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ECOWAS to date has had diminutive successes and it has become a self serving community with Nigeria at the helm. The other fourteen members’ countries clearly have no political or economic clout otherwise ECOWAS would not have been silent on Nigeria’s absentee Presidents refusal to hand over power to Jonathan Goodluck and the ethnical tensions threatening to paralyse the country.

The balance of power clearly rests in Abuja. ECOWAS headquarters are in Nigeria and it makes up a substantial number of its peacekeeping troops. Nigeria makes up 51% of the regions total population and its economy is twice the size of all member countries combined. Of the fifteen members, twelve are still classified as least developing countries; all of whom still rely on the west financially.

Arguably ECOWAS is more like a country club than a supranational institution. It has no real bite, it cannot put in place economic sanctions and certainly cannot act without Nigerian approval.

ECOWAS should be dismantled

I remember this debate during my MBA classes.
Ecowas really has not achieved any of its objectives.
What's ironic about the recent adventure in Niger is that government process or systems are not part of its objectives.
Ecowas objectives are purely economic and along the line of regional integration. It has failed in that regard. The Eco is still-born as it has been since it was first muted.
The GDP of its member countries have largely shrunk and with AftCFA, Ecowas is on its way to obscurity.

The ECOWAS led by tinubu has no balls and do not have the ability to invade Niger republic