Cross River state Governor Ben Ayade, has reiterated his commitment to restoring power to the state’s Southern Senatorial District by 2023. ayokinews.com reports
Ayade noted that his decision to return power to the southern region of the state was based on morals when speaking to APC stakeholders at the Governor’s Lodge in Calabar on Sunday.
According to him, the south had qualified governorship contenders to succeed him in 2023.
“During my campaign for second term, I went to the South and asked them to support my second term bid and that when I win, I will support the south to take over from me because by natural process, they are next senatorial district to produce the governor,” Ayade said.
Ayade, who criticized the current state of democracy, stated that it was necessary to infuse the “sensitivity of the African culture” into the system.
“We inherited a brand of democracy which is not afrocentric, neither does it have the sensitivity of the African culture and morality”.
“Democracy is so primitively blind that it reduces itself to numbers”.
“The higher your population, the more you win. So there is nothing like balancing, there is no equity in democracy”.
“There is no moral conscience. Democracy is blind to ethnicity, it is blind to religion, it is blind to fairness, it is repugnant to natural justice,” he said.
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