2023: PDP Reacts To Anap Polls That Placed Peter Obi In The Lead, Says Exercise Has Little Impact

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has come out to react to the Anap Foundation polls that revealed that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has gained more ground than his counterparts in other parties in the northcentral.

Naija News gathered that the Director of Support Group & Events Technical Committee of Atiku For President 2023, Fabiyi Oladimeji disregarded the polls saying such exercise has little impact on the outcome of elections.

According to him, polls are not real determinants of elections, rather It is about how many people one is able to convince and reach out to at the grassroots level.

Oladimeji told Channels TV Sunrise Daily on Thursday that such polls don’t affect election outcomes, questioning the sample size used in the poll while arguing that the number of people sampled is inadequate.

The PDP chieftain’s reaction follows the release of a poll by the Anap Foundation stating that Obi has a lead than his counterparts in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the north-central.

Naija News reported on Monday that the latest Anap polls reveal that Obi pulled 24% which represents an 8% increase from the September poll while Tinubu scored 9%, a 7% decrease from the last poll.

The President of Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside disclosed on Channels TV that Atiku recorded a slight decrease in the North Central zone in the latest poll, recording 8% compared to the 9% he recorded in September while Kwankwaso went from 2% in the last poll to 1% in the latest poll in the zone.

Overall, Obi led the other top three candidates with 24% which shows a 3% increase from the 21% he led within the September poll.

However, Naija News gathered that Fabiyi advanced that “We are not making any assumptions. This is what we are saying: polls are not real determinants of elections. It is how many people you are able to convince and reach out to at the grassroots, not polls.

“It will only tell you where to work and focus more. There are credible polls and there are polls that are not credible.

“We know those credible ones when we see them and when we see them, they spur us more to go to work and do the needful. So, we appreciate them when they come. That’s what polls help you to do, they do not tell you the outcome of the elections.”