Drama In Yenagoa, As Married Man Attempts Suicide Over Girlfriend

Tragedy was averted Friday morning at Bay Bridge road,
Yenagoa, when a 40-year-old man, Ediekan, attempted to commit suicide as a
result of his failed bid to have s*x with a girl with whom he reportedly had a
long standing relationship, sun news reports.

It took the timely intervention of his neighbours to save
the situation. Ediekan, father of two children, was said to have been spending
money to woo one Favour who lives within the same neighborhood to go to bed
with him. But rather succumb to his pressure; Favour resisted all entreaties
and kept on promising that she would eventually marry him.

However, on Thursday night, Ediekan could no longer hide his
frustrations when he discovered that Favour was going to bed with another man.

Sources told Sunday Sun that Ediekan immediately became
emotionally depressed and began the plot to commit suicide within the compound.
In an interview with our correspondent, his wife, Florence, confessed that her
husband woke her up in the night complaining that all the people he loved did
not reciprocate his love. According to her, he was such in a bad mood that he
asked if she could take care of their two children if he dies.

She said “I was alarmed when he came in complaining that all
the people he loved did not reciprocate his love. As his wife, I re-iterated my
love to him, but he said he wasn’t referring to me, but one Favour whom he had
spent so much money for and yet refused to return his gestures with love. He
then asked if I could take care of our two children if he dies.

At that point, I became worried and tried to discourage him
from such negative thoughts. Early in the morning, as he stood up from the bed,
I tried to hold him back but he broke loose and went outside. Even then, I
didn’t know that he had already got a rope and some chairs where he intended to
hang himself. But after a while, I saw him with a rope around his neck and his
legs dangling in the air. I immediately raised the alarm and neighbours came
around and used cutlass to cut off the rope.”

Some of his neighbours expressed disappointment over the
incident. But Ediekan, unremorseful insisted that he would commit suicide, as
he could not watch another man sleeping with Favour. Subsequently, Favour was
persuaded to openly confess her love to him. Amidst the crowd of people, she
obliged and even promised to marry him.

Following the assurance, Ediekan angrily told his neighbours
to leave him alone to face his problems, adding that if he dies, people would
take care of his children.

Sunday Sun learned that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO)
of Ekeki on hearing the news deployed some of his men to the scene to
investigate the incident.