ABSTRACT

Abstract

This article presents and analyses the nature and extent of the politics of leadership portrayed by some world leaders who ascended to the position of president. People are ready to accept and repose their confidence in God-fearing leaders who are honest, upright, trustworthy, impartial and hardworking. However, due to the involvement of some leaders in apprehensible and abhorrent tendencies such as selfishness, aggrandisement, sectionalism, political and religious bigotry in their leadership styles, they face a myriad of problems which adversely affect the effectiveness of their leadership thereby reducing efficiency, ushering in low productivity and causing social upheavals. As such, the objectives of this article were to highlight the socioeconomic predicament, and the problems of sustainable economy, and of leadership towards accomplishment of harmonious coexistence. The article used a descriptive analysis through retrieval of archive materials and consultation of academic materials. The article revealed that socioeconomic sustainability had being jointly pursued, with particular reference and emphasis to leadership in Islam. In fact, this system of wrangling had jeopardised the free flow of social, economic, political and harmonious existence. The results also revealed that masses are ready to accept leaders who can provide socioeconomic buoyant and social justice, equality before all for the achievement of optimum political stability, goals and objectives. The article discovered that leadership abused power by creating acrimony among the led, which brought lot of anarchy that led to socioeconomic degradation equally at the end tarnish their leadership style.

Key words: leadership, Islam, socioeconomic, upheaval and sustainability