THE battle for autonomy among the constituent parts of the the North raged, on Saturday, with youths from the Middle Belt drawing a battle line with Northern elders under the auspices of Northern Elders Forum (NEF) over the concept of one North.
While the youths, under the coalition of the Middle Belt Council, threatened to ostracise any individual of the Middle Belt extraction trying to undermine the political autonomy of the area, the elders insisted on the sanctity of the North as a monolithic entity.

The youths, particularly listed a Second Republic Minister and current chairman of the NEF, Chief Paul Unongo as one of those leaders of the Middle Belt, who risked being ostracized for allegedly undermining the autonomy of the Middle Belt.

The battle of wits came barely a week after a stalwart of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Ambassador Yahaya Kwande declared as a ruse, the existence of a geographical area called Middle Belt, separate from the perceived monolithic North.

Unongo, who is a former Minister of Mines and Power in the First Republic and hails from Benue State, an area consider to be strong hold of Middle Belt, was recently appointed to lead the NEF following the demise of its chairman Alhaji Maitama Sule.

An angry president of the Middle Belt Youth Council, Emma Zopmal said in Jos, Plateau State, that there was nothing like a monolithic North, adding that the Middle Belt existed differently from the North.

“Middle Belt exists differently from the North and there is nothing like monolithic North. We have lost elder Paul Unongo to the Arewas and he can never represent Middle Belt anywhere.

“Unongo and others have lost the script long ago and therefore they are not relevant in the Middle Belt not even among the Arewas”

In a separate interview with Sunday Tribune, the Convener of the Middle Belt Patriotic Front, Mr Ibrahim Bunu said Unongo could not speak for the Middle Belt.

“Our main leader widely recognised now is Professor Adamu Baike who we strongly believe can take the Middle Belt to the next level. Right from the beginning, we have never been part of the North and will never be one. We have no alliance with the north.

“All these people from the Middle Belt romancing with the North are doing so for recognition and in order to make ends meet. They have no following here. They have been ostracized. We are watching them; 2019 is just around the corner,” he said.

But in another development, Unongo has submitted that the unity of the North is sacrosanct just as the NEF’s deputy secretary, Mr Mustapha Wali, faulted the Federal Government for not taking drastic step to nip in the bud the constant conflicts between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the country.

Unongo, who led NEF members on a courtesy visit to Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Saturday, insisted that the forum would continue to strive for the unity of the North in the face of daunting challenges facing the region

Unongo said that the meeting of the members would be premised on issues that will bond the North together.

He further said that the leadership of the association fell on him with the demise of Sule and maintained that over the years, Benue had been part of the North.

Also speaking, Wali accused Federal Government of not taking proactive measures to curb the constant conflicts between farmers and herdsmen which he said had spread to many states of the federation.

Speaking on the anti grazing law recently introduced by Benue state government the scribe requested for contents of the new law and enjoining the state government to ensure that the law has human face.

From tribuneonlineng

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e don't happen

Is Terkimbi01 aware of this?

The RE-AWAKENING

Good morning. The meaning is that use and dump is over. The emancipation of the Middle Belt has started. I have been wondering how a people of superior intelligence could become easily manipulatable.

Nnamdi Kanu is the redpill Nigerians desperately needed.

rumours:
Good morning. The meaning is that use and dump is over. The emancipation of the Middle Belt has started. I have been wondering how a people of superior intelligence could become easily manipulatable.

Mind yahself, o! Who told you they were easily manipulated? The word 'manipulatable,' does not exist in the English dictionary...

Nnamdi Kanu is resetting people's brain

Morning

Soon I will also reveal my Identity and support terkim01

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Nnamdi Kanu giving eyes to many blinded Men...hahahah.
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inkon:
Is Terkimbi01 aware of this?

I saw this thread but never bothered opening it.

Reason? This is an old news.
We have gone beyond this. it is now more rhetoric.

We want action.

we have one message for the Arewa.

its either Nigeria is restructured or we demand referendum like the Biafans.

People like Unogo and the old testament politicians can continue to think only of their fame and fortunes.

All we know is that Nigeria will never be the same again.

jacyhelen:
Nnamdi Kanu giving eyes to many blinded Men...hahahah.
Afonjas wont like this

There are two people I respect in Nigeria.

1. late Gideon Orkar
2. Nnamdi KANU.

I wish Gideon is alive, our movement in the Middle Belt need men like him.

illitrate:
Soon I will also reveal my Identity and support terkim01

I can't wait.