NIGERIA’S QUEST FOR A PERMANENT SEAT IN THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The united nations in the last few years undergone serious reforms among which is the resolution to increase the membership of the non permanent members of the security council in which the African continent has been allotted two slots Nigeria was a serious contender of one of those slots in which it was able to get.
Currently no African state is a permanent member of the security council and this is a major reason why Africa was allotted two slots in the nonpermanent members of the security council been that Africa is the second most populated continent in the world behind Asia.
One of the biggest achievements of Nigeria in her fifty four years of independence is being anon permanent member of the Security Council. The current reform of the United Nations is golden opportunity which Nigeria cannot afford to miss.
Being a member of this exclusive club will be recognition of the country s strength, economic and strategic importance and political maturity. Despite all her short comings, Nigeria has emerged biggest democracy on the African continent.
The return of the country to the part of democracy after years of successive military regime has increased its legitimacy in internal affairs. Nigeria has contributed immensely too many peace keeping operations around the world.
If these and other credentials are to yield the desired result the country must contend with the slow pace of economic recovery, the challenges posed by other serious African contenders particularly Egypt and South Africa.
In the 21st century, the world has indeed become a ‘’global village’’ what happens in one remote corner of the world is quickly known by others at the farthest and remotest corner. The consequences also spread fast and given the asymmetrical nature of the world, they have different and varying impact.
This accounts for the reason why United Nations permanent members are reluctant towards the admission of an African state as permanent member of the Security Council because of the existence of so many short coming
HISTORY OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
The year was 1945 was the second war enveloping much of the globe in the last 30 years was coming to an end. In this environment, representatives from China, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States met at the Dumbarton Oaks mansion in Washington D.C. for the initial discussions that would lead to the creation of the United Nations.
The representatives were well aware of the guiding principles of the League of Nations, and also of its multiple failures. Though many felt that the League of Nations had the capacity to discuss significant international affairs, the body was not constructed in a manner which was able to produce successful measures to deter aggression and prevent conflict.
Firstly, the United States, by now a prominent global power, did not join the organization, although the organization was originally the Woodrow Wilson’s, the president of the United States at the time, idea after World War I.
This handicapped the League from the beginning by preventing it from achieving maximal financial backing and international political support. Secondly, there was no clear division of duties between the League’s Assembly and Council committees.
Thus, tasks were often mismanaged. Additionally, all resolutions required a unanimous vote to pass, a rarity in the arena of international politics. Since there was no clear sense of collective security,
individual Member States of the League continued the policy of pursuing narrowly defined interests of their own country’s foreign policy. In 1945, the nations represented at Dumbarton Oaks were mindful of these,…
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Existing literature A.S Akpotor and P.E Agbeka in his book ‘ Nigeria’s quest for a permanent seat in the security council’ and Sokore Collins ‘ Nigeria’s UN Seat Bid And the Tsunami Gyration Gang’ have attempted to present both the advantages and the disadvantages that are inherent in Nigeria’s bid for a permanent seat of or at the UNSC.
These they have done without paying adequate regards to the complex implications, which may not necessarily be negative, that the bid could attract to Nigeria. Really Nigeria’s attempts at assisting the United Nations in finding solutions to some of the numerous
politico-security challenges that had happened in some regions of the international system, and her contribution to several of Africa countries, present her as about the best African candidate for a permanent seat at UNSC.
However, the grounds well of anomie within her confines and the grave ignominy in which she is held by some of her neighbors, no thanks to the fraudulent activities of some of her citizens in diasporas and some of the elites that are wont to siphon and launder funds from the governmental coffers, seem capable of hurting her candidature.
#In view of this, one notes that the existing literature have mostly paid attention to the advantages and/or disadvantages that her candidature would engender, with distasteful disregard for the implications therein.
Without grappling issues with extant literature therefore, this study seeks an interrogation of the fallouts that would been gendered by Nigeria’s candidature for a permanent seat at UNSC.
1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
During the course of this work it will research on the enlightenment of Nigerians on what we stand to gain by being a member of the permanent seat of the UN Security Council. Its implications on our finances and the responsibility this post is going to impose on Nigeria as a nation and also as the ‘Giant’ of Africa.
It will be analyzing the reasons why Nigeria is likely to get the seat despite the fact that it’s competing against strong nations such as South Africa and Egypt.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The scope of my research would seek to answer the following questions;
1. Is there any likelihood that the UNSC would be restructured in order to accommodate new permanent members?
2. Is Nigeria’s quest for a permanent seat a way to go for Africa or is such aspiration meant to satisfy some egocentric interests?
3. Will Nigeria’s acceptance into the Security Council solve the problem of insecurity in Africa ,and in particular, that within her confines?
4, Will Nigeria play a better role in the Security Council than other nations in Africa?
1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The specific objectives of the study are to:
a) Identify the reasons that underlie the sudden clamor for the democratization of the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council
b) Examine the complex dimensions of relations that Nigeria’s bid for the hallowed membership might be engendered
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