Top 15 Most Performing Governors In Nigeria By Premiumratings

The Rivers State Governor Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi emerged the overall winner in the best performing Nigerian governors poll. The poll which ran across various online fora, social network platforms as well as the premiumratings site lasted for one month and saw several participants within and across Nigeria. The poll was based on the major sectors of the Nigerian state economy which includes: Agriculture, Infrastructure, Education, Health, Security, Rural and region Development (development outside the state capital), Job Creation/Human Capital Development and Resource management/ Prudence. After collation and computation of all the poll results the Rivers State governor Rt Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi emerged the overall winner after polling 47.11% of the total polls and coming tops in Education, Health, Job creation/human Capital development and Agricultural sectors of the economy. The Lagos State government Babatunde Fashola came second after polling 9.61% of the total and the Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha came third after polling 9.25%. the following table shows the top 15 most performing governors in Nigeria and their percentage polls N Governor State % poll of total 1 Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi Rivers 47.11 2 Babatunde Fashola Lagos 9.61 3 Rochas Okorocha Imo 9.21 4 Godswill Akpabio Akwa Ibom 8.19 5 Sule Lamido Jigawa 6.41 6 Rabiu Kwankwaso Kano 4.27 7 Ahmed Abdulfatah Kwara 3.91 8 Willie Obiano Anambra 3.56 9 Sullivan Chime Enugu 2.49 10 Shehu Shema Katsina 1.78 11 Rauf Aregbesola Osun 1.07 12 Aliyu Wamakko Sokoto o.71 13 Adams Oshemole Edo 0.70 14 Abiola Ajimobi Oyo 0.70 15 Ibinkunle Amosun Ogun 0.36 SECTORAL BREAK DOWN OF THE POLL RESULTS Agriculture: the Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amachi came tops in the Agricultural sector after polling 34.15% of the total polls in the Agric sector while Kwara State governor Ahmed Abdulfatah came second after polling a total of 29.27%. The Sokoto State governor Wamakko came third after managing 4.88% . participants who rooted for the Rivers State governor pointed out his various Agricultural initiative and programs which includes but not limited to: Songai farm initiatives which some pointed out is twenty times its prototype in Porto novo, Benin Republic, fish farming taking place in several LGAs , Banana plantation in Tai covering over a thousand hectares of land, oil palm plantation, rubber plantation, cassava plantation, poultry farming, among others. source premiumratings.org