Meanwhile former Deputy Central Bank Governor Kingsley Moghalu is running an independent campaign platform for the presidency in 2023 but is yet to associate with a specific party...
Some of the independents could be technocrats in the mould of Oby Ezekwesili ex-Vice-President of the World Bank and Bring Back our Girls campaigner or Kingsley Moghalu former deputy governor of the central bank who both ran in 2019...
Kingsley Moghalu and Obiageli Ezekwesili who made no impact as candidates of minority parties in the 2019 election have moved back to private life...
This year there is an impressive crop of small-party candidates such as former Education Minister Oby Ezekwesili and former deputy governor of the central bank Kingsley Moghalu but none are likely to poll more than a few per cent...
The same goes for Kingsley Moghalu a former deputy governor of the central bank who is standing for the Young Progressives Party...
Meanwhile a supporting voice has emerged in the form of former Deputy CBN Governor Kingsley Moghalu who has warned that radical anti-corruption measures of the kind favoured by many in the APC could slow down the country's economy...
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Several highly qualified candidates have already emerged: Atedo Peterside the widely respected Chairman of Stanbic IBTC Holdings (another investor in ETI) and chair of the Technical Committee on Privatisation; Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede Chief Executive at Access Bank one of NIgeria's fastest growing banks; and the leading internal candidate is CBN Deputy Governor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu who is currently on an international tour speaking about the issues raised in his magisterial tome on Emerging Africa...