malton:


Kogi is a reflection of Nigeria itself. What you said is the truth. I've lived in and know Kogi well enough to understand your POV. I just hope that someday, we'll realize that the problem is not the marriage itself and that it only seems like a marriage of strange bedfellows because we haven't been allowed the time to know each other better.

A lot of times, we form opinions off of others' perceptions without experiences of our own. We can learn to love if we try. Chances are that you have never had a direct confrontation with an Igala or Ebira person before.

Whether you are the same state or not, someday, somehow, you'd always get in each other's way. It's life. If we must solve every problem by division, not even one family will be left.

fk001:


What's the definition of middle belt? let's start from there.



I hope you will not tell me that " middle belt is a region or territory that is predominantly occupied by Christians and detest Islam"


Joker!!!!

sarrki:



http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/north-north-no-middle-belt-kwande/

kennygee:


I have o. My mum just even severed ties with an Ebira woman whom she thought of as a friend. Even Igalas, I have lived with them and tried dating one self.

malton:


Damn. That's regrettable.

I'm sorry about you and your mum's experiences. That's terrible.

Quite on the contrary, my experiences with Igalas, Ebiras, and Okun have been great thus far. I have many of them as friends and was room mates for years in the uni with An Ebira guy whom others considered as impossible. Whether it has something to do with my not being from Kogi, I can't say for sure.

At this point, I can only hope that someday you will have positive encounters that will change your opinion. Bet I understand the point you're driving home better now. But I implore you to be open-minded regardless.

royalamour:
Mr. Ambassador, we can never be part of the north.
Never! We have more than enough resources to last us billions of years.

You see we don't need and want you.

malton:


I wanted to explain in-depth, but seeing as you already referred to me as a joker, it means that you have made up your mind already and are not willing to listen to dissenting voices.

And no, it's nothing to do with religion. I wonder why it makes you bitter.

kennygee:


Its not the hate self, I don't like that state Kogi, I don't like the ethnic groups we share the state with, we barely tolerate each other.

If I had a choice, I'd change the state ASAP, but I'll just wait for marriage to do that for me.

mrvitalis:


As an Igbo man I don't intend to go into politics

But when I watch my people complain about how the north dominate politics I laugh

Honestly it will not take me 10 years to dislodge Hausa/Fulani from power

There are a lot of oprressed tribes in the north ...build a party that will give the northern minority a chance and what Hausa/Fulani lose over 8 states in the north if not more

Igbo leaders are not calculative when it comes to politics ....Jonathan should have never been president ( igbos should have supported the north ) we would be in power now

My people are too individualistic ...

Through out my life I will try to unit the igbos (economically ).... We can dominate Nigeria like we did in the 60s to 70s

fk001:



You must be joking right?

Why not kuku add Numan of Adamawa state in your middle belt imagination, since Numan are predominantly Christians

Terkimbi01:


You are very intelligent and I love your reasoning.
However, on the different approaches by the core north and the south east, I see the north as very subtle.

What they give to us is Greek gifts. we don't really wield any power. they use us at will and dump us at will.

The core north plays us like a game.

as for the East, I think its time we explore a handshake.
don't ignore the ignoble role we played during the war courtesy of the core north.

from all standards, the Igbo's are not violent, they are not killers. On these two accounts the core north can go to blazes.

Aufbauh:


Sure, of a truth I'm more closer to the Igbos either by proximity or blood line than any tribe in the country be it Igede or Tiv in my state. In fact my mum is from Isi uzor LG. in Enugu state, a neighbouring village to my paternal home in Benue state.

But of a truth, I've not been impressed by the way the Igbos play their politics. They should learn to consult with others, consolidate on their friendship with others before confronting a perceived opposition .

babyfaceafrica:
okun is an exception.....they are purely sw..I don't know how they got that far in kogi...I need history lessons..they are too far from their kinsmen

ehie:
if this f00l who was probably around during the firt TIV uprising from 1960-1964 when the Tivs wanted to seperate from the North and then the Northerners used Pam to quell the riots he would realise from time immeorial that we the middle belters were the piooners of agitation.
The Old F00l is probably broke and needs peanuts from the Buharists .
We have nothing in common with Northernm Nigeria.

kennygee:


I am not a northerner. I am a Yoruba woman who was unfortunate to find herself in the north.

mrvitalis:


As an Igbo man I don't intend to go into politics

But when I watch my people complain about how the north dominate politics I laugh

Honestly it will not take me 10 years to dislodge Hausa/Fulani from power

There are a lot of oprressed tribes in the north ...build a party that will give the northern minority a chance and what Hausa/Fulani lose over 8 states in the north if not more

Igbo leaders are not calculative when it comes to politics ....Jonathan should have never been president ( igbos should have supported the north ) we would be in power now

My people are too individualistic ...

Through out my life I will try to unit the igbos (economically ).... We can dominate Nigeria like we did in the 60s to 70s

tuniski:

What a narrow assessment. Let all. Igbos support hausa/fulani for 100yrs, they will still not smell presidency. It will take the combined Might of yorubas and the minorities to birth an igbo Presidency! You can bank it.

mrvitalis:

Your opinion there is no evidence in history to prove that

tuniski:

GEJ's presidency is your proof!!!!!

mrvitalis:

How's is that a prove

First of all what did Jonathan do for north,name them

Reference:


The identity these people project as being middle-beltans (permit me) is from their Christian heritage, the same way most middle-beltans of islamic heritage will want to lean towards the core north. So dividing those identities into geographical expresssions will be impossible to draw. This is where restructuring comes in. If two divided by two is one, then let one religion divide or eliminate the other to unite. That is secularism in the most puritan form. Agree to make religion of no consequence whatsoever in a future Nigeria. That is agree to make it a crminal offence to openly or privately discriminate based on ones religious affiliation. So everything from discriminatory language such as a Christian calling a moslem a heathen or a moslem calling a non moslem an infidel becomes outlawed to more contentious matters of security and capital crimes. Agree to outlaw them all. It is these things the core north saw well in advance and pushed for sharia law so that they have all their populace on alert and ready to resist a perceived de-islamization of their domains. It was a well calculated socio-political, socio-economic strategy of dark proportions aimed at confronting any attempts to restructure the country by taking a vantage point.

tuniski:

That is not my forte. The crust here is that once the yorubas together with the minorities champion a notion, it becomes a reality. In 2011 GeJ benefited from that and in 2015 buhari benefited QED!

malton:


I wanted to explain in-depth, but seeing as you already referred to me as a joker, it means that you have made up your mind already and are not willing to listen to dissenting voices.

And no, it's nothing to do with religion. I wonder why it makes you bitter.

FriendNG:



Seyau mynd tasa keka daga ban? Welcome

fk001:




Well said, I also support restructuring.

And i hate division based on religion

malton:


Aina. Ya sake ni tun kusan sati ukwu yanzu.

I've just been low-key.

Nagode mutumi na.

FriendNG:


Stay Blessed no more fight.

Babatundecash:
The Hausa fulani people think they are smart by handling the position of the Northern Elders forum to a christian from the middle belt just to put an end to the various agitation from the middle beltans......I am from Kogi state and enough of Hausa fulani using us for political gain.....They killed our brothers in Benue,they invade our land in Kogi,They bomb our city in Jos.....Various middle belt forum and group have come and stay and their is nothing anybody can do about it.......They prevent the Ebiras,Igalas,Tiv,Jukun and other minority Ethnic groups from the presidential ticket in the name of one North.