The presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi has been tipped as the favourite to win the February 25th presidential election in Nigeria in a new poll conducted by Bloomberg.
The majority of the polls conducted ahead of the election have seen the former Anambra state governor floor other candidates in the ballot.
In the poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, Obi was the preferred choice of the respondents ahead of 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.
“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 were then weighted against the original quotas to ensure national representation,” Bloomberg News said.
Peter Obi enjoys a widespread support from many social media users and has been tipped to cause an upset in the coming election. Although the country’s leading political parties, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, have dismissed Obi’s chances in the election.
