A poll, commissioned
by Anap Foundation and conducted by NOI Polls Limited, has placed Peter Obi of
the Labour Party (LP) as winner of the 2023 presidential race with 21 percent
of votes.
According to a statement by Anap Foundation on Thursday,
Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, candidates of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), respectively, are tied in second
place with 13 percent of votes.
Described as a “dark horse”, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New
Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is fourth “with
3% of voters proposing to vote for him”.
‘FAKE, DUBIOUS STATISTICS’
Reacting to the development in a statement, Bayo Onanuga,
spokesperson of APC presidential campaign council, described the result as
“dubious and unreliable statistics”.
Onanuga made reference to a previous poll conducted by NOI Polls prior to
the 2015 presidential election, which had projected victory for Goodluck
Jonathan of the PDP.
“Our objective profiling of NOI Polls as an anti-APC
research organisation is grounded on the aforesaid facts and that is why we
believe this present report is, in the language of Nigerians, ‘wuruwuru to the
answer’,” he said.
“The NOI has chosen
the preferred candidate and has decided to use fake, dubious statistics to
package him to the Nigerian voters.
“We know, as a matter of fact, the owners of NOI and where
their political interest lies and wish to advise NOI to stop polluting the
political system with irresponsible, unscientific and biased polling so that we
don’t expose the puppeteers pulling its strings.”
‘BOGUS, CONCOCTED DATA’
Ladipo Johnson, spokesperson of the NNPP presidential
campaign council, queried “the sampling method used in arriving at the
obviously unverifiable or concocted data”.
“I would take it with
a pinch of salt. This is a known template. In this season, we should expect
many more dubious sounding opinions, polls, etc.,” he said.
“Unfortunately, there are many who for parochial reasons are
drawing back the development of our democracy, due to various propaganda
tricks.
“The poll is to say the least bogus and an attempt to create
the impression that the LP candidate has the potential to succeed, when in actual
fact, the reality on ground is totally different.
“The NNPP insists that the complete process of the poll
should be published. If not, the poll cannot be taken seriously.”
‘OBI BASKING IN
EUPHORIA OF HALLUCINATION’
Speaking on Thursday in an interview on Channels Television,
Daniel Bwala, spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, faulted
the technique used for the poll.
“A normal poll that
will attract credibility will be a poll that will clearly release the sample
size and the margin of error as the report is being released, because the
sample size and the margin of error will help in identifying whether the
polling was actually carried out correctly or not,” he said.
“Then, you can further ask for the sampling. Was it done
through a phone call? If it was done through a phone call, then the people who
did not have phones were probably not part of the polling.
“You also go to the
extent of demographics and the place where the polling was carried out. I know
they said it was a random sampling. But then, because of the result, I’m
tempted to believe that this polling was carried out online because Peter Obi
has a number of people who are very active for him online much more than the
other candidates.
“I will tell you why: There was an algorithm search and data
analytics that was carried out that came up with the finding that 57.5 percent
of people who follow Peter Obi and engage with him on social media do not live
in Nigeria. In fact, majority of whom are bots on Twitter — they are not real
human beings.
“If you take away 57.5 percent of people who are active for
him, who probably live abroad and they don’t have voter cards and they are
likely not to come to vote, what it means is that Peter Obi is basking in the
euphoria of hallucination, and this polling is a true reflection. I won’t even
go deeper to talk about the posters that they are surrogates of Peter Obi.”
‘IT IS THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE’
Meanwhile, Abayomi Arabambi, LP spokesperson, said the poll
shows Nigerians are ready for a new order in governance.
“The opinion poll didn’t come to us as a surprise, because
that exemplifies implicitly the yearning of Nigerians towards the presidential
bid of Mr Peter Obi/Datti Ahmed,” he said.
“It shows that Nigerians have come to terms with our reality
that there has to be a change and a new order from the old, because it is very
obvious they are languishing in abject poverty. There are no jobs for
Nigerians. Schools are under lock and key due to executive rascality and
malfeasance of the present administration.
“You are aware that there are certain regions where we
scored low, but we are not going to complain about it. But it shows that those
people complaining about that are already seeing the results of what is going
to happen come February next year when we go to the polls.”
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