Monarch Sponsors Young Beauty Queen’s Pet Project

The Eze Gbakagbaka, Eze Oha Evo III of Evo Kingdom in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Eze (Dr) Leslie Nyebuchi Eke, has demonstrated his nationalistic and philanthropic fervour as well as his de-tribalised disposition, by throwing his royal and financial weight behind the pet project of a young beauty Queen, Miss Humanitarian Nigeria First Princess, Miss Brooklyn Ayodele Oluwaferanmi, who in March this year, dusted over 30 other contestants to clinch the coveted crown in Port Harcourt. The beauty pageant was organised by Humanitarian Nigeria Franchise.
The first class traditional ruler, as a way of showing his passion and commitment towards improving the wellbeing of the girl child, recently hosted the beauty queen’s 10th birthday celebration at his palace in Woji, Port Harcourt.
Eke, who said he was proud to identify with the beauty queen, used the occasion to announce a monetary donation to support and ensure that the pet project is successfully accomplished and executed.
The birthday bash, which attracted people from all walks of life including Woji daughters, some chiefs, women, the publisher of Black Celebrity Magazine; elegant Miss Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, and some television personalities from Abuja, among others, offered a solemn moment for speakers after speakers to pray and wish the young queen a successful reign as “Little Miss Humanitarian Nigeria”.
The crowning moment, however, came when the queen majestically stepped out and the King poured his royal blessings on her, invoking the stars and all to protect and guide her to excel as a beauty queen and even in her future endeavours .
Eke gave an insight into his resolve to sponsor the queen in an interview with The Tide in these words, “I have always been interested in the girl child. The education of the girl child is very paramount to me and, indeed, to our society. You train up the girl child, you are training up a nation. Brooklyn, being a very intelligent young lady, we thought it would be wise to give her the opportunity to excel. She is a very bright young lady, with a future ahead of her. So, all we are trying to do is to give her an opportunity alongside others so that we can produce women like Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the rest of them”.
He further noted that there is need to mentor girl children to look up to women that have excelled in the society and the community so that at the end of the day they would naturally aspire to be like them.
The visibly elated Brooklyn, who is a pupil of British Royal Class Academy in Port Harcourt, thanked the monarch for honouring her.
The queen’s aunty, Mrs Ejiro Okotie Okpaghoro, who spoke with The Tide in an interview said the family is full of appreciation for the royal father, stressing that his wonderful goodwill towards the little princess came to them as a pleasant surprise.
“We did not expect this. It was a thing of surprise to us. It is very very great. We really appreciate. The whole family is highly honoured,” she said, describing Brooklyn as a wonderful personality endowed with beauty and brain.
Incidentally, the mother of the young beauty queen also graced the occasion, alongside family members and friends.

By: Donatus Ebi