Bayo Onanuga, media director of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has rejected the outcome of the
pre-election opinion poll commissioned by Nextier, a consulting firm.
The poll result, released on Sunday, projected Peter Obi of
the Labour Party (LP) as the preferred presidential candidate ahead of the
elections.
The result showed that 37 percent of the 3,000 respondents
expressed their interest to vote for Obi if the election was held at the time,
while Bola Tinubu of the APC got 24 percent.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got 27
percent, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) was a
distant fourth with six percent.
The poll was conducted on January 27.
The organisation said though the poll resulted in LP
securing the highest voter performance, “it is unlikely to secure an outright
first-round victory in the presidential election.
In a statement on Sunday, Onanuga said promoters of Nextiers
polls are members of the LP and “active campaigners for the presidential
candidate”.
Onanuga said the poll was intensely partisan and ridiculous,
describing it as a fairytale and fantasy that was deliberately put out to set
grounds for political crisis and riots in the country after the elections.
“For a start, Nigerians should know that promoters of
Nextier are members of Mr. Peter Obi’s presidential campaign council and active
campaigners for the Labour Party presidential candidate,” the statement reads.
“Any poll conducted by such an intensely partisan and
prejudicially tainted organisation should be taken with a pinch of salt. This
is apart from the fact that the sample size of the so-called poll and
methodology employed cannot stand any integrity test.
“The summary of Nextier’s so-called face-to-face nationwide
poll is that Peter Obi is the preferred candidate of 37% of Nigerians with a
conclusion that the Presidential election will go into a run-off.
“We make bold to say
this is wishful thinking without any basis in fact and reality. It is important
to alert Nigerians and the international community that the pollsters at
Nextier are working for the Labour Party and their poll results are all cooked
up, far away from reality.
“We want to state categorically that Peter Obi is not a
major contender in the coming presidential election in Nigeria and no fantasy
and fairytale poll can change the material facts.”
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