Nigerians on Sunday rated the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in a poll on a Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics.
The rating showed the reaction of Nigerians to the policies of the government.
Voters were required to select either Good, Average, Poor or Confused in the poll, with the question; How would you rate Buhari’s Economic Policies in the face of present realities and #APC [All Progressives Congress] Campaign Promises?
Thirty-seven per cent out of the over 2,000 voters ticked confused, while 25 per cent ticked poor.
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Average and good got 21 and 17 per cent respectively, showing the feelings of some Nigerians about the policies of the government and the economy of the nation that the Central Bank had said was heading towards recession.
Government’s Efforts To Revamp The Economy
This poll came days after the government said it was pumping money into the economy.
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun said on Friday that the Nigerian government would allocate 60 billion Naira ($180 million) more spending on capital projects, as part of the 2016 budget.
Mrs Adeosun told reporters that the allocation was an addition to earlier releases, aimed at boosting the economy.
Mrs Adeosun said that so far, the government had spent over 400 billion Naira on capital.
The government is making efforts to cushion the effect of the inflation rate that had soared in the last few months.
The drop in the price of crude oil and the activities of militants in the Niger Delta region have affected the nation’s revenue that largely comes from crude oil sales.
Bedeviled by challenges in the power sector, which many critics have said was the nation’s biggest challenge, Nigeria, with over 160 million population, ration less than 5,000 megawatts of electricity.
The government has also attributed the poor power supply to the attacks on oil installations in the south-south region by a militant group that calls itself the Niger Delta Avengers.
The militant group on Sunday said it is ready for ceasefire and negotiation with the government, a decision that will give huge relief to the nation that has seen its crude oil production drop from by 700,000 barrels per day to 1.56 million bpd.