A Nigerian man, Abdulfattah El-Okene, melts hearts of many as he began a quest to break the Guinness World Record for continuous ironing of clothes.
The marathon, however, came to a close after the 142nd hour, as El-Okene pay heed to medical advice and put a stop to his ambition.
El-Okene had set out on the ironing marathon on January 10th, aiming to break the existing Guinness world record set in 2015 by the UK’s Gareth Sandars, who had ironed clothes nonstop for 100 hours.
The decision to stop the marathon was made following a medical assessment, which revealed concerns about El-Okene’s health.
Ibrahim Ochu Abdulrasheed, who shared the information, explained that El-Okene had gone for a test and medical personnel had advised against continuing the process, decided to stop immediately.
El-Okene had surprisingly been fueling a generator at a staggering cost of N34,000 daily, as public power was not to be relied on.
He said:
“He was advised by his medical personnel to stop this morning after attaining over 140 hours.. A test was run for him this morning by medical personnel and they found out that it’s important for him to stop. He did with immediate alacrity. He wasn’t depending on PHCN, he was spending 34K worth of fuel everyday since he started on the 10th of January.”
El-Okene, via his Twitter page expressed gratitude for the support throughout the duration of his journey.
He wrote:
“Good morning, fellow Nigerians. I wish to announce to everyone I have abruptly halted my pursuit of the 200-hour ironing marathon in the Guinness World Records quest. My decision, citing medical reasons and reports from my health team, comes after I surpassed 142 hours. in the ironing marathon, I have already surpassed the 2015 record held by Gareth Sanders for a 100-hour ironing marathon from the UK. A heartfelt thank you to everyone for their unwavering support and encouragement throughout this journey.”
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12 Responses
see money and time u don spend on breaking a stupid guiness world record
u smart wella to stop unlike others that will still continue
this guiness book of records willl soon kill someone one day
even though u are being paid no kill yourself
congratlatioos on breaking the record
i love wat u did there by quitting wen your health said so unlike others that will continue
please person should enlighten me do they pay for breaking guiness world record or not that some people will want to break crazy records
After you break world record what is your reward go and rest man
Keep pushing u will achieve it very soon keep the ball rolling very good
Nigerians and their crazy ways of thinking, what will that contribute to self development?
Its not easy at all,but a very big congratulations to this young man,for appearance in the guiness book of records.no wonder they said there are many records to be broken
Another achievement well done you also tried sha. Lift the flag higher
Genius record is just break a news that will use to prove that I’m something else
Wahala now oh! Everybody wan de break guinness record now
All of you are just using Guinness to make people look your side, eku ase danu oo