Moghalu to Nwosu: “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.
By Emma Ogbuehi
Five days after losing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket to the founder of Roots Television Nigeria, Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu, one-time Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has resigned his membership of the party.
ADC held its presidential primaries on Thursday, June 8, at the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Kachikwu, younger brother of the former Minister of State for petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, scored 978 votes to defeat Moghalu who came second with 589 votes.
But apparently dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, Moghalu, who was the presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, resigned from the party with immediate effect.
In a letter to the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Okey Ralphs Nwosu, dated June 13, 2022, Moghalu said his resignation was effective immediately.
Moghalu said he was resigning because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary revealed a fundamental clash of values between himself and Nwosu’s leadership of the party.
Moghalu, who alleged acts of political corruption during the primaries in the letter titled, “My resignation from ADC,” said his continued membership of the party would be tantamount to endorsement of political corruption of a most obscene order.
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The resignation letter reads: “Dear Mr. Nwosu, 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 field 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.”
Moghalu said his continued membership of the party will be an endorsement of corruption.
“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.”
It is not clear what the next political move of Moghalu, the Ifekaego Nnewi, will be.
