a flag bearer of PDP or APC, has already shown himself not qualified to take Nigeria away from the doldrums.

My conscience and history reminds me that Igbo's have always preferred to vote in support of the North and their ambitions, than to vote in support of a Southern ambition that does not have them at the head of the table. Even a Southern aspiration in 1960 that would have had an Igbo as Prime Minister, was disregarded by Azikiwe, to settle for the role of president in an alliance with the North. Tofa was voted over Abiola by SouthEasterners in the June 12 1993 elections.

The day an Igboman is ready to overcome the pathological hatred he has for any tribe not Igbo, the rest of Nigeria will consider the Igbo ready to lead a multiethnic nation. For now, continue to throw your typical insults and invectives at the rest of Nigeria while expecting love in return.

Throwback:
Frustrated clansmen like you are a plague to the aspirations of your fellow Igbomen who do not suffer the same disease as you.

There are many overqualified Nigerians across the different tribes of the country.

Any overqualified Nigerian that dares to present himself/herself as a flag bearer of PDP or APC, has already shown himself not qualified to take Nigeria away from the doldrums.

My conscience and history reminds me that Igbo's have always preferred to vote in support of the North and their ambitions, than to vote in support of a Southern ambition that does not have them at the head of the table. Even a Southern aspiration in 1960 that would have had an Igbo as Prime Minister, was disregarded by Azikiwe, to settle for the role of president in an alliance with the North. Tofa was voted over Abiola by SouthEasterners in the June 12 1993 elections.

The day an Igboman is ready to overcome the pathological hatred he has for any tribe not Igbo, the rest of Nigeria will consider the Igbo ready to lead a multiethnic nation. For now, continue to throw your typical insults and invectives at the rest of Nigeria while expecting love in return.

In the mean time, remain a shitthole governed by the likes of buhari.

You think everybody is not suffering it. ?

Throwback:
Frustrated clansmen like you are a plague to the aspirations of your fellow Igbomen who do not suffer the same disease as you.

There are many overqualified Nigerians across the different tribes of the country.

Any overqualified Nigerian that dares to present himself/herself as a flag bearer of PDP or APC, has already shown himself not qualified to take Nigeria away from the doldrums.

My conscience and history reminds me that Igbo's have always preferred to vote in support of the North and their ambitions, than to vote in support of a Southern ambition that does not have them at the head of the table. Even a Southern aspiration in 1960 that would have had an Igbo as Prime Minister, was disregarded by Azikiwe, to settle for the role of president in an alliance with the North. Tofa was voted over Abiola by SouthEasterners in the June 12 1993 elections.

The day an Igboman is ready to overcome the pathological hatred he has for any tribe not Igbo, the rest of Nigeria will consider the Igbo ready to lead a multiethnic nation. For now, continue to throw your typical insults and invectives at the rest of Nigeria while expecting love in return.

Nigga, tone down your frustration at hearing anything IGBO, I didn't ask for your doctored history, I only asked you to argue with REAL history and your conscience if you have any.

This Brilliant, brilliant man should save his political fire power for 2023. He stands a better chance then. Or he can waste his money in 2019 if he likes. Its his money.

Nossa:
Nigga, tone down your frustration at hearing anything IGBO, I didn't ask for your doctored history, I only asked you to argue with REAL history and your conscience if you have any.

There is no frustration in identifying hypocrites. I do it with relish, much to their frustration at being publicly unravelled.

I heard my region being mentioned by the typical sufferers of persecution/victim complex, already admitting defeat and inferiority that has become inherent and pathological.

History becomes doctored only when it shows you to be a hypocrite? Your conscience will always find an excuse when pricked by historical fact and electoral statistics that you wish could be forgotten.

If you like argue with the past, but it cannot be wished away, and will always be referenced to expose your deceit and hypocrisy of condemning that which you set precedence for.

Throwback:
There is no frustration in identifying hypocrites. I do it with relish, much to their frustration at being publicly unravelled.

I heard my region being mentioned by the typical sufferers of persecution/victim complex, already admitting defeat and inferiority that has become inherent and pathological.

History becomes doctored only when it shows you to be a hypocrite? Your conscience will always find an excuse when pricked by historical fact and electoral statistics that you wish could be forgotten.

If you like argue with the past, but it cannot be wished away, and will always be referenced to expose your deceit and hypocrisy of condemning that which you set precedence for.

Now I know why you've been so restless over my post, you're Yoruba and can't find sleep after coming across my post. Nigga carry your cross, I'm not responsible for the treacherous trait in y'all.

Nossa:
Now I know why you've been so restless over my post, you're Yoruba and can't find sleep after coming across my post. Nigga carry your cross, I'm not responsible for the treacherous trait I'm y'all.

I could find sleep knowing this is another easy victim of ignorance to be rescued from obscurity by the shining light of knowledge and enlightenment. Anytime you want to repeat the same falacy, you will remember your hypocrisy and how your tribe always voted pro-North rather than pro-South. You will remember that you are already known to always fidget at any attempt by other southerners to form alliances with the North, except when they are formed by you.


I am not responsible for your hypocrisy and self defeat.

If only you can outgrow the tribal limitation and mental shackles your ancestors bequeathed you with. A Yoruba man simple aspires and hopes to accomplish, while an Igbo man must first consider what a Yoruba or Fulani would think of him and his ambitions. A very good reference being the self-defeat exhibited in your own post.

A write-up by a Yoruba woman to promote an Igbo man seeking to be president, is already despaired by a Igbo suffering from low self esteem and defeatism.

That you have been shut up by historical facts and statistics, is a gesture I would always be happy to oblige you.

If only you can erase history. If only.

You Igbos have been well recompensed for your treachery, that there is no need to even belabour that matter.

Throwback:
I could find sleep knowing this is another easy victim of ignorance to be rescued from obscurity by the shining light of knowledge and enlightenment. Anytime you want to repeat the same falacy, you will remember your hypocrisy and how your tribe always voted pro-North rather than pro-South. You will remember that you are already known to always fidget at any attempt by other southerners to form alliances with the North, except when they are formed by you.


I am not responsible for your hypocrisy and self defeat.

If only you can outgrow the tribal limitation and mental shackles your ancestors bequeathed you with. A Yoruba man simple aspires and hopes to accomplish, while an Igbo man must first consider what a Yoruba or Fulani would think of him and his ambitions. A very good reference being the self-defeat exhibited in your own post.

A write-up by a Yoruba woman to promote an Igbo man seeking to be president, is already despaired by a Igbo suffering from low self esteem and defeatism.

That you have been shut up by historical facts and statistics, is a gesture I would always be happy to oblige you.

If only you can erase history. If only.

You Igbos have been well recompensed for your treachery, that there is no need to even belabour that matter.

People of good conscience like me and my ilk know all you can do is vote in favour of Buhari while several tens of millions of us vote him out by voting in favour of SOWORE, not for ourselves but to save your soul cos it's obvious you're worst hit by the hardship Buhari inflicted on this nation.

What makes one qualified for the Presidency is not about his youthfulness or academic attainment.

His antecedents, experience, maturity, leadership, administrative and managerial skill, and understanding of the problems bedevilling Nigeria plus having a viable solution (not academic solution) to them.

Emmanuel Macron of France was a Presidential Advisor and later cabinet minister where he got the required experience to lead as President. Meanwhile, the peculiarities of France isn't as controversial as that of Nigeria.

With due respect to the man in question, he isn't qualified enough to be President of Nigeria though his CV seem to be a worthy asset. I believe he can function in areas best suited for his qualification.

Beside, No organisation will appoint a newbie into office of CEO... Nigeria isn't different.

Let's Join hands together to ensure Senator Ahmed Muhammed Makarfi returns to Aso Rock as President and Commander in Chief of Nigeria come 2019. He's the best and most viable alternative for the actualisation of project Nigeria

Dude never get party self

Nossa:
People of good conscience like me and my ilk know all you can do is vote in favour of Buhari while several tens of millions of us vote him out by voting in favour of SOWORE, not for ourselves but to save your soul cos it's obvious you're worst hit by the hardship Buhari inflicted on this nation.

Buhari is failure as with the previous idiot that was sacked and shown the way out.

But that I am hit at all would have been the consequences of having a moro.n in power at a time when we should have made better choices with the revenue generated when oil income was at its highest under the ineffectual buffoon who managed not to add a single kobo to national savings or a single cent to foreign reserves while swallowing up previous savings and increasing our debt.

That I am in hardship now while living in a serviced flat in a highbrow neighborhood, is a prayer many will pray to be answered.

Yet I do not care about myself, but for the benefit of a country that many have seen as just a place to be exploited for the benefit of their comfortable lives outside the country.

TonyeBarcanista:
What makes one qualified for the Presidency is not about his youthfulness or academic attainment.

His antecedents, experience, maturity, leadership, administrative and managerial skill, and understanding of the problems bedevilling Nigeria plus having a viable solution (not academic solution) to them.

Emmanuel Macron of France was a Presidential Advisor and later cabinet minister where he got the required experience to lead as President. Meanwhile, the peculiarities of France isn't as controversial as that of Nigeria.

With due respect to the man in question, he isn't qualified enough to be President of Nigeria though his CV seem to be a worthy asset. I believe he can function in areas best suited for his qualification.

Beside, No organisation will appoint a newbie into office of CEO... Nigeria isn't different.

Let's Join hands together to ensure Senator Ahmed Muhammed Makarfi returns to Aso Rock as President and Commander in Chief of Nigeria come 2019. He's the best and most viable alternative for the actualisation of project Nigeria

Bomb dey your head.

we are talking about departing from the old order and you are talking about experience.

experienced in what?

experienced in Ghana must go, and politics of none ideology.

How experienced is macron?

Shameless sycophant.

Throwback:
I could find sleep knowing this is another easy victim of ignorance to be rescued from obscurity by the shining light of knowledge and enlightenment. Anytime you want to repeat the same falacy, you will remember your hypocrisy and how your tribe always voted pro-North rather than pro-South. You will remember that you are already known to always fidget at any attempt by other southerners to form alliances with the North, except when they are formed by you.


I am not responsible for your hypocrisy and self defeat.

If only you can outgrow the tribal limitation and mental shackles your ancestors bequeathed you with. A Yoruba man simple aspires and hopes to accomplish, while an Igbo man must first consider what a Yoruba or Fulani would think of him and his ambitions. A very good reference being the self-defeat exhibited in your own post.

A write-up by a Yoruba woman to promote an Igbo man seeking to be president, is already despaired by a Igbo suffering from low self esteem and defeatism.

That you have been shut up by historical facts and statistics, is a gesture I would always be happy to oblige you.

If only you can erase history. If only.

You Igbos have been well recompensed for your treachery, that there is no need to even belabour that matter.

So igbos did not vote for obasanjo in both terms ?
Is obasnjo from enugu?

igbos are so hateful, yet hundreds of your people come with their two left legs looking to marry into igbo families and many already are .

If we are so hateful, we should be chasing away your people with cutlass.

Throwback:
Buhari is failure as with the previous idiot that was sacked and shown the way out.

But that I am hit at all would have been the consequences of having a moro.n in power at a time when we should have made better choices with the revenue generated when oil income was at its highest under the ineffectual buffoon who managed not to add a single kobo to national savings or a single cent to foreign reserves while swallowing up previous savings and increasing our debt.

That I am in hardship now while living in a serviced flat in a highbrow neighborhood, is a prayer many will pray to be answered.

Yet I do not care about myself, but for the benefit of a country that many have seen as just a place to be exploited for the benefit of their comfortable lives outside the country.

Oil money is always the problem, what happened to the cocoa your region was renowned for?, acquire some acres and start planting yourself some cocoa seeds please, you're not bothered about the present plaque we have as a government even after they painted Jonathan all shades of black and promised to turn things around, y'all are everything the word HYPOCRITES was coined to explain.

CSTR1003:
Bomb dey your head.

we are talking about departing from the old order and you are talking about experience.

experienced in what?

experienced in Ghana must go, and politics of none ideology.

How experienced is macron?

Shameless sycophant.

Experience in leadership and antecedent. Those with terrible antecedent aren't needed...


Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron of France was a Presidential Advisor and later cabinet minister where he got the required experience to lead as President.

CSTR1003:
So igbos did not vote for obasanjo in both terms ?
Is obasnjo from enugu?

igbos are so hateful, yet hundreds of your people come with their two left legs looking to marry into igbo families and many already are .

If we are so hateful, we should be chasing away your people with cutlass.

Did you have a choice when both candidates were Yorubas?

Why not ignore the truth, than trying to deny it with constant that could not be varied.

I reckon 2 left legged men from Igboland don't marry Yoruba women?

I also reckon that Yorubamen leave their homes to look for Igbo women resident in your enclave and not the ones who have abandoned their enclave to reside amongst those they consider traitors?

Whoever people choose to marry is ultimately up to them alone.

TonyeBarcanista:
Experience in leadership and antecedent. Those with terrible antecedent aren't needed...


Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron of France was a Presidential Advisor and later cabinet minister where he got the required experience to lead as President.

What useless leadership is he experienced in?

Is his state not a shittjole?

Moghalu worked at the highest levels of the CBN, has interacted with some of America's biggest politicians, most of whom markafi cannot touch.
He won a Prestigious award for best emerging leaders.
He has his own international risk management firm with major clients from Switzerland even from their govt.

That is exposure to quality leadership experience.

He is also professor in the field of public governance and diplomacy at Tufts.

He is like the cream of the crop. The very best Nigeria has to offer and he is a youth.
Our own Justin Trudeau of Canada.

You should be begging for him instead of insulting him by comparing him to a career politician .

I don't even see why he would run for president. He doesn't need it.

But you guys are lucky to have someone like that running, and you are talking about markafi.

Nossa:
Oil money is always the problem, what happened to the cocoa your region was renowned for?, acquire some acres and start planting yourself some cocoa seeds please, you're not bothered about the present plaque we have as a government even after they painted Jonathan all shades of black and promised to turn things around, y'all are everything the word HYPOCRITES was coined to explain.

You seem not to realise that a lot of well educated folks already have investments in Agriculture.

If I wasn't bothered about the plague in government, I would have been supporting his return, like some are doing now, which is reminiscent of those who wanted a previous failure to return. Those type of people who are partisan for party, tribal and religious reasons are the ones who cannot own up to the fact that a failure has no business with a 2nd term.

The hypocrites are the ones who cannot see that the re-electionists of today, only mirror the same insane partisanship they exhibited as re-electionists of 2015. So that they are aghast that some would want to continue with the failure of Buhari instead of trying something else, is how we who sacked Jonathan were aghast that some would want him to return in 2015 instead if trying something else.

And for the record, Moughalu is better fit to run government than Sowore, who despite his zeal, could end up creating more problems than solving the present ones, a la Buhari and his method of prosecuting corruption cases.

CSTR1003:
What useless leadership is he experienced in?

Is his state not a shittjole?

Moghalu worked at the highest levels of the CBN, has interacted with some of America's biggest politicians, most of whom markafi cannot touch.
He won a Prestigious award for best emerging leaders.
He has his own international risk management firm with major clients from Switzerland even from their govt.

That is exposure to quality leadership experience.

He is also professor in the field of public governance and diplomacy at Tufts.

He is like the cream of the crop. The very best Nigeria has to offer and he is a youth.
Our own Justin Trudeau of Canada.

You should be begging for him instead of insulting him by comparing him to a career politician .

I don't even see why he would run for president. He doesn't need it.

But you guys are lucky to have someone like that running, and you are talking about markafi.

You are ignorant about Makarfi... The emboldened just confirmed it

Throwback:
Did you have a choice when both candidates were Yorubas?

Why not ignore the truth, than trying to deny it with constant that could not be varied.

I reckon 2 left legged men from Igboland don't marry Yoruba women?

I also reckon that Yorubamen leave their homes to look for Igbo women resident in your enclave and not the ones who have abandoned their enclave to reside amongst those they consider traitors?

Whoever people choose to marry is ultimately up to them alone.

So the gratitude for voting for Obasanjo is to tell us that both candidates were Yoruba and we had no choice?

And you call igbos the hateful ones?. Very nice.

I don't care about who marries who. My point is that you do not Marry your children to people you hate.

It doesn't matter if you met them in your village. The decision to marry into any family rest with the parents.

And the parents can forbid it if there were so hateful and nothing would happen.

There was a time when igbo parents forbid such unions. It is no longer the case.

But It seems you are longing for the hate to come back.

The stupidity in Nigeria is too much. You have a system that does not work but you are far interested in who leads the system

Its a bit like looking at a car with a very bad engine. Rather than talk about how to fix the engine, Nigerian are discussing if Moghalu, Sowore, Markafi or Buhari will be the best driver.

Nigeria is simply doomed

TonyeBarcanista:
You are ignorant about Makarfi... The emboldened just confirmed it

You are ignorant to compare the msrkafi I know to moghalu.

I have no problem with you going for him since the PDP wants the north. He may even be the best of the established Nigerian political bunch.

But to overrate him beyond his actual worth is where I have a problem.