President Jonathan’s approval rating drops in new poll
The October result of the monthly NOIpolls on governance has seen the ratings of President Goodluck Jonathan drop from the high figures it recorded in the month of September.
The latest publication of governance poll results by NOIPolls for the month of October 2014 revealed that a total of 60% of adult Nigerians approved of the President’s performance over the past one month.
In the NOIPolls, respondents to the poll were asked three specific questions.
The first question sought to assess the views of Nigerians on the performance of President Goodluck Jonathan over the past 1 month.
Respondents were asked: Do you approve or disapprove of the job performance of President Jonathan in the past 1 month? Responses revealed that a total of 60% of the respondents approved of the President’s performance, 27% disapproved of his performance, while 13% of the respondents remained neutral as they
neither approved nor disapproved.
While assessing the President’s performance, findings revealed that Nigerians perceived the performance of the President in key elements of his transformation agenda including, ‘Job Creation’, ‘Power’ ‘Economy’, ‘Health’, ‘Education’, ‘Agriculture & Food Security’, ‘Transportation’ and ‘Foreign Policy & Diplomacy’ as average.
Unsurprisingly his performance on ‘Security’ was rated as very poor, implying that Nigerians are not satisfied with his achievement on this key area of his transformation agenda.
In addition, an assessment of the current state of power revealed a worsened state in power supply to Nigerian households as reported by (47%) of the respondents with a higher proportion from the North-Central zone(58%).
This poor state of power supply experienced by households across the nation was generally due to the drop in generated power by 1,000 megawatts in October 2014. This setback in power supply also contributed to the downward direction of the President’s approval rating in October.
These were some of the key findings from the Governance Snap Poll conducted in week of October 27th 2014.
