2015 Election- Jonathan Will Sweep Poll In South West – Survey

The hope of President
Goodluck Jonathan of
sweeping the Presidential poll
in the South West geo-
political zone in 2015 has
brightened up with the result
of the opinion poll conducted
by a political group,
‘Forerunners Group’, and
which was made available to
journalists in Ibadan.
Forerunners’ officials, at a
press briefing told newsmen at
the Nigeria Union of Journalists
(NUJ) Press Centre, Iyaganku,
Ibadan, that 58.2 per cent of
the non-partisan persons in the
zone had declared their
support for Jonathan’s re-
election come 2015. Director-
General of the group, Hareter
Babatunde Oralusi, said the
group arrived at the
percentage of the non-partisan
persons willing to support the
President’s re-election based
on an independent survey
(opinion poll) conducted by the
group.
According to him, “the phase
one of the poll conducted in the
South West is to determine the
number of the people
registered with political parties
and the statistics show that 14.6
per cent of the population in
the region are card carrying
members of one political party
or the other and this indicated
that 85.4 per cent are non-
partisan.
“The phase two is to determine
the size of non-partisan general
public in the South West that is
willing to support President
Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election
in 2015 and the outcome
showed that 58.2 per cent of
the non-partisan persons were
willing to support President
Jonathan’s re-election.
“Out of the voting population,
12.6 per cent of non-partisan
persons were undecided on
who they were willing to
support, while 29.2 per cent of
non-partisan persons were
willing to support other
candidates from different
political parties,” the DG stated.
Oralusi said the 2015
Presidential election in Nigeria
would be similar to President
Barrack Obama’s re-election
based on the result of the
survey and could be predicted
if necessary machineries were
put in place.
“President Goodluck Jonathan
will not only be re-elected as
president but he will be re-
elected with overwhelming
majority votes.”