BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria’s Uti Nwachukwu Wins BBA All Stars!

By Victoria Ige and Dimeji Ogedengbe

Nigeria has won the Big Brother Africa reality show for the second ‘year’ running.

Nigeria’s representative in the novel BBA All Stars edition Uti Nwachukwu was tonight announced winner after an interesting 91 days in the house.

Uti, 27 and Munya, 24 from Zimbabwe were the last two contestants in the house. Both guys, with their national flags hanging on their shoulders, and anxiety written on their faces, waited as host IK worked the audience as he prepared to announce the winner.

And so it is that at 7:45PM Nigerian time, IK announced Uti as the winner.

And Munya wept; as Uti jumped up, broke into dance and songs and sang the Nigerian national anthem proudly.

Interestingly, Munya was leading in polls for several weeks, and considered by many as a sure contender for the big prize. But, apparently, Nigerians, with huge numbers on their side, voted for their own. The Nigerians are not alone though – seven other countries voted heavily for Uti, according to IK.

Below is the final poll, as seen on the BBA website a few minutes ago…

Total votes: 58299

Uti, who lost his father during his stay in the house, walks away with $200,000, the $1000 cash prize for successfully keeping his ‘secret’, and invaluable popularity across the continent.  

He’ll bury his father this November before returning to his music career and other projects…

The BBA All Stars is a special series featuring selected past contestants on the show.  Uti was Nigeria’s representative during BBA 3 two years ago. He became the third evictee of Big Brother Africa 3 house on the 5th of October 2008 (Day 42). During his stay, he was known for often teasing his fellow housemates (mostly Mimi and Thami). During Namibian housemate Lucilles eviction Uti had a violent out burst when he discovered she had been evicted

More details later…