Organisers explain Naija Super Eight voting pattern

Executive Head of Marketing, MultiChoice Nigeria, Tope Oshunkeye (left); Chief Executive Officer, Flykite Productions, Jenkins Alumona; NFF board member, Ganiyu Majekodunmi; Analyst, Sponsorship and Promotions, MTN, Peter Kajovo; and Media Consultant, MTN, Benjamin Elum, at the Naija Super Eight unveiling ceremony in Lagos… at the weekend.

Organisers of Naija Super Eight, Flykite Productions, have disclosed how the 12 clubs billed to contest the football tournament’s play-offs emerged. The process of qualification, based on fan voting and verified by top-tier audit firm, Deloitte, started on April 10 and closed on May 12, with fans casting their votes on the DStv website and DStv App.

The two teams with the highest number of votes qualified for the play-offs, which will be held in Eket from June 23 to 25 and were announced at an unveiling ceremony in Lagos on Friday.

According to vote tallies obtained by the organisers from Deloitte, the exercise yielded a total of 1,926, 495 valid votes, with the DStv App accounting for 1, 443, 215, while DStv website yielded 24,922. Votes from mobile devices amounted to 458,358. Voting was open to football fans in Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and South Africa.

Nigeria delivered the highest number of votes, posting 1,924, 272 (99.88 per cent). Next was South Africa, which delivered 1,323 (0.07 per cent), Republic of Benin accounted for 0.03 per cent of total number of valid votes with 600, while Ghana posted the lowest number with 300 votes or 0.02 per cent.

The breakdown of the verified votes shows that in the North West geopolitical zone, Kano Pillars and Katsina United football clubs polled 34, 264 and 19, 242 votes respectively to qualify. Next to them were Kaduna United (12, 745),