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Sodiq Ojuroungbe
There was a mild drama at the NUJ secretariat in Ogun state on Tuesday night following an alleged refusal by officials of leading telecommunication company, MTN to give promised gifts to winners of “predict and win” for the Nigeria match against Egypt.
PLATFORM TIMES learnt that before the match, the MTN officials had approached football fans, promising to give mouthwatering gifts like Phones, cash to whoever predicted exact score.
It was further gathered that many people present reportedly participated in the game while their data and information were collected.
However, it was observed that things took new turn after the match which was won by Nigeria in a one goal against Egypt.
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that three winners who predicted that Nigeria will win the match with one goal reportedly went to the MTN officials to ask for their gift, but were however denied the “promised gifts”.
This, PLATFORM TIMES discovered led to arguments between the winners and the MTN officials.
The team leader of the MTN crew simply identified as Donald allegedly zoomed off some minutes before the end of the match.
The winners were Olusegun Lasisi, Oladisu Amosu, and John Omruri.
One of the winners, John Omruri who insisted on getting the promised gifts alleged that the officials of MTN reportedly cornered the expected gifts in replacement of N500 recharge card.
Omruri said, “we went to them for our gift after the match and they told us that there is no gift available that it was just a joke.
“After we insisted on getting our gifts by fire, by force, they now said they will give us N500 recharge card.
“This is scam! When they know they cannot fulfill their promise, while making promises.”
In reaction, one of the MTN officials said promised gifts is not available with the crew at the NUJ secretariat.
The MTN official said the winners would have to hold on till the next Nigeria match before they can get their gifts.
