Governor of Rivers State, Ben Ayade, has said his reason for wanting a powershift to the Southern Senatorial District of the state in the 2023 general elections is because the zone supported his second term ambition.
While addressing some stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Governor’s Lodge on Sunday in Calabar, the governor said his decision to return power to the south was based on morality.
According to him, “During my campaign for the 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 Nigeria practised a primitive form of democracy that worked better with numbers noting that there was a need to infuse the “sensitivity of the African culture”.
“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.
Continuing, he explained that, “The South had taken a turn to produce a governor in Donald Duke, the Central had also produced a governor in Sen. Liyel Imoke, and the North has produced one in me.
“So, it is common sense that we must go back to the south for equity. Every zone should know that their turn would come one day.
“But to be blind and leave it to crude democracy which was not customised to reflect African sensitivity, that if l have had it, and no matter the circumstance, let another to have it.”
