29 March 2011
Abuja/Lagos — TNS-RMS, the biggest research company in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, Monday released the results of its opinion poll ahead of the general election which predicted victory for President Goodluck Jonathan.
In the meantime, with a projection by his field officers that he would do well in the 19 Northern states, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has set his sight on getting the mandatory 25 per cent in at least seven states in the South.
Briefing newsmen in Lagos Monday, CEO-West, East and Central Africa of RNS-RMS, Mr. Adeola Tejumola, said the presidential race is tilted in favour of Jonathan with a score of 66 per cent.
Buhari scored 18 per cent, Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), 6 per cent and Ibrahim Shekarau of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), 3 per cent.
These figures compare strikingly with the results of the poll recently conducted for THISDAY by Ipsos, world's leading polling firm, which gave Jonathan 60.3 per cent, Buhari 22.4 per cent, Shekarau 5.9 per cent and Ribadu 4.7 per cent.
Tejumola said 15,124 respondents aged 18 years and above were interviewed nationally across all the states of the federation through a face-to-face quantitative approach.
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