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...For a better society... Saturday, December 18 2004 Vol 13 No.44 News Events Cover Issues Politics Foreign News The Art Ladies & Gentlemen Saturday Sports Panache Weekend Circuit Weekend Business Special Snap Shot Interview UN seat: Don makes case for Nigeria IFEANYI ALIA A leading international relations expert and University don, Dr. Ayo Akinbobola has thrown his weight behind Nigeria’s quest to become a permanent member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, stating that the country has a good chance of grabbing the UN seat. Speaking with Saturday Champion, Dr. Akinbolola, a senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Lagos, argued that the nation’s involvement over the years particularly in regional affairs put it in good stead over other African countries in the race for the UN seat. Dr Akimbola deposed: "I am not worried for a moment that South Africa is showing interest in the UN seat because they have by all definitions the attributes to represent Africa. But I am concerned about the failure of Africa’s leaders to see the representation of Africa at the UN security Council as so symbolic and so important that they must do all that they have to do at the domestic level. Inter-Africa diplomacy must narrow the avenue for the selection of Africa’s representative to the UN security council." According to the university don, granted that all Africans are brothers and in view of Nigeria’s dominant role in the liberation of South Africa, "it will not be too difficult to arrive at who the African representative at the UN seat shall be." "President Obasanjo cannot seize to communicate with Thabo Mbeki. He must open the platform - an Abuja-Pretoria axis to discuss the knotty issues involved in the African representation at the security council. We cannot allow this opportunity to go unmet with the force available to Africa. "Nigeria was concerned as a member of the frontline states in the heydays of Apartheid. I recalled as a student that Nigeria was the chairman of the anti-apartheid committee. The likes of Edwin Ogbu, Lieslie Harriman, Joe Garba, these were Nigeria’s permanent representatives in the UN, were fighting for the liquidation of apartheid as if apartheid was existing in Nigeria. In terms of what each country has done in the past, what they are doing now, and what they are trying to do in the future, Nigeria’s record is unparalleled," Dr Akinbobola observed. HIV (p.1) � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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