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Ekemese Efiong

Ikemesit Effiong is Managing Partner (Head of Research) at SBM Intelligence, an Africa-focused geopolitical risk consultancy, and a frequent media commentator on Nigerian politics and security.

Jun 11, 2026

4:24
I mean it's really important and I see like the key things that it will put especially going towards the election and I mean just you know trying to see how voter sentiments change as well it's really important to the democratic process and the voting process as well because then it allows for people to see how people are changing the political party movement but it also I mean it also give a feel to how voters feel and I think that by the next one we'll be able to tell the difference by having the data being analyzed as well I mean what would you say is the single most important I know there were so many important takeaways from this report but what would you say is the single most important takeaway especially from this first wave
5:13
Yeah, I think it's just the sense that Nigerians just have about the overall direction of their country.
5:18
So nearly 80% of Nigerians, or at least...
5:22
The Nigerians that we spoke to for the survey say that the country is headed in the wrong direction.
5:27
That's an overwhelming vote of no confidence in the current administration.
5:32
One of the things that we also did with the voter sentiment tracker was to track net favorability ratings.
5:40
So we basically asked Nigerians to rate the performance, not just of the president, but also of some of the key Political figures that are shaping this particular election cycle and basically the ratio of positive sentiments to negative sentiments constitutes the net favorability rating and the president's net favorability ratings are.

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12:31
What factors do you think are driving this sentiment?

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