A pre-election opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has predicted that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, will win the March 11 election.
Gatekeepers News reports that the poll results showed that Sanwo-Olu was ahead among the three leading candidates in the state.
The two other candidates are Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and Abdul-Azeez Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to the results of the pre-election poll, 31 percent of the voters surveyed said they would vote for Sanwo-Olu, 8 percent preferred Rhodes-Vivour, while 7 percent wanted Adediran, also known as Jandor.
The poll read, “The results showed a significant lead for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu with 31% of voters proposing to vote for him if the governorship election were to be conducted today; 8% proposing to vote for Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (LP) who fell in second place and Azeez Olajide Adediran ‘Jandor’ (PDP) was third with 7% of voters proposing to vote for him.
“Governor Sanwo-Olu’s 23%-point lead at this stage is significant, as the opposition voters are fragmented and shared between 2 main challengers in the ratio 31:8:7.”
Despite being the political stronghold of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of LP, Peter Obi won in Lagos in the February 25 presidential election.
There are fears among the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that the result of the presidential election is a signpost of what is to come in the governorship election.
In Rivers, the NOI poll predicted that the PDP governorship candidate in the State, Siminalayi Fubara will win the March 11 election in the state.
According to the poll results show that Fubara is having a significant lead with 20 percent of voters who preferred to vote for him during the election.
Magnus Abe of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), came second with 12 percent, Tonye Cole of the APC scored 10 percent, and Dumo Owukori Lulu-Briggs of the Accord Party had 6 percent.
Labour Party, Beatrice Itubo, however, scored two percent.
