Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has widened his lead over Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the latest opinion polls conducted by NOI polls.
According to details of research released yesterday by ANAP Foundation which funded the opinion poll, the details of the poll conducted in December, however, showed a remarkable increase for Tinubu in the Southeast where support for the APC presidential candidate doubled just as Peter Obi lost support in his Southeast base by 20 per cent points slipping from 70 per cent to 50 per cent.
President of ANAP Foundation, Atedo Peterside, who announced the latest details of the voting intentions of Nigerians on Channels Television’s Politics Today said that support for Obi jumped from 21 per cent in the September poll to 23 per cent nationally in the poll conducted in December.
Tinubu was unmoved at 13 per cent compared to September while Atiku shrunk from 13 per cent nationally to 10 per cent.
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Obi led the polls in the South-East, South-South and North-Central geopolitical zones. Just as in September, Atiku led in the Northeast and Northwest geopolitical zones while Tinubu led in the South-West.
Obi’s loss of support in the South-East was compensated with the jump in support in the North-Central where support spiked from 16 per cent to 24 per cent. Obi also jumped to 10 from 8 per cent in the North-East.
The poll also showed a remarkable increase for Tinubu in the North Central moving from 2% to 9% and also in the South-East moving from 4 per cent to 8 per cent.
According to the NOI poll, Atiku slipped from 6 per cent in September to 3 per cent in the South-South region that had been considered the stronghold of the PDP with Tinubu and Obi at 80 per cent and 40 per cent respectively in the opinion poll.
Speaking on television late yesterday, Daniel Bwala, was quick to dismiss the resurgence of Peter Obi describing Atedo Peterside as a supporter of the LP presidential candidate.
The opinion poll, however, saw a surge in the number of those refusing to give their voting intentions with the number spiking especially in the Southeast.
