This episode of 4th Republic is an audio version of Culture Custodian’s Stomach Infrastructure: a political vertical about all that’s related to Nigeria’s 2023 general elections.
The episode talks about the various polls on Nigeria’s upcoming elections commissioned by Nextier, Stears Insight, Bloomberg, and 234intel. These polls place Labour Party’s Peter Obi as the frontrunner in the presidential election. The polls are based on a variety of models that favour different candidates based on different circumstances such as high voter turnout and low voter turnout. The boost from the released polls underlines Peter Obi’s popularity going into the final stretch.
We also expand on the expulsion of Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, the Senator representing the Enugu West Senatorial District, from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by its National Working Committee. We explain how the expulsion highlights the current state of disunity within the party and the baggage that comes with Atiku’s bid to take over from another Northerner (Buhari).
Narrated by Mobolaji Oyedele, the episode also provides an in-depth overview of Peter Obi’s triumphant entry into Lagos. With the boost from polls, Peter Obi had to stop by the nation’s largest media market and the impressive turnout served as a note of credibility in the final campaign stretch.
4th Republic is a podcast of non-partisan leaning seeking to chart and contextualise the key actors and events which characterise the Nigerian political space post the 1999 return to democracy. For a more succinct look at election polls, Chimaroke Nnamani’s expulsion, and Peter Obi’s Lagos rally, listen to the full episode below.