The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar is Nigeria’s top trending politician in 2018, according to Google Trends.
Google announced the results of its 2018 Year in Search on Wednesday, December 12, which revealed the year’s major moments and top trends based on searches conducted in Nigeria.
The 2018 Year in Search list contains the top trending news moment, music and movies that got the attention of Nigerians as well as the people, places, and things that trended.
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Atiku campaigning vigorously ahead of the 2019 presidential election.
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Atiku was Nigeria’s vice president between 1999 and 2007 when Olusegun Obasanjo was president.
He will be contesting in the 2019 presidential election, with Peter Obi as his running mate, against the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari who is also seeking re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“This year’s most searched news event was the Osun elections, which gripped national attention in September due to alleged incidents of voter intimidation and interference,” a statement by the company read.
In Nigeria, the top trending people were:
- Alexis Sanchez
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
- Meghan Markle
- Stan Lee
- Philippe Coutinho
- Atiku Abubakar
- Tosyn Bucknor
- Avicii
- Aisha Abimbola
- Sylvester Stallone
The top trending news searches were:
- Osun elections
- Ekiti elections
- PDP Presidential Primaries
- ASUU Strike
- NLC Strike/Minimum Wage
- Offa Robbery
- Kaduna Crisis
- Lagos APC primaries
- Royal Wedding
- Atiku Running Mate
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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the presidential candidate of the PDP had signed a peace accord drafted by the National Peace Committee (NPC) for presidential candidates ahead of the 2019 elections.
Atiku signed the document on Wednesday, December 12, in the presence of members of the peace committee headed by a former head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar, in Abuja.
The national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus and other party members, reportedly accompanied Atiku to the Kukah Centre, Abuja, where the document was signed.
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