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BBNaija 2019: Nigerians Spent N7.2 Billion On Votes Alone – Misplaced Priorities?

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Statistics emerging from the last day of the BBNaija Season 4 tagged Pepper Dem Gang’ episode reveals that Nigerians spent N7.2 billion on votes alone.

The host of this season’s show, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu said that the overall votes cast for the show was more than 240 million, out of which 50 million votes were cast for last week’s grand finale.


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Reports indicate that it costs N30 to cast a vote on the BBNaija Reality TV Show. For a country like Nigeria, with issues stemming from large bills from NEPA, high price of fuel and unemployment, online begging, depreciation of the Naira among other things, are the votes for BBNaija a misplaced priority?

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The N7.2 billion figure spent on votes is higher than the allocation received by three Nigerian states for the month of January.

Furthermore, Mercy Eke won this season’s BBNaija show, the first woman to do so since the birth of the show.

Source: africacelebrities.com

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