Obi leads Tinubu, Atiku, others in Bloomberg’s election Poll
A Poll conducted by an international agency, Bloomberg has projected Labour Party’s (LP) standard bearer, Peter Obi as the most preferred candidate for the Feb 25 general election.
In the poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, respondents preferred Obi over Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The poll result released on Friday showed that the LP candidate garnered 66 percent of the 93 percent of respondents votes.Tinubu and Abubakar got 18 and 10 percent respectively.
The poll was conducted between January 26 and February 4.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.
Obi’s rival candidate Bola Ahmad Tinubu of the ruling APC came a distant second with 18% while PDP’s Atiku Abubakar came third with 10% while Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came fourth with three percent among the decided voters.APC, NNPP, and PDP had all dismissed the result then.
