ANAMBRA RANKS AMONG TOP STATES IN OPEN GOVERNMENT HEALTHY STATUS RATING

Anambra has been listed among Nigeria’s top-performing states in the latest Open Government Partnership (OGP), Nigeria sub national status ranking, attaining a 100 percent “healthy” status on the implementation of open government reforms.

The July 2026 ranking placed Anambra in the highest category alongside Kaduna and Plateau states, each scoring 100 percent under the OGP’s sub national performance assessment.

The ranking, released by the Open Government Partnership Nigeria, (OPGN) measures states’ performance on agreed indicators reflecting their level of implementation of open government principles, including transparency, accountability, and citizen participation.

Other states in the “Healthy” category include Adamawa, Kano, Kogi and Osun. Abia, Oyo and Taraba states were listed under the “Need to Grow” category, while Delta, Kebbi, Yobe, Cross River, Edo, Enugu, Imo, Nasarawa, Sokoto and Zamfara were ranked under “Critical Condition.”

Chief Press Secretary to Governor Soludo, Mr Christian Aburime, while reacting to the development in a statement, yesterday, described the ranking as an independent validation of the administration’s commitment to transparent, accountable, and citizen-centered governance.

He said the achievement is the outcome of Governor Soludo’s leadership style, which prioritises enduring systems and institutional reforms over short-term political gains.

He said: “There is a particular kind of governance that does not need to shout about itself, because its results speak in the language institutions understand best: verified data. In July 2026, that language again delivered a striking verdict on Anambra State. In the latest Open Government Partnership (OGP) Nigeria Sub national Status Ranking, Anambra was rated ‘100% Healthy’, the highest possible standing a state can attain on the platform’s rigorous, nine-point framework for measuring how genuinely open, accountable, and citizen-driven a government truly is.

“As far as “open government” is concerned, Anambra’s rating is a well-earned scorecard, arrived at through the same demanding lens applied to every state that has signed on to the OGP, a lens that asks not what a government claims, but what it can prove. Of course, the OGP does not hand out its ratings lightly. A state earns its standing across nine distinct criteria, each designed to strip governance down to its essentials.

“A ‘100% Healthy’ rating, thus, means a state has “performed” convincingly to meet the criteria required.  This, evidently, has been made possible under the accountable leadership of Governor Chukwuma  Soludo.”

“Anambra’s approach to public administration has consistently carried the imprint of Governor Soludo’s own instincts as an economist and institution-builder: a preference for structure over spectacle, and for systems that outlast any single administration. The OGP rating is best understood not as an isolated award, but as the natural output of that instinct applied consistently across the machinery of state.” Aburime stated.