Moghalu Faults APC Corruption War, Harps on Quality Leadership, Developmental Journalism

Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Presidential Aspirant in the 2019 election, Professor Kingsley Moghalu has accused the federal government of bias in its fight against corruption.

According to him, instead of fighting war against corruption in the pages of newspapers, the government should be able to investigate corrupt leaders, take them to court and jail them in order to prove to Nigerians and the entire world that it was fighting corruption.

Moghalu dropped the hint during The Niche 4th Anniversary Lecture held in Lagos yesterday, where he was the keynote speaker.

He said: “The recent controversy over the so called looters list published by one political party or one government, and another political party responding to it, is all confusion and lack of quality leadership. If you have a list of looters, you should be investigating them, proving your case in court and getting them jailed. That is what they should do and not making noise on the pagers of the newspapers and playing political football with corruption instead of fighting corruption.”

When the fight against corruption is not legitimate, the society becomes even more divided because the general public will be compelled to believe that fighting corruption has become a tool to intimidate, suppress and to create a very bad image about the political opponent,” he added.

He called on Nigerians to vote for leaders with global view in the next general elections. According Moghalu, Nigeria needs to become a worldview state. Only then can journalism in Nigeria play a developmental role in line with the worldview.

"Without an overarching worldview, what happens is what we have at present, where several smaller views are holding sway in various parts of the country.

These narrow worldview snare driven by ethnic and religious considerations and most importantly, corruption and a lust for power.