President Uhuru Kenyatta would overwhelmingly beat National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate if polls were to be held today according to the latest opinion poll that also rules out possibilities of a run-off.
According to the poll, President Kenyatta would garner 54 per cent of the votes against Raila’s 43 per cent, thus giving him victory in the first round. The poll also predicts 85 voter turn out.
The research poll conducted by the Centre for African Progress (CAP) between July 28 and August 1 indicates that Odinga would only manage 43 per cent of the presidential vote, the firm’s head of operations Abel Oyieyo explained on Wednesday.
“Three per cent of the people who responded were undecided or they preferred another candidate such as Abduba Dida and Ekuru Aukot. It is not really about campaigns at this point but about getting closer to elections and voters are making up their mind most of them thinking it’s either going to be Kenyatta or Raila ,” Oyieyo stated while releasing the opinion poll results at a Nairobi hotel yesterday .
According to the data gathered during the study which saw 9,995 respondents sampled across the country through a random multistage stratified methodology, President Kenyatta’s influence in the Rift Valley and Eastern has significantly increased over the past few weeks.
