After social media users, friends, well wishers and family intervened to persuade Ayomide Adeagbo @AyomideAdeagbo to change his mind and not take his own life, he heeded and came back to his senses.
Six hours after he tweeted: “Today is my last day on earth, I guess it’s good to say goodbye to planet earth,” Ayomide has come back on his Twitter account to reassure concerned Nigerian netizens that he has chosen to live other than taking his own life.
He tweeted: “I was overwhelmed. I wasn’t thinking straight. I was scared, so scared to the extent of wanting to take my own life, life that I can’t give 😞 I am alive. I am doing perfectly okay. I am worth way more! “
Ayomide Adeagbo had earlier today tweeted: “Today is my last day on earth,I guess its good to say goodbye to planet earth” and 3 minutes later tweeted : “Twitter has been a wonderful community to me but I guess I am not for this planet earth. Thank to God Thanks to my parents But I am going going back to my creator ,can’t survive this Death is better.”
The tweets provoked enormous response from Nigerians on Twitter who were ready to do anything possible to save the young man’s life.
Calls were put through to his number which was made available by someone who knew him. Interventions were put in place and he was stopped from taking his own life.
After being rescued Ayomide tweeted:
He also said “I am literally short of words on how to appreciate everyone, the calls, texts, follow-ups, show-ups, generous requests to raise funds (funds I gratefully do not need as it’s all sorted already, massive thanks to you all! from loved ones and even people I do not know here.”
“What I can say at this time is “May God bless you all immensely and bring help to you at every points of your lives I do not take these love for granted, Thank you all again!”
“What I can say at this time is “May God bless you all immensely and bring help to you at every points of your lives I do not take these love for granted, Thank you all again!”
Some of the people that intervened sent in replies:
