Gallup ranks President Mills’ job performance 24th in sub-Sahara Africa
About 57% of adult Ghanaian residents are satisfied with the way President John Atta-Mills is running the affairs of the country, according to an African poll results released by research firm Gallup April 25, 2012.
The rating makes President Mills’ leadership style the 24th among the 34 sub-Saharan African countries on the rankings.
Prof Mills, who assumed office as President in 2009, was ahead of his colleague Jacob Zuma of South Africa.
Approval ratings of Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza was ranked first in the region with 89% while Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s ratings was last with 16% approvals from his countrymen and women.
According to Gallup, the results of the poll which was conducted in 2011 were based on face-to-face interviews.
The interviewees were asked “Do you approve or disapprove of job performance of the President?”
And the key scorecard used, according to Gallup was based on electoral processes, judicial confidence and economic performance.
The poll however indicated that 42% disapproved of the President’s performance.
Gallup noted that in Ghana approval ratings of the head of government are virtually identical to those of the country’s leadership.
By Ekow Quandzie
See the poll results below:
