The North is switching base, and Arewa TikTok influencers endorse Atiku

The Arewa TikTok Media Influencers has endorsed the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar in the February 25 election.

In a press conference in Kano on Sunday, chairman of the group, Sharfaddeen Bature, said the decision of the TikTokers to support Mr Abubakar was owing to the fact that he is the best to fix Nigeria’s problems.

According to him, the group had particularly assessed the situation of Northern Nigeria and found that since 2015, the All Progressives Congress, APC government had failed woefully.

“Poverty, unemployment, inflation exacerbated by unreasonable and unrealistic regimes of economic and financial policies are ravaging communities and threatening our very survival as a nation.

“With this observation, it is clear that the government we voted has failed in every sphere, including in the vital task of providing security of lives and property of the citizens.

“Based on this and other factors, Arewa TT Media Influencers today declares total support for the Atiku Abubakar presidential bid and shall undertake to deploy all available resources to working for his victory,” Mr Bature declared.

He added that the group has over 100 members in which a member has over 5.5 million followers who could influence others to vote for the former vice president.

According to him, the least followership of their members is more than 100,000, adding that even with that number of followers, a member could garner over 3 million views of a content.

“With this statistics, I assure you that we can make great impact in mobilising support for Atiku,” he added.