What started like one of incident, but now it has widely metamorphosed into a trend. The
fire of revolution that started in Tunisia, December 2010 is already consuming not just North
Africa countries but the Middle East. Other nations in the North Africa and Middle East with
similar leadership sit-tight traits may be counting their days. The ongoing Arab spring
motivates this study to examine the limitation of sit-tight syndrome and demonstrate there is
no substitute to participatory democracy. The study was descriptive while data obtained from
secondary sources. The study found that the era of dictatorial leadership has gone no matter
how benevolent. In addition, the use of religion as a means of sustaining self in power is no
longer fashionable. The conclude that the on ongoing crisis might spread beyond north
Africa and Middle East while good governance based on democratic arrangement is the
possible to the current crisis. The study recommends that there must be gradual
democratization in Arab States. The study further recommend that the system should
accommodate the culture of the nation and the fundamental rights of the citizenry should be
guaranteed.