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APC Reacts To Fresh Anap Poll, Makes Big Revelation

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December 23, 2022

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APC Reacts To Fresh Anap Poll, Makes Big Revelation

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticized a new poll conducted by NOI Polls Limited, which placed the Labour Party’s (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of the APC’s Bola Tinubu and two other frontline candidates.

According to Festus Keyamo in a statement sent to Channels Television on Thursday night, the new poll commissioned by Anap Foundation led by Atedo Peterside is “deliberately skewed” to encourage Obi’s supporters whose enthusiasm has waned in recent times.

Keyamo, the Chief Spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, also criticized the medium used to conduct the poll.

Anap Foundation released its second poll, which was completed in December, on Wednesday, revealing that participants and potential voters preferred Obi to Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).

In a new poll released in December, Peterside reported that Obi had 23 percent, Tinubu had 13, Atiku had 10, and Kwankwaso had 2%.

He also stated that mobile phones were used to conduct the poll due to increased mobile phone penetration in the country, and that a large percentage of people are undecided.

Anap Foundation conducted a similar poll in September, with Obi leading the other 17 candidates for Aso Rock’s top job in 2023.

Keyamo, on the other hand, called Anap’s poll, which was completed at the end of December, a “fallacy” with many unanswered questions on Thursday.

Read full statement below:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2022
THE FALACY OF THE SO-CALLED ANAP FOUNDATION POLL
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BY FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN
There is no need to join issues with or analyse this fallacious polls any further once you see the methodology by which the polls was conducted: according to Atedo Peterside, it was ONLY by phone that it was conducted because of the ‘insecurity’ across the country. They did not conduct a person-to-person enquiry.
QUESTIONS: (1.) How did they ascertain the phone numbers of those who reside or are registered in a particular State? (2) If it is from the INEC register (was it made available to them?) how did they ascertain those that have collected their PVCs and are eligible to vote, since collection of PVC just began? (3). Assuming the INEC register was not made available to them, and they randomly sampled opinions by phone numbers and asked people to state their locations or where they are registered to vote, what gave them the assurance that respondents truthfully stated their locations? (4). It is a fact that many people in Nigeria have two to three phone numbers; if so, how sure are they that many respondents did not respond by different phone numbers that they may have? (5). It is also true that millions of under 18-year-olds have access to phones in Nigeria and the world, how did they ascertain the ages of those responding to their supposed enquiries?
Many unanswered questions. In all, in a complex country like Nigeria, anything short of a person-to-person polling, including harvesting enquiries from far flung rural areas and in local languages, is a complete exercise in futility.
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Finally, my considered opinion is that this poll is deliberately skewed to encourage the supporters of a particular candidate whose enthusiasms have waned in recent times in the face of the hard realities they have seen on the ground on the campaign trail.