POKELLO Nare, one of Zimbabwe’s representatives in the Big Brother Africa: The Chase House, proved she was a force to reckon with after she received the highest number of votes to save her from eviction on Sunday evening.
Report by Melissa Mpofu
From the 14 participating countries, seven countries voted to keep Pokello in the game as she received votes from Botswana, Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. Non-BBA participating countries from Africa, known as “The Rest of Africa”, also voted for Pokello thereby making her country votes eight as “The Rest of Africa” vote is counted as one country vote.
The “Queen of Swag”, as Pokello is known by her fans, beat the other five housemates who were nominated by a great margin as Annabel (Kenya) got four votes, followed by Natasha (Malawi) who had two country votes.
Shy Angolan representatives Neyll and Biguesas became the third pair to be evicted from the game after receiving the least votes.
Neyll received one vote from his country whilst Biguesas had no vote at all. Angola and Uganda are now out of the game, leaving 12 countries and 22 housemates in the chase for the prize money of $300 000.
Unfortunately for Pokello, she does not know how Africa voted for her as housemates are not given eviction results. She seems to have had an idea though because before the Eviction show, Pokello predicted that Africa would support her 80%. A different and unique vote for her was that from Nigeria.
Over the years, Nigeria has been known not to support Zimbabwe in BBA as they are usually competition to each other. But this year, it is different because the Nigerian housemate, Elikem, and Pokello were close last week though this seems to have changed. Yesterday, Elikem nominated Pokello for possible eviction from the house this Sunday.
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