fineboynl:
The old 200 should be use. Only the 1000 and 500 shouldn't be released.

SIMPLE.

That solves all the problems

Phoen1X:
This matter really hold el rufai for blockus.

I swear

Checkmate!!!

Lolz... E be like say Buhari don carry Tinubu and these APC Govs handicap

If this is true, then it is clear that Buhari has intelligence that most of the monies kept by Tinubu and APC Govs for vote buying are in the higher denominations(#1000 and #500), so he is now telling them that they have been destroyed. This of course means that they can no longer be recirculated to the public and hence are no longer legal tender. But the old #200 notes can be re-circulated to the public to ease the suffering of people.

Smart move!!!

The Govs know that at this point they cannot continue to use the "people" to pursue their selfish aim of vote buying. The people can use the old #200 notes as well as the new notes. But the billions of naira in #1000 and #500 that were kept will become useless and cannot be deployed for vote buying as voters cannot accept monies that no other person or institution(including banks) would accept.

Buhari na real guyman if this is true.

ThisMustStop:


There is no POLLs that is Scientific say to speak ... they just get data and use scientific metric to analysis it ... Meaning , it is ok to say it is scientific but the main question is the source. Online Polls or any means of polls is dependent on the data source.

If you are looking at scientific perspective , I will say we only need to make do of available data to analyze and forecast , that is scientific. In any case , polls are not true reflection of election result. But my main argument is why are they trying to manipulate or mislead people if this man is truly accepted all over the places. It can only mean that OBIDENTs are manipulative or not sincere .

Do you really need me to tell you the difference between scientific and unscientific polls?

Finally, ANAP/NOI poll.

I will be back

Obi will get over 1 million almost certainly in Lagos and Anambra

Thinkam:
Atiku we know

See this Clown

Hoelujohn:

I explicitly told them that based on what the parents are saying maybe while watching news. Not Abeokuta but majority of the parents are learned. Doctors , Prof, bankers etc. About 95% christians sha

Aiit....Thanks

This "interpretation" from Nations Newspaper(Tinubu shameless newspaper) is DIFFERENT from that from Daily Trust(another newspaper) which is also on the frontpage, where it said that the Supreme court panel refused to give any order on the contempt and extension brought by the Kaduna State Govt, asking all parties to file their submissions by Friday and Monday for the determination of the case on Wednesday next week.

Just wanted to point this out so that some persons may not be deceived.

PS: I personally think that this Naira Swap policy has been handled badly by the CBN and the Govt as people are currently suffering unnecessarily (the informal economy is currently collapsing in my view). I also believe of course that Tinubu and the APC Govs are not fighting for these people(they never cared for the people before now) and that they are doing this for selfish reasons(likely accumulation of old money for vote buying), however if the CBN knows it cannot ensure the circulation of enough of the new money, it needs to recirculate some of the old ones for the people.


Last last, please vote out APC everywhere. They have been the worst thing in this nation's history and i pray they die out after defeat in this election.

Hoelujohn:

What is difficult in him getting 25% in Ogun state? I teach in a school where about 80% of the pupils are Yorubas. Infact I will do something now. I will ask them to write down the party the parents are supporting. I will update soon
These are for three classes and all pupils are 9+. One of them tried to write twice , that was the cancelled one. The "smartest" class of them wrote in the 3rd column.

Didn't wanna comment on this thread cos i am a bit tired but this is very interesting and insightful.

Did they ask their parents of the parties they wanted to vote for before or after you asked them to do this assignment? And is this in an urban area in Ogun(Abeokuta perhaps)?

Napata77:


Of course there are similar sounding words between African languages and EVERY other language outside Africa. Because Africa is the place where SPEECH was invented, and where the first languages were spoken. Indeed, there is evidence that the first Japanese and Chinese were African settlers.

The question is the volume of cognates between two languages, and the number of basic words they share, which linguists point to as proof that both populations once lived together.

On that, the heavy correlation of Nigerian languages and the Ancient Egyptian language is clear and indisputable.



'Afrasaian' is a fake, garbage categorisation invented by WHITE EUROCENTRIC DEMONS desperate to cut the majestic Nile Valley civilization from BLACK AFRICA, to whom it belongs. Unscrupulous elements desperate to credit the glorious achievements of our ancestors to non-African sources.

What is 'AfroAsian' about these Pharaohs? These are black men like you, and you're talking nonsense.

Pharaoh Mentuhotep II


Pharaoh Amenhotep III


Pharaoh Narmer 2650 B.C. -- 2632 B.C

The problem is that you are still behaving as tho you are speaking to an enemy. That Stuppid believe is making you continuing in throwing tantrums.

Afrasan is a legitimate language phylum. Same as Niger-Kordofian and Nilo-Saharan. You really do not need "White scholars" to say that before you know that that is correct grouping.

If the only evidence you have for the "massive movement of Ancient Egygtians to Yoruba land" are similarly sounding words between 2 languages that are not even genetically linked, nobody can actually help your ignorance.

You are just deluded due to indoctrination, same way some persons become terroists. The reason why you think any person who does not agree with some of your delusions (even if they agree with some fundamental truths with you) is an enemy is the aftereffects of this indoctrination.

I have asked you to step back, pick any topic, so you have be properly schooled on African history. You are passionate but you need some guidance

Did the BBC just confirmed that Tinubu's account was actually confirmed by a competent court in America as having received and been a conduit for drug money, which made Tinubu to enter a plea agreement with the US criminal prosecutors to forfeit $440k.

And that this is in the public record in America?

Like, what the hecck!!!

So the often repeated accusation of drug money linked to Tinubu is true? I have generally avoided it cos i thought there was no proof.

What the hecck is Tinubu still doing contesting for President of Nigeria? And why are some persons supporting him??

Napata77:


You're talking rubbish again.



What do you mean ''list what confirmed it''?

Read the damn books I listed. Do you expect CNN to announce it or what?

You even said there's no evidence in comparative linguistics.

What do you call these word similarities and cognates I've been posting?

Wetin dey do you, abi you no get sense?

Listing words that you think are similar between 2 languages as evidence as a link between those 2 languages shows how ignorant you are of Comparative Lingiustics.

Hope you know there are "similarly" sonding words between say Edo and Japaneze.

Are you suggesting that Yoruba is genetically linked to Ancient Egyptian when Yoruba is a Niger-Kordofian language whilst Ancient Egypt is Afrasian?

ThisMustStop:
I am not the individual that comment on Nairaland, talk less of creating a post but THIS MADNESS NEEDS TO STOP!!!

The Nigeria Decides Poll that was done on https://nigeriansdecide.com/ was TOTALLY A FAKE POLL with underlined motive to raise false hope of PO popularity.

Tribune and many other newspaper published this on their website :

https://tribuneonlineng.com/just-in-obi-leads-atiku-tinubu-in-nigerians-decide-poll/
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/nigeria-decides-2023-us-based-research-agency-set-for-online-poll-2/

But the website owner hid is identity on WHOIS using paid service, the website does not have many visitors yet a total votes of #4,895,413 was polled based on the result with Obi leading with close to 2Million votes.

I diligently researched and found out that several scammers and spammers use the same register and the website was registered recently.

Again, I did close monitoring on the site when the poll was said to be opened and anyone can as well vote multiple times .

I have no trust in any of this sponsored polls that are designed to support OBI . It is not unlikely that this guys will hack INEC website and push votes in direction of OBI . After all they have succeeded to make people believe OBI has been leading the POLLS which will make it a difficult task for anyone to defend rigged outcome

NIGERIA BEWARE!!!

This particular poll was never a scientific poll. It was just an online poll. I dont think anybody refers to it here when we are talking about polls to consider for this elections.

The scientific polls you should be concerned about are Nextier, NOI/ANAP, Bantupage, Stears etc.

And they ALL indicated Obi as the leading candidate.

Thanks

Napata77:


All of those highlighted HAVE been demonstrated. Your problem is you shut your eyes to them, and pretend they were not written. Even Olumide Lucas' work explored the anthropological dimension, while Diop showed genetic, archeological and linguistic evidence, right before the United Nations, with other scientists in attendance. Dr Williams actually charted the migratory paths in his book, Destruction of Black Civilization.

So the evidence IS there aplenty. YOUR PROBLEM is that you are waiting for the 'mainstream' white historian establishment to 'CONFIRM' it, and give it their 'stamp of approval'.

And you will wait forever, because they never will.

No, it has not been confirmed.

You may want to list what confirmed it.

By the way, you really do not know who you are talking to when you bring that nonsense of "waiting for tbe white establishment " to confirm stuffs. It is not a White or Black thing. It is just scholarship. Evidence and Lines of Evidence.

It is funny cos when i argue at foreign forums, some persons there call me an "Afrocentrist" but to you(who i assume is Nigerian) i am an Eurocentrist abi??

Funny people

Napata77:


Nobody will give you that evidence except the descendants of the people who migrated. And the descendants say they came from Egypt/the Nile Valley, and it is part of their oral tradition across West Africa, and most likely in written African accounts, as will be seen in the yet to be translated Timbuktu manuscripts.

What other ''evidence''are you looking for?

If your father tells you what his father did, will you ask him to show you evidence?

Why would ethnic groups all say they migrate from the north if they didn't?

Are you waiting for some WHITE MAN PUBLICATION to say it?

NOT gonna happen, because they won't research it, and don't WANT to research it.

These are people who are still denying that Egypt was black at all, so why would they chart your migratory paths?

So don't sit there saying ''oh there's no evidence for it'' when your own traditional historians, griots, priests, and monarchs have stated it over and over again.

RESPECT their utterances because they are not idiots. You hear?

Am sorry, but what people say(or are alleged to have said) especially if it in an oral tradition cannot be taken to be True except there are other Lines of Evidences(e.g Genetics, archaeology, comparative linguistics, comparative anthropology, geoclimatic etc) that also complement it.

And this has nothing to do with the "White" man or anything. It is scholarship

Napata77:


If you claim to know African history, but have not read The Destruction of Black Civilization by Dr Chancellor Williams, the EPIC work known as the Black Man's Bible, then you do NOT know your history as an African, if indeed you are an African.

As you rightly said, this is a faceless forum, so you could well be a neo-nazi air head.



I also do NOT believe you have read the 'Religion of the Yorubas' by Olumide Lucas, where he CLEARLY shows Yoruba - Egypt connections, even finding evidence of HIEROGLYPHS in Yorubaland. He wrote that the Yorubas migrated from Egypt in antiquity.

Excerpts from a research article:

“In this chapter, we shall talk of a possible migration from ancient Egypt. Many traditions point to a fact that an alien group (Egyptians) immigrated to Yoruba land and mixed with the original population. Many oral traditions are replete with these stories.

The Awujale of Ijebu land has shown that the Ijebus are descended from ancient Nubia (a colony of Egypt). He was able to use the evidence of language, body, scarification, coronation rituals that are similar to Nubians’ etc, to show that the Ijebus are descendants of the Nubians.

What the present Awujale claimed for the Ijebus, can be authenticated all over Yoruba land. The Awujale even mentioned (2004) that the Itsekiri (an eastern Yoruba dialect) are speaking the original Ijebu language. Since the Nubians descended from the Egyptians, the Ijebu, and by extension, all Yoruba customs, derived from the Egyptian as well. Many traditional Yorubas have always claimed Egypt as their place of original abode, and that their monarchical tradition derives from the Egyptians.

Apostle Atigbiofor Atsuliaghan, a high priest of Umale-Okun, and a direct descendant of Orunmila, claimed that the Yorubas left Egypt as a result of a big war that engulfed the whole of Egypt. He said the Egyptian remnants settled in various places, two important places being Ode Itsekiri and Ile-Ife.

Chief O.N Rewane says “Oral tradition has it also that when the Yorubas came from South of Egypt they did not go straight to where they now occupy. They settled at Illushi, some at Asaba area – Ebu, Olukumi Ukwunzu while some settled at Ode-Itsekiri.” (O.N. Rewane Royalty Magazine A PICTORIAL SOUVENIR OF THE BURIAL AND CORONATION OF OLU OF WARRI, WARRI 1987). Since these oral traditions are passed on by very illiterate people, we can augment whatever is recorded with written sources.

Concerning the migration of some of the Yoruba ancestors from the east, Conton says: ”The Yoruba of Nigeria are believed by many modern historians to be descended from a people who were living on the banks of the Nile 2,000 years ago, and who were at the time in close contact with the Egyptians and the Jews.

Sometime before AD 600, if this belief is correct, these people must have left their fertile lands, for reasons which we cannot now discover and have joined in the ceaseless movement of tribes westwards and southwards across our continent. We can only guess at the many adventures they and their descendants must have had on their long journey and at the number of generations which passed before they arrived. All we can be certain about is that they were a Negro people and that one of the many princely states they founded on their arrival in West Africa…..was Ife”- Conton.

Although we agree with Conton that some of the Yoruban ancestors migrated from Egypt, we tend to toe the scientific line of Cheik Anta Diop, that the ancient Egyptians were pure Negroes. Aderibigbe, an indigenous scholar, also accepts that the Yorubas migrated from Egypt. He says: “The general trend of these theories, most of them based on Yoruba traditions, is that of a possible origin from “the east”.

Some scholars, impressed by the similarities between Yoruba and ancient Egyptian culture – religious observation, works of art, burial and other customs – speak of a possible migration of the ancestors of the Yoruba from the upper Nile (as early as 2000BC – 1000BC) as a result of some upheavals in ancient Egypt”. (AB ADERIBIGBE 1976). Unlike Conton, Aderibigbe was able to pinpoint a cause for the Yoruban migration – war.

Olumide Lucas did a lot of work to show similarities and identities between the ancient Egyptians and the Yoruban peoples. The date that Aderibigbe gave (2000BC – 1000BC) is much earlier than that given by Conton. Aderibigbe’s date corresponds to that of the Hyksos invasion of Egypt 2000-1500BC.

On the possible eastern origin of the Yorubas, Tariqh Sawandi says: “The Yoruba history begins with the migration of an east African population across the trans-African route leading from Mid-Nile river area to the Mid-Niger.

Archaeologists, according to M. Omoleya, inform us that the Nigerian region was inhabited more than forty thousand years ago, or as far back as 65,000BC. During this period, the Nok culture occupied the region. The Nok culture was visited by the “Yoruba people”, between 2000BC and 500BC.

This group of people was led, according to Yoruba historical accounts by king Oduduwa, who settled peacefully in the already established Ile-Ife, the sacred city of the indigenous Nok people. This time period is known as the Bronze Age, a time of high civilization of both of these groups.

According to Olumide J. Lucas, “the Yoruba, during antiquity, lived in ancient Egypt before migrating to the Atlantic coast”.

He uses as demonstration the similarity or identity of languages, religious beliefs, customs and names of persons, places and things. In addition, many ancient papyri discovered by archaeologists point at an Egyptian origin” (Tariqh Sawandi: ”Yorubic medicine: The Art of divine herbology).

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/137358-who-are-the-yoruba-people-part-3-by-femi-fani-kayode.html

Oh!! Jeez!!

Whixh part of African history do you want me to school you in

I see you are an Afrocentrist and the extreme, uncritical kind. Funny thing is that I agree with some of what you believe (those things we agree on would be those things that the current facts available points to).


On the Lucas book. I have read it and i do not agree with some stuffs there. There are some similarities between Yoruba(as with some other African civilizations like the Fon Kingdom for instance) but that similarity is due to a common SHARED origin in the then well-watered and later desiccating sahara) as well as later contacts with some kingdoms and societies in what later became the Sudan. I thought i stated that before. But to say that there was a demic migration of Yorubas from Ancient Egypt directly: such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidences. And there are none or very little now.

Napata77:


I've been studying AFRICAN HISTORY SINCE BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, YOU LIPPY LITTLE DUNCE.

Name the African history books you've read.

Have you read the 'Destruction of Black Civilization' by Dr Chancellor Williams?

Have you read 'Black Athena' by Martin Bernal?

Have you read the 'African Origin of Civilization' by Cheikh Anta Diop?

Have you even heard of these books?

Useless. Abeg get out of this place. Damn colonialist tool.

Throwing tantrums as expected as any badly behaved CHILD would.

The problem with you peeps is that cos this is a faceless forum you have no idea who you are communicating at times.

By the way, i have read the last 2 books you mentioned there years ago.

I was trying to nudge you away from your fickle-headed delusions so you can be properly guided.

I have asked you to chose any area of African history so some of us can properly school you (assuming you actually want to test and check that huge ignorance of yours)

Rubbish!!!

Absolute Rubbish!!!

Napata77:


It's not your fault. Every stupid small kid with free internet comes online to type rubbish from their brainwashed bead.

What do Kids do: throw tantrums

Who is throwing tantrums on this thread: YOU

I just want to tell you that you have no idea of the topic you are trying to discuss here. You are just a deluded youngster who believes in a sillly agenda.

If you want to be schooled on any of this, do ask. Am sure there will be alot of persons who will help you here

Napata77:


Absolute rubbish.

You don't get to sit in your little colonised cocoon and discredit the numerous accounts of MIGRATION in our indigenous cultures.

What do our elders have to prove to you when they say we MIGRATED from the north?

Information handed them by their forbears?

You colonised people just sit in your cocoon and type rubbish.

From as far back as the sacking of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD which led to over 1 million Hebrews fleeing into Africa, a number that has surely multiplied to a minimum 600 million descendants living in Africa today, to the sacking of Egypt and Nubia, and the fleeing of their inhabitants southwards. The Yoruba elders say they was a 'great war' - possibly the Assyrian invasion of Egypt, that led them to flee southwards in antiquity.

Another wave of migrants fled the north following the Arab invasion of Egypt in 600 AD. The Africans fled to escape enslavement and forced religious conversion to Islam, with the Yorubas refusing to abandon their Ifa worship for Muhammedan faiths.

How dare you dismiss the accounts of your forbears because you learnt how to speak English?

What happened to the millions of blacks in ancient Egypt then? They just disappeared? They all ran into the Nile and drowned?

What happened to all the blacks who lived in North Africa in antiquity?

Do you even know that the entire north Africa was once populated by millions of black people?

Do you know the Sahara was once fertile and heavily populated with black people?

Where did they all disappear to if not migrating southwards?

You people don't know ANYTHING about your history. That's why you're so damn lost.

WEST AFRICA was the last inhabited place in Africa. In fact the migrants fled to West Africa because the white invaders of Egypt, Israel (which was also black) etc, knew NOTHING about West Africa, and didn't even know it existed. All they knew was Egypt, Nubia slightly south of Egypt, and 'Ethiopia' - basically East Africa.

THOSE regions held the largest number of blacks in antiquity. West Africa was virgin territory in ancient antiquity. Inhabited at most by small bands of 'pygmies'.

That is why the first earliest record of kingdoms and empires there only dates back to the 12th century AD or thereabouts, when Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Benin rose up.

But in East, North East and North Africa, we had the empires of Egypt, Nubia, Kush etc, which were all dated back to thousands of years BC, because those were the regions people lived in in antiquity, NOT in West Africa.

Lolz.... You are delusional

Bye

BeLookingIDIOT:

That such Nigerian polls almost consistently keep making wrong predictions is good enough reason not to take them seriously.

When did Nigerian polls consistently keep making wrong predictions??

koboko69:


The poll predicted a red wave in the mid term elections not a tight race. It predicted a tight one for senate which was glaring to every one even to the minority leader Mitch. That was due to poor candidates being pushed by Trump. Even at that, they still.predicted that GOP may be majority in the senate with maybe a lead with one or two.

No Sir

The polls for the races in the House of Reps and Senate that were in contention were tight i.e i mean the indiviual races.

koboko69:


Just so you know. The gallup polls and other polls predicted a blue wave in 2020 elections and a red wave in 2022 elections. Non of them happened.

I have responded to this.

See my last comment above

pedologist:


The US polls u mentioned is also faulty and unreliable.
U mean the Poll that shows Hillary Clinton winning by Landslide that she end up losing 3 Blue wall states or just recently during midterm election when the Polls forecast Red Tsunami but Democrats not only maintain Senate Majority but even gained One seat and lost House by handful of seats.
This pollers are either too partisan, ignorant or doesn't understand Nigeria

No, Sir.

Polls are not exact science. They were never meant to be. They are only indicative. They are scientific projections based on actual collected data from well sampled persons which SHOULD be representative of the society.

It is not exact science cos, amongst other things, the final outcome depend on human behaviour. Foŕ example, if people told you they will come out to vote during sampling but a lot of them do not during actual voting for a plethora of reasons, the outcome of the polls may tilt.

By the way, that Hillary/Trump as well as the recent Mid-terms that some persons usually quote, the polls actually indicated a tight race which means, again based on human behaviour prevalent during the actual elections, the outcome could tilt.

But it is significant like i said before that ALL scientific polls done so far is tilting towards a newbie consistently. That is very indicative. That does not mean he will necessarily win the elections cos polls said so.

That was why i said, Obi and his supporters can now do anything they want with the data

Alba3:
In language Fulanis are just like other Niger-Congo groups in West Africa although they seem related to Berbers and Tuareg; they've got little Nok in them. They probably had there origin in present Senegal. Unlike Hausas who are Afro-Asiatic and other tribes like Kanuris and those in Chad who are Nilo-Saharan, the Fulanis are different and could have come from mixture of several origins. If you study them well, you will understand the only thing uniting them are language, culture, religion and behaviour; not always physique or look.

I endorse this comment.

This guy clearly knows what he is talking about.

@ OP, Fulanis DID NOT originate from Europe. They are a West African group that originated in Africa but due to their itinerary nature(beem pastoralists) have picked up different DNA from some of the people they have interacted with for thousands of years.

Their Y and X chromosomes are mainly West African; altho in terms of Autosomal DNA they do have a somewhat East Africa and northern African tilt in addition to the base West African.

farouk2much:
I like obi...... But i like kwankwaso pass..... If to say kwankwaso no contest. My vote is for obi.... Imagine say the two are in one shape....?? I repeat my vote is for kwankwaso but i like obi.....

Thanks, Bros.

For me, the only persons people should vote for in this elections should be Obi or Kwankwaso or others, but never the duo from PDAPC.

You have to really hate yourself, apart from been obtuse, to want to vote for either Ariku or Tinubu after all Nigeria has been through in the past 2 decades.

I mean, really hate yourself

Obi is doing the most.

At this point, bring your base out. Just get them to vote

Smart guy

CoronaVirusRelo:
😂😂😂😂😂


Always winning online…..

Same way GEJ and Atiku won online in 2015 and 2019 respectively.

You LIE.

Buhari won both NOI/ANAP polls in 2015 and 2019 and subsequently won both elections.

We are always here to burst the lies of you Urchinns

AtikuOkowa:


Nigerians are devided into three

(1)Ancient Indigines
(2)Settlers
(3)Passers by

Yoruba and other Southern tribes are older than Egypt,and are here since time immemorial. Like other tribes in Niger-congo,Yorubas are Negroes and are ancient Africans.
Africa is older than Egypt itself,so there is no Way for Yoruba and other Tribes like Igbos to claim coming from anywhere. Zulus too are claim,but it is not possible.

Hausa and other Northern tribes like Ngas,pabir,tangale,Bole,Gerawa and Karai-karai etc belong to Settlerd class. They are African-asians or Afro-asians,or Afrisians or Hamito-semitics. They are like their cousins Amazigh/berbers in North Africa,Oromo in Ethiopia,Arabs in Arabia,Copt in Egypt all belong to Afro-asians. They are understood to have common ancestor in Sumer,they were sumerrias of levant,that is Lebanon,Israel etc and also ancient Egyptians. Hausas says they are from Yemen like Old Arabia.

Passers by are Fulani,and they also belong to Niger-Congo,but unlike Bantus,Igbo or Yorubas,Fulani interbred with Afro-Asians ranging from Tutsis in Rwanda and Turegs in Western Sahara.

So Northern Nigerians or Northern Africans are descendants of Egypt of Summeria.

Lolz... the people you are calling "afro-asians" are Africans. They did not come from Sumer(who the heck gave you that idea ).

I think you are talking of Afro-asiatic(properly called Afrasan) speakers. Both that like the Niger-Congo(within the broader Niger-Kordofian) speakers as well as the Nilo-Saharan speakers, are just a language group.
Language and genetics do not always align.

Nigeria itself is made up of Niger-Kordofian speakers(Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Tiv, Efik, Edo, and even Fulani), Afrasan speakers(like Hausa, Tangale, Angas etx) and Nilosaharan(Kanuri, Bulala, etc).

PS: Some of the Niger-Kordofian speaking peoples actually moved to the south from more northerly regions(esp from the then desiccating sahara)

Thinkam:
Obi will drop out of the race latest February 23


Atiku is coming

You are Mad Bros

You for allow FEb 14 finish na before changing mouth again

Digitron:
Even though I am a stunch Obedient and a firm believer that Obi will win, this poll is faulty.

Nigeria is too diverse to relly on a 1000 response to guage the mood of the nation. Any poll that wants to be taken seriously must gather data from at least 1000 people in each LGA which is about 774,000 people.

That is the only way to have a reliable poll

Lolz.... you mean a sample size of 774,000 people?

Lolz....again.

Bros, it means you know nothing of polling then. No polling sampling size can ever get to that level i.e it is impossible to do and even negates the very essense/reason of polling. Even in the U.S. where the population is almost twice ours, the sampling size is usually between 1000-3000 persons(Gallpoll usually uses just 1000 persons).

This is statistics. As long as the sample is weighted(to mirror the voting society) so that it is representative and is RANDOM, any increase in numbers would not affect the overall polling outcome. This is statistics 101.

I am not well versed with the methodology of this particular polling, altho i see that their sampling was both random and weighted, i will accept the outcome cos it aligns with ALL other polling done by EVERY polling organisation at various times within this election campaign cycle(some even repeated more than once). It is almost impossible in statistics for you to have different outcomes if different "experiments" is done repeatedly using similar methodology.

The highly expected last NOI/ANAP poll will not be different.

From a data perspective, Obi is expected to win the coming Presidential elections. What Obi and his supporters do with that is another matter entirely