Morality and Personalism-A Socio Functional Perspective on Conflict of Governance and Politics in Nigeria

Abstract

There is extant literature that governance in Nigeria has been marked with moral decay, corruption and its consequences based on selfishness and greed. This paper argues that any incidence of failure of governance is indicative of dissolution of the moral person. Consequently it critically investigated the crises of governance and politics in Nigeria and showed that the phenomena of conflict, corruption and religious bigotry which put a halt to the realization of stable polity are indications of a culture of failure of socio-moralfunctional personality in the evolution of a common good. This paper does not advance a particular theory of personalism. It only presents this phenomenon as a logical consequence of the social critique of Nigerian politics.