Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has said the type of democracy being practised in the country lacks equity and fairness.
The governor spoke on Sunday while addressing some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the governor’s lodge in Calabar, the state capital.
He said democracy does not create the balance that is needed for natural justice.
The governor said the principle of zoning should be entrenched in the nation’s political system.
“We inherited a brand of democracy which is not Afrocentric, neither does it have the sensitivity of the African culture and morality,” Ayade said.
“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.”
