APC rejects Nexter poll, which placed Obi ahead of Tinubu

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disregarded a Nextier poll that put Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, behind Labour Party nominee Peter Obi.

The APC responded in a statement released yesterday and signed by Bayo Onanuga, Director of Media and Publicity for the APC Presidential Campaign Council.

“We are forced as a matter of public record to react to another farcical Presidential Election Poll result released by an organization that calls itself Nextier, a public policy advisory firm that overnight transformed itself into a Nigerian Gallup Poll or Ipsos,” Onanuga began in the statement.

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“We are responding in order to protect innocent Nigerians from being duped by the Patrick Okigbo-led organization, which seems to be out to destabilize and destabilize our nation.

“Nigerians should first be aware that Nextier’s promoters are active campaigners for the Labour Party’s presidential candidate and members of Mr. Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Council.”

He advised taking any poll conducted by such a partisan group with a grain of salt.

He also criticized the poll’s sample size and methodology, claiming that neither would pass an integrity test.

The statement continued, “It is quite absurd that Nextier Poll, which predicts a complete victory for the APC Presidential candidate in the six SouthWest states, including Lagos, also places Peter Obi ahead of him with over 90% of registered voters in the South East Region.

We wonder why the pollsters at Nextier, if they have even a modicum of respect for the intelligence of Nigerians, thought the factors that will propel Obi’s landslide victory in the South East will not work for the APC candidate in his own South West base.

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The PDP’s vice presidential candidate lives in Delta, which the partisan pollsters predicted the LP would win with 65.9% of the vote. They also gave the Labour Party 62.9% of Bayelsa.

He referred to the poll as wishful thinking devoid of any basis in fact or reality and emphasized the need to inform Nigerians and the wider world that Nextier is allegedly a Labour Party agent and that their poll results are entirely fabricated and disconnected from reality.