Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and President of the ECOWAS Parliament, Mémounatou Ibrahima, have jointly framed regional integration as West Africa’s most urgent strategic imperative.
Similarly, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu urged West African states to accelerate regional economic integration and strengthen institutional cooperation to address emerging political, economic, and security challenges across the sub-region.
They warned that fragmentation in a competitive global order would deepen economic vulnerability and political instability.