Pic-Face of a winner, Inyanya expresses joy as Nii applauds
After 10 weeks of interesting musical dsiplays and severe contest, Inyanya Mbuk, 22 of Nigeria finally emerged the winner of the MTN Project Fame West Africa.
Inyanya was declared winner on Sunday 7th of December 2008, at the Ultima Studio in Ogba, Lagos, venue of the Finals of the show, after defeating the other three finalists including hot favourites, Nii (Ghana), Praise (Ngr) and the last standing girl, Annette (Ngr)to the ultimate prize of N2.5M, an international recording deal and a 2008 Toyota Rav 4.
However, it was not a winner-gets-all show as Ghanaian born Nii Anka, the first runner up, was also presented with the sum of N2 Million and a 2008 model Toyota Corolla. Also Praise Adejo of Nigeria, the second runner up went home with N1.5 Million and a 2008 model Toyota Yaris while Annette Cookie of Nigeria, the third runner up and went home with 1 million Naira only.
Pic-Are the looks added advantage?
The winner was decided strictly by viewers' votes which were been collated in the last one week till 8pm on Saturday, 6 December, verified and presented by Alexander Forbes Consulting, a leading human resources and employee benefit firm in Nigeria. The result of the votes was delivered by Mr Femi Oyetunji representing the Alexandre Forbes Consulting, who gave the host Dare Art Alade the envelop containing the names of the Winners according to their votes.
The contest which started about ten weeks ago, 28th of September to be specific, with 15 talented contestants chosen among the final 18 that were short listed from the thousands of entries across West Africa and were made to step into the musical academy and be exposed to the several weeks of training in different areas of musical performances, voice training, showmanship, character and personality building, stage control, dance and choreography, and every other aspect of the business of music, also saw all the eleven evicted contestants of the academy, coming to celebrate the victory of one of their very own.
Expressesing his profound joy and gratitude to both the organizers and viewers, Inyanya said, “ I am very thankful to MTN and other organizers of the show for giving me the wonderful opportunity. I can bet you guys that the Inyanya I am today is not the Inyanya you used to know in terms of music. I am really grateful to God who has allowed what happened today to be. This is just the beginning of greater things in my life. At first I was scared because at a point I saw somebody who has never been on probation before being evicted from the academy, but I kept believing in God, I kept believing in myself and I kept believing in the wonderful people around the world that are showing faith in me."
On his opponents in the contest, Iyanya maintained, “everybody was a strong opponent because everybody in the academy has a unique quality but all I had to do was to work harder, listen to the faculty of the academy and do what they ask me to do, and that was what got me to this end”.
The final show featured special perfomances by Naeto C, Artquake and Faze.
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