From Twitter to Aso-Rock: A sentiment analysis framework for understanding Nigeria 2023 presidential election.

Introduction: Social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, among others have been used as tools for staging protests, opinion polls, campaign strategy, medium of agitation and a place of interest expression especially during elections.

Aim: In this work, a Natural Language Processing framework is designed to understand Nigeria 2023 presidential election based on public opinion using Twitter dataset.

Methods: Two million tweets with 18 features were collected from Twitter containing public and personal tweets of the three top contestants - Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu - in the forthcoming 2023 Presidential election.