Caseless:
Farooq, this is a brilliant one.

Those in the south who hate the fact that the north has a common language and somewhat traditionally connected are the ones pushing this divisive agitation because the south lacks that identity. The tip of southern end is SS but such location in the north is called 'core north' depite mostly being on the western and eastern flank.
If your definition of middlebelt is based on religion, you have as many christians in the north as you have in the SE or SS. If it's about excluding muslims, fulani and hausa, then, you have more muslims in the middlebelt aka northcentral than christians and you have indigenous hausa and fulani in every state in the north or middlebelt.
The proponents of middlebelt instead of northcentral want the northern identity taken off, have they forgotten those in Taraba, ADAMAWA, GOMBE, YOBE, BORNO, BAUCHI, KEBBI, etc? Because to them middlebelt is about muslims exclusion and christian inclusion.
Muslims are in the majority in the proposed middlebelt, and won't be part of anything that stands to exclude them. Here the failure of the project begins.

The north is a bloc, the southern dividers should find something to get busy with.

Why are the fulanis so hypertensive at the mention of middlebelt.

They have successfully divided the SE,SS & SW.

Yet they want to keep their strangle hold on the middlebelt.

Adamawa
Taraba
Plateau
Nasarawa
Niger
Benue
FCT
Northern Kwara
Central and Eastern Kogi
Southern Kebbi
Southern Kaduna
Southern Bauchi
Southern Gombe

These areas are Middle Belt areas. They are the areas in the old Northern Region made up of non-Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri ethnic minorities. Religion should not be used to confuse people. And not everyone in the Middle Belt speaks Hausa as a second language. For 60 years and even more, the Far North has insisted on lumping themselves with them for political advantage but without any benefits to them. The identification of this region as a unique Central Region will go a long way to bring political stability to the entire country

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In other words, just like “core north” is a geographic genteelism for “Hausa Muslim North,” “Middle Belt” is a geographic genteelism for a Christian ethnic minority region out of what colonial cartographers designated as the “North” since the early 1900s.

This is where I stopped reading. The quote above is deceptive aimed at defeating the very idea of Middle Belt. This article is filled with lies and half truths. What censors figure classified Christians as minority in any geographical location in Nigeria? Only a pathological liar or a hopelessly ignorant person will tag Christians MINORITY in Middle Belt.
ONE NIGERIA DOES NOT EXIST!

Caseless:
But you have more muslims in the MB than christians.Which jihad conquest islamized the north? Islam was in the north before anyone came with any conquest..

You can tell lies but not smartly.

Gondonu:
You can tell lies but not smartly.

Among 6 north central states, apart from benue and plateau state, where do you have christians as the majority?