A pre-presidential election opinion poll, on Friday, projected Peter Obi of the Labour Party ahead of the other presidential candidates in the February 25 presidential election.
In the poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, Obi was the preferred choice of the respondents ahead of the All Progressives Congress’ Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar.
According to the poll result, the LP candidate garnered 66 percent of the 93 percent of respondents’ votes.
Tinubu and Abubakar scored 18 and 10 percent, respectively, of the poll conducted between January 26 and February 4.
“San Francisco-based Premise polled 2,384 Nigerians from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4 via a smartphone app. Submissions were selected from quotas developed by age, gender, and location across the country’s six geopolitical zones, the company said. Results were then weighted against the original quotas to ensure national representation,” Bloomberg News said.
A number of polls have been conducted for the leading presidential candidates.
Obi has won the majority of the polls but the opposition parties usually dismiss their outcomes.
In September 2022, an NOI poll placed Obi as the leading candidate with 21 percent of the votes.
But Tinubu and Atiku tied in second place with 13 percent of votes each, while Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party came fourth with three percent.
The APC, NNPP, and PDP, however, dismissed the result of the poll.