Ekiti State
Abiodun Abayomi Oyebanji, (born 21 December 1967) is a Nigerian politician who has served as governor of Ekiti State since 2022. He is a former Secretary to the Ekiti State Government and a former Chief of Staff. He was elected governor during the 2022 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, having defeated Olusegun Oni[5] of the Social Democratic Party and Bisi Kolawole of the People Democratic Party.
| Factor | Score |
|---|---|
| Fiscal Sustainability Index | 0 % |
| Human Development | 1.64 % |
| Legality, Rule of Law & Regulatory Quality | 14.98 % |
| Level of Corruption & Access to Information | 7.79 % |
| Security Performance Score | 11 % |
| Transparency, Accountability & Participation/ Inclusion | 6.48 % |
| Overall Score | 42 % |
The bar chart describes the governance performace for Ekiti State for (2020).
Each bar represents the performance of the labelled year.
Ekiti State (Yoruba: Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkìtì) is a state in southwestern Nigeria, bordered to the north by Kwara State, to the northeast by Kogi State, to the south and southeast by Ondo State, and to the west by Osun State. Named for the Ekiti people—the Yoruba subgroup that make up the majority of the state's population—Ekiti State was formed from a part of Ondo State in 1996 and has its capital as the city of Ado-Ekiti. One of the smallest states of Nigeria, Ekiti is the 31st largest in area and 30th most populous with an estimated population of nearly 3.3 million as of 2016. Geographically, the state is divided between the Nigerian lowland forests in most of the state and the drier Guinean forest–savanna mosaic in the north. Among the state's nature are false acraeas, mona monkey, forest buffalo, and grey parrot populations along with one of the last remaining Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee populations with a troop of about 20 chimpanzees in the heavily threatened Ise Forest Reserve. In March 2022, Ekiti State became the first state in Nigeria to adopt a state tree as one of its official symbols. On World Forest Day 2022, Governor Kayode Fayemi announced that Obeche (Triplochiton scleroxylon) had been chosen as State Tree owing to its local prominence and environmental, economic and cultural significance
