Tag: Opinion Poll

New poll projects 2023 election will be decided in a run-off – Report

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A recent survey commissioned by Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE Nigeria) and conducted by SBM Intelligence, has said the country’s upcoming 2023 presidential election is set to be highly competitive, with no clear front-runner. This marks the first time since the 1960s that Nigeria has seen three competitive political blocs largely divided along old regional lines. The report added that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, is likely to do well in two of the country’s biggest voting states – Kano and Lagos. The survey polled 11,534 Nigerians…

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2023 Presidential election likely to end up in a run-off — SBM Poll

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Nigerians should expect a runoff to decide its next president, according to SBM Intelligence, a geopolitical research consultancy firm. This was in its latest report on a poll commissioned by EiE Nigeria, to forecast the outcome of next Saturday’s presidential election. The February 25 presidential election is anticipated to be the most keenly contested, with three or four major candidates vying to occupy the seat of power in Africa’s most populous nation. Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter…

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2023: “Why Tinubu may win” – Fitch Ratings” – Fitch Ratings

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The international ratings firm, Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research, says the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is most likely to win the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. In a report, the firm, a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating organisation, however, said Tinubu’s victory would spur social instability and protests because of his party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket. “We maintain our view that the ruling party’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the candidate most likely to win the presidential election as a split opposition vote will…

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API survey scores Nigeria Social Cohesion Index ‘low’

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A non-profit organisation, Africa Polling Institute, (API), has scored the Nigeria Social Cohesion Index, NSCI, 39.6 percent with the Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey #SCS2022. The Institute’s Executive Director, Prof. Bell Ihua, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the API made the survey on the heels of two past editions (2019 and 2021) to compute the Nigeria Social Cohesion Index and measure citizens’ perception on the state of social cohesion. According to the report, this score remains below the average of 50%, and represents a 4.6% decline from the 2021 index…

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Majority of Nigerians feel less safe than they did 5 yrs ago – Poll Report

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As President Muhammadu Buhari repeatedly claims that security has improved under his administration, a new poll shows that the majority of Nigerians feel less safe than they did five years ago. The report, World Risk Poll, shows that 3 in five Nigerians, or 61%, feel less safe than they did five years ago. The report was authored by an independent global charity, Lloyd’s Register Foundation, working to engineer a safer world. The organisation gathered data from 125,000 people in 121 countries in order to get a global picture of the…

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