The apex Tiv socio-cultural organisation, Mdzough U Tiv, Lagos State Branch, has demanded a public apology from Big Brother Naija All Stars housemate, Venita Akpofure for “defaming” the Tiv Nation.
Venita has been under fire after she asserted in the reality show that “Tiv men give their wives to visitors for entertainment purposes.”
Reacting in a statement signed by its president, Engr. Theophilus Ukaa, and Secretary, Anagbe Terungwa, the Lagos State chapter of Mdzough U Tiv demanded an “incontrovertible and unreserved public apology from her whilst she still has the global media platform.”
The group said Venita’s statement “is not only a falsehood taken too far, but an aspersion cast on not just an individual but an entire tribe.”
The statement read, “Mdrough U Tiv Lagos State Chapter received with absolute displeasure a trending video which purportedly captured a house mate of the globally popular reality television show Big Brother Naija-BBN, who is referred to as VENITA AKPOFURE, who on the international television show reportedly said the falsehood that the Tiv of North Central Nigeria arguably the fourth largest ethnic group, as their culture gives out their wives for nuptial pleasure to their guests.
