On Monday, Nigerians woke up to adverts in Daily Trust and
THISDAY, among other newspapers, announcing that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo
was going to win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
with 857 delegate votes.
A previously unknown organisation, named Democratic Research
Initiative (DRI), said it had polled over 1,200 of the expected 2,322 delegates
and had adopted a “stratified sampling technique” to arrive at its conclusions.
Although it described itself as a “respected research and
strategy institution”, there was no contact address on the advert and all internet
searches returned blank: no website, no Twitter handle, no phone number, no
e-mail or physical address.
The DRI projected that Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos, will get 571 votes in the primary election scheduled for Tuesday, June 7, 2022.
Other projections are: Rotimi Amaechi, 329; Godswill
Akpabio, 40; Kayode Fayemi, 124; David Umahi 20; and Ahmad Lawan, one.
But one man, or his campaign team, has taken exception to
the advert: Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi state, who was allocated 22
votes by the DRI.
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The Monday advert by “Democratic Research Initiative” gave
Osinbajo the APC presidential ticket with 857 projected delegate votes |
n apparent retaliation, Bello’s team placed an advert on
Tuesday, allocating the same 875 votes to the governor and 40 votes to the
vice-president — and attributing it to the same Democratic Research Initiative.
Bello was more generous to the vice-president by 18 votes.
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A counter advert by the same “Democratic Research
Initiative” allocated the same number of votes and the presidential ticket to
Bello |
Almost all other figures remained the same: Rotimi Amaechi,
329; Godswill Akpabio, 124; Kayode Fayemi, 22; David Umahi, 20; and Ahmad
Lawan, one.
Notably, the 22 votes attributed to Bello in the pro-Osinbajo advert were moved to Fayemi in the Bello advert, while the 124 attributed to Fayemi in the Osinbajo advert were transferred to Akpabio by the Bello team.
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