Big Upset As Dumebi Kachikwu Beats Kingsley Moghalu

By Charles Igbo

Dr Kingsley Moghalu’s Presidential ambition has been shattered. His plans have gone awry. And all his boosting to demystify big names in the 2023 Presidential race blew away by the wind.

In what seems unbelievable, but true, Moghalu, brilliant, suave, a former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN,  Deputy Governor, has been beaten, hands-down, at the Presidential Primary of his Party,  African Democratic Congress, ADC. He came a distant second.

Moghalu was beaten by Delta State- born Dumebi Kachikwu. A younger brother of the former Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, Dumebi, once married to one of the beautiful daughters of Dr Kema Chikwe, former Aviation Minister, former Ambassador, is the founder of Roots Television.

At the Primary, Kachikwu scored 977 votes to beat Moghalu who scored 589 votes, and Chukwuka Monye who scored 339 votes.

Moghalu joined ADC in October 2021. Before then, he was the Presidential candidate of the Young People’s Party, YPP, in the 2019 Presidential election. He made no impact then and resigned from the Party in October 2019.

Just before the ADC Presidential Primary began, Moghalu had told the delegates that he would, when elected the candidate, send both the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, into retirement.

Moghalu: “I am here to offer myself to you not because I am better than anybody here, but because I care for the future of our country. I offer myself because God has given me the main recognition to stand side by side with Atiku, Tinubu and to send them into retirement.”

In an ironic twist, Moghalu has been retired by his Party.