Kwara State Emerges Best Performing APC State In September

Kwara State has emerged the state with the highest number of points in the September edition of the Progressive Strides monthly bulletin as the best performing APC state in the country.

This was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, on Sunday.

According to him, Kwara ticked 26 points to top the table, followed by Lagos (21) and Jigawa and Kebbi that both had 16 strides in the month under review.

Ajakaye further said, “The entries for the edition witnessed more improvements as regards developmental strides collated from the (Progressive Governors’) Forum States in 2021.”

Salihu Mohammed Lukman, Director General of the Forum, wrote in the preface to the 63rd edition of the report that;

"In general, there is an all-round increase in the pattern of initiatives introduced by the states with Kwara State recording most initiatives for this month having 26 development strides.

“These cuts across economic development, education, science and technology, health and nutrition, agriculture and rural development, infrastructure, security and sensitisation, empowerment and innovation, environment and hygiene, transportation and finally sports and youths’ development.

“Lagos State follows with 21 strides while Jigawa and Kebbi trail with 16 each. Gombe and Kaduna recorded 15 strides each; Nasarawa and Ogun 14 each; Ekiti and Niger 13 each; Kano and Katsina 10 each; while Ebonyi got 9 strides.

“Kogi recorded eight strides; Cross River, Osun and Yobe got six each, as Borno and Ondo had four each. Finally, three strides were recorded in Imo and Zamfara States each.”

Kwara State has repeatedly topped the table of the Forum’s Strides since it was introduced.