Tinubu leads in closing poll as Obi, Atiku trail

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been projected to win the coming presidential election in Nigeria, according to an opinion poll conducted by a group of data analysts and public relations experts, coordinated by FREDDAN Continental.

The poll, which lasted from January 7 to February 11, rated Tinubu higher than other front runners, including PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, LP’s Peter Obi and NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso.

The group, in conducting the poll, said it used online and phone surveys to collect data about voters’ preferences.

The online survey was conducted via a secure web platform that prevented multiple voting while the phone survey was conducted by trained staff proficient in the three major Nigerian languages – Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.

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The group said, “The FREDDAN Election Net favourability administered over 370,000 questionnaires over the four weeks duration and received a total of 287,033 responses across the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.”

“A national summary of the poll showed that the presidential candidate of APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is favourite to win the 2023 presidential election, having been preferred by 106,764 respondents to the opinion poll, representing 37.2% of total population of respondents.

“The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, came second in the poll with 92,127 respondents preferring him over the other candidates. This forms 32.1% of the total responses received.

“The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, came a surprising third as just 88,109 respondents preferred him, forming 30.7% of total respondents.

“Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came a distant fourth, polling 693, translating to just 0.23% of total respondents,” the group said.