coptic:


What do you expect from an illiterate that doesn't know anywhere besides Northern Kaduna.

Kathmandu:
Joseph Tarka started a Middle Belt party in the 60s because they see the Hausa Fulanis as parasites. Today the Middle belt have their own identity and have a lot of groups to identify themselves.



Stop being beggars. The middle belt is different from you people. Cc kyase coptic Terkimbi malton

Quality20:
Jerry boy is just a CAN die hard fanatic. Check d middle belt and see : 1 kogi- about 70% Muslims 2. Kwara -about 90% Muslims 3. Nassarawa - about 70% Muslims 4. Niger -about 90% Muslims 5.plateau- 30 - 40% Muslims 6. Benue approx 20 to 30% Muslims. So where are the Christians that Jerry boy is speaking for? We will never see him as our leader or speaker. His leadership only reverberates among the few Christians who see him as such

fiizznation:
And who will drive them away? You? If I give you a dirty e-slap, you will see stars.

Nobody can drive a fulfude man away from anywhere. Deal with it!!!

coptic:


What do you expect from an illiterate that doesn't know anywhere besides Northern Kaduna.

Mujtahida:

Have you been to the middle belt? You see the thing is this: even as at Pre indepence there was a political party called UMBC (United middle belt Congress) formed by J. S Tarka and Solomon Lar to pursue the political interest of the middle belt and give a voice to the minorities concentrated in the region. This party was the third largest opposition party in the Northern Nigeria Assembly. This party often aligned with Awolowo's Action Group.
If Awolowo at that time had the wisdom to align with this party I wonder why today politicians in the south don't do so. But the reason is that we lack politicians with the political clout and sagacity of J S Tarka who had the wisdom to float a distinct political party. Just as the minorities in the South (as in the Ijaws, Urhobos, Efiks, Anang, Ibibios, etc) are the softbelly to the South so also are the minorities in the North the key to unlocking the power of the North.

That's why when I see Igbos, Yorubas and the Ijaws, Itshekiris, Urhobos, Anangs insult each other here, when I see them pull in different directions it galls my heart. There's a political experiment that has never been tried before and this is it: the south(West and East and deep South) have never aligned before. If they do, I trust they can at least palm off Benue, Plateau, parts of Kogi, Nasarawa, Taraba, Adamawa, Kwara and Niger from the Northern juggernaut and demystify it forever! I believe in the voluntary unity of this country. If consensus for restructuring is formed along the lines I just outlined I believe the unclothedness of the North will be seen. They will come to the table and we will have the opportunity to birth a new nation.

fiizznation:
Well one hausa/fulani woman(Aisha isma'il) won the last election. It was just unfortunate that some people stole her mandate and gave it to the current governor. Btw, don't stress your head, you will see what will happen in the next governorship election.

Tell me, or rather just mention one tribe that is more populated than fulanis in taraba state

SuperS1Panther:


Don't you know that their fathers tell them that the likes of Benue , Taraba, Nassarrawa, Kogi, Kwara are their feudal lands and as he is, he sees himself as the Lord of Benue, his younger brother will see himself as the Lord of Taraba and all of you are their subjects.



There is an urgent need for Middle Belt to be more vocally vociferous.

fiizznation:
lol. I don't want to have this argument with you honestly. But go and do your own findings. You will most likely find out that majority of middlebeltans are muslims. It will likely be a 60% muslims to a 40% christians population. Go figure

Mujtahida:

Okay. Though I never opened a thread here on nairaland. How are you doing? I Was born and brought up in Makurdi. Msugh we

Mujtahida:

What is Arewa Consultative Forum? If the Hausa and the Fulani in the middle belt do not join the Middle belt forum it would not invalidate the forum. This is precisely the logic and mindset that has gotten us to where we are today : What is middle belt forum? Hear the hardly concealed scorn in your words, your contempt, your condescending arrogance! The middle belt are not a people fit to have their own forum unless they are joined to the Olympian gods in the North.
It's high time we all cured our minds of this outlook. It has not helped us as a nation for 57 years. Let us try a new option where everybody is respected, every ethnic group is given EQUAL access to opportunities in this country. Thank your stars that Orkar's coup did not succeed. You would not have been here asking what is Middle Belt forum.

fiizznation:
Ignorant talk. I'm very sure you a NC Christian. And I ask again, who made you folks the spokespersons of a very complicated secular region called the north central? Do you share the same opinion with a Muslim from the north central? The muslims that made up the majority of the folks in north central aligned themselves with the north itself. And you don't see them creating silly forums to call themselves one ridiculous name. The last election should have told your d**k skull were the north central stands. Buhari won in all the states there.

I don't even have any problem with the very few of you from the north central that always want to divide the north central along religious line(e.g is what this clown called jerry is saying), but I will continue to ask you, who made you very few folks in the minority the SPOKESPERSONS of a very porous north central region?


Like i said earlier, there are more hausa/fulani in the north central than any other ethnic group. So where do you keep them in your ridiculous 'middlebelt' nonsense?

9japride:
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Wow! Thanks for the history lesson. You raised a valid point, it's just greediness of our leaders down south that is responsible for the situation we found ourselves. Why I came hard on the middle belt was their silence towards the negative grip of the northern cabals on their political aspirations and the way some of them view us. I believe if the southern parts can drop their differences and work with the middle belterns, the north with time will be very irrelevant in Nigeria. Though you guys should see southeasterns as a brother because we don't cause trouble. The civil war has really given Igbos a bad name and worse still, the absence of history in our schools is not helping matter. I believe strong and vibrant men should rise and move u guys to success and greatness as u said of S Tarka and Solomon Lar did before. Our reasoning is so messed up as a result of age long deprivation of a smooth environment for youths to grow mentally. Anyway, I thank God everyone is waking up now. I pray for the oil to dry up fast so that we all can know that we've been dreaming with nightmare all along. Thumbs up

coptic:


True words.

It's about time we carved our own identity, which won't be a difficult feat to achieve.

A good number of our people already identify as middlebelters, not northerners. All that's left is to change the political categorisation.

To think our politicians allowed this to happen in the first place, I must admit that I am disappointed.

The next move shall be to get them to withdraw from membership of the ACF and form a united middlebelt front instead.

Mujtahida:

We are in the middle and so therefore we often go with the North because the south has never presented a united front.
I do not want any part to be irrelevant or dominant in Nigeria. If any part is irrelevant it would not be long before we find ourselves in the same rut as we are now. Let every part be relevant. I know that equality is an illusion. Nature doesn't tow that line but still if we desire we can work things out. That's why we have months and brain to talk and reason things out.

Who knows, perhaps providence gave us a 50 year time to experience all the negatives that has marked our history so that we can learn from it, craft a system(According to Awolowo the name doesn't matter, let political scientists call it whatever name they chose so long as it accommodates all of us)

Gravas:

My brother. That guy does not know anything. He is using arogance to cover his lack of understanding. Anyway, it is common with them to display arrogance and violence. They are always quick to insult.

9japride:
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OK oh! I won't blame u guys for going with the North. We in the south are still playing childish politics, while the north has gone far and why I was saying the north should be irrelevant is because they are not ready to change for good even in the next 100years. Why because they mix their cultural practice inside religion making them not to see the larger picture of things. I know how the average northern youth reason and they are usually very violent which it's not part our culture over here. Education and enlightenment is the only solution. It was unfortunate that the military era didn't give us much time to experience democracy and willingness to live together. We the easterners are ever ready to live with everyone but as it stands now I don't think majority of the easterners are ready to stay in Nigeria again. The matter don full belle

Gravas:

It is baffling as to how and why the evil categorization of Middle Belt as North Central was allowed by our politicians. As a matter of urgency, we the current generation say no to this. We are Middle Belters by natural design. Nobody should compel us to go North. Time to make our identity clear. Let us prevail on Federal Lawmakers from Middle Belt to effect this change of name.

Mujtahida:

You have spoken well. Cheers

coptic:


That's that, bro. I know our people will effect this. Our generation will change the narrative soon enough.

As a matter of fact, whoever is aspiring to positions must admit this before they are elected.
We have had enough.

Mujtahida:

Right here on Nairaland I urge all Nairalanders from the South East, South West and deep South to call us what we wish to be called : MIDDLEBELTERS. Jacob changed his name and his destiny changed. We want to change our political destiny and I invite all of you to our political baptism. We are not North Central but Middlebelt. Do not help to consolidate and perpetuate the powers that want to hold this country hostage.
This is imperative. Let us unmask once and for all the powers that want this country to go to pieces.
We say NO to Northern hegemony
We say NO to North Central categorization
We say NO to Fulani herdsmen despoiling farms, killing people in the middle belt and everywhere else in Nigeria
We say NO to those clamping down on the drive to restructure Nigeria and birth a nation.

Let no man think that I hate the North. I don't. I just want a good, just, equitable, developed country. Shikena
Coptic
Kyase
Terkimbi01

Kyase:
open a thread with it bro

Lanceslot:
Nigeria will keep going round and round beating round the bush till the end of time. No proper plan from the past, for the present and future.

ESDKING:
No peace in this contraption until the needful is done.

Gravas:

I hv suggested same thing but he said he don't know how to open a thread. Will u do it for him or i should do it?

Kyase:
ok

Gravas:
U go do it ba?

Kyase:
have done it.

bababeejay:
biafra is the whole south, it is bigger than igbo