Organizers of the Miss Anambra Pageant, the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) has refuted claims made by former Miss Anambra, Chidinma Okeke that her sex video was recorded by the organizers as part of her contract.

Chidinma in an interview with The Nation had said the organizers of the pageant were using the video to blackmail her.

But the state-owned radio station has said Chidinma’s claims were false.

In a statement, they said, “We had to take the measure of inviting the former Miss Anambra to the office on this date as that was the day an anonymous individual had forwarded the videos to myself and some other persons I do not know accusing the former queen of being a lesbian.

“The person said he was in possession of such similar videos numbering over 10 allegedly showing the former queen in lesbian acts, as well as her friends in the lesbian video performing sexual acts with men. Details of these WhatsApp messages have been made available to the law enforcement authorities. We took this decision as we did not want the brand to be smeared with such a scandal as contained in Clause 1 of the contract.

“After the handover of the crown by Miss Chidinma Okeke to the Miss Anambra project executives in the presence of the ABS management in the office of the ABS MD/CEO, I dismissed all the other members of the management with the exception of the ABS lawyer and one of the Miss Anambra project executives. I went on to show Miss Chidinma Okeke the videos I had received that day from the anonymous individual and the messages from the person, I then asked her if she had any knowledge of the video and she said yes. I advised her to go home and confide in her family.”

The organizers also denied not paying her the cash prize attached to the pageant.

“The ABS as a socially responsible organisation fulfilled to the later every part of the contract signed with Miss Chidinma Okeke, former Miss Anambra. This includes paying ALL her prize money of the sum of one million Naira only. This was paid in instalments in line with the contract. An initial sum of N500,000 was paid to her after she signed her contract and the balance of N500,000 was paid in N50,000 instalments over a 10 month period.

“She collected her last instalment of N50,000 on the 11th of October 2016, the day she handed over the crown to the organisers.”