2023: Obi leads other contestants in new poll

Peter Obi

*APC kicks, says Tinubu unperturbed by pollster’s dubious, unrealistic, inconsistent statistics 

*Vows to ensure wide victory margin that is incontestable

An opinion poll conducted by NOI Polls on the 2023 presidential election has shown that were the election to be held today, Peter Obi of  Labour Party would win.

The poll, commissioned by Mr. Peterside Atedo’s ANAP Foundation was conducted this month and suggested a three-horse presidential race among Obi, Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress, APC, and Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, came fourth in the poll and was described as a ‘dark horse’.

The poll, however, drew the ire of APC, which described it dubious, unrealistic and inconsistent

“The results showed a significant lead for Mr Peter Obi with 21 per cent of voters proposing to vote for him, if the presidential election were to be conducted today; and 13 per cent each proposing to vote for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and  Atiku Abubakar who are both tied in second place. 

‘’Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso was a distant fourth with 3 per cent of voters proposing to vote for him,” a statement by ANAP foundation announcing the result of the poll showed.

The poll also revealed that 74 per cent (about seven in 10) of adult Nigerians interviewed disclosed that they were not registered members of any political party in the country.

The poll, which cuts across gender, geographical locations, and age-group, was conducted in the week commencing August 15, 2022, and it is the second in the series of the monthly election polls conducted by NOIPolls as Nigerians count down to the general elections in 2023.

The first of such poll in the election series – Citizen’s Trust in Electoral Integrity – was conducted in July 2022. 

The NOIPolls was founded by the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

But reacting to the poll yesterday, the All Progressives Congress APC Presidential Campaign Council, which described the poll as dubious, unrealistic and inconsistent, said it was putting in place structures that would make its margin of victory so wide that it would be difficult for the opposition to contest it at the tribunal.

The council said: “Our party is putting every necessary machinery in motion to win the federal elections with a margin that will be too wide to contest.

“Our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recorded the highest votes of a senator across the country under the Social Democratic Party in July 1992. He will do it on nationwide scale on February 25, 2023.”

The APC Presidential Campaign Council in a statement by its Director, Media and Publicity, Mr Bayo Onanuga, said NOI Polls made wild and incredible permutations on the presidential elections.

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