Or maybe, on Monday, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, flew to Abuja to brief President Muhammadu Buhari about the Sunday mishap and give him photos.
The senator made this known in a tweet on Monday.
Aside from 20 individuals that were murdered in the blast that happened at around 9 a.m. at the Abule Ado region of Lagos on Sunday, numerous Nigerians were harmed with scores of houses, vehicles and properties harmed.
Mr Sanwo-Olu on Monday set up a N2 billion Emergency Relief Fund to help casualties of the blast, encouraging individuals from people in general to give. He likewise reported the foundation of the "Abule Ado Emergency Relief Fund" subsequent to visiting the area of the blast.
Mr Buhari has consistently been condemned for not demonstrating sympathy with Nigerians in times of calamity.
Until he visited in February, pundits had blamed the president for not visiting Maiduguri and different pieces of the upper east even as inhabitants saw ceaseless assaults from Boko Haram fear mongers. The equivalent was said of the individuals of Zamfara and different pieces of the Northwest where desperados have executed a huge number of Nigerians.
On Monday, a day after the Lagos catastrophe, Mr Buhari, aside from meeting with Mr Sanwo-Olu, additionally met with governors of his gathering, APC, over the emergency shaking the gathering.
Sad Incident
PREMIUM TIMES revealed what about 20 bodies have been recuperated so distant from the area of the lethal blast that happened on Sunday in Lagos.
Crisis responders recuperated three additional bodies on Monday morning, notwithstanding 17 bodies that were prior recouped, PREMIUM TIMES affirmed.
'Combat area'
During an appraisal of the location of the blast on Monday morning close by his agent, Obafemi Hamzat, and other high ranking representatives, Mr Sanwo-Olu said that the area of the blast appears as though a 'combat area'.
He likewise portrayed the Abule-Ado blast as a circumstance he has never observed.
To numerous Nigerians occupant in Lagos, in spite of the fact that the loss figures are very unique, the Abule Ado calamity had an effect to some degree like the bomb shoot episode of January 2002.
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, an incidental explosion of a huge load of military high explosives at a storeroom in Lagos prompted a blast, killing numerous occupants.
As scores fled the scene, many were stomped on to death in the bedlam as they attempted to cross a channel that obstructed their getaway course. Salvage authorities recovered many bodies a short time later.
Furious inhabitants reprimanded the nation's military for the catastrophe, needing to know why such old weapons store was permitted to house such incredible bombs inside the city.
Nigerian President at that point, Olusegun Obasanjo, promptly visited the scene the following morning to sympathize with influenced Nigerians. He additionally portrayed the occurrence as an amazing disaster and requested answers.
"There is the typical thing that we do, or that the military should do, which is the point at which a circumstance like this happens, the military must convey our a request," Mr Obasanjo said at that point, quieting frayed nerves.
Nigeria additionally watched a day of grieving for casualties of the blasts while government banners flew at half-pole.
Nigerians Fume
On Monday, when Mr Sanwo-Olu reported that he took photos of the scenes to Mr Buhari in Abuja, numerous Nigerians kept on pillorying the president.
Demola Olanrewaju, a twitter client, depicted the improvement as improper.
"You think you've seen enough irrationality over the majority of the gathering in power then they burrow and locate another low to carry us to: What is the purpose of taking pixes to Aso Rock, is Sanwo-Olu stupid to clarify verbally or Buhari hard of hearing to tune in? What's more, they discharged the pixes."
Henry Shield, another observer, pilloried Mr Buhari on his twitter handle, saying the excursion is only forty minutes away.
He tweeted: "The impact happened 40 minutes away by departure from where the President dwells, yet Governor Sanwo-Olu needed to make a trip to Abuja to show Buhari FREAKING PICTURES? Your residents passed on. Little children were included for the wellbeing of heaven! Pictures! I'm simply drained. I'm worn out!"
@Segalink, another twitter client, expressed: "This is significantly more amusing. In the event that he fears coming to Lagos inspired by a paranoid fear of contamination, did Sanwo-Olu delicate any test outcome that shows he is liberated from the disease before visiting the President without keeping up social separation? Is it true that he is not originating from a similar Lagos? OK now. "
A lifelong mentor, Dipo Awojide, noticed that it was upsetting that the president didn't visit Lagos. He stated: "Sanwo-Olu ought to have sent pictures to Buhari by means of Whatsapp? lool. For what reason couldn't Buhari fly to Lagos to see with his own eyes? That would have been the proper activity. All the more so the pipelines are government resource."
Another client, Tosin Olugbenga, portrayed the president as the "most exceedingly terrible" Nigeria has seen. He stated: "This is the most exceedingly awful President Nigeria at any point had with zero sympathy for human lives. A key city like Lagos experience such a size of catastrophe, Buhari sat in Aso Rock and Sanwo-Olu traveled to introduce him photos of the staggering harms. Improper!"
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Source: PREMIUM TIMES
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