23% Nigerians Claim They Have Political Party Affiliation

An Election poll results released by NOIPolls Limited have revealed that 2 in 10 (23%) adult Nigerians claim to have political party affiliation as they are registered members of various political parties with possession of party membership cards, whereas, 8% are registered members but do not have party membership cards.

On the other hand, 7 in 10 (69%) adult Nigerians surveyed confirmed they are not registered to any political party.

Furthermore, majority of Nigerians in this category are not keen in joining any political party. This may be due to general apathy towards politics, political parties and their activities or due to perceptions of a poor enabling environment for participation of individuals (especially the female gender) in political activities among other reasons.

A view of political party membership revealed an equal proportion of membership for the All Progressive Congress (APC) (47%) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) (47%) with both accounting for the largest share of respondents who are registered members of political parties.

The high membership of these parties among other registered parties may be driven by higher awareness of Nigerians on these parties (PDP 87%; APC 82%) than other registered parties as established by the poll; although a considerable proportion of Nigerians also showed awareness for the All Progress Grand Alliance (APGA) (25%).

Further findings revealed that the traditional media (‘television’ 57%; ‘radio’ 50%) plays a great role in the awareness of Nigerians on political parties.

Moreover a considerable proportion (32%) of Nigerians mostly aged 18-21 years tend to rely on ‘word of mouth’ as a source of awareness. These were some of the key findings of the ‘Countdown to 2015 Elections’ by NOIPolls Limited conducted in the week of December 8th 2014.

NOIPolls said the survey was part its Countdown to the 2015 Election with a focus on political parties in Nigeria.

The poll measured the awareness of Nigerians on registered political parties as well as their membership to these parties.

The Countdown to the 2015 Elections Polls is conducted bi-Monthly by NOIPolls and the current result release is 6th in the 2014 series.