Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state will win the governorship election on March 11, according to the Anap Foundation.
The non- profit organisation made the prediction on Monday citing opinion poll it conducted in 5h4 state.
It said Governor Sanwo-Olu is ahead of two other top candidates Abdul-Azeez Jide Adediran and Gbadebo Rhodes- Vivuor of the PeoplesDemocratic Party, PDP and Labour Party, respectively.
The report comes after the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was trounced by the LP in the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted two weeks ago by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The Anap report, therefore, will come as a relief to Governor Sanwo-Olu and his party ahead the election in few days, watchers of politics in the state said.
The poll conducted in February, Anap said put the incumbent ahead with 31 percent, eight percent for Rhodes-Vivor and seven percent for the PDP candidate, Adediran.
Anap said: “The results showed a significant lead for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu with 31% of voters proposing to vote for him if the governorship election were to be conducted today; 8% proposing to vote for Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (LP) who fell in second place and Azeez Olajide Adediran ‘Jandor’ (PDP) was third with 7% of voters proposing to vote for him,” the poll reads.
“Governor Sanwo-Olu’s 23%-point lead at this stage is significant, as the opposition voters are fragmented and shared between 2 main challengers in the ratio 31:8:7.”
If any of the opposition party goes ahead to win the governorship election, it will not only be a shock to the ruling class in the state led by Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has been declared winner of the presidential elevtion, it will also be a watershed in the history of the aquatic state which has remained in the grip of one party since the return to democratic rule in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, not a few analysts also insist that opinion polls are not watertight considering that many of such predictions that some candidates will win in the past failed to materialised.
