President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the newly constituted Presidential Economic Advisory Council (ECA).

Mr Buhari played host to the ECA when the members of the council visited him at the presidential villa in Abuja.

The body was constituted last month with the mandate to advise the president on matters relating to the economy.

After the gathering, the president accused the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund of publishing inaccurate statistical data about the country.

Buhari also said he has mandated his economic advisory team with the new task of having proper statistics gathering mechanisms.

Both the World Bank and the IMF have in recent times lamented the debt profile of Nigeria in relation to GDP.

The World Poverty Clock also described Nigeria as the World Poverty Capital, a designation rejected by the Buhari administration.

The statistics regarding the high unemployment rate and poverty released by the National Bureau of Statistics which is a government agency, have also been rejected by the Buhari administration.

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The statistics regarding the human rights records which was released by Amnesty International have also been rejected by the government.

“We must domesticate our policies to reflect our local realities. While we very much welcome the cooperation and support we are getting from our friends abroad, it is important to make it clear that Nigeria can only truly move forward with homegrown solutions,” the president said in series of tweets Wednesday.

“This must extend to data collection as well. Today, most of the statistics quoted about Nigeria are developed abroad by the World Bank, IMF and other foreign bodies. Some of these statistics are wild estimates that bear little relation to the facts on the ground.

“We can only plan realistically when we have reliable data. As a government we are taking very serious steps to improve the quality of data available for policymaking, and today I charged the Presidential Economic Advisory Council to prioritize the collection of Primary data,” Buhari added.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/todaypoliticsng.com/world-bank-imf-others-statistics-fake-give-us-real-facts-buhari-mandates-eca/amp/

I agree with buhari..

Oya oga bubu publish your own make we see.

Why not provide authentic data yourself instead of just accusing them

This una president have distinction in Blame game..
By the time this man is through with una, everyone will go their various hometown and start planting corn for survival.

You guys haven't seen anything yet.
"A country's government is the aggregate of the people". Nigeria truly deserved to be ruled by the current daft president.

True that.

After the gathering, the president accused the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund of publishing inaccurate statistical data about the country.

Every sane and reasonable Nigerians know this.

Is it hard for FG to provide us with their own data for counter arguments?

Or is their something they are hiding?

nor be today na.

As una no get accurate data nko? Them go find one give una now.

Even una population sef is bogus

Buhari also said he has mandated his economic advisory team with the new task of having proper statistics gathering mechanisms.

Correct man wey sabi!

Let the minsters provide his own statistics now.

The big blow to any nation is to be referenced as Poverty capital of the world...
That means within the space of years less than a decade, the country has taken a bad hit of economic policies

All he does is deny statistics and be calling it “Fake news” Mtcheeeew!

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Of course the data will always be false. Every released data /statistic for this Buhari regime na always false. Dem no de every agree

I have decided not to comment on Buhari, clueless leadership,
Am only waiting for him to hand over to tinibu in my dream

He is right, since the data gathered does not worship him, it is inaccurate. Someday, maybe someday Nigeria will operate a federation of smaller units(states) that will make it easier.

Nonrealistic because it tells the true story of this administration

nawa

Buhari can show us his data

Meanwhile, get accounting software to manage your businesses from ₦30,000

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Correct man wey sabi!

Your comment is powered by BMC miserable wage of N30,000


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Always playing the blame game.

PMB should give us his accurate data.

Always lying uncontrollably bubu why

Buhari do you even know what economics is? Did you pass it in your claimed waec? Please tell us they are lying about the number of cows you have next time

World bodies are not BMO/BMC/TBO-the lying & propaganda appendages of the APC govt.