Tinubu supporters in Lagos urged to stay calm

An aide of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has urged ruling party supporters to stay calm after provisional results showed that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, lost Lagos – the biggest state – to Peter Obi.

Bashir Ahmad said on Twitter: “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.”

Tinubu has historically been seen as a powerful figure in Lagos and was once its governor.