Anambra faults Philips Consulting ranking placing state 34th

By Vincent Ujumadu

The Anambra State authorities has faulted the 2025 State Performance Index released by Philips Consulting Limited (PCL), which ranked the authorities 34th.

In a statement, the Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mrs. Chiamaka Nnake, questioned the credibility of the report, wondering however Anambra, ranked 8th successful 2024, could abruptly driblet to 34th. She described the scale arsenic “methodologically anemic and misleading.”

According to her, PCL, primitively known for quality assets services, appears to person ventured into authorities ranking without capable grooming oregon methodological rigor. “The 2025 PCL scale raises cardinal questions: What capableness does PCL person to fertile states? How was the probe designed, and connected what ground were conclusions drawn?” she asked.

Nnake faulted the illustration size of 78 respondents utilized for a authorities with implicit six cardinal people, noting that by Cochran’s formula, astatine slightest 385 respondents were required for a 5% borderline of error. She besides criticized the sex imbalance successful the survey, wherever 76% of respondents were male, making it unrepresentative.

She stressed that the study focused much connected expenditure levels than connected ratio and impact, and failed to prosecute stakeholders oregon validate findings successful Anambra communities.

Highlighting the state’s achievements, Nnake cited:

Education: Free acquisition from nursery to SS3, 27% summation successful superior enrolment, 8,115 teachers recruited, and galore nationalist and planetary awards.

Healthcare: Ranked No. 1 successful Nigeria successful the 2024 National Primary Healthcare Leadership Challenge, $1.2m award, escaped antenatal and transportation attraction for implicit 120,000 women, and nationalist infirmary patronage rising from 25% successful 2022 to 73%.

Infrastructure: 842.2 km of roads awarded successful 3 years, 546.3 km completed, including 150 km of dualized roads, bridges, and flyovers.

She argued that these tangible results opposition sharply with PCL’s ranking of Anambra 30th successful wellness and 34th overall. “When planetary organizations fertile Anambra astatine the apical and PCL places it astatine the bottom, the credibility spread becomes intolerable to ignore,” she said.

The Commissioner advised PCL to follow rigorous statistical methods, behaviour tract engagement, and guarantee impartial analysis. “You cannot beryllium successful Lagos oregon Abuja and trust connected what a fistful of radical ‘think’ to fertile states. Anything little reduces superior enactment to propaganda,” she added.

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