Buhari's
rating drop to an all time low (infographics)
- President Muhammadu Buhari came into power last year with so much hope
- That hope seems to be waning at the moment as the Nigerian populace begins to express doubt
- There is need for the President to hit the ground running before his ratings further plummets
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘Change’ mantra seems to have lost steam as Nigerians are beginning to doubt the sincerity of their leader.
Are Nigerians fed up of the Buhari
government? Recent polls give the answer!
A poll conducted by NOI Polls, a
West Africa’s leading polling services organisation, indicates that the
president has lost some of his core supporters in one year.
A breakdown of the result of NOI findings revealed that Buhari’s approval rating is now 42%, same with his disapproval rating, while 16% of those who participated in the poll are undecided. It means that 6% of respondents are said to have changed direction. The ratings were done using such factors as age, gender, geographical location, occupation of the respondents and rating of the president’s performance in each sector of the economy. As at January 2016, the president’s approval rating was 69%. In February 2016, it had a massive fall to 55%. By March 2016, it reduced drastically to 47%. Last month, April, it went further down to 42% signalling a dissatisfaction from majority of the Nigerian populace on how the government is being run.
See a detailed of Jonathan vs Buhari
comparison below:
The declining popularity of the President might not be unconnected to several factors:
1) fuel subsidy removal;
2) comatose state of the Nigerian
economy;
3) fuel scarcity;
4) increase in electricity bill
tariff;
5) free fall of the naira;
6) frequent foreign trips by the
president;
7) violence perpetrated by Fulani
herdsmen;
8) resurgence of militancy in the
Niger Delta.
President Buhari assumed office on May
29, 2015, with fanfare and a renewed hope for the Nigerian people. Many
Nigerians are still awaiting the ‘miracles’ promised by the current
administration before it came on board.
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