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So yesterday, everyone north of #MiddleBelt was shouting North Central this, North Central that.
So I asked myself, what is this north central they are talking about?
SIMPLE ANSWER: Total BS

LONG ANSWER:
To understand this, we must go into history;
We start with the 1950s
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@patrickanum has pretty much explained when we started carving the #MiddleBelt IDENTITY.
See this too for more foundational knowledge.
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Now that we know these, let’s jump in.
In 1967, Gen Yakubu Gowon abolished the regional government system to create states. He created 12 states out of the 3 regions that existed.
Dr Alex Ekwueme, the first elected VP of Nigeria in 1979, noticed while in office, that in
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