Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC)
presidential candidate, has asked Lagos residents to avoid any act of violence
in the wake of his loss to Peter Obi in the presidential election held in the
state.
Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has been
declared the winner in Lagos — a state which has always been a stronghold of
Tinubu.
In a statement released hours after Obi was announced as the
winner, Tinubu said the outcome of the election should not be a source of
provocation.
“The fact that the APC narrowly lost Lagos state to another
party should not be the reason for violence. As a democrat, you win some, you
lose some. We must allow the process to continue unhindered across the country
while we maintain peace and decorum,” he said.
Tinubu polled 572,606 votes behind Obi who had 582,354
votes. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) garnered 75,750
votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and
Adewole Adebayo of Social Democratic Party (SDP) had 8,442 and 772 votes
respectively.
The former Lagos governor condemned reports of violence in
parts of the state especially reported attacks on some traders of Igbo origin.
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