Is there a way a sim can pass leadership of a club off to another?

Making friends with the Leader and then "Ask to step down" has always worked for me. This interaction might be in the "Clubs" menu. It's been a while. I seem to remember that fomenting rebellion made the current Leader angry and less likely to cooperate. But, again, it's been a little while

Well, that is not true the leadership role does not always go to the person next on the list, most of the time its the person with the youngest age. Anyway, if your a leader of a age limit club or event limit club you can influence the new leader by talking up to the club member, but its no guarantee though.

Edit: Also if the leader refuses you can use the talk about other sim social in mean and there should be a option that says trash sim or talk down about sim.

I ended up playing as that character and removing him from the membership list. While the member list was up I removed all the members until the one I wanted was left. He became leader, and I readded the other members from the leader screen.