APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, have appealed to Lagos residents to avoid actions that could lead to a breakdown of law and order. This comes after reported attacks on some traders on Lagos Island. The two politicians spoke out on the issue, with Tinubu expressing concern and Sanwo-Olu saying that violence is not part of the state’s culture.
Former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has also urged Nigerians to exercise restraint in the aftermath of the presidential election. Tinubu, in a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, said that the outcome of the election should not be a source of provocation.
Tinubu also reminded Nigerians that the beauty of democracy was the right of everyone to vote for any candidate of their choice and said that he was bound to accept the outcome of any election, whether favorable or not.
Sanwo-Olu, in a five-paragraph statement, said that residents should go about their businesses as “all is now calm.” He explained that security operatives had been deployed in troubled areas to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
Fayemi, who is the President of the Forum of Regions of Africa (FORAF), called on Nigerians to avoid inflammatory comments and actions that could lead to a breakdown of law. He urged political leaders and actors to exercise restraint and not to incite or encourage their followers to take the laws into their hands.
