By Wisdom Nwedene
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has emerged winner in an online poll conducted by an online newspaper, 9news Nigeria and monitored by professional organisations.
In the online poll which was created on 19th February and ended on 21st February 2023, Mr Peter Obi garnered 1,517 votes to defeat his closest rival, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who polled 787 votes.
Other candidates include, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, 374 Votes, Professor Peter Umeadi ( APGA) Party, 173 Votes, Omoyele Sowore ( AAC) Party, 166 Votes, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ( NNPP) Party, 164 Votes,
Dumebi Kachikwu
Dumebi Kachikwu ( ADC) Party, 164 Votes,
Yusuf Mamman Dan Talle ( APM) Party, 157 Votes, Prince Adewole Adebayo ( SDP) Party, 155 Votes, Professor Christopher Imumulen ( Accord Party) Party, 155 Votes,Kola Abiola ( PRP) Party, 154 Votes, and Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim ( YPP) Party
who secured 153 Votes respectively.
The latest poll by 9NEWS NIGERIA made Peter Obi the winner of seven previous polls conducted by reputable polling companies.
9News Nigeria recalls that a poll conducted by
New York based global television and media giant, Bloomberg says former governor of Anambra state Peter Obi remains the top choice to become the nation’s next president.
Two-thirds of respondents said in the polls published Friday they intend to vote for Obi, a third-party candidate, in elections scheduled for February 25, 2023.
The results of the survey conducted for Bloomberg News by Premise Data Corp. a San Francisco based data company, were published on Friday – 15 days before the vote to choose President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor. Premise Data Corp has so far conducted six polls for Bloomberg, and in all Obi has maintained an unassailable lead.
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.
Still, Obi has emerged as the most popular candidate in seven 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.
View the live results here
