Asari-Toru
Asari-Toru is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.
General information
Asari-Toru Local Government Area was created out of the old Degema Local Government Area on May 16, 1989. Sule Amachree was announced as the Local Government Chairman winning his seat under the Peoples Democratic Party in the April 17, 2021 Rivers State Local Government Elections conducted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission.Asari-Toru is the “Seat” of the Ancestral Stool of the Kalabari Speaking Dynasty which cuts across Akuku-Toru and Degema Local Government Areas.
Climate/Geography
There are two main seasons in Asari Toru LGA, which is 113 square kilometers in size: the dry and the rainy. The average temperature and humidity of Asari Toru LGA are 25 degrees Celsius and 91 percent, respectively. Numerous rivers and tributaries flow into Asari Toru LGA.The Local Government Area upon creation presently encompasses Seventeen Communities namely:
- Buguma,
- Abalama,
- Abiama,
- Angulama,
- Atuka,
- Ido,
- Ifoko,
- Illelema,
- Krakrama,
- Minama,
- Okpo,
- Omekweama,
- Omekwetariama,
- Oporoama,
- Sama,
- Agama,
- Tema.
These communities have been grouped into thirteen electoral wards, ten of these wards are within the capital, Buguma City; while the remaining are grouped into Isia Group I, Isia Group II and West Central Group.
The local government area has an estimated area of 113 km and a population of 308,800 by projection of March 21, 2016.
The postal code of the area is 504101.