SCHOOL UNIONISM: A PREREUQUISITES FOR POLITICALLEADERSHIPTRAINING

The study examined student unionism as prerequisite for leadership training. Themainpurpose of the study is to investigate student unionism as a template of leadershiptrainingin Nigeria. Four research questions were raised to guide the study. Series of relatedliterature were reviewed. The study adopted descriptive survey researchdesign. Thepopulation of the study comprised students, teaching and non-teaching staff of AdekunleAjasin University, Akungba-Akoko. One hundred (100) respondents wererandomlyselected. Simple random sampling technique was use to select the participants inthestudy.Duly validated questionnaire was used to select the data collection. Data collectionswereanalyzed through the use of descriptive statistics of frequency counts andsimplepercentage. First findings in the study shows that poor practice of consultation, conciliationandconfrontation tenets of students union is a far cry to what was obtainable inthepast onedecades, second findings revealed that students union is an actual template of leadershiptraining, another findings from the study revealed that some candidates vyingof studentsunion positions are driven by personal gains not service meant to be rendered, Furtherfindings shows that poor financial base to implement articulated programmes of theunionexecutives affect the effectiveness of well-articulated manifestoes during implementation.