Buhari Leads Jonathan In Poll Organized By Presidential Aide: 2015 Elections.
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On October 15, the day former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, declared his intention to run for president in the 2015 election, news website, Sahara Reporters, activated an opinion poll asking Nigerians to indicate who they would vote for if the election were to hold that day between Mr. Buhari (as candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC) and President Goodluck Jonathan ( as candidate of the Peoples Democratic, PDP).
On October 15, the day former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, declared his intention to run for president in the 2015 election, news website, Sahara Reporters, activated an opinion poll asking Nigerians to indicate who they would vote for if the election were to hold that day between Mr. Buhari (as candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC) and President Goodluck Jonathan ( as candidate of the Peoples Democratic, PDP).
The poll lasted
for only 24 hours, and out of a total of 15,435 persons that voted, Mr. Buhari
got 12,246 votes, representing 79 percent of the total votes cast, while
President Jonathan got 3189 votes, representing 21 percent of the total votes.
However, ostensibly to counter the survey conducted by Sahara
Reporters, Mr. Jonathan’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Reno Omokri, also
set up a similar poll asking
almost the same question posed by the news website.
His poll, which is still running on his blog, “Build Up Nigeria”
posed the question: “If the Nigerian Presidential election were held today, who
would you vote for between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu
Buhari?”.
Mr. Omokri’s poll began a day after Mr. Buhari declared to run,
but unlike the one ran by Sahara Reporters, which has since closed, the one by
Build Up Nigeria is still running.
However, the result of the poll, as at 18:32 p.m. on Saturday,
showed that Mr. Buhari was also leading by a wide margin.
While Mr. Buhari has 6,411 votes, representing 69.87 percent of
the total tally, President Goodluck Jonathan has 2,455 votes, representing
26.75 percent of the votes cast.
Three hundred and ten persons, representing 3.38 percent of the
total votes, were undecided.
For the polls, while Sahara Reporters used epoll platform, Mr.
Omokri used poll daddy’s
Below are the two poll results:
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