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Secular humanism has taken the world by storm - including the realm of African politics. Believing that religion is irrelevant, humanism asserts that men and women need no divine help in knowing what is right or wrong, valid or invalid, good or bad, as they are mature moral agents in their own rights. Integrity in Nigerian Politics challenges this assertion, providing an introduction to Christian political ethics and offering a powerful argument for its relevance in the complex moral terrain of today's political affairs. Rooted specifically in Nigeria's political history, and the social, religious, and economic challenges it has faced, this study explores the role of integrity in practical politics and the implications of its neglect. Establishing that it is the character of God that is the foundation for successful governance, Dr Aghawenu demonstrates that it is ineffective, impractical, and ultimately dangerous to ignore the ethical insights Christianity has to offer the political realm. This important work challenges the church to overcome the sacred-secular divide that so often permeates its public engagement and to recognize that it has what it needs to transform the nature of democratic politics in Nigeria, in Africa, and throughout the world.

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This book is well written as it coherently articulates the moral issues prevalent in the Nigerian democratic system. No doubt, the work is one of the best texts composed with reference to biblical political ethics in several ways. It is sufficiently comprehensive, analytical, insightful, applicable, and practicable in the classroom and outside of it in scholarship engagements. This is an important book for everyone interested in Nigerian democratic ethos of biblical extraction. Jacob K. Ayantayo, PhD Professor of Religious Ethics, Religion and Society, University of Ibadan, Nigeria This highly readable book on Christian political ethics, which is focused on Nigeria, is well-thought through, insightful, well-researched, and distinctively evangelical in approach. It encompasses all that is necessary for African Christians, and indeed non-Christians in Africa, to understand ethical politics. It makes clear why the ultimate demand from God for politicians in Africa is integrity. This subject matter seems to be the major challenge in the African political process. This book challenges Nigerians in particular to think well and it provides the tools they need to serve in a God-honoring way in politics. The author articulates, and rightly so, that the man or woman who has integrity must be of sound moral principle, honest and upright in conduct as well as in purity of the heart. The book presents itself in a way that students of ethics and political science will particularly appreciate. Deji Isaac Ayegboyin, PhD Professor of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Visiting Professor, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria

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GOODFRIDAY N. AGHAWENU has a PhD in Christian Ethics from the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. He is President emeritus of Baptist Theological Seminary, Eku, Nigeria, where he serves as a senior lecturer and has taught for nearly twenty years. He and his wife, Mercy, have four children, and they labor together for the moral and spiritual holiness of their people by means of the exaltation of the mind and spirit to the mysteries of God.

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