The Campaign Council of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), said on Thursday that the ANAP Foundation presidential poll which tipped Labour Party’s presidential flag bearer Peter Obi as the likely winner of the 2023 election, is misleading.
In a poll published by ANAP Foundation on Thursday, the group said the former governor of Anambra State would emerge the country’s president if the election takes place today.
In the poll, Obi garnered 21 percent to lead the exercise while the duo of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Atiku Abubakar, finished joint second with 13 percent.
Kwankwaso, who scored 3 percent in the poll, was described by the organisers as a dark horse in the 2023 presidential race.
The spokesman of the Kwankwaso/NNPP campaign council, Ladipo Johnson, said the poll was inaccurate, self-seeking, and laced with partisanship.”
Johnson said he watched in disbelief how the ANAP Foundation Chairman, Atedo Peterside, could not adequately respond to or substantiate the sampling method used in arriving at the outcome when he appeared on Arise TV on Thursday morning.
He said: “His defence was rather unclear and begging the question whether the poll was authentic by telling Nigerians or whoever is not comfortable with the outcome to go do their own poll!