Nollywood actress Yvonne Jegede has recounted her ordeal at the hands of a pageant organiser who ordered her to rig a competition in a certain contestant’s favour.
“I was called to be the chief judge at the Miss Delta Constituency Beauty Pageant that took place on the 24th June in Delta State, and while I sat at the table with my fellow judges assessing the contestants making sure we picked who deserved to be queen, the organiser came to our table to tell us who should win, who his candidate was,” she revealed.
Continuing her revelation she said that she and the rest of the judges were annoyed at such a request and the idea of being invited to be part of a fraud. She was quick to state that her refusal to play ball led the incensed organiser to refuse to pay for her return ticket, amongst other things.
“The entire judges went angry including myself, wondering why you called us to waste our time if you already knew who the winner was. To be honest, we stood our ground and picked the winner because, the obvious was stated, even the audience wanted the judges pick. Now the organiser IK is mad at me (chief judge) and refuses to buy my return ticket to Lagos and also refuses to pay my hotel bills the next morning. Lol. Just an experience I thought I share. It is well with this country.”
Yvonne’s experience is coming on the heels of the can of worms opened by the winner of the Miss Nollywood Nigeria beauty pageant who alleged that her dethronement was a result of her refusal of the pageant organiser’s sexual overtures.
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