By Dennis Agbo
Denge Josef Onoh, a former spokesman for President Bola Tinubu’s South East marketing campaign, has responded to remarks by Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State that in contrast the landmass of Borgu Native Authorities Space to that of the South East area.
In a press release, Onoh supplied land-area figures and mentioned Borgu LGA covers 11,267 km². He gave the mixed landmass of the 5 South East states as about 29,484 km², with the next breakdown: Abia — 6,320 km²; Anambra — 4,844 km²; Ebonyi — 5,530 km²; Enugu — 7,161 km²; and Imo — 5,530 km².
“So Borgu LGA is simply about 38 p.c the dimensions of the South East area (11,267 km² vs. 29,484 km²). The South East is roughly 2.6 instances bigger than Borgu LGA,” Onoh mentioned.
Onoh additionally addressed a determine attributed to Governor Bago relating to Niger State’s share of Nigeria’s complete land space. He famous Nigeria’s complete land space as 923,769 km² and Niger State’s space as 76,363 km², which he mentioned is roughly 8.3 p.c of the nationwide complete — not 11 p.c.
He added that whereas massive forested areas and reserves such because the Borgu Recreation Reserve current policing challenges in elements of Niger State, comparisons primarily based solely on land space don’t seize variations in inhabitants density and urbanization. Onoh mentioned the South East has an estimated inhabitants of over 20 million individuals throughout 95 native authorities areas.
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