The Social Democratic Mega Party, (SDMP) protem chairman, Prof. Pat Utomi, yesterday said another bomb blast must not be allowed to happen in the country.
Also, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the National Hospital Abuja, Prof. Bala Shehu, said one of the three remaining victims may lose his eye, while 23 others had been released to their various homes.
Utomi, who was on a visit to the National Hospital, Abuja, to commiserate with victims of the October 1 blasts, said the incident was not a good omen for the coming 2011 general election.
"I think this is a horrible development for our environment. You hear of these things in Iraq, Afghanistan and you never quite think that they can come next door to you. So, everything must be done to make sure that this does not happen again.
"Our hope, dream and prayer for 2011 are that it should be a season of civilised discussions and engagement on issues; not just about I will but how and in what time line will I deploy resources, and where will the resources come from? These are the issues that we have to deal with in this election.
"To then begin to be distracted by accusations and counter-accusations on who planted what is a very sad development for what we had hoped should happen in the run up to 2011," he said.
He expressed disappointment that nothing was done on the part of security services in spite of intelligence reports made available to them before the blasts. He said once the signals were there, everything could have been done to abort any possibility of it happening.
"I am enormously disappointed that there was adequate information and that enough was not done to prevent this from happening", he said. 
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