2023: Tinubu reacts as Peter Obi wins online poll by wide margin

<p><strong>The All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; Presidential Campaign Council on Thursday said that the candidate of the ruling party in the upcoming 2023 Elections&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Bola Ahmed Tinubu<&sol;a> is unmoved by a presidential survey conducted by frontline polling company&comma; NOI polls&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A new <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;2023-poll-shows-presidential-candidate-nigerians-will-vote-for&sol;">opinion poll on the fortunes of the candidates for the 2023 presidential elections released this morning by ANAP foundation shows Peter Obi of the Labour Party holding a significant lead over both Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;PDP&rpar;&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the nationwide poll conducted this month&comma; Obi&comma; a former governor of Anambra State&comma; stands at 21&percnt; while both Tinubu and Atiku are tied in second place with 13&percnt; each&period; Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party &lpar;NNPP&rpar; is at a distant fourth with only 3&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But reacting to the outcome of the poll&comma; the APC Presidential Campaign Council in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity&comma; Bayo Onanuga&comma; described the NOI polls as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dubious”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the council&comma; the NOI polls are not dependable at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are unperturbed by these dubious and unreliable statistics because our research shows that NOI Polls have been off the mark at critical election periods in recent times&comma;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> the statement by Onanuga said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;2023-poll-shows-presidential-candidate-nigerians-will-vote-for&sol;">2023&colon; Poll Reveals Candidate Nigerians Will Vote For <&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; it noted for example that preparatory to the March 2015 presidential elections&comma; NOI published in October 2014 the results of a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Viability Poll” which used the concepts of Familiarity and Net Favourability Position to survey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In the results&comma; NOI claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan has the best overall familiarity rating at 99&percnt; and Net Favourability Probability of ±25&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By contrast&comma; NOI dismissed the then All Progressives Congress candidate&comma; Muhammadu Buhari as a &OpenCurlyQuote;borderline candidate’ who needed &OpenCurlyQuote;huge public relations’ to shore up his performance&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But when the Nigerian people went to the polls&comma; who won&quest; The APC candidate and now President&comma; Muhammadu Buhari&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is not the only instance when the NOI has turned its political bias in an election period to fraudulent statistics”&comma;<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>the council stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ANAP foundation has traditionally organised political opinion polls ahead of each of the presidential elections since 2011 and are conducted by NOI polls&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;