Nigerians rate president 52% on general performance

A National Poll conducted by NOIPoll from April to May this year on job performance shows that Nigerians have rated President Muhammadu Buhari 52 per cent.

According to the report , the highest approval rating of 75 per cent was received from the President’s home base, the Northwest geo-political zone, while his lowest approval of 19 per cent came from the Southeast geo-political zone.

The Poll rated the president on specific sectors on a 4-point scale, where 1 stood for poor and 4 stood for Excellent.

Based on this, the highest average score of 2.3 points each was obtained for the president’s performance on security and agriculture, while the worst ratings of 1.8 point each were for his performance on the economy and poverty alleviation and job creation, 60 per cent of those polled said they were unsatisfied with the president’s handling of the economy.

The poll also sought the opinion of Nigerians regarding the president’s anti-graft war. The result showed that while 91 per cent of Nigerians believe corruption is still a major issue in the country, 58 per cent of the population is of the opinion that the anti-corruption war is working, with 42 per cent responding to the contrary.

Meanwhile, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) yesterday berated the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration over the appalling level of unemployment in the country.

ADP’s national Chairman, Yusuf Yabaji Sani, who spoke during the official launch of the party’s online membership registration in Abuja, claimed that the problem is worsened by government inability to fix the power required to jump-start the industrial sector of the economy.

Expressing concern that the multifaceted problems bedeviling the country is worsening by the day, he reiterated the party’s position that the president Buhari led administration is paying lip service to the anti-graft war.

Sani said it behooves on Nigerians to retrieve the country from the precipice engendered by bad governance since the inception of democratic rule in 1999.