Miss Nigeria pageant organisers battle Miss Nigeria 2011 over car

Miss Nigeria pageant organisers Daily Times Nigeria
and Miss Nigeria 2011 queen Feyi Sodipo are currently
not enjoying the best of relationship. They have been
at loggerheads for sometime now over Daily Times'
attempt to take back the Hyundai Accent Feyi was
given after being crowned the winner of the 2011 Miss
Nigeria pageant. The organizers are yet to disclose why
they want to take the car back but Feyi believes it's
because she got another car from the Ogun state
government for being an ambassador for the state. A
few weeks back there were reports that three people
were arrested after they tried to forcefully retrieve the
car from Feyi and even kidnap her.
Feyi spoke with Encomium mag about the incident and
other troubles with Daily Times. She said:
"They have been trying to take my car for months
now. They have been harassing me all around to
surrender the car. The first time they tried it, they
tried to for my car open. The second time I had to
drive into a police station where the car was
impounded and later released to me. Later, the
Lagos Police Command invited me for a meeting.
They spoke to me and Mr Anosike (Daily Times
MD) and they requested I provided the car.
I told them it was in Ogun state and they gave
me three policemen to follow me to Ogun state to
retrieve the car, that's where the kidnap story
came from. I don't understand why they keep
requesting for a car I won alongside the crown at
the pageant. Maybe because I was given another
car by Ogun state governor for being an
ambassador, but even at that it's still my car.
There was never an agreement that I should
return the car after my reign. The car is presently
with the police. I feel so harassed and humiliated.
I didn't enjoy my reign. Even when I wanted to go
abroad for my scholarship, I couldn't do that
because when I asked for my scholarship which
was part of what I won at the pageant, they told
me it had expired. They didn't do anything for me
as a beauty queen. I was not even invited to this
year's pageant. I was the last queen and I should
have crowned the next one, but they didn't even
invite me."
A rep of the Miss Nigeria pageant, managing editor of
Daily Times, Mrs Isabella Osamor said...
"I really don't know the genesis of the whole thing. All I
know is that Feyi has two cars and we wanted to
recover one and we have asked the police to do that,
so the matter is now between her and the police not
us.