President Jonathan’s Approval Rating Was 60% In November – NOI Polls

ABUJA – The latest governance polls
conducted by NOIPolls Limited, has revealed
that 60 percent of adult Nigerians approved
the job performance of President Goodluck
Jonathan in the month of November.
The last month rating of the President was
consistent with the 60 percent job approval
rating the administration recorded in October
2014.
The polls released in Abuja yesterday showed
that, on the contrary 27 percent disapproved
of the President's performance while 13
percent neither approved nor disapproved of
his performance as they remained neutral.
According to it, "Additionally, an evaluation of
the President's performance on key elements
of his transformation agenda revealed a very
good rating (4) in Health for the first time
since January 2014."
"Also, the President performed averagely (3)
in terms of his performance in Job Creation,
Economy, Education, Agriculture & Food
Security, Transportation and Foreign Policy &
Diplomacy except for Security (1) and Power
(1) in which he performed poorly," it said.
The polls revealed that, "More finding
indicated that 17 percent of adult Nigerians
interviewed reported that power supply to
their households 'has improved very much'
while 30 percent acknowledged that 'it has
improved a little' within the last one month.
"On the other hand, a further 19 percent of
the respondents stated that power supply has
"remained bad' while 16% claimed "it's very
bad and has gone worse". Furthermore, 18
percent indicated "there's no difference at
all" with regards to their power supply since
it has neither improved nor worsened over
the past one month. These are some of the
key findings from the Governance Snap Poll
conducted in the week of November 24th
2014.
"These results represent the eleventh in the
2014 monthly series of governance polls
conducted by NOIPolls to gauge the opinions
and perceptions of Nigerians regarding the
approval rating of the President, the
performance of the President on key elements
of his transformation agenda, and the state of
power supply in the country.
"The result revealed that 60 percent (24
percent percent+36 percent) of adult
Nigerians surveyed approved of the
President's job performance in the past 1
month. On the other hand, 27 percent (18
percent+9 percent) disapproved of the
President's job performance whereas, 13
percent neither approved nor disapproved of
his performance.
"Assessing the President's performance by
geo-political zones indicated that the South-
East zone accounted for the largest fraction
81 percent of respondents who approve of the
President's job performance, followed by the
South-South zone with 75 percent while the
North-Central zone had 66 percent approving
of his performance.
" Furthermore, responses when analysed by
gender revealed that more female 66 percent
than male respondents 56 percent approved
of the president's job rating, while analysis by
age group revealed that respondents aged
between 18 – 21 years accounted for the
highest proportion of respondents who
approved the President's job performance in
November 2014."

Posted By David Aniemeka