Let me redefine what I said...
Commitment and Dedication... this applies to the clan leader to be active and sit with it till the completion of the task. Everything revolves around this. MANY clans have failed due to the clan leaders inept greed or lack of commitment (see Jippinhal concerning Relentless and his subsequent theft of gold continually from castle and then transfer to magmar side to hide from punishment, dont believe me? ask anyone who knew this was going on in Relent before he left lol ie Gavor and NightStalker and many others). Many many leaders have failed in this quest... as for the clanmates... if you are that dumb to follow someone who wont give you the commitment that you needed for this quest... as i said, find another clan (refer to Relentless again as it will expire and be gone in less than 30 days). The same will happen to your clans which you dont have strong leaders to provide a direction to.
Pez: Read my answer here twice, this is what i'm implying. As to answer you directly, A is the only solution, B is a flagrant breaking of game rules and would just get leader AND user of that account jailed/possibly banned.
IF admins grant a "co-leader" rank that has exactly the same powers as the leader, this might be a good thing for removing a Leader from power that can't be removed OR wont be removed. BUT i'd assume that a co-leader would have to be assigned by the leader anyways.
Sith
You really know its "game over" when the most fun we have is talking in forums...