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nsely toward the growth of Nigerian economy. The study therefore remends among other things, barriers to the productive credit allocation in rural munity should be reduced to the barest minimum. Keyword: Rural development; credit allocation; financial development 1 Introduction Inclusive growth notion pels the economies of third world to initiates and implements variants policies and programmes aimed at transforming the paralysed economic agent into active players towards enhancing the growth of their economy. Nigerian government is no exception, the government efforts of enhancing inclusive growth is well informed through the campaign of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) financial inclusion strategies with the twin broad objectives。 firstly many economic time series data exhibit a strong trend, secondly, taking the natural logarithm of a series effectively linearizes the exponential trend (if any) in the time series data since the log function is the inverse of an exponential function (Asteriou and Price,2020). Thirdly, advantage is that it allows the regression coefficients to be interpreted as elasticity. In a study dealing with time series data, opting for log of the variables may prevent cumbersomeness in the modelling and inference (Rahaman and Salahuddin, 2020). Provided all series are I(1), then Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) is robust to estimate the single cointegrating vector that characterizes the longrun relationship among the variables (CamachoGutierrez, 2020). The StockWatson DOLS model to be effective in estimating longrun parameters, the analysis must be in conformity with the existence a cointegration relation among sets of I(1) variables. Thus, it is pertinent to establish the presence of the unit root and then test the cointegrating relationship. Fortunately, there are variant ways of checking stationarity of series however Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) (1981) is the most widely applied econometric method for testing unit root in order to avoid problems of the spurious regression results. A series which is stationary after being differenced once is said to be integrated of order 1 and was denoted by I (1) (Dickey and Fuller, 1979). In general a series, that is stationary after being differenced n times is integrated of ordern , denoted by I (n ) while a series that appears stationary without differencing, is said to be I (0) (Shabbir, 2020). ADF (1981) unit root test for stationarity test is based on the following regression model: ? ?1.......1110t tjtkj jt YdaYTY ??? ??????? ??? ? Where tY , T and ? respectively confers a time series, a linear time trend and first difference operator, 0? is a constant, k is respecting the optimum number of lags on the dependent variable, and t? is random error term. The null hypothesis for testing nonstationarity is 0H : α = 0 meaning economic series are nonstationary. If the hypothesis of nonstationary is established for the underlying variables, it permits the assessments for cointegration relations. In econometrics two or more variables are said to be cointegrated if they share mon trends . they have longrun equilibrium relationships between them (Aqeel and Butt,