Miss Nigeria Pageant Organisers And Miss Nigeria 2011 Battle Over Car

Miss Nigeria 2011, Feyi Sodipo and the Miss Nigeria pageant organisers, Daily Times are at loggerheads.

According to reports, their issue stems from the fact that Daily Times have been attempting to take back the Hyundai Accent Sodipo was given when she was crowned Miss Nigeria Winner in 2011. Although the pageant organisers are not revealing their reasons for wanting the car back, the crowned queen believes it's because she got another car from the Ogun state government for being an ambassador for the state.

It has been previously reported that three people were arrested after they tried to forcefully retrieve the car from Feyi and even kidnap her.

When Feyi was asked about the incident, she says:

Feyi spoke with Encomium magazine 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 force 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 had this to say on the issue:

"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.