Trouble Looms In Nigeria As Middle Belt Joins Secession Agitation, Calls For A Seperate Nation Of Midwest Republic.

Trouble Looms In Nigeria As Middle Belt Joins Secession Agitation, Calls For A Separate Nation Of Midwest Republic

Trouble Looms In Nigeria As Middle Belt Joins Secession Agitation, Calls For A Seperate Nation Of Midwest Republic   Trouble looms in Nigeria as the Middle Belt joins the secessionist movement, calling for the creation of a separate Midwest Republic.   

There are signs that the citizens of Nigeria’s Middle Belt have joined the groups calling for the country to be split up. Recently, there have been three agitations from Igbo and Yoruba people agitating for separate nations from Nigeria. The Igbos agitated for the Biafra Republic, while a group of people in South West Nigeria agitated for the Oduduwa Republic. 

The citizens of Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, who are also pushing for a separate nation called the Midwest Republic, have reportedly flooded social media with their currencies, coat of arms, and national flag.

According to reports, the people of the Middle Belt region have decided to secede from Nigeria due to recent insecurity in the region, where many people have been brutally murdered by gunmen accused of being armed Fulani herdsmen. 

As a result of this growth, three Nigerian regions are preparing to form their own countries separate from the current Nigeria. That is, the Republic of Biafra, the Republic of Oduduwa, and the Republic of the Mid-West. 

From 1963 to 1991, the Mid-Western Region was a division of Nigeria, known as the Bendel state from 1976. It was created in June 1963 from the Western Region’s Benin and Delta provinces, with Benin City as its capital.

 In 1966, it was called a province, and when the other provinces were broken up into several states in 1967, it retained its territoriality and became a state. In an effort to force a swift end to the Nigerian Civil War, Biafran forces invaded the nascent Mid-Western state en route to Lagos. 

The state was renamed the ” Republic of Benin” when it was occupied by Biafrans. The republic fell just a day after the declaration when Nigerian troops captured Benin City.