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From Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad
Festus Keyamo, Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council has said there is no need to join issues with or analyse the ANAP Foundation fallacious polls any further.
According to Festus Keyamo who is also the Minister of State, Labour and Employment said, once people see the methodology by which the polls was conducted: according to Atedo Peterside, it was ONLY by phone that it was conducted because of the ‘insecurity’ across the country. They did not conduct a person-to-person enquiry.
The Lawyer and Politician asked these questions:
“(1) How did they ascertain the phone numbers of those who reside or are registered in a particular State?
” (2) If it is from the INEC register (was it made available to them?) how did they ascertain those that have collected their PVCs and are eligible to vote, since collection of PVC just began?
“(3). Assuming the INEC register was not made available to them, and they randomly sampled opinions by phone numbers and asked people to state their locations or where they are registered to vote, what gave them the assurance that respondents truthfully stated their locations?
” (4). It is a fact that many people in Nigeria have two to three phone numbers; if so, how sure are they that many respondents did not respond by different phone numbers that they may have?
“(5). It is also true that millions of under 18-year-olds have access to phones in Nigeria and the world, how did they ascertain the ages of those responding to their supposed enquiries?” He asked.
Barrister Festus Keyamo said that there are many unanswered questions. In all, in a complex country like Nigeria, anything short of a person-to-person polling, including harvesting enquiries from far flung rural areas and in local languages, is a complete exercise in futility.
The Lawyer said that in his view, the poll is deliberately skewed to encourage the supporters of a particular candidate whose enthusiasms have waned in recent times in the face of the hard realities they have seen on the ground on the campaign trail.
