As Nigerians prepare to elect the next president of the country, the Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) has released its opinion poll over the presidential election.
In the opinion poll released in Lagos, the NHRC said the forthcoming presidential election will be a three horse race between the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party.
The group projected that the APC candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win in 17 out of 36 states in the country.
Explaining details of the opinion poll, the Secretary-General of NHRC, Taiwo Adeleye, said the research took the group six months to conduct. He said that the results was compiled and analysed by experts.
Adeleye said, “The aim of the poll is to determine the fears and aspirations of voters across party lines towards the general election.
“The data collection and analysis focused on registered party members with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), which comprises men, women, youths and people living with disabilities.
“To get the truest reflection of the people’s opinions, Digital reasoning was professional and objective in conducting this exercise. Respondent were selected from each of the 36 states including the FCT. A total of 19,365 questionnaires were administered in all the LGAs of the federation.
“Out of the 19,365 respondents interviewed, 7940 (41%) are voting for the candidate of the APC while others prefer PDP, 5035 (26%); LP, 4067 (21%) and NNPP, 1743 (9%) and that the other parties candidates collectively got 1162 (6%) of the respondents.
“The poll also confirm a two-horse race for the second position between Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came a distant fourth as all other contestants together scored an insignificant total.
“It is worth noting that Tinubu’s lead in the four of the most populous states with the highest number of voters in Lagos, Kano, Oyo and Borno may have contributed to his lead.
“Tinubu’s lead is sizeable but not unassailable in Kebbi, Bauchi, Kastina, Plateau and River States because as at January 2023, the largest concentration of undecided voters reside in these states and there is a rising disaffection with the ruling party in the states. Therefore, these states are battleground yet to be conquered.”
