By A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu has dumped the African Democratic Congress (ADC) days after his loss at the party’s presidential primary.
BlackBox Nigeria had reported that Moghalu lost the ADC presidential ticket to Dumebi Kachikwu, founder of Roots Television and younger brother of former Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu.
He scored 589, while Kachikwu polled 977. Another aspirant in the race, Chukwuka Monye placed third with 399 votes in the primary.
On Monday, Moghalu resigned from his membership of the ADC, as contained in a letter addressed to the party’s National Chairman, Okey Nwosu.
According to him, his decision to leave the party was informed by the poor handling of its presidential primary which was chacterised by “massive abuses of the electoral process including delegate capture and financial inducement of delegates”.
The ex-CBN Deputy Governor also alleged that the ADC leadership intentionally failed to create a level playing field for all presidential aspirants.
Interestingly, this makes the second time Moghalu would be dumping a political party. In the 2019 elections, he was the presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP). Months after his defeat at the polls, he resigned from the party.
Read his resignation letter from the ADC below:
“I am writing to hand in my resignation from my membership of the African Democratic Congress, effective immediately. I have resigned because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary on June 8, 2022 at Abeokuta revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.
“Despite the circular you issued a few days to the primary committing the party to providing transportation and accommodation for delegates to and in Abeokuta, and which as we agreed would provide a level playing for all the presidential aspirants, the party under your leadership failed to do so.
“Some aspirants, including myself, made donations to the ADC party account as requested by the party for this purpose. This failure, which appeared intentional, created room for massive abuses of the electoral process including delegate capture and financial inducement of delegates.
“This is only one of numerous inconsistencies and the absence of transparency and predictability in the management of the party that I had progressively complained about.
“As you are well aware, I have consistently resisted pressures to join the APC or the PDP precisely to avoid “cash-and-carry” politics. For me to remain a member of the ADC therefore, after what thousands of party members participated in at Abeokuta, would be to endorse political corruption of a most obscene order.
“I joined the ADC in October 2021 with the best of intentions. Since then, I have put my entire team to work on growing and improving the party, including raising the party’s
visibility on all media platforms, recruiting more than 10,000 new members to the party, and providing new offices for various state chapters of the party at my expense.
“It is deeply regrettable that other inducements appear to have played more important roles in determining the outcome of the primary than loyalty to the party.”
