Bloomberg poll gives Peter Obi clear lead ahead of 2023

Our Reporter
Sep 28, 2022
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A third-party candidate is the top choice to become the next president of Africa’s most populous country, according to a new opinion poll conducted for Bloomberg, the global television group based in New York.

A clear majority of respondents said they intend to vote for Peter Obi, a former state governor, in elections scheduled for February. The results of the survey conducted for Bloomberg News by Premise Data Corp. were published on Wednesday as the official campaign to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari kicked off.


Of the 92% of participants who said they’ve decided how to vote, 72% named Obi as their first choice. Of those who are still unsure, 45% said the 61-year-old is their preferred candidate.

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The San Francisco-headquartered data company surveyed 3,973 Nigerians from Sept. 5-20. Respondents to the app-based poll were selected from quotas developed by age, gender and location across the country’s six geopolitical zones. Results were then weighted against the original quotas to ensure national representation. About 44% of Nigerians own smartphones, according to the Alliance for Affordable Internet.
The candidates of the two parties that have ruled Nigeria since the restoration of democracy in 1999 fared less well. Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress garnered 16% of decided voters and 23% of those yet to make up their minds. Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party tallied 9% and 17% respectively.


A former two-term governor of the southeastern Anambra state, Obi is running on the ticket of the Labour Party, which won a single seat in the Senate and House of Representatives in the last election in 2019. The APC and PDP dominate both chambers of parliament.

In a relatively short time, Obi has built up an enthusiastic base known as “Obidients” — initially online, but increasingly in the streets — who aim to cause an upset on Feb. 25. Still, the Labour Party has a much smaller nationwide presence than the two rival parties, which are experienced at turning out voters across the vast West African country. Obi’s supporters will need to rapidly scale up their organizational infrastructure if they’re to capitalize on the campaign’s momentum.

Obi originally sought the PDP’s nomination before withdrawing from a party election that Abubakar, a former vice president and perennial presidential candidate, won in May. Tinubu, who used to govern the commercial hub of Lagos and is the most influential politician in southwestern Nigeria, triumphed by a landslide in the APC’s primaries the following month.

The five-month race to the general elections gets underway as Nigerians contend with soaring inflation, a plunging currency and pervasive insecurity. Production of the economy’s historical mainstay — crude oil — has also slumped to multi-decade lows, while the Buhari administration’s debt service bill in the first quarter of the year exceeded the revenue it was able to earn.

Three-quarters of respondents said that their country is heading in the “wrong direction.” A combined 88% listed the economy and jobs, corruption, and security — three pillars of the campaign that brought Buhari to power in 2015 — as the most important issues facing their communities.

Nice

Na the reality or eventual actual result matter

I am done with national campaign.

Mine is that we here in Anambra must deliver at least 1.6m votes. Those former figures are completely disgraceful and unacceptable. Whites always report 60%+ turn out in election. That translates to at least 1.8m votes for our state. St. Michael the Archangel pray for us.


Three Hail Marys for all Anambrarians.

UnusualEmissary:
Na the reality or eventual actual result matter

Eventual actual. No wonder your moniker is unusual.

The leading team is the moving team of the people.

Peter Obi is Nigeria’s President in waiting.

Wetin my eyes see for Jos today, my mouth no fit talk am finish.

People only heard of Peter Obi’s visit today, next thing the whole Rwang Pam Stadium, West of Mines, Tafawa Balewa and Terminus shut down.

This is in the North Central and not the SE/SS ooo.

Sentiments aside

Obi remains the most credible candidate!
Man is gaining more grounds as days goes by

PDP never saw this coming, Obi has drastically reduced political apathy in Nigeria and has equally given hope to the citizens for a New Nigeria

This is a somewhat fair representation of the mood and wish of the entire electorates in Nigeria in the total rejection and repudiation of APC.

No free group of human beings in the history of the world has ever chosen oppressors.
Majority of the people would normally chose freedom over slavery.

A tiny minority with mental issues would not even know that they have been enslaved.

APC is an evil party.

APC represents deaths and destruction.

APC is satanic.

Noted

Obidatti2023

Treasure17:

Eventual actual. No wonder your moniker is unusual.

It's like in your mind now, I'm Anti-Obi abi?

Alaye, I don't have a side in all these

We're waiting for the great emperor and saviour of the world "The Unity" over here. Keep supporting all your weak and deviant figures. A New Era is coming God willing.

UnusualEmissary:


It's like in your mind now, I'm Anti-Obi abi?

Alaye, I don't have a side in all these

We're waiting for the great emperor and saviour of the world "The Unity" over here. Keep supporting all your weak and deviant figures. A New Era is coming God willing.

Wasn't insinuating anything. Just looking out for the coincidence of your sentence vis-a-vis your moniker. Anti Obi or not, Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria come 2023.

Obi is our hope

Another poll again!. Peter on the march

If this Man no win naija na big time scam.