The winner of the 2022 edition of the Big Brother Naija (BBN), ‘Level Up’ edition, Josephine Ijeoma Otabor, aka Phyna, has once again rallied support from scores of Nigerians against the organisers of the much-followed reality TV show.
In a message published on Saturday, April 20, 2024, on her official X Twitter, the reality TV actress urged Nigerians to quit observing from the sidelines as she fights to redeem the rewards she is is supposed to have received from the show organisers.
Phyna questioned why Nigerians had not spoken up about her redeeming her awards, but she also asked the citizens to take action now rather than waiting until injustice victims were no longer alive.
“Just thinking out loud……… A very big organisation is making me go through stress of not getting my prices as promised since 2022…. And Nigerians are yet to say anything because is PHYNA!!!!” her post partly read.
This comes weeks after the Practitioners of Content Creation, Skit-making, and Influencers Guild of Nigeria (PCCSIGN) wrote a petition to Multichoice Nigeria, the organisers of the Big Brother Naija reality TV show.
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In a letter uploaded to its Instagram page, PCCSIGN stated that Phyna was still owed a portion of the money she won from the show two years later.
The statement was written by the organization’s acting national president, Michael Obinna Nwabufor.
The PCCSIGN noted in the statement that failure to assist in “the release of the prizes” from the sponsors would “reflect poorly on the sponsors” and “undermine the integrity of the show.”
The letter reads in part: “We, the Practitioners of Content Creating, Skit-making, and Influencers Guild (PCCSIGN), write to you on behalf of Ijeoma Josephina Otabor, known as “Phyna’, a valued member of our guild, regarding the outstanding debts owed by Quidax Global (1BTC = $70,052.00), Seven-Up Bottling Company (Pepsi) (1 year supply of Pepsi products), Travelbeta (a trip for 2 to Dubai), and Evans Industries (Unik Soap) (1 year supply of soap product), which constitute part of the prizes she won as the winner of Big Brother Naija Season 7 (Level Up), held from July 23rd to October 2nd, 2022.”
The guild demanded that Multichoice help release the awards that the aforementioned companies owed Phyna, stressing the importance of sponsors of the Big Brother Naija series honoring their pledges to the reality TV show’s victors.
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