Anambra Govt Rejects PCL Ranking, Describes as Deeply Flawed, Misleading
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The Anambra State Government has strongly criticized Philips Consulting Limited (PCL) for its recent ranking of the state’s performance, describing it as deeply flawed and misleading.
In a statement issued on Friday in Awka, the State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mrs. Chiamaka Nnake, accused PCL of employing an unscientific research methodology.
She expressed the government’s outright rejection of the 2025 PCL ranking, which saw Anambra’s position fall drastically from 8th place in 2024 to 34th in 2025.
Recall that Philips Consulting Limited recently published its 2025 State Performance Index (PSPI), listing the top 10 best-performing states in Nigeria.
Mrs. Nnake pointed out the inadequacy of PCL’s sample size, noting that surveying only 78 respondents was insufficient to produce accurate statistics for a state with over six million inhabitants.
“By accepted statistical standards, this sample size is invalid. Even more concerning, 76 percent of respondents were male, making the data unrepresentative,” she said.
Nnake criticized the report’s heavy reliance on subjective perceptions and government spending figures rather than on objective, measurable outcomes.
She highlighted several key achievements by the Anambra State Government that were overlooked in PCL’s ranking which include:
Provision of free education from Nursery to Senior Secondary School 3, with the recruitment of over 8,100 teachers, leading to a 27 percent increase in primary school enrollment,National recognition in healthcare, where Anambra ranked first in a 2024 UNICEF-led health challenge, with over 120,000 women benefiting from free maternal care and ,significant infrastructure development, including the completion of over 546 kilometers of roads within three years, along with multiple flyovers and bridges.
“It is unfortunate that despite these substantial achievements, PCL ranked Anambra 30th in health and failed to reflect these significant developmental milestones in their metrics,” she lamented.
The Commissioner urged PCL to adopt more rigorous methodologies, including field engagement, representative sampling, and objective, outcome-based evaluation metrics.
“One cannot sit in Lagos or Abuja and rank states based on the opinions of a few individuals. This reduces serious analysis to mere propaganda,” she added.
