#AskAtikuYourself has been trending on Twitter in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos. This comes as the campaign team of Nigeria’s main opposition presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has launched a web page where you can conduct a virtual interview with him. In a brief video introduction he says he has selected the most popular questions that he gets on social media.
The camera then pans down and the user gets a chance to tick one of the options:
- What is your favourite football club?
- What is your favourite food?
- Who is your favourite musician?
He then answers and takes you through a new set of questions. What you learn is that he says he supports Arsenal, loves the anti-establishment musician Fela Kuti and used to go to his famous club, the Shrine, and that he thinks Nigerian jollof is the best.
In a nod to more contemporary music, he also said he liked Nigerian star Davido, who has one of the biggest followings on Instagram in Nigeria. And Davido responded by sharing Mr Atiku’s comments with his 9.4 million followers: The election is on 16 February, with Mr Atiku hoping to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari who is running for a second term.
There are two more sets of questions. In one of them, about his three wives, he says that none of them belong “in the other room”. This is a dig at his rival, President Muhammadu Buhari, who once said that his wife belongs “in the other room”.
