Claim
ADC vice-presidential candidate Rotimi Amaechi said on 2 October 2026 that, citing National Bureau of Statistics data, Nigeria spent N200 billion importing drugs “last quarter”.
Finding (according to FactCheckAfrica)
Unverified: the official data was not yet available
Because the statement was made in the fourth quarter, “last quarter” ordinarily means the third quarter, from 1 July to 30 September 2026.
When FactCheckAfrica checked, the NBS Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics for the third quarter of 2026 had not been published, so it could not confirm or refute the figure.
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