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Findings by FactCheckHub show that the claim is TRUE.

Poverty is generally defined as a state of being poor.

The 2010 Poverty report by National Bureau of Statistics captures poverty rates across Nigeria based on three different approaches namely: Absolute Poverty Approach, Relative Poverty Approach and Dollar per day.

According to the report, which documents the average poverty headcount rate across Nigerian states, Anambra recorded 53.7% poverty rate between 2009-10 when Obi was the governor of the state.

Between 2003-2004 before Obi became the governor, the poverty rate in the state stood at 41.4% meaning that the figure increased by about 28% under Peter Obi

FactCheckHub could not access the poverty report for the period when Obi left the office in March 2014 because the National Bureau of Statistics did not release subsequent poverty reports until 2020. The report shows that Anambra’s poverty rate reduced to 14.8% in 2019.

THE VERDICT

The claim that Anambra recorded a 53.7% poverty rate under Peter Obi’s leadership as the governor of Anambra state is TRUE, according to data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics.

“Findings by FactCheckElections revealed the (NBS) National Poverty Rates For Nigeria: 2003-04 (Revised) and 2009-10 (Abridged Report). The report showed that Anambra had 41.4% state-level headcount per capita poverty measure in 2003-04 and 53.7% in 2009-10.

“The National Poverty Rates For Nigeria: 2003-04 (Revised) And 2009-10 (Abridged Report) capture poverty rates across Nigeria with the Absolute Poverty Approach (using a per capita approach of assigning 3000 calories requirement for an adult).


“FactcheckElection can find no official data report on the poverty rate between 2011 – 2018. Aside from forecasts and predictions, there’s no absolute poverty study in those years. According to a reply tweet by Dr Yemi Kale (former statistician general of Nigeria), ‘NBS has not conducted any absolute poverty study since 2009’.

“However, there is a 2019 Poverty & Inequality in Nigeria report published by the NBS. The report showed Anambra had a poverty rate of 14.78%.”

Verdict

So what’s the status of the claim? Based on data from the (NBS), Anambra’s state-level headcount per capita poverty increased from 41.4% in 2003-04 to 53.7% in 2009-10. Peter Obi was governor between 2006 and 2014. So the claim is partly true, and we give it a banana rating. However, no official data shows the poverty rate when he left office in 2014.

EmiloCorn:
Yes. Even though sanwo is messing up and allowing others to malign obasa he is making sense here.

He has shown that Peter obi left everybody in Nigeria poor today. Obi is the cause of our woes from A - Z. Why did he run from apuga and enter PDP.

Putindbutt:
You can imagine a messanger who increased poverty in his small state to 53%, imagine the millions of Anambra he brought under poverty. While his immediate successor reduced it to 14%. Such an hypocritical and shameless man he is.

EmiloCorn:
Yes it is true. Obi is a very big failure. no matter how poor my oga's policies make Nigerians to become before 2031 they can never become as poor as those people in anambra that suffered the Peter obi era.

Putindbutt:
That's a fact and he's supposed to be in jail.

EmiloCorn:
Yes he is. But Nigerians are waiting for them to throw tinubu in jail first before they look at Peter obi even if Peter is a bigger thief.

Too many hypocrits in Nigeria

Putindbutt:
That's a fact and he's supposed to be in jail.

TimeManager:
Lol, pity his yansh , abeg.


-Kiss the truth!

IGBOPROMISE1:
So can we have similar findings for other states in the country….especially Tinubu and Sanwo-Olus’ south-west states!? Anyone got data on those ones!?

I find it amusing….perplexing even, that a country like Nigeria that operates a unitary system of gov’t in all but name, and one where a malevolent, parochial, bigoted and powerful centre sabotages the economic prospects of certain states or regions based on ethnicity, religion and voting pattern, like we saw the Buhari gov’t do with Anambra and derivation payments in lieu of her oil production….that given the aforementioned, someone that’s up to no good would be asking a sub-unit of the whole, that has little or no federal presence or federal projects, to miraculously buck the trend obtainable in other states that are even more favoured by the centre and existing status-quo!

A fair assessment would be to check if the poverty rate in Anambra was growing year-on-year before Peter Obi became governor, and, if not reversed, whether the poverty rate was either slowed or halted during his his tenure as governor! Such an assessment should also mention how he fared in other indices of development and not just the poverty rate.

Thundafireseun:
Every body just Dey use Peter catch cruise….

I will never advise anyone not even an enemy to name his/her child Peter …..

Putindbutt:
E don tie wrapper, NBS data verified Anambra poverty increased from 41.4% to 53.7% under Peter Obi.

Tochi3:


..the purveyors of lies, deceit & propaganda running helter skelter to tarnish the achievements of PO..

..no matter the propaganda..sane Nigerians are with & always with for PO..

..no amount of lies can change the love Nigerians have for PO..

..corruption lobers & defenders are jittery of the Man of integrity PO..

IGBOPROMISE1:
So can we have similar findings for other states in the country….especially Tinubu and Sanwo-Olus’ south-west states!? Anyone got data on those ones!?

I find it amusing….perplexing even, that a country like Nigeria that operates a unitary system of gov’t in all but name, and one where a malevolent, parochial, bigoted and powerful centre sabotages the economic prospects of certain states or regions based on ethnicity, religion and voting pattern, like we saw the Buhari gov’t do with Anambra and derivation payments in lieu of her oil production….that given the aforementioned, someone that’s up to no good would be asking a sub-unit of the whole, that has little or no federal presence or federal projects, to miraculously buck the trend obtainable in other states that are even more favoured by the centre and existing status-quo!

A fair assessment would be to check if the poverty rate in Anambra was growing year-on-year before Peter Obi became governor, and, if not reversed, whether the poverty rate was either slowed or halted during his his tenure as governor! Such an assessment should also mention how he fared in other indices of development and not just the poverty rate.

gidgiddy:
For a period of one year out of 8 years? You guys didn't even bother to read the table that Anambra was no 8, which means that poverty level rise higher in 28 other states, than in Anambra

Lanretoye:
defence counsel,over 24hrs now since sanwo made the comment your lord and savior has not come out to discredit it…maybe you know the secondary school he established or the hospital when he was governor,if you don’t you better stop deceiving your generation.