Nigeria Solicits Finland’s Support for Permanent UN Security Council Seat

By Timothy Choji

Nigeria has solicited the support of Finland in its pursuit of a permanent seat at the United Nations (UN) Security Council.

Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, who made the appeal, said Nigeria remains a super force in Africa and would do all within its reach to close cultural links and ties in the effort to reunite the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and further leave no stone unturned in the quest to stabilize Africa.

Speaking during a meeting with President of the Republic of Finland, Alexander Stubb, on the sidelines of the ongoing 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Vice President said the support has become necessary, given Finland’s role as a European and NATO member.

VP Shettima added that considering the role Nigeria has played over the years in entrenching democratic values and peaceful cohesion, it deserves a place in the UN Security Council.

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“Nigeria has 25 years of uninterrupted democracy. And in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a President with huge democratic credentials and commitment. With him in the saddle, Africa and the larger world would be safe, futuristic, acceptable and more peaceful,” he stated.

Responding, President Stubb of Finland, expressed total support for the expansion and reconstruction of the UN Security Council, saying the dictates and dynamics of the modern world demands such a change.

He expressed Finland’s continued desire to partner with Nigeria as well as opening new frontiers of development between both countries.