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Searches on Google Trends from Monday, August 1 to Wednesday, August 31, show some dynamics that might play out in the next election.

Obi slightly beat Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) trailed behind them.

Recall that in August, the three presidential candidates alongside chieftains of their political parties and statesmen were in London to hold meetings.

The London meeting prompted social media conversations about the candidates as all of them trended on Twitter for days.

But while social media conversations about the candidates were largely pushed by their supporters to promote them and berate other candidates, Google Trends offer insights about the public’s interest in the candidates; why they are searching about them, and where they searched from.

In July, Pulse reported that Obi topped the list of searches by Nigerians on Google Trends in the first half of 2022.

However, a comparative analysis of searches about the candidates on Google Trends from Monday, August 1 to Wednesday, August 31, indicated some dynamics that might play out in the February 2023 presidential election.

During the period under review, the search term, Peter Obi has a higher number of searches than the search terms Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.

For instance, the public’s interest in Obi had a 100 percent surge on Saturday, August 13.

A check by Pulse showed that the increase in the number of searches about Obi was due to his claim that Sambisa is twice the size of Israel.

Expectedly, many Nigerians criticised the presidential candidate as the statement was fact-checked to be false.

Tinubu also had a spike in the number of searches about him on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. The surge is attributed to the statement by his campaign management warning Obi to caution his followers on social media.

However, while searches throughout the month were largely about Obi and Tinubu, the search term, Atiku Abubakar recorded the highest number of searches on Monday, August 29, 2022.

The only explanation for the spike in Nigerians’ interest in the former Vice President at the time was due to his visit to Kano State where he received the former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, who dumped the New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Another noteworthy point from the myriad of information on the search engine is the location of the searchers.

The bulk of the search interests on Obi emanated from the south-south and the south-east region of the country.

In the North, he had a significant percentage of searches in Kogi, Plateau Sokoto, Benue, and Kwara state.

But in Lagos and Ogun, he trailed behind Tinubu, whose search terms recorded 40% and 47% respectively during the period under review.

For Tinubu, the six states in the South-west including Lagos and some states recorded the highest search volume for the former governor of Lagos State.

In the North, searches about Tinubu in Bauchi, Kebbi, Zamfara and Gombe state dwarfed Atiku’s search term.

Tinubu also shared some significant search percentages with Atiku in Nasarawa, Kano and Kaduna state.

Interestingly, in Jigawa state, it seems Atiku is the only candidate in the race as both Tinubu and Obi recorded zero percentage of searches in the state.

Atiku also has a higher search percentage in Yobe, Adamawa, Kebbi, Sokoto and Kano state.

His search term also recorded some significant numbers in Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Ekiti and Kogo state.

To some extent, this data confirms the narrative that the 2023 election may turn out to be a tribal contest among the frontline candidates.

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Lets wait for clowns to invade this thread to shout media this online that, forgetting how the same set of clowns/urchings were rejoicing when Buhari was beating Jonathan black and blue on the same media in 2014/2015..

Clowns are coming

Tinubu's rented urchins believes PO is only popular on social media and his surpporters don't have PVC. Are the people on social media ghosts?

Come 2023, Peter obi shall beat the two at the poll!!

Sure

Unlike the corrupt retired drug dealer,
campaigning for Peter Obi is so easy because there's no need of cooking stories, editing profiles, searching for school records, going to check if the date of birth tallies, or even changing figures.
Peter Obi says one thing and it's consistent with what he says hence the massive followership.
Indeed a golden fish has no hiding place.
A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.

If Labour party will hammer from an unknown party as at May 2022 to the most talked about and leading party today, then there is hope as long as there is life.
Irrespective of what you are passing through, don't give up. Your breakthrough can come at any time

May God be with Obi
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Good, more heartbreak for Tinubu, Atiku and their gullible minions

I hope and pray he beats them in 2023 general elections

The same way IPOB made Nnmadi Cownu popularly end in zoo cage

Labour party candidate popularly end in vain

Thats a welcome development!
That was how he and his oga (atiku) won on twitter in 2019, and we all saw what happened on d field.

History iz about to repeat itself!

ONLINE.

They will NEVER learn, cos they have zilch upstairs.

You clown should rest.

Election isn't won on internet.

ObituaryYebo:
The same way IPOB made Nnmadi Cownu popularly end in zoo cage

Labour party candidate popularly end in vain

Rant of a sore loser!

redPUSSY:
Lets wait for clowns to invade this thread to shout media this online that, forgetting how the same set of clowns/urchings were rejoicing when Buhari was beating Jonathan black and blue on the same media in 2014/2015..

Clowns are coming

Please forget headline. I will advise you to go back and read the report. Then come back and modify your comment. Thank you.

Tribal contests have killed Nigeria over and over.
Give the best person the job. Bury tribalism.

Online trending even one state my nigga no go win... I want to see something after 2023 election.. I want to see Biafra or death

Tinubu murdered Funsho Williams in cold blood.

Tinubu is a ferocious Murderer!

How many almajiri are on Google?

how many google voter are in this Nigeria with PVC?

How many this google voters are going to vote on the election day?

There is no way you'd defend BAT and not look dumb and fool.ish
Definitely no way. �

God grant us better leader who'd mean well for the citizens next election meanwhile vote wisely. ✅✅✅

What type of weed did Tinubu take while saying these �

The following are his Quotable Quotes

“Getting over, managing anger, is a shorter of life, then we would have failed in maturity”

"A nation of freedom of everything, speech, collaboration and visitation to elder statesman"

“You are looking at the sky of who you are, a preliminary man today”

“We inherited speaking in tongues from the Bible, but our diversity is a promise for prosperity”

Social media candidate

That one is a headache to those that like to vote in the coming election