The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has again polled a lead over his counterparts in the two major political parties in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in a latest opinion poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, a New York based global television and media giant, conducted the poll between January 26 and February 4, 2023.
According to the poll result released on Friday, the LP presidential candidate was the preferred choice of respondents, polling 66 percent of the 93 percent of respondents’ votes.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC and his counterpart in the PDP, former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar, got 18 and 10 percent respectively.
Two-thirds of respondents said they intend to vote for Obi, Bloomberg reported.
“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, according to Bloomberg, were then weighted against the original quotas to ensure national representation.
“Nigerian businessman and ex-governor, Peter Obi, remains the top choice to become the nation’s next president”, Bloomberg added.
