In the poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, Obi was the preferred choice of the respondents over and ahead of Tinubu and Atiku.
By Emma Ogbuehi
With 66 percent of the 93 percent of respondents sampled by media giants, Bloomberg News, the Labour Party (LP) standard bearer, Peter Obi, has been projected the leading candidate in the February 25 elections. This again, places Obi ahead of his opponents- Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in ranking and public affirmation.
According to Agency Reports, in the poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, Obi was the preferred choice of the respondents over and ahead of Tinubu and Atiku.
The poll result released on Friday showed that the LP candidate garnered 66 percent of the 93 percent of respondents votes.
Tinubu and Abubakar got 18 and 10 percent respectively. The poll was conducted between January 26 and February 4.
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“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.
There have been a number of polls conducted for the leading presidential candidates.
The LP candidate has won the majority of the polls but the opposition parties are quick to dismiss their outcome.
In September 2022, an NOI poll placed Obi as the leading candidate with 21 percent of the votes.
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.
The result of the poll was dismissed by APC, NNPP, and PDP.
