Thread by @AsiwajuOladimej

Ebonyi & Ekiti were created in 1996 by late Sanni Abbacha.

I stumbled on some data in the middle of the night while doing some reading & I'm not sorry to say this,we've been unfortunate with visionary set of leaders in Ekiti state.

Ebonyi had left us behind.
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2021 Fiscal Performance Ranking

Ebonyi 2nd

Ekiti 29th.

Ranking on limited dependence of Federally distributed Revenue.

Ebonyi 4th

Ekiti 31st

Ranking on more revenue left to spend on capital projects after fulfilling repayment obligations to lenders and govt expenses.

Ebonyi 1st

Ekiti 25th

Capacity to borrow more due to comparatively low debt burden..

Ebonyi 4th

Ekiti 25th

States with capacity to invest more in capital expenditure compared to their operating expenses.

Ebonyi 1st

Ekiti 20th

Just take a look.

Poverty Rate in Ekiti: 28.04%

Unemployment Rate in Ekiti: 32.21%

Labour Force: 1.45m

Our per capital income is one of the poorest if not the poorest in South West.

I want every Ekiti Youth on Twitter to go through this thread.

See, the coming election should be our major focus.

Look at these data and statistics and ensure that these are the fundamental questions we ask these candidates and not all these pettiness.

At creation, I'm sure, Ekiti would have had comparative advantage over Ebonyi.

25 years after, Ebonyi now ranked with the likes of Lagos, Kaduna and other states that are doing very well.

Ekiti, please, we must stop all these politics of rubbish and get serious this time around

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Valid Data:

To reduce our unemployment rate in Ekiti, we need to be creating 100,000 jobs every year.

This can only be achieved via private direct investment and massive support for SMEs.

Do we even have accurate data of all SMEs in Ekiti state?

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