The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has maintained the lead over his opponents in the latest Bloomberg survey, barely 15 days to the commencement of the general elections.
In the poll conducted by Premise Data Corp for Bloomberg News, Obi emerged 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).
Two-thirds of respondents said they intend to vote for Obi, Bloomberg reports.
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 January 26 to February 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, according to Bloomberg, were then weighted against the original quotas to ensure national representation.
There have been a number of polls conducted for the leading presidential candidates, with Obi leading most.
In September 2022, an NOI poll placed Obi as the leading candidate with 21 percent of the votes.
Tinubu and Atiku tied in second place with 13 percent of votes each, while Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came 4th with three percent.
However, the opposing candidates had dismissed the outcome of the various polls, describing them as mere academic exercise, not reflecting the “reality on ground”.