Latest governance poll results released by NOIPolls for the month of September 2014 revealed that 74% of adult Nigerians approved of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Job Performance in the past 1 month.
On the other hand, 14% of the respondents disapproved of the President’s job performance, while 12% were neutral as they neither approved nor disapproved.
Current results represent a 13-point increase in the President’s approval rating from August 2014 and this increase is mainly as a result of significant increases observed in three geo-political regions; in the North-East, a 34% increase (approval ratings moved from 45%: Aug to 79%: Sep) and in the North-West, a 16% increase (approval ratings moved from 45%: Aug to 61%: Sep).
Also, in the South-West an 11% increase (approval ratings moved from 66%: Aug to 77%: Sep).
Monthly job approval ratings are typically affected/influenced by key events that may have occurred during the month of review; key events in September include successes recorded by the Nigerian military over Boko Haram insurgents and the effective response of the government with respect to the Ebola Virus Disease.
In addition, monthly trend analysis reveals that the current result represents the highest rating in the 21-month period that NOIPolls commenced its monthly governance polls in January 2013.
Prior to this current poll result, the highest job approval rating ever recorded by President Jonathan was 78% in September 2010, upon his official appointment as President of the Federation following the untimely demise of President Musa Yar’ Adua.
Furthermore, an assessment of the President’s performance on key elements of his transformation agenda revealed that he achieved a very good rating (4) in Agriculture & Food Security for the first time since January 2014.
More findings reveal that 52% of adult Nigerians surveyed reported that power supply to their households had improved within the last one month.
Conversely, 35% of the respondents were of the view that power supply to their households had remained bad and/or it had gone worse while 13% claimed their power supply had 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 September 27th 2014.
These results represent the ninth 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.
Respondents to the poll were asked three specific questions.
The first sought to assess the opinion 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? The results revealed that 74% of adult Nigerians surveyed (49% + 25%) approved of the job performance of the President in the past 1 month.
On the contrary, a total of 14% disapproved of the President’s performance (11% + 3%) while 12% were neutral as they neither approved nor disapproved.
Analyzing the President’s performance rating by geo-political zones revealed that the South-East zone had the largest portion of respondents who approved of the President’s job performance with 89%.
This is followed by the North-East zone with 79% and the South-West zone has 77%. In addition, there are variances by gender; more female (77%) than male respondents (69%) approved of the President’s job performance in September 2014, among other findings.