{"id":81951,"date":"2023-02-07T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/obi-leads-new-poll-tinubu-favourite-among-silent-voters"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:52:53","slug":"obi-leads-new-poll-tinubu-favourite-among-silent-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-leads-new-poll-tinubu-favourite-among-silent-voters","title":{"rendered":"Obi leads new poll, Tinubu favourite among silent voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A new poll by Stears Nigeria has shown that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi is at 41% lead ahead of the February 25 election.<\/p>\n<p>Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party are following closely at 31% and 20%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>However, 36% of the respondents remained silent when asked who they would likely vote for.<\/p>\n<p>Stears, in a poll released on Tuesday, stated that \u201cpoll covers 6,220 respondents across Nigeria\u2019s 36 States, making it the largest telephone-based electoral poll in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the model used by Stears also shows that Tinubu will win the election in the event of a low turnout of voters.<\/p>\n<p>The former Lagos State governor will get 39% of the votes, while Obi and Atiku are to get 32% and 22% of the votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The pollsters noted that \u201cStears prediction model believes that Tinubu has the most silent voters i.e. people who intend to vote for Tinubu but choose not to disclose this during an interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A new poll by Stears Nigeria has shown that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi is at 41% lead ahead of the February 25 election. Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party are following closely at 31% and 20%, respectively. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":81950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,254,222,945],"class_list":["post-81951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obi leads new poll, Tinubu favourite among silent voters - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-leads-new-poll-tinubu-favourite-among-silent-voters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obi leads new poll, Tinubu favourite among silent voters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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