Now that the wahala of ‘based
on logistics’ given the Big Brother Naija reality show, thanks to payporte is
over; Nigerians at home and in the diaspora will let me rest. And most
importantly, the ones based at home in Nigeria as they will go back to face
reality as all the frenzy will now ‘pipe down’. Even though I am happy Efenation won! *winks*
In all the years that
this show has aired, I swear…oops… I meant, I can lay a good wager that brains
behind the show include this year’s official sponsor has never smiled to the
banks the way they have most likely done in this edition. I say this without
mincing words because in all the years, I have never witness so much frenzy,
hype, fights, love, hate, you name it, for just one programme like was
witnessed this period; not only on all social media platforms but on the
streets and by word of mouth as well. BBNaija was in nearly all conversations.
Haba! Many of you
witnessed situations where people insulted themselves and almost got into
fights (I’m sure there were some though not to my knowledge) all in the name of
rooting for their favourite housemates.
One thing though, I just
realized again that Nigerians can be very PASSIONATE about something when they
want to be. This realisation of how passionate they can be came to the fore
again in FULL FORCE.
Kai! I love Naija!! This
whole period, despite the economic situation, Nigerians went all out to vote,
vote, vote spending their hard earned cash. Even yours sincerely was caught up
in the excitement as I found myself voting a couple of times *winks*.
But wait a minute, “how
does this affect the price of fish” like some persons opined when they saw some
posts on social media. According to
these opinions, many of the people who were busy rooting strongly for their
favourite housemates on these social platforms have been Christians for donkey
years, yet they have never done any form of evangelism to anyone or such that
would equate the type of energy expended while rooting for these ‘nation’
housemates.
Please don’t crucify me
because I have not come to judge anyone in any way, just stating the obvious.
Aside many being Christians
who don’t evangelize, there were also those who no doubts work as sales
executives or marketers in many organisations or even self employed but have never
gone marketing their services the way they did for the housemates. Yet when it
comes to performance reviews in the office especially for those who are
employees, they start shaking but would do ‘nada’ or put such energy they put in
rooting for their ‘nation’ into their jobs. If they did their jobs with so much
passion as they did rooting, performance on the jobs would not be an issue for
them. Maybe, just maybe.
I could go on and on
but wouldn’t like to bore you any further if you are or stress you with too
much excitement if you are already excited enough by this topic, especially if
it was your favourite housemate that emerged winner.
Now, Efe has won and going home with the
prize including a whooping sum of N25million naira (I like the sound off that
money) and BB as well as Payporte going home with same amount in multiple
counts while the rest of us, especially the rooters, have gone back to normalcy
without a ‘dime’ from the project and the irony is that many of the housemates
may never meet their very strong rooters who almost burst their kidneys while
rooting or even get to hear about those who went on the streets, fought or
almost fought for them. Such is the irony of life.
Enough said, I hope Efe would spend this win wisely as we
have had people come and go in
several reality shows.
Some of the winners and
‘almost winners’ in the past have made the best out of their participation in
some of these reality shows, while another another group of them have done
little or nothing with the fame. And so Efe
the ball is in your court to make the best of whatever you have learnt,
gained or garnered from this experience.
And for all those other
housemates who did not emerge winner, lick those wounds fast and let them heal
faster so that you can get back on the track of reality even as you also use
the experiences from having taken part in the show, to better your lives out
there as well. If you do not know, make sure you always use BBNaija as one of
your claims to fame, you deserve it, so use it and use it right and fast while
it’s still hot NOW.
And for the rooters,
wakeup! BBNaija is over, so no more flooding the social media platform with the
slogan “BASED ON LOGISTICS” anymore.
Hmmm! Sigh of relief. Tension is over. I am out for now
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