ABS reacts to ex-Miss Anambra's allegations: "You are a liar & you were conned because of greed"

Abia State Broadcasting Service (ABS) director, Mr
Uche Nworah has reacted to Miss Chidinma Okeke’s
allegations that she was pressured into making the
now infamous sex video by organisers of the
pageant.
In his statement, he says Miss Okeke is lying,
everything that happened during her reign were all
contractually stipulated, and she may have fallen
victim to con men who tricked her into believing that
she would win if she made a sex video. He also
added she is a pawn in a ‘larger politically motivated
conspiracy.’

There is an Igbo saying that the more you repeat a lie,
at some point people may begin to believe that it is
the truth.
On this former Miss Anambra sex scandal, the
management of the Anambra Broadcasting Service
had previously released a press statement
disassociating the organisation from it. We still stand
on that statement.
We have also made statements on the matter to the
law enforcement authorities. We understand that Miss
Chidinma Okeke has also made statements to the law
enforcement authorities so we eagerly await their
findings.
It is however important that I correct certain
statements that are being made on this forum and in
other fora especially concerning the interview Miss
Chidinma Okeke granted the Nation newspaper today.
There appears to be an agenda to push falsehood to
the public and in so doing malign me and the
Anambra Broadcasting Service over a matter that we
know nothing about. It appears that our silence over
the matter, except the press statement we issued
earlier is now being exploited by those who are bent
on using the Miss Anambra sex scandal to settle
political scores in Anambra state.
It would also appear that Miss Chidinma Okeke has
become a pawn in a larger politically motivated
conspiracy.
The ABS as a socially responsible organisation
fulfilled to the letter every part of the contract signed
with Miss Chidinma Okeke, former Miss Anambra.
This includes paying ALL her prize money of the sum
of one million Naira only. This was paid in
instalments in line with the contract. An initial sum
of N500,000 was paid to her after she signed her
contract and the balance of N500,000 was paid in
N50,000 instalments over a 10 month period.
She collected her last instalment of N50,000 on the
11th of October 2016, the day she handed over the
crown to the organisers. We have records of her
signing for all the payments. We had to take the
measure of inviting the former Miss Anambra to the
office on this date as that was the day an anonymous
individual had forwarded the videos to myself and
some other persons I do not know accusing the
former queen of being a lesbian. The person said he
was in possession of such similar videos numbering
over 10 allegedly showing the former queen in lesbian
acts, as well as her friends in the lesbian video
performing sexual acts with men. Details of these
WhatsApp messages have been made available to the
law enforcement authorities. We took this decision as
we did not want the brand to be smeared with such a
scandal as contained in Clause 1 of the contract.
After the handover of the crown by Miss Chidinma
Okeke to the Miss Anambra project executives in the
presence of the ABS management in the office of the
ABS MD/CEO, I dismissed all the other members of
the management with the exception of the ABS
lawyer and one of the Miss Anambra project
executives. I went on to show Miss Chidinma Okeke
the videos I had received that day from the
anonymous individual and the messages from the
person, I then asked her if she had any knowledge of
the video and she said yes. I advised her to go home
and confide in her family. I have not seen nor spoken
to her since that day as I do not know her
whereabouts.
Miss Chidinma Okeke was not forced to sign the
contract under duress as alleged, rather a certain
Nwakonobi Ifeanyi who is married to her sister and
acting as her guardian co-signed with her after they
had taken the contract home, studied and consulted
over it.
As a respectable pageant, we have certain rules and
regulations guiding participation in the pageant and
conduct of the queen during her reign. During her
one year reign, we supported Miss Chidinma Okeke
the very best way we could including sponsoring her
to represent Nigeria in the Miss Intercontinental
pageant which held in Frankfurt Germany in December
2015. We sponsored her alongside one of the
contestants who represented São Tomé. This was our
way of creating opportunities for them and opening
doors to international fame and modelling. Though
not stated in the contract but we also secured a free
unlimited one year business class return tickets to
any destination in Nigeria for her and her chaperon
from one of our airline sponsors.
There is no iota of truth in the allegation that ABS is
blackmailing Chidinma Okeke over monies realised at
her birthday party. As our reigning queen, we
organised a birthday party for her and used the
occasion to present to the public her pet project. The
event was co-sponsored by her uncle who was also
at the event alongside veteran Nollywood actor, Sir
Obi Okoli who did not stay till the end. Miss
Chidinma Okeke and her uncle can testify that no
money was realised at the event as it was not a fund
raising. Rather, the guests that spoke encouraged her
with words.
The Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant platform is indeed
a wonderful one. There is nothing wrong with the
pageant. We have had winners and participants on
the platform who have gone on to do big things in
their lives and modelling careers. The pageant is
solely private sector funded. The state government
does not sponsor the pageant so please do not
believe the false story that the Anambra state
government spends millions of Naira sponsoring the
pageant.
If you live in Awka or Anambra state, you will confirm
that it is usually a big event which generates a lot of
excitement and buzz. As an organisation, the
pageant generates entertainment content and some
revenue for the ABS.
From the audition to the final event itself, the
contestants are treated with the highest respect,
courtesy and dignity. They sign a document detailing
dos and donts and pledge to be of good conduct and
behaviour both during camp and during the reign of
the eventual winner. In the past, the organisers have
had to dismiss some finalists from camp for
misconduct, one for giving her number out to a hotel
guest where they are camped and another for being
rude to fellow contestants and the chaperon.
The pageant is judged to the highest standard. The
judges are usually former acclaimed national beauty
queens and showbiz personalities. The pageant
overall is managed by a Pageant Creative Director
who is a former Miss Nigeria. We take every care to
ensure that we deliver a good show every year.
There are no preconditions of appearing in a sex
video to contest in the Miss Anambra pageant. We
have had hundreds of contestants on the pageant
and they can testify to that. It makes no sense to try
to blame the organisers over an act that is as a result
of one’s folly and greed. If perhaps the said Miss
Chidinma Okeke fell victim to conmen who tricked her
into believing that she will win a beauty pageant if
she appears in a sex video, if she goes ahead and
participates in the said video and the conmen turn
around to blackmail her and extort money from her
with the sex video, how can I or the ABS be blamed
for that? Did the other participants and contestants
on the show suffer the same fate?
Regarding the issue of the Miss Anambra vehicle, in
line with clause 10 of the contract, the vehicle is an
official car which the organisers reserve the right to
withdraw at the end of the queen’s reign. It does
appear that the issue of the car is what concerns the
former queen the most as statements to the media by
her father, and even text messages to me and
discussions from people from her camp suggest so
but clearly as can be seen from the contract, the ABS
acted as per contract signed.
It is obvious that those who have been at the
forefront pushing this falsehood and allegation that I,
Uche Nworah or the ABS has anything to do with this
have ulterior motives.
In this day and age of social media, it is now easy for
anybody to manufacture falsehood and post on social
media for the unsuspecting public to read, like and
share but in the end truth triumphs.

THE CONTRACT
There is an Igbo saying that the more you repeat a lie,
at some point people may begin to believe that it is
the truth.
On this former Miss Anambra sex scandal, the
management of the Anambra Broadcasting Service
had previously released a press statement
disassociating the organisation from it. We still stand
on that statement.
We have also made statements on the matter to the
law enforcement authorities. We understand that Miss
Chidinma Okeke has also made statements to the law
enforcement authorities so we eagerly await their
findings.
It is however important that I correct certain
statements that are being made on this forum and in
other fora especially concerning the interview Miss
Chidinma Okeke granted the Nation newspaper today.
There appears to be an agenda to push falsehood to
the public and in so doing malign me and the
Anambra Broadcasting Service over a matter that we
know nothing about. It appears that our silence over
the matter, except the press statement we issued
earlier is now being exploited by those who are bent
on using the Miss Anambra sex scandal to settle
political scores in Anambra state.
It would also appear that Miss Chidinma Okeke has
become a pawn in a larger politically motivated
conspiracy.
The ABS as a socially responsible organisation
fulfilled to the letter every part of the contract signed
with Miss Chidinma Okeke, former Miss Anambra.
This includes paying ALL her prize money of the sum
of one million Naira only. This was paid in
instalments in line with the contract. An initial sum
of N500,000 was paid to her after she signed her
contract and the balance of N500,000 was paid in
N50,000 instalments over a 10 month period.
She collected her last instalment of N50,000 on the
11th of October 2016, the day she handed over the
crown to the organisers. We have records of her
signing for all the payments. We had to take the
measure of inviting the former Miss Anambra to the
office on this date as that was the day an anonymous
individual had forwarded the videos to myself and
some other persons I do not know accusing the
former queen of being a lesbian. The person said he
was in possession of such similar videos numbering
over 10 allegedly showing the former queen in lesbian
acts, as well as her friends in the lesbian video
performing sexual acts with men. Details of these
WhatsApp messages have been made available to the
law enforcement authorities. We took this decision as
we did not want the brand to be smeared with such a
scandal as contained in Clause 1 of the contract.
After the handover of the crown by Miss Chidinma
Okeke to the Miss Anambra project executives in the
presence of the ABS management in the office of the
ABS MD/CEO, I dismissed all the other members of
the management with the exception of the ABS
lawyer and one of the Miss Anambra project
executives. I went on to show Miss Chidinma Okeke
the videos I had received that day from the
anonymous individual and the messages from the
person, I then asked her if she had any knowledge of
the video and she said yes. I advised her to go home
and confide in her family. I have not seen nor spoken
to her since that day as I do not know her
whereabouts.
Miss Chidinma Okeke was not forced to sign the
contract under duress as alleged, rather a certain
Nwakonobi Ifeanyi who is married to her sister and
acting as her guardian co-signed with her after they
had taken the contract home, studied and consulted
over it.
As a respectable pageant, we have certain rules and
regulations guiding participation in the pageant and
conduct of the queen during her reign. During her
one year reign, we supported Miss Chidinma Okeke
the very best way we could including sponsoring her
to represent Nigeria in the Miss Intercontinental
pageant which held in Frankfurt Germany in December
2015. We sponsored her alongside one of the
contestants who represented São Tomé. This was our
way of creating opportunities for them and opening
doors to international fame and modelling. Though
not stated in the contract but we also secured a free
unlimited one year business class return tickets to
any destination in Nigeria for her and her chaperon
from one of our airline sponsors.
There is no iota of truth in the allegation that ABS is
blackmailing Chidinma Okeke over monies realised at
her birthday party. As our reigning queen, we
organised a birthday party for her and used the
occasion to present to the public her pet project. The
event was co-sponsored by her uncle who was also
at the event alongside veteran Nollywood actor, Sir
Obi Okoli who did not stay till the end. Miss
Chidinma Okeke and her uncle can testify that no
money was realised at the event as it was not a fund
raising. Rather, the guests that spoke encouraged her
with words.
The Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant platform is indeed
a wonderful one. There is nothing wrong with the
pageant. We have had winners and participants on
the platform who have gone on to do big things in
their lives and modelling careers. The pageant is
solely private sector funded. The state government
does not sponsor the pageant so please do not
believe the false story that the Anambra state
government spends millions of Naira sponsoring the
pageant.
If you live in Awka or Anambra state, you will confirm
that it is usually a big event which generates a lot of
excitement and buzz. As an organisation, the
pageant generates entertainment content and some
revenue for the ABS.
From the audition to the final event itself, the
contestants are treated with the highest respect,
courtesy and dignity. They sign a document detailing
dos and donts and pledge to be of good conduct and
behaviour both during camp and during the reign of
the eventual winner. In the past, the organisers have
had to dismiss some finalists from camp for
misconduct, one for giving her number out to a hotel
guest where they are camped and another for being
rude to fellow contestants and the chaperon.
The pageant is judged to the highest standard. The
judges are usually former acclaimed national beauty
queens and showbiz personalities. The pageant
overall is managed by a Pageant Creative Director
who is a former Miss Nigeria. We take every care to
ensure that we deliver a good show every year.
There are no preconditions of appearing in a sex
video to contest in the Miss Anambra pageant. We
have had hundreds of contestants on the pageant
and they can testify to that. It makes no sense to try
to blame the organisers over an act that is as a result
of one’s folly and greed. If perhaps the said Miss
Chidinma Okeke fell victim to conmen who tricked her
into believing that she will win a beauty pageant if
she appears in a sex video, if she goes ahead and
participates in the said video and the conmen turn
around to blackmail her and extort money from her
with the sex video, how can I or the ABS be blamed
for that? Did the other participants and contestants
on the show suffer the same fate?
Regarding the issue of the Miss Anambra vehicle, in
line with clause 10 of the contract, the vehicle is an
official car which the organisers reserve the right to
withdraw at the end of the queen’s reign. It does
appear that the issue of the car is what concerns the
former queen the most as statements to the media by
her father, and even text messages to me and
discussions from people from her camp suggest so
but clearly as can be seen from the contract, the ABS
acted as per contract signed.
It is obvious that those who have been at the
forefront pushing this falsehood and allegation that I,
Uche Nworah or the ABS has anything to do with this
have ulterior motives.
In this day and age of social media, it is now easy for
anybody to manufacture falsehood and post on social
media for the unsuspecting public to read, like and
share but in the end truth triumphs.