The Democratic Front (TDF) has applauded President Bola Tinubu’s call for two permanent seats for Africa on the United Nations Security Council.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, Mallam Danjuma Muhammad, and Secretary, Chief Wale Adedayo, the group said the President’s advocacy was timely and reflected a clear understanding of the continent’s challenges.
“TDF notes that President Tinubu demonstrated deep knowledge and wisdom in explaining why Africa’s developmental challenges have attracted insufficient global support, despite the continent’s enormous contributions to global affairs and its vast reserves of raw materials critical to industrial development worldwide,” the group said.
It also endorsed Tinubu’s opposition to Africa’s continued exclusion from a global power structure designed in 1945. “Such a skewed and outdated framework cannot adequately address the contemporary challenges facing modern Africa,” it said.
The group said Africa remained politically, economically and socially disadvantaged because of its underrepresentation in the global governance system, with serious
consequences for socio-economic development.
“This is why we believe President Bola Tinubu’s advocacy for two permanent African seats on the United Nations Security Council is a responsibility that the current generation of African leaders owes the continent,” TDF said.
The group added that Tinubu had consistently advocated greater access to concessional financing, fairer economic decision-making and comprehensive debt relief for African countries through more balanced representation in global institutions since his election as Nigeria’s president in 2023.
It also cited his commitment at a recent Africa Forward Summit in Kenya, co-hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President William Ruto, to make Nigeria’s Deep Blue Project maritime intelligence infrastructure available as a shared data
hub for willing Gulf of Guinea states.
“TDF commends President Tinubu for advancing Africa’s quest for two permanent seats on the UN Security Council through subtle and strategic diplomacy, without prejudice to Nigeria’s bilateral obligations,” the group said.
It said the Security Council’s underrepresentation of Africa should concern every responsible nation and citizen, arguing that the continent’s socio-economic and political challenges could be better addressed if Africa secured two permanent seat.
Responding to criticism of Tinubu’s absence from the United Nations General Assembly, TDF said the presence or absence of a leader did not diminish a nation’s ability to present its case to the international community.
