Literature mirrors society and literary artists reflect the realities of lives in their various societies through their literary works. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh is one of the Nigerian writers who have continued to use the avenue of literature to project the realities of lives in our 21st century in the hope that through the powers in literature we could still achieve the changes, ethical values and reformation needed in many spheres of our lives. The novel, The Presidential Handshake is her second novel, a sequel to her first novel, Teachers on Strike. This paper adopted a sociological approach as the framework for the study of the novel. This approach is rooted in the idea that literature is a product of the society. It sees a literary work as nothing but a product of several real aspects of the society of a writer. Armed with this approach, the paper is interested in determining the real life social – political and economic issues that obviously gave rise to the issues in the novel under discourse. The study discovered that politics and political disillusionment as peculiar to our society formed the bedrock of the novel. But unlike many writers and works critical of politics, the writer adopted a rather different approach by casting aspersion this time, not on our leaders but on the masses whose actions and inaction provide the taproot with which the leaders continued to exploit them. The paper projected how the writer reflected a realistic picture of our society decaying as a result of bad politicking, insensitivity on the part of the masses that have lost faith in politics and view it as an avenue to loot and enrich one's generation rather than a call to serve. How the writer portrayed our society, her optimism on the emergence of new political ideology, selfless leaders and a new generation of masses who would once again glorify politics and politicians and view it as our avenue of redemption rather than exploitation is the crux of our study.