THE camps of the three leading presidential candidates, yesterday, disagreed over the ANAP poll, which showed Labour Party, LP, Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, as the favourite to win the 2023 election.
For the second time in four months, the survey concluded this month showed that Peter Obi is ahead of three other frontline candidates. The other three candidates are Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP.
The poll conducted by NOI Polls Limited and commissioned by ANAP Foundation showed that “Obi had 23 percent, Tinubu scored 13, Atiku got 10 and Kwankwaso polled two percent in the fresh poll released in December,” Mr. Atedo Peterside, said on Channels Television, Politics Today programme, on Wednesday.
Peterside, the ANAP Foundation president, said the 2023 election has moved past a three-horse race, as said in an earlier poll released in September, to a four-horse race.
“Nobody has gained or lost more than two or three percent. I don’t know whether that is good news or bad news but it is as if nothing has happened fundamentally, no significant shift,” he said.
Peterside said mobile phones were used to conduct the poll because of increased mobile phone penetration in the country, adding that a large percentage of people are undecided.
He added that the interest level in the next general elections was driven by economic challenges plaguing the nation such as poverty, and insecurity, noting that the appetite of the youths in this election was high and carpeted candidates, who have dodged presidential debates.
