Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has been projected as the leading candidate ahead of the February 25 election, according to a pre-presidential election opinion poll.
The poll, conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, between January 26 and February 4, was released on Friday.
According to the poll, Obi was the preferred choice of the respondents, putting him ahead of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The poll result showed that Obi garnered 66 percent of the 93 percent of respondents’ votes.
Tinubu and Abubakar garnered 18 and 10 percent respectively.
“San Francisco-based Premise polled 2,384 Nigerians from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4 via a smartphone app. Submissions were selected from quotas developed by age, gender, and location across the country’s six geopolitical zones, the company said.
“Results were then weighted against the original quotas to ensure national representation,” Bloomberg News said.
In recent times, a number of polls have been conducted for the leading presidential candidates, with Obi winning the majority of the polls.
But, the opposition parties are quick to describe the polls as inconsequential.
Recall that Obi emerged as the leading candidate with 21 percent of the votes in an NOI poll conducted in September 2022.
Tinubu and Atiku tied in second place with 13 percent of votes each, while Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP came fourth with three percent.
But, the ruling APC, the main opposition party, PDP and the NNPP dismissed the result of the poll.
Meanwhile, ahead of the February 25 presidential election, nationwide opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation and conducted by NOI Polls Limited (NOIPolls) has ranked the flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi as the first.
Anap said its third and final poll result in February 2023 showed that Obi of the Labour Party remains in the lead, with Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) both trailing him while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) emerged as the “lone outsider”.
| Poll Question: Suppose the presidential election is being conducted today, who are you likely to vote for? | ||||||||
| Total (%) | Distribution across Geo-Political Zones | Poll Ranking | ||||||
| North Central | North East | North West | South East | South South | South West | |||
| Peter Obi (LP) | 21% | 24% | 6% | 8% | 53% | 38% | 14% | 1st |
| Bola Tinubu (APC) | 13% | 16% | 16% | 20% | 1% | 3% | 15% | 2nd |
| Atiku Abubakar (PDP) | 10% | 4% | 17% | 20% | 3% | 5% | 3% | 3rd |
| Rabiu Kwankwaso (NNPP) | 3% | 1% | 4% | 8% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 4th |
| Undecided | 23% | 20% | 28% | 26% | 7% | 19% | 30% | |
| Refused | 30% | 35% | 29% | 18% | 36% | 34% | 38% | |
| Total | 100% | |||||||
| Source: NOIPolls – February2023 | ||||||||
