Peter Obi Remains Top Candidate To Win Presidential Election - Bloomberg Polls

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Peter Obi Remains Top Candidate To Win Presidential Election - Bloomberg Polls

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."