Moghalu reacts to report of joining APC

The presidential candidate of the Young Peoples Party in the 2019 general elections, Kingsley Moghalu, has stated that he is not a member of any political party presently.

Moghalu said this in a statement on Wednesday, August 5, while debunking reports that he had joined the ruling All Progressives Congress.

He described the report as “false, mischievous, and tendentious.”

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The statement reads, “In late 2019 I resigned my membership of the Young Progressives Party, the party platform on which I was a presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, but I did not subsequently join, and have not joined, any other political party, said Mr Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“I am therefore not a member of any political party in Nigeria today.”

“The article by Elombah News is doubly mischievous because, despite my denying this false claim when the online news outlet contacted me, Elombah News nevertheless went ahead to publish the story with this mischievous and misleading headline with no evidence to back it up, while burying my comment debunking the false claim deep inside its story. This is irresponsible journalism,” he said.

“I ask the public to disregard this fake news report, and to be guided by this clarification.”

DailyTimes had reported that Moghalu declared his Intention to contest the 2019 Presidential Election in 2018 at the World Press Conference, Musa Yar’Adua Conference Centre, Abuja.