Tomorrow (Thur), Eromosele Omomhenle F.IMS , a Senior Manager, Global ISV Alliances and Partner Development at Microsoft global headquarters in Redmond, USA, will anchor a session on Business Strategy & Execution.

Eromosele is an experienced business leader and will educate us on how to craft strategy, execute business playbook and outperform the market. Zoom link in the board.

Tekedia Mini-MBA >> the #best teach here.

Once again, Labour Party’s presidential flagbearer Peter Obi has won the opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation and conducted by NOI Polls Limited. Obi leads three other presidential contestants by more than 10% average in the third and final nationwide poll commissioned by Anap ahead of the February 25 presidential election.

The result of the final poll, which was released on Wednesday by the President and Founder of Anap Foundation Atedo Peterside, showed Obi scored 21% ahead of his closest rivals Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Kwankwaso, who polled 13%, 10% and 3% respectively.

“Obi leads with 21% of registered voters proposing to vote for him if the presidential election were to be conducted today; and 13% proposing to vote for Tinubu who fell in second place. Atiku was third with 10% and Kwankwaso was a distant fourth with 3% of voters proposing to vote for him.

The third and final poll, which was concluded in the first half of February 2023, came after two earlier polls conducted in September and December 2022 that Obi also won. The poll also noted 23% undecided voters and 30% others who refused to say who they will vote.

“Undecided voters and those who prefer not to reveal their preferred candidate add up to a whopping 23% and 30% respectively. The gender split of undecided voters shows that 27% of women are undecided versus 18% of male registered voters,” Anap said.

But the organization said “the undecided” and “the refused” have no bearing on the outcome of the poll which has rightly called three presidential elections in the past.

“Given the large pool of undecided voters and/or those who refused to disclose their preferred choice, Mr. Peter Obi’s 8%-point lead at this stage is significant, but not sufficient to separate him from a leading pack of candidates scoring 13%, 10% and 3%,” it said.

Anap said in a statement that it used the same methodology that rightly called the result of presidential elections in the past to conduct the three polls which Obi has emerged the winner.

“For the avoidance of doubt, it is pertinent to mention that the methodology used by NOI polls is almost the exact same methodology that was used in previous presidential polls that they handled for us in 2011, 2015 and 2019.

“In all those past presidential polls, the front-runner that was identified by our polls ended up winning the elections, irrespective of a rather large percentage of voters who were undecided and/or refused to indicate who their preferred candidate was.

“We have also applied the exact same methodology in our various governorship polls carried out in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2019 and 2022 and the methodology generally held up well,” it said.

Anap is not the only organization to conduct repeated polls in which Obi leads other candidates. Last week, Bloomberg News by Premise Data poll, once again, called it for Obi. Several other polls have also done the same, raising the hope of millions of his supporters that he will win the 2023 presidential election.

“Twitter still has challenges, but is now trending to break even… public support is much appreciated” – Elon Musk

I have been using this Tweet to teach in our Tekedia Startup Masterclass, challenging founders that no matter how great your product or service is, you must get the best investors to buy in. And those investors are the customers. Yes, the public and we the people.

If Elon Musk posited that despite his truck loads of money, in $billions, that only public support will save his little blue bird, who among us has a chance without the public? None.

We underestimate the societal energy in business. We underestimate that in markets, if you do not win the customers, you have no mission, because venture funds come and go, but only customers will fund you in perpetuity.

In our business, we Thank and Thank all our members, co-learners and customers, because without them, we have no mission. Yes, go for that “public support” because that is the only way to thrive. That is why a billionaire is asking for public support.

An African proverb is clear – “no man, no matter how wealthy, can prepare enough food for his kinsmen, but if those kinsmen make food for him, he will be unable to consume the whole food”. That proverb is not saying that Dangote cannot feed his village kinsmen in Kano for an evening. Rather, the proverb is drawing on the strength that comes from unity and the “wisdom of many”.

Comment on Feed

Comment 1: Like I have said previously, it is customers that sustain a business, and not investors. Anyone pumping in money into a business will get tired and bored at some point, if the customers are not congregating, you are going under.

Comment 2:  ‘Venture funds come and go, but only customers will fund you in perpetuity’
This is the best takeaway here. It was a tenet of business long before EM and it will continue to be one long after he is no more.

Comment 3: Elon did not become a billionaire by himself. He became a billionaire because of the public support. No matter the value of your product, the public will “fund” it. If you are too arrogant to seek public support, you are too arrogant to be rich. It’s a very simple concept. Never underestimate the value of public support.

Comment 4:  It’s all about the customers, in the end, no venture fund will fund you in perpetuity. it’s best to focus on the customers, and give our best to make them happy to stay with us.

Comment 5: The key word there is “break even”.
Twitter is not a new company, but very much with signs of a toddler under its new parent, Elon.

With the recalibration of many baselines in twitter’s business operations, including its restructuring which saw many staffs laid off, only a mad man will not see “bulablar” ahead.

The alien that he is, after the initial rejigging, is now pivoting it back from unstable trenches to a more progressive haven of success.

I wish the bluebird captain sweet sail. Thank you proff Ndubuisi Ekekwe for the untiring updates as always