The United States-based polling firm that predicted victory for Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, Williams and Associates, has predicted thatAtiku Abubakar will win in the forthcoming presidential polls.
Atiku is the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Williams and Associates was initially hired by the Goodluck Jonathan administration ahead of the 2015 presidential election.
Analysing the February 16 presidential election, the company said that Atiku would win with less than a majority of the votes cast with 45% while Buhari will take 33% of the votes.
The polling sample showed Kingsley Moghalu, of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, with 9% of the votes, Omoyele Sowore of the African Action Congress, AAC, with 8% of the votes.
The same company had in 2015 predicted victory for Buhari with 54% to 46% for Jonathan and Buhari did eventually beat Jonathan by 54% to 45% of the total votes cast.
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The company arrived at its conclusions working with data collected from across Nigeria by its operatives through interviews including face-to-face interviews. Sample responders were interviewed on their preferences in English and local dialects as appropriate.
The poll also reported that South-East with 76% had the greatest proportion of Nigerians who believe that things are going in the wrong direction. Only 12% of those in the region believed that things were going in the right direction.
The South-East was followed by the South-South with 70%, the North-East with 65%, North-West with 57%, South-West 48%.
Ironically, the North-Central, which had been ravaged by insurgency had the least proportion of those who believe that things were wrong with 46%.
Less than two weeks to the election, 64% of the sample responded that President Buhari had not done enough to deserve re-election.
