Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party is the man to win February's presidential election, according to Bloomberg.
The international news platform said that polls it conducted shows that Obi will emerge as President in the 2023 election.
According to the poll, Peter Obi secured 66% of decided and 47% of undecided votes.
He was followed by Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar respectfully.
A part of the report read:
"Nigerian businessman and ex-governor Peter Obi remains the top
choice to become the nation’s next president, according to a new poll.
Two-thirds of respondents said they intend to vote for Obi, a
third-party candidate, in elections scheduled for later this month. The
results of the survey conducted for Bloomberg News by Premise Data Corp.
were published on Friday – 15 days before the vote to choose President
Muhammadu Buhari’s successor.
Of the 93% of participants who said they’ve decided how to
vote, 66% named Obi as their preferred choice. Obi scored a slightly
higher 72% among decided respondents in an earlier Premise poll that was
released by Bloomberg in September as the official election campaign
kicked off.
While Obi’s campaign has generated a momentum that the two
established forces in Nigerian politics were not expecting, the ruling
All Progressives Congress and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party
insist that he cannot triumph on Feb. 25. They say his appeal is too
thinly spread across the country’s states and have derided polling that
has almost universally put the candidate of the much smaller Labour
Party in first place.
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Still, Obi has emerged as the most popular candidate in six
polls including the two surveys conducted by Premise for Bloomberg.
Another poll released this week by Lagos-based media and data company
Stears predicted that Obi will win in the event of high turnout, but
lose to Bola Tinubu of the APC if participation is weak.
Dismissed by his opponents as a “social media candidate,” Obi’s
rise has been fueled by disenchantment with the status quo. His
campaign has attracted an enthusiastic following known as “Obidients” —
initially online but increasingly at rallies and marches — even if the
man they wish to help to Nigeria’s biggest ever electoral upset hardly
has an anti-establishment background.
Pollsters say they account for Nigeria’s electoral makeup when designing their surveys.
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."
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