Big Brother Naija – Three into the finals

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The 10th season of Big Brother Naija has been a confusing one; ‘has’, because it is almost over, with just one more week left. While we were waiting for it to heat up, it is ending. I don’t remember ever seeing such a boring and unexciting set of housemates in any Big Brother House. Has fatigue set it? Should it take a hiatus?

The most exciting thing about this season is that it is ending, with 13 housemates still in the house. Last week, if not for the surprise Saturday eviction of two of them (Thelma Lawson and Bright Morgan), there would have been 15 housemates still in the house with two weeks left. That’s unprecedented; even Big Brother seemed to be grabbing at straws to sort things out.

Traditionally, there are usually 5 housemates left when the final comes around. Shall we see 8 evicted this Sunday? I doubt it. A real mess, this Big Brother Naija 10/10.

That said, Head of House Sultana, Mensan (Most Influential Player), and Kaybobo (Red Telephone recipient) became the first finalists. That means all the rest, 10 of them, are up for possible eviction this Sunday.

Around this time, we usually call it for the winners, because by now we would have seen them all in their true colours. But apart from Sultana, who impressed right from the start, I don’t see any clear favourites. Of course, Nigerian voters have their own issues, as they have voted for mostly the wallflowers of the house. Otherwise, what are Faith, Imisi, Mensan, Koyin, and Kaybobo still doing in the house? They are boring as hell (feel free to insert a more suitable word of your choice).

If I didn’t know better, I would think those Nigerians are doing a Bruna. For the uninitiated, Bruna Estevão from Angola was the first person to be evicted from the Big Brother Africa house in 2003. Those days, we voted for the housemate we wanted evicted, but her people from Angola thought they were saving her, so they all voted for her, and she left. The voting format was changed after that, and voting was to save. But all that legendary palm wine must have got to the heads of Nigerians, and they voted out the people they wanted to save.

Next week we shall rate all the housemates, the ones we knew and the ones we barely recognised. The ones we liked and the ones we wouldn’t care less about. Then we’ll roll over and go back to sleep.