Abstract: Developing leaders and followers relationship are key factors to achieving good governance. Governance is widely believed to be an instrument through which a society is organised in order to maintain law and order as well as advance the necessary social amenities in a community. The study therefore investigated the relationship between followers, leaders, good governance and make implication for students in tertiary institution. The population of the study was made up of all members of the selected youth organisations in southwestern states of Nigeria namely: Nigeria Aid Group, First Aid Group and Federation of Boys and Girls.Quota sampling was employed in selecting 70 respondents each from the associations, where 5 executives and 65 ordinary members were purposively selected for the study. A total of 1,260 respondents were used as respondents to the instrument. An instrument tagged: Democracy and Good Governance Scale and Leadership Factors Questionnaire (DEGS&FOLEF) was used to collect data for the study.The analysis revealed that promotion of good governance is the responsibilities of leaders and followers. It thereforeconcludes and recommended among others that there is a direct link between leaders and followers relationship and good governance, every members of the association are therefore required to be committed to the development of the association by discharging their responsibilities.
Keywords: Leader, Followers, Governance, Good Governance, Democracy
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