Tafawa-Balewa, has said he will contest the 2015 presidential election
on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Tafawa-Balewa condemned plot by the national leadership of the party
to demoralize other presidential aspirants by adopting President
Goodluck Jonathan as the sole presidential candidate of the party.
He was responding to the adoption of Jonathan by the party's National
Executive Committee at its meeting in Abuja on Thursday.
With the adoption, the party said it expected all members of the party
including those nursing presidential ambition to drop it and queue
behind the President.
But Tafawa-Balewa said he would not be intimidated with such decision.
He said in a statement on Sunday that such endorsement was undemocratic.
He said, "I'm not intimidated by the decision of the PDP governors and
the party to support the second term aspiration of President Goodluck
Jonathan.
"What type of democracy do we have? Is the PDP a communist party?
Where is the place of internal democracy?"
He said the greater majority of Nigerians had been yearning for a
leadership capable of fulfilling their high expectations and
aspirations.
He asked Nigerians to listen to facts and that they should not be
carried away with the party's decision.
"What Nigerians need and where they want the country to be in future
are paramount issues. We need to put our ideas before the people and
allow them to decide," he added.
Promising to make Nigeria an industrialized country, Tafawa-Balewa
said his administration would ensure zero unemployment, better
education, maximum security and increased power supply.
"Nigeria needs to move from Third World to First world" he said.
On financial muscle to withstand the pressure of a presidential
contest, he insisted that good Nigerians would support him fully.
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