Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, is ahead of other candidates by 51 per cent in a new poll conducted by the public advocacy group, We2Geda.
According to Channels Television, the result of the poll was dated September 17 and signed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of We2Geda, Ibrahim Abdulkareem and a member of the BoT, Muna Obioha.
According to the group, 51% of respondents suggested voting for Peter Obi as their preferred candidate, 25% voted for Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, gets 19% vote preference.
“Further analysis also shows that Peter Obi remained a consistent favourite in the four major geopolitical zones including North-Central, South-South, South-West and South-East, while Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was the poll leader in the NorthEast and North-West zones,” the group said.
We2Geda said between 25 and 50 years constituted the highest number of respondents in a random survey, comprising 15,438 registered voters in the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory.
The result of the poll was released in about two weeks. A pro-democracy group, Anap Foundation, released the result of its poll in the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, which it described as a three-horse race between Obi, Atiku and Tinubu.
According to the result of the Anap poll, Obi is leading the race with 21 per cent of the votes.
