Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that members of All Progressive Congress should stop deceiving themselves with opinions polls because President Goodluck Jonathan will win convincingly.
Fayose in statement on Sunday by his New Media aide, Lere Olayinka, said “Fake opinion polls won’t assist the APC the way it did not assist the party in the June 21, 2014 Ekiti governorship election.
“When you are telling yourself that Buhari will win in Ekiti, it shows that you are suffering from Acquired Self-Deceit Syndrome, which is even more deadly than Ebola disease.
“That’s the same way they deceived themselves with orchestrated opinion polls before the Ekiti election, and up till now, they are still dazed by the 16 – 0 defeat.
“Funny enough, one of the newspapers that published the orchestrated opinion polls described Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State as a ‘sleepy town’ thinking that Ido-Osi is a town.
“Stop lying and face the reality of a lost election because President Jonathan will win convincingly.
“They are already preparing the minds of their gullible supporters for the impending electoral woe that will befall the party on Saturday.
“When they lose, they will come out with story of how the inability of the party financiers like Senator Bola Tinubu, Governor Rotimi Amaechi and others to access funds made Buhari to lose.
“I sympathise with them and I can only urge the APC and its leaders to try their luck in 2019. But then, they must purge themselves of the Acquired Self-deceit Syndrome because Nigeria presidency cannot be taken by falsehood.”
Meanwhile a former Chairman of the Governing Council of Michael Imodu National Institute for Labour Studies, Prof. Adesegun Ojo has also said that President Goodluck Jonathan will win in Lagos.
Ojo said “The question, therefore, is whether the All Progressives Congress will receive 25 per cent of the votes in Lagos. This is critical.
“In the 2011 presidential election, Jonathan/PDP received 1,282,688 while Buhari received 189,983; Ribadu, 427,203 and Shekarau, 8,341. Let us assume that all those who did not vote for Jonathan then will now vote Buhari this time, the expected vote could be 625,527 while Jonathan’s vote remain the same.
“Another scenario of Buhari to win, we will need an increase in the number of voters and probably need more than 100 per cent increase for Buhari to receive more votes than Jonathan and assuming that all those new voters will be voting for Buhari and none voting for Jonathan (while Jonathan voters remain the same). Or, on the contrary, 50 per cent of Jonathan voters decide not to vote for him and all voting Buhari while there is no increase in the number of voters.
“We know this is not happening and there is probability of 10 per cent to 20 per cent change either way. If that is the case, Jonathan should be expected to win in Lagos.”
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