Effect of Leadership Style on Political Participation in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper explains that, pattern of political grouping, pressure groups, social economic as well as business organization, so also the voting pattern in Nigeria portrays the unrelenting quest in search of political leadership by the inhabitant of the country to avail them from such perpetual deteriorating condition, subjected to by the past administrations, that had long sub-due sustainable development in all aspects of human endeavour quintessentially pre-conditioned their unanimous stands out in political participation of the recent time. It further suggested that, there is no doubt that the negative and pernicious role perpetrated by the Nigeria leaders contributed to the rise and fall of political participation, which had further strangulate social political line cut-across the diverse unit of the country. Political party, the platform by which electorates expressed their political loyalty and solidarity in favour of a particular political associate or person determined at the level of ideology, Kinship (in Nigerian) or ethnic diversity (as the case may be) plays a plethora of roles which include acting as symbol that provides for candidates to contest election in other to form (acceptable) governments.  In other words, and by the virtue of this pivotal function ascribed to political party, it serves as undesirable link (in the contemporary democracy ) between the people and the government .The paper hence concluded that, attitude of political actors in the recent occurring situation and the dynamic social political participation had obviously vindicated the perpetual act of greed and selfishness among principal political leaders/actors as they change from one party to another.Therefore, the paper demonstrated that the hope and aspiration of the electorates remains both on reliable judicial precedents andelectoral college.