Losing Lagos in an election does not call for violence – Tinubu
Story from Saleh INUWA, Kano
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that losing Lagos State narrowly to another party should not be a reason for violence.
Tinubu who said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council appealed to Lagos State residents to be calm and eschew any act that could lead to a breakdown of law and order.
He said: “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.
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“We must allow the process to continue unhindered across the country while we maintain peace and decorum,’’ Tinubu admonished.
He stressed that the outcome of the election in Lagos State where the Labour Party won the presidential election should not be a source of provocation.
According to him, the beauty of democracy was that people had a right to vote for the candidates of their choice.
Tinubu who expressed concern over rumours of violence in parts of the state, especially reported attacks on some traders of Igbo extraction condemned any form of violence against people of any ethnic group in Lagos State.
