The attention of this paper would be to assess critically the consequences of any conscious
effort to separate morality from politics giving that morality constitutes an essential and
integral part of any political culture. With this understanding it becomes controversial and
worrisome for any one to suggest that morality can be divorced from politics and still make a
success out of the entire business of governance. The concept of Machiavellianism presents a
very big challenge to this possibility in politics. I would attempt to show the dangers inherent
in such a calculated effort using the Nigerian political experience as a case study