From Suleiman Idris, Lagos with agency report
A truck driver, Mr. Abiodun Adio, on Friday emerged the lucky winner of the 2015 Range Rover Vogue’s grand prize of the Airtel’s Red Hot Promo Season 2.
The draw signifying the grand finale of the 60 days, 60 millionaires annual promo, was held at the corporate headquarters of Airtel, situated on Banana Island, Lagos. The draw was transparently conducted in the presence of journalists and independent auditors, TCQ&A.
The winner of the Range Rover SUV, valued at N30 million, Adio was lost for words when contacted on phone. He initially thought it was a fraudulent phone call when the news was broken to him right at the venue.
Adio, who could not believe his luck, confirmed that he was a commercial truck driver residing at Akute area of Lagos state. The star prize, according to Airtel officials, will be officially presented to him on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 in Lagos.
Present at the Grand Raffle draws was the Managing Director TCQ &A Associates, Mr. Wale Akingbade, an independent auditor to ensure transparency during the draws of the promo.
According to Akingbade, “the promo is to put smiles into the life of hundreds of families. The draw process was transparently and accurately conducted, and no hard-coded numbers were involved. Staff and family members of the auditors, Airtel and her suppliers are officially excluded from participating and therefore can never emerge winners.
Airtel is the only company conducting promos ensuring diligent screening of the applications and auditing the entire process. We ensured no hard coded number was used.”
Explaining the process further, Kenechukwu Okonkwo, Head, High Value Segment, Airtel Nigeria said customers’ recharge and accumulates points to get selected in the top 10 numbers and the numbers are transferred for double checking the names and numbers against the registered KYC details.
He emphasised that “the Airtel Red Hot Promo Season 2 is unarguably one of the best brand promos ever held in the Nigerian telecommunication industry.
The promo has changed the fortune of many of our loyal customers by making them overnight millionaires. Participation in the promo was opened to everyone on the Airtel network and was designed to enrich our loyal customers”, Okonkwo concluded.
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