adminBIG Brother Africa housemate Melvin has been predicted to win the eighth season of the Africa-wide contest showing on DStv, according to a survey carried out by the biNu cloud-based smartphone app. The biNu community were asked questions, via the app’s survey platform, on how they get updates on the show, how they vote and who they expect to win.
In the info-graphic made available to HumanIPO, the results of the survey revealed 23 percent of respondents said they expect Melvin to win the competition, giving the Nigerian housemate a 1 percent lead over Angelo (South Africa) and Beverly (Nigeria), both of whom had 22 percent.
The survey also revealed that SMS is the preferred means of voting as 49 percent of respondents said use that method, while 42 percent said they vote via the competition’s mobile website and only 9 percent vote using desktop websites.
Sixty-six percent of respondents (4 830) believe the Diamond Team would win the competition rather than the Ruby Team which only got 1 631 votes.
In all, more than 6 000 respondents participated in the survey from 14 African countries including Namibia (38 percent), Ethiopia (25 percent), Zimbabwe (20 percent) and South Africa (5 per-cent).
“The majority of respondents were male, 56 percent were aged between 18-24 years old and just over half got their updates from their mobile phones,” biNu said in a statement.
“There have been a few controversies this year with one contestant, Nando, being disqualified for threatening another housemate. Interestingly though, just over 50 percent were happy that he was booted off.” — Humanipo.
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