Nigerians
have given President Muhammadu Buhari 64 per cent average in its
overall job performance rating after one year in office.
The latest polls results by NOIPolls
Limited released on Monday revealed that President Buhari’s approval
rating between June 2015 and May 2016 ranged from his highest of 80 per
cent in October 2015 to the lowest of 42 per cent in April 2016.
NOIPolls regularly conducts periodic opinion polls and studies on various socio-economic and political issues in Nigeria.
Compared to one year ago, the poll said
44 per cent of Nigerians now believe the country was currently moving in
the right direction under President Buhari, against the opinion of 37
per cent of the sample population that said the country was moving in
the wrong direction.
Only 19 per cent said the country was neither moving in the right nor wrong direction.
Further analysis of specific indices of
the study showed that Nigerians rated as average at 55 and 47 per cent
the president’s performance on corruption and national security
respectively, while 14 per cent rated very poorly his performance on job
creation and handling of the economy (21 per cent).
On the most important issue(s) the
administration should focus its attention on over the remaining three
years, the poll said Nigerians identified unemployment (21 per cent),
power (17 per cent), and the economy (16 per cent) as top priority
areas.
Details of the findings based on
geo-political zones indicated that the North-West and North-East
geopolitical zones with the highest proportion of respondents gave the
president 81 per cent each, while the South-South and South-East zones
accounted for the highest proportion of respondents who disapproved the
president’s performance with 35 per cent each.
The report said the average overall
approval of 64 per cent by respondents cuts across all age groups, with
more male respondents (67 per cent) approving his performance than
female (60 per cent).
On why they approved or disapproved the
president’s job performance, the result showed that the open-ended
answers, particularly in May 2016, cited the improved security (31 per
cent), the fight against corruption (17 per cent) and the president’s
good intentions (16 per cent), among other reasons.
On the other hand, those who disapproved
the president’s performance cited the worsening economy (30 per cent),
the unrealized expectation for change (29 per cent) and the increase in
prices of goods and services (21 per cent), to mention a few.
On recommendations for the most
important issues the administration should focus on in the remaining
three years, 21 per cent of Nigerians said unemployment; 17 per cent
rooted for power/electricity, while 16 per cent were in support of
economy.
Other categories included food and
agriculture (11 per cent), education (nine per cent), and security
(seven per cent), among others.
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