African
Independent Television (AIT) has suddenly taken off air the popular online opinion
poll where General Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress party
candidate, was resoundingly beating President Goodluck Jonathan hands down.
Buhari’s lead in
the poll was despite the president’s shelling out of N5 million per daily
showing of his sponsored documentary against Buhari that was being repeatedly
shown on AIT stations across Nigeria, and online.
Earlier
on Tuesday, SaharaReporters published a screenshot of the poll, which at that
time showed Buhari well ahead by over 76%.
As the day wore
on, the poll saw Buhari’s lead rise to 79%. It was then swiftly taken down, AIT replacing
the page with a claim that the page was “under maintenance.”
AIT did not say
whether its poll page would return after its ‘maintenance’, but some users had
noted earlier that the TV station was allowing multiple voting for President
Jonathan.
That was
subsequently corrected; a fact that was also noted by users, following which
Buhari again regained
the lead. AIT then
suddenly went into ‘maintenance’.
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