APC PCC Claims Poll Result Placing Obi Ahead Of Tinubu Is Aimed At Causing Post-Election Turmoil

By G9ija

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has accused a recent poll predicting the victory of the Labour Party presidential candidate as being staged to incite post-election turmoil.

“We suspect that their first and second fallacious poll results are pretext to cause political crisis and riots in Nigeria after the February 25.

“They may be preparing ground for violent protest by Obi supporters who will allege rigging when their candidate is roundly defeated at the election, in which he is not likely to even come a distant 3rd. said Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity at the APC Presidential Campaign Council.

“We are constrained as a matter of public record to react to another farcical Presidential Election Poll result released by an organisation that calls itself Nextier, a public policy advisory firm that overnight turned itself into a Nigerian Gallup Poll or Ipsos.

The PCC claimed that the individuals behind Nextier are members of Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Council and actively support the Labour Party candidate. As a result, they believe any poll conducted by such a biased organization should be met with skepticism.

“This is apart from the fact that the sample size of the so-called poll and methodology employed cannot stand any integrity test.

“It is quite ludicrous that Nextier Poll that projects a clean sweep of the South East Region at over 90% of registered votes also puts Peter Obi ahead of APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the six South West States including Lagos.

“We want to state categorically that Peter Obi is not a major contender in the coming presidential election in Nigeria and no fantasy and fairytale poll can change the material facts.

“We want to also put it on record that Nextier Poll is useless for three reasons:

“First, the sample size of 3,000 is statistically too insignificant in an election with over 93 million registered voters and admits greater margins of error than claimed.

“Second, the distribution of the sample neither reflects voter demographics nor variations in voters turnout across states.

“Third, the main objective of Nextier Poll is to report a predetermined conclusion so that when Labour Party loses by a wide margin, its rabid supporters can embark on other violent protests, similar to the destructive #ENDSARS riots of 2020”, he added.