President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep regret over the loss of lives following Thursday’s gas explosion at an industrial complex in Nnewi, Anambra.
A statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said the president was greatly shaken and shocked by such large-scale loss of human lives in a single industrial accident.
According to the statement, Buhari empathised with the families of the victims “who were looking forward to a joyous Christmas celebration.”
The president extended his condolences to the families of the victims, the people and the government of Anambra over “this unfortunate tragedy on Christmas eve.
“My heart and prayers go out to these grieving families at this difficult and painful moment,” he said, while also
commiserating with the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Barkindo Musdafa, over the death of his mother, Hajiya Adda Gombeji, who passed on at the age of 87, and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, whose mother has also died.
“The President personally made phone calls to the Lamido of Adamawa and Emefiele to express his sympathy to the Monarch and the CBN Governor over the death of their mothers,” the statement added.
Buhari described a mother as “an invaluable component of family life, and the pillar and comforter of the children.”
