Do you know that over 900 million votes were cast during the season 5 of Big Brother Naija reality TV show? This makes it the biggest season ever since the series launched in 2006.
DSTV Nigeria took to Twitter to make the announcement: “#BBNaijaLockdown recorded over 900million votes across all voting platforms! We stan these fans!!!Raising hands”
The 71-day show ended on last Sunday with Laycon emerging the winner of N85 million worth of prizes. The rapper broke the record of earning the highest votes in the show’s finale with 60% of the total votes cast. This is also the first time any Big Brother Naija housemate would win with such a wide margin at over 50%.
Laycon went home with N30m cash prize, a two-bedroom apartment, Dubai trip for two, SUV from Innoson Motors, trip to Dublin, a trip to watch the UEFA Champions League finale, home appliances courtesy of Scanfrost, one year supply of Indomie noodles, Munch it chin-chin and Colgate toothpaste, one year supply of Pepsi and branded chiller, brand new Oppo mobile smartphone among other mouth-watering prizes.