Anambra, Philips Consulting fight dirty over rating

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The Anambra State government has faulted the 2025 state performance index rating conducted by the Philips Consulting Limited, saying that it relied on flawed methodology, weak sampling, and biased inferences to arrive at its result.

According to the ‘2025 PCL State Performance Index’ report released by the organisation on Thursday, Anambra was rated as one of the worst states, to live, and one of the “underperforming” states, a report the state government disagreed with, insisting that the rating agency did not follow due diligence.

In a statement released on Friday, the Anambra State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Chiamaka Nnake, rejected the report, saying the PCL 2025 report produced results that are not only misleading, but risk damaging its own professional reputation.

Nnake insisted that Anambra is performing well in all sectors such as education, healthcare, infrastructure, security, saying that serious international organisations adopted rigorous, verifiable methods and ranked Anambra at the top.

She added that despite the rating by serious international agencies, PCL simultaneously ranks Anambra at the bottom, nothing that the credibility gap of the PCL’s rating becomes impossible to ignore.

The statement read in part, ‘Philips Consulting Limited, once renowned for its expertise in human resource services, now appears to have veered into areas far beyond its traditional competence. Everyone now rushes into the business of ‘ranking’ as the new fad in town.

“While it is not wrong for a firm to broaden its scope, such ventures demand rigorous training, capacity development, and methodological soundness. Without these, credibility is compromised, and reputations are put at risk. Punch