As the race for the 2019 election gathers momentum,GABRIEL ATUMEYI, examines whether the outcome of recent elections are necessarily a forecast of the much anticipated 2019 polls.
As the race for 2019 heads into the campaign stage, the two major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have, expectedly been locked in a perception battle.
While both sides scale up the exchange of accusation over corruption and incompetence, analysts and professional pollsters are also engrossed in the task of predicting the possible outcome of the election.
For PDP, the success of its presidential primary and the formidable statue of its candidate, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, former governor of Anambra State Peter Obi, is a good start. They also hope to ride on narrative of economic hardship, the wave of insecurity in the country as well as what they consider lopsided anti-corruption war under the current…
