In life, a good leader requires strong set of leadership qualities to enable positive interaction with their team members, political members, associates, constituents and others.

Behavioral theories suggest that some leadership skills may not be inborn but can be learnt. People can acquire leadership qualities through training and learning the skills overtime.

The most important qualities of a good leader include communication, integrity, accountability, humility, resilience, vision, influence and positivity.

There are divine qualities that makes a great leader irrespective of what leadership means to you and it is undeniable fact that certain people can greatly influence the lives of others in their community based on their mission, experience and insights.

Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi is indeed a born leader and a man who has wide-range of leadership skills acquired from corporate, private and government organizations.

There are certain characteristics, traits, and skills that ultimately build the most effective leaders and here are some interesting leadership qualities possessed by Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi "Jagaban" that other prospective leaders can take a cue from:

1* Communication
2* Integrity
3* Accountability
4* Empathy
5* Humility
6* Resilience
7* Vision
8* Influence
9* Positivity
10*Delegation

1. Communication:
As a matter of necessity, a leader must have a good communication skills. Honourable Prince Olaide Akinremi is rare leader with a top-notch communication skill, especially when it comes to addressing his people. For him, what makes communication effective is mastering the art of Listening. Right up there with empathy, the only way to get people to follow you is to make them feel heard. This is just one of the reasons why his disciples label him a reliable leader and "Omoluabi Pataki"of our time.

2. Integrity:
In the words of C.S. Lewis, “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching" As much as Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi is concerned, integrity is key in leadership and without integrity, there is no real measure of success because You can’t expect your followers to be honest when you lack integrity yourself. An honest leader succeeds when they stick to their word, live by their core values, lead by example and follow-through.

Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi believes that integrity is the cornerstone of all other leadership qualities.

3.Accountability:
In the dictionary of Honorable Prince Akinremi , accountability is a necessary and important skill for every leader and according to Arnold Glasow, “A good leader takes little more than his share of the blame and little less than his share of the credit.”

A true leader is accountable and takes responsibility for the team's results both the falls and the wins.

Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi "Jagaban" gives credit where credit is due and takes responsibility for blame when necessary. Being accountable and truly leading by example is one of the quickest and fastest ways he has built the trust and loyalty of his people.

4.Empathy:
Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi "Jagaban" understands that a true leader must be open-minded to the motivations, problems, hopes and dreams of his people and hereby finds a way to create a deep personal connection with them.

5.Humility:
When it comes to leadership, it can be tempting to become enamored with the new title or status that comes with the position. However, Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi leadership style focused on problem solving and team dynamics much more than self glorification. He believes a great leader will only achieve the best result by being more concerned with the welfare of his team and his people at the grassroots, rather than putting his personal interests first. As Thomas Merton said, “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”

6.Vision:
Jack Welch said, “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.” As a representative of Ibadan north federal constituency, Honorable Prince Akinremi has clearly set the tone towards direction and exercises keen decisiveness towards achieving the set goals.

Honorable Prince Akinremi believe that decision making and consultations is the key to new ideas while ensuring that people understands his direction, his vision and his mission.

Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi believes and always says that, “True leaders inspire loyalty, enthusiasm, commitment, remind everyone of their big picture and challenge people to outdo themselves.”

7.Influence:
Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi believes that leadership and influence are not interchangeable and respect has to be earned not given. Leaders must learn to earn respect as respect cannot be gotten through coercion or by the mere attainment of position.

8.Resilience:
Resilience is one of the key attribute of leadership. Leaders must learn to pursue a course and see it through, regardless of the difficulties. This is one of the key qualities of Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi. He is not a quitter and his resilient nature sees him rise above the difficulty times and performed excellently in his line of representation and development of Ibadan north federal constituency

9.Positivity:
Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi believes that leaders inspire the people not only through decisions and outcomes, but also by their body language and mental demeanour. Their behavioral pattern and lifestyle, life outlook and attitude even in the face of pressure keeps them going. According to him, a good leader sets all goals with a positive mindset towards achieving positive results.

10.Delegation:
A difficult transition for many leaders is shifting from doing to leading. Leadership has a lot to do with the delegation of duties as against trying to do it all by yourself. Honourable Prince Olaide Akinremi is not a man that want to be an actor in all the movie scenes neither is he a man that want to accustomed to doing all the work by himself just to get all the glory. However, Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi always delegates responsibilities to his disciples, because he believes great leaders must motivate their team by assigning responsibilities to them while he only plays the supervisory role.

Let us all support and cooperate with Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi "Jagaban" a true leader with the interest of his people at heart.

God bless Honorable Prince Olaide Akinremi and give him long life with good health for him to serve the people and give glory to God. Amen.

@Aare Adekunle Ayo Bolarinwa.