FORMER Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof Kingsley Moghalu, has disowned his inclusion in Atiku Abubakar’s 2027 presidential campaign policy team.
Moghalu said he was neither consulted nor asked to consent to his appointment by the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
He made his position known in a statement posted on his X account on Friday, shortly after the party released its presidential campaign council.
Atiku, the ADC presidential candidate, named Kashim Ibrahim-Imam as chairman of the campaign council and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, as deputy chairman.
Moghalu was listed as a member of the policy team headed by Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who also contested the ADC presidential primary.
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The former vice-president said the policy team would develop practical solutions to issues raised by Nigerians ahead of the 2027 election.
But Moghalu said his inclusion was unauthorised.
“I was not consulted and did not give my consent to my name being published as a member of the ADC candidate’s policy team,” he said.
He added that he was not a member of Atiku’s policy team, either formally or informally, and had no advisory role in the campaign.
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Moghalu said he withdrew from partisan politics in Nigeria in 2022 and had since maintained a non-partisan position on national affairs.
“I am not a member or sympathizer of any political party in Nigeria,” he said.
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He identified his current engagements as president of the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a non-partisan public policy think tank and executive education academy, and chief executive officer of Sogato Strategies, a geopolitical risk and regulatory strategy advisory firm.
Moghalu said his commitment to Nigeria remained unchanged but did not require partisan affiliation.
“I have adopted the path of statesmanship, not partisanship,” he said.
