THE People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has more social media followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram than his rivals in other parties, checks by The ICIR have shown.
Abubakar is vying for the country’s most exalted office for the fifth time against over a dozen other candidates, among which three are prominent.
They are Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).
However, the former vice president created his accounts long before his three main rivals, possibly giving him an edge over them.
The ICIR checks showed that as of Sunday, October 9, the former vice president had 1.1 million followers on his Facebook page, 468,000 on Instagram and 4.5 million on Twitter.
Abubakar created his Facebook page on May 27, 2008, Twitter in August 2010, and Instagram in January 2014.
Obi has 606,579 followers on…
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