Hilda Baci’s global superfans still working Twitter on her achievement
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Guinness World Records (GWR) has just disclosed Hilda Baci’s global superfans crashed its website for two days in May in their quest to interact with her cook-a-thon live from Lagos, Nigeria’s megacity and commercial capital of 20 million residents.
“Hilda’s cook-a-thon was in fact so popular that our website crashed for two days due to the immense volume of traffic we received from her legion of loyal fans,” GWR said on Tuesday in a statement that officially certified her as the world record holder for the longest cooking time by an individual.
She attempted to set a record of 100 hours, but GWR deducted almost seven hours from her final count because she mistakenly took extra minutes for one of her rest breaks early on in the marathon which lasted from May 11 to May 15.
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Fans congratulate Hilda on her feat
“This is the best news ever omg omg omg thank you so much,” Hilda wrote in retweeting the certification statement from GWR.
Her fans also thronged Twitter to congratulate her, as compiled below by Vanguard.
Mr Macaroni
“Congratulations Hilda Baci 🎊🎉
“The greatest lesson here is that Hilda did not stop even after surpassing the 87 hours set by Lata Tondon.
“She went all the way to 100 hours and the decision to do so helped her set a new world record despite GWR taking away 7 hours!!!. I’m inspired to do more. Thank you Hilda.
@Irunnia
“Congratulations Hilda Baci. Guinness Book of Records just announced her as the record holder for the longest Cookathon ever.
“We are waiting for Dammy [Damilola Adeparusi] to finish with her own so Ekitipikin can announce her as the winner for Ekiti book of records 😭😭
@innehjoseph
“I was expecting to hear how they miscalculated the time and the proper measure that should have been taken.
“Y’all literally ripped her of 7 HOURS. We must reclaim this mandate, see you in court. Meanwhile, congratulations Hilda.
@MercyEgbai
“Congratulations Hilda, the Ekiti chef [Dammy] should be deceiving herself with the 120hrs prank-a-thon. I hope the tribal bigots will rest now.
@ralphlumi
“Guinness World Records Dey cook lol they waited for chef Dammy to reach 100hours before confirming Hilda Baci’s record.
@RayoKasali
“Congratulations Hilda Go Dammy. Congratulations Hilda Baci on your Guinness World Record fest.
“Thank God she aimed way beyond the previous record to 100hrs and that gave her 93hrs 11mins.
“Imagine she had stopped at exactly 86 hours and then GWR deducted those hours she miscalculated for rest, mehn…😩
@meet_latifah
“So what’s Ekiti chef [Dammy] doing, cos according to the rules here, 2meal[s] [are] suppose[d] to be cook[ed] at a time, but our madam dy off gas dy dance. Well what do I know. Congratulations Hilda.
