Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC)0 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.
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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.
Obi polled 582,454 votes to trounce the former Lagos State governor who scored 572,606 votes.
Lagos is the base of who was governor of the state from 1999 to 2007. Obi also defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
Kwankwaso polled 8,442 while Atiku polled 75,750.
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