Nigerians Declare ‘Power’, ‘Security’ And ‘Education’ As Focal Areas For The New Government

Abuja, Nigeria. June 2nd, 2015 – A special edition poll conducted by NOIPolls Limited in partnership with BusinessDay Media, has revealed that Nigerians would like the new government to mainly focus on ‘Power’ (55 percent), ‘Security’ (41 percent) and ‘Education’ (34 percent) among other sectors; in order to generate tangible change, growth and development, which will have a positive effect on the overall well-being of Nigerians in the next four years.

More findings from the poll revealed that 8 in 10 Nigerians (81 percent) were of the opinion that the 2015 Democracy Day was worth celebrating; while citing ‘we have a change in government’ (39 percent), ‘there has been a positive change’ (11 percent) and ‘a sincere President has been elected’ (11 percent) as the main reasons for the relevance of the 2015 Democracy Day celebration. These perceptions therefore suggest that the 2015 electoral process as well as the transition in government shaped the perception of Nigerians towards the 2015 Democracy day; thus creating a positive outlook on the essence of democracy in Nigeria. However, 19 percent of the respondents were of the opinion that the 2015 Democracy Day was not worth celebrating; mainly because they believe it’s a waste of time due to the level of hardship in the country.

Furthermore, ‘Corruption’ (32 percent), ‘Bad Governance’ (22 percent) and ‘Insecurity’ (11 percent) are top three factors that have hindered the progress of Democracy in Nigeria as identified by Nigerians. Although, insecurity was of more concern to residents of the North-East (23 percent) and North-West zone (16 percent), than to the residents of other zones.

Finally, an evaluation of the performance of the outgone government revealed that almost half (48 percent) of Nigerians rated the performance of the outgone administration as poor. Although, Nigerians believe that the outgone government mainly performed well in the Agricultural (19 percent), Educational (18 percent) and Aviation (10 percent) sectors, while, 18 percent of Nigerians are of the opinion that the past government did not perform well in any sector. These were some of the key findings from the Democracy Day Special Edition poll conducted in the week of May 25th 2015.

Brief Background

Democracy is the establishment of responsive political institutions which promotes an accountable government, prevent corruption, respect human rights and civil rights, and ensure sovereignty. With many years of military coups and fruitless efforts to practice civilian rule, Nigeria finally made a transition in 1999. Nigerians viewed those years as trying periods of a process of democratization that would pave the way for political infrastructure in the country.

Democracy may have provided Nigerians the unique opportunity to walk freely, associate freely, express freely, but a situation where majority of her citizens are still living in abject poverty without access to basic necessities of life suggest that democratic rule in Nigeria still has some major hurdles to overcome. Sixteen years of civil rule after a lengthened military dictatorship has been characterized by challenges such as terrorism, abuse of public office, corruption, political sabotage, ethnic rivalry, insecurity, poverty, illiteracy, among other shortcomings which are dangers to democracy.[1]

See full report and more diagrams on http://www.noi-polls.com/root/index.php?pid=328&parentid=12&ptid=1

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MrTemple:
Pls he shd try oooooooooo

Health should also be his top priority.