A search of the 2023 presidential candidates shows Bola Tinubu leading Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar in the final days before the upcoming presidential election in February.
The Google trends term search detailed how Nigerians, both at home and abroad, as well as citizens of other countries, searched for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Labour Party, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the popular search engine.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that Tinubu led the Google rating, with Labour Party’s Obi coming in second and the PDP’s flag-bearers coming in third in the search result that compared the three candidates. Meanwhile, a combined search shows Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), coming in fourth place behind Atiku.
From January 30, 2022, to the present day, the chat captured data on how people searched for presidential candidates.
How The Presidential Candidate Are Being Searched On Google
Tinubu is generally sought after in the North, particularly in Jigawa, Kebbi, Zamfara, Sokoto, Bauchi, and Taraba. Others include Ebonyi, Ondo, Kano, Gombe, Kwara, Plateau, Benue, Borno, and the Federal Capital Territory. These are some of the locations visited by the APC candidate during his election campaign.
Obi, on the other hand, is most sought after in the East and North Central, including Enugu, Ebonyi, Benue, Benue, Anambra, and Plateau. Cross River, Abia, Bauchi, Delta, Zamfara, Taraba, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Imo, and FCT are among the others.
Atiku, who finished third in the chat, is being sought in Northern states including Gombe, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Sokoto, Yobe, Borno, Zamfara, Katsina, and Kano. Others include Enugu, the Republic of Niger, Nasarawa, Bayelsa, and Kaduna.
A subregion result, on the other hand, shows that Ekiti State has the most search queries. Tinubu leads the subregion chat with 63%, Atiku comes in second with 20%, and Obi comes in third with only 17%.
See the charts below:
