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recent opinion poll conducted to evaluate the popularity of President
Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress has yielded positive
results.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Latest Presidential Job Approval rating conducted by NOIPolls revealed a 5-point increase to stand at 55 percent in March, 2017.
The rise in the President’s job performance rating was seen across
the six geo-political zones and the North-East zone with 31-points had
the highest proportion of Nigerians in this category.
This increase in the job approval rating could be attributed to the
President’s return from medical leave and the continued deliberations
around the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, with the main objective of
restoring growth, investing in and building a globally competitive
economy.
Additionally, the Central Bank’s policy intervention on foreign
exchange which has further improved the value of the Naira in the global
market could also have contributed to this increase.
Further findings revealed that the rationale for approval of the
President’s job performance was centered around the perceived ‘slight
reduction in the prices of goods and services’ (25 percent), ‘improved
level of security’ (20 percent) and ‘slight improvement in the economy’
(15 percent) amongst other positive reasons.
Conversely, 35 percent of the respondents who disapproved of his
job performance reported ‘general hardship and high poverty rate’ (40
percent), ‘high cost of goods and services’ (25 percent) and ‘worsening
state of the economy’ (15 percent) as reasons for their disapproval.