Election: NOI polls predict victory for jidesanwoolu, Siminalayi Fubara in Lagos, Rivers | TheCable
Ayodele OluwafemiA pre-election opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has predicted that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, will win the March 11 election.The two other candidates are Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party and Abdul-Azeez Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party .
“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 who “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.”Meanwhile, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of LP won in Lagos in the February 25 presidential election.
There are fears among the ruling All Progressives Congress that the result of the presidential election is a signpost of what is to come in the governorship election.The NOI poll also predicted that Siminalayi Fubara, PDP governorship candidate in Rivers, will win the March 11 election in the state.
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