RMS poll: Oshiomhole ahead of others
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Gov. Oshiomhole
Nigeria’s leading research group, RMS, has placed Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) ahead of other candidates.
An opinion and polling survey report released in Lagos yesterday said: “As things stand the chances of Adams Oshiomhole retaining his job as governor are as high as 93 per cent. This means that he has further widened the gap between him and his closest rival by 89 per cent’’.
According to the report, “his chances are high in total and across all the local governments and even in Esan West where he had the least chance, he still will likely clinch 74 per cent of the votes cast there”.
In apparent comparison with previous polls, the report said: “Across the local governments, the incumbent retains a high chance still.
“Three months ago, he had a very narrow chance of winning in Esan West and Esan Central local governments, which were the two local governments where he had the least chances then.
“His chances have since grown in these places with the possibility of almost 8 in 10 votes cast there in his favour”.
The survey also revealed a sustained robust relationship between the present administration and the people, stating that “the relationship between the Edo State people and their government is very positive and this has remained so over the last three months. The indicator of the healthiness of this relationship is the result of the application of our TNS branded tool TRI*M.’’
It went further to state that “some improvement in engagement level has been recorded in a number of local governments with low index in February. Local governments like Ovia South West, Esan West and Esan Central have seen an increase in their index figures, while local governments like Ovia South West and Orhionmwon have reduced index figures.
“These losses, notwithstanding, the overall index has been sustained on a positive note because the gains have been more than the losses.’’
In a related development, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday condemned an opinion poll result, which rated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of other parties.
An organisation, Fasttrack, published the results of its poll in a national newspaper yesterday.
Director of Media and Publicity of Oshiomhole Campaign Organisation Kassim Afegbua described the result as “nauseating, irresponsible, misleading and totally out of sync with the realities on the ground.”
Kassim said his findings showed that Fasttrack neither existed in Benin nor does it have any operational offices in the Southsouth.
He said another investigation showed that the organisation “was just doing the bidding of the PDP, which is manifestly desperate to save its face in the election by invoking statistics that would justify its preparedness to rig the election.”
Kassim said 6,000 respondents out of a voting population of 1.7million was not enough to conclude a poll.
According to him, “If the organisation is truly serious about its assignment, why would it use just 6,000 respondents to form an opinion about the election?
“All these point to one direction: the desperation of the PDP to rig the election.
“We want to caution the PDP and the dubious agency called Fasttrack, that no amount of deliberate concoction of statistics will sway voters to support the PDP.”
ANPP candidate Solomon Edebiri said his party does not believe in paying people to write opinion polls.
Edebiri said his party remained the party to beat in the election, adding that he was yet to comprehend the yardstick used in conducting the poll.
SOURCE: 11 July 2012.
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