The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation has dismissed as nightmarish an opinion poll result conducted by information analysis firm, NOIpolls, predicting victory for the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Olusola Eleka, in the July 14 election.
It said NOI opinion poll result is a pre-meditated arrangement to fulfil a contractual engagement by politician working for other politicians with common partisan interest and urged PDP to prepare for defeat over abuse of Ekiti people’s right to good governance and development. An opinion poll on Eki-ti governorship election by NOIpoll was published few days ago suggesting victory for Eleka, with PDP members jubilating over the prospect of victory.
But a statement by Director of Media and Publicity, Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation,Wole Olujobi, spurned the suggestion, dismissing it as a “warped sentiment of a competitor also acting as an umpire in a one-man game”. Noting that NOI poll result would not have been different from what was published as preconceived because of the ownership profile, Olujobi explained: “NOI poll result would not have been different from what we read giving victory to PDP because of the ownership structure.
“The outfit is owned by former Minister of Finance in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a staunch member of PDP that is struggling for breath after bequeathing the legacy of waste to Nigerians now at the mercy of poverty and squalor.
“Truth is NOI is an abbreviation of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (NOI). The poll company had earlier conducted several opinion polls with bizarre projections in 2014 and 2015 with ridiculous results that diminished its worth, so much that we thought the organisation would have closed down its operations as a result of its unprofessional and inaccurate projections.
But because NOI’s assignment in Ekiti is more of political interest than service provision to Nigerians, it is fraudulent for a partisan outfit like NOI to pretentiously present itself as serving on nonpartisan platform. “NOI is today doing more of political gambling in Ekiti State than statistical analysis of information to produce valid result ahead of the July 14 poll.” Olujobi added that the realities on ground in Ekiti State did not support NOI’s assertion in its projection.