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Research conducted by the Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), an Independent International Media Monitoring, Research and Poll Agency on the government’s first 100 days media projection revealed a 67% negative ratings. The government also scored 23% positive projection and 10% neutral, reflecting comments about the government, policies and activities. The objective of this research is to measure the public perception of the presidency and its first hundred days in government through the Media. Centre for Media Analysis considers the government image as a cohesive force in national development and as an international collateral security and therefore the tendency to influence and affect its relations with the citizenry. The research result therefore shows that the government communications machinery could not sustain and project the ‘president’s own 80 percent rating of his 100 days gains’ positively. We however want to state that this research is not aimed at critiquing the government’s