Take for example the very ascendance of General Olusegun Obasanjo to power. Nowhere has this total lack of principle been more glaring than over the issue of Sharia. I believe if it had been handled on point of principle and we had all avoided mischief, expediency and hypocrisy, the killings, maiming and destruction of property in Kaduna, Abia, Akwa lbom and Imo would have been avoided. My point of departure in discussing this matter .is the Constitution itself. Those opposed to Sharia have often talked glibly, albeit understandably, about the Constitution being secular.
Nothing is further from the truth.
Now, secularism means religion should have no part in political or civic affairs. Obviously, you cannot be secular and be under God at the same time. The fact of the matter is that the Constitution regards Nigeria as a multi-religious state, as opposed to a secular one. Indeed no where in the Constitution is the word secular used. And it is because we take our religions seriously that is why we ask our leaders to swear by God that they will behave themselves when they take office.