BBN: ‘We live in penury even though our daughter won N100m’ -Phyna’s father
The father of the winner of the Level Up edition of the Big Brother Naija reality show, Phyna has cried out that she has abandoned her family after winning the N100m prize money.
Phyna won the prize money in 2022 to the excitement of her immediate family, including the father who stormed the BBNaija grand finale venue.
The parents now claim that the day Phyna was announced winner of BBNaija season 7, in 2022 was the last time they set their eyes on her.
They say Phyna no longer picks their calls and they only see her on social media, displaying affluence, posh and class.
Speaking to the Vanguard, Phyna’s father, Mr Felix Otabor said he was in double jeopardy because he disposed of his old cars which he used for moving corpses for a fee on the instruction of her daughter.
He claimed that Phyna told him he could no longer be a hearse driver (Somebody who transports the deceased person from the funeral home or mortuary to the final resting place).
He said: “I haven’t seen Phyna, my daughter since she won BBNaija ‘Level Up’ edition last year. She hasn’t returned home since then. I don’t know why? I am a professional hearse driver, and when she won the reality TV show, she asked me to do away with all my old cars, promising to change my life. But since then, I haven’t seen her. And I don’t have a car again. Once in a while, the Vice-Chairman of our association will allow me to drive his own car.
“I sold all my four cars because at the time, my daughter won the show. I thought that God had finally answered our prayers. I called her on the telephone, and she said God had blessed us. She asked me to do away with all my old cars, or she would give them out to Aboki, any day she returned. So, instead of allowing her to dash out my cars to scavengers, I decided to sell them as scraps and used the proceeds to renovate my house. And that was the beginning of my suffering. I stopped doing my business because I had no car again. And my neighbours thought I was either stingy or pretending as if my daughter just won a N100 million grand prize. I was the Vice-Chairman of our association, but when I couldn’t show up at our station for some time, they replaced me with another person.
From that moment, things started getting tough for me. I am even looking for somebody that will give me a car on hire purchase. I need help, it has come to that point. I don’t want to die in silence.’
Otobar, who hails from Ekpeon, in Edo State, but resides in Lagos, is the father of four children. He’s an ambulance car driver, whose hope of a better life after his daughter won the BBNaija ‘Level Up’ edition’s grand prize of N100 million was dashed as soon as he was incubating it.
Sadly, the 68-year-old ambulance car driver said Phyna doesn’t answer their calls again. He wondered what they have done wrong to deserve this kind of treatment from their first child.
Asked why Phyna was snubbing them, Otabor said he couldn’t explain, adding that he didn’t know his daughter’s whereabouts when he spoke to us during the week. “I only see her on Facebook or Instagram whenever she shares new photos on these platforms,” he added.
Meanwhile, when Vanguard contacted Phyna on the telephone, at first she didn’t answer her calls. Instead, she sent a text message that she was busy on-site shooting!
Later, she returned the calls but it was almost like a quarrel. And when a question was posed to her she immediately dropped the call and never picked it up again.
