There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes not from an enemy, but from one of your own. That is the feeling currently sweeping through Nigerian timelines, and honestly, I share it.
By now you have seen the post. Priscilla Ojo, daughter of Nollywood veteran Iyabo Ojo, wife of Tanzanian artist Juma Jux, and a young woman with a following large enough to move markets, took to her page on the morning of the Miss Grand International finale with a message that read:
“Good morning Africa! This isn’t just a win for Tanzania; it’s for Africa 🙏🏽🤍 Please, let’s win this for Africa. Go like this picture of @jihandimack on @missgrandinternational, follow on Instagram, repost it, add it to your story, click on the website and vote for her. Tell a friend to tell a friend. Thank you.”
Not one word about Nigeria. Not one word about Ifeoma Uzogheli, the young woman currently in Thailand wearing our green and white, sweating under stage lights, answering judges’ questions, and fighting in the People’s Choice voting bracket with everything she has.
Let me be fair before I am harsh. Priscilla is married to a Tanzanian. She has lived between Lagos and Dar es Salaam. She has Tanzanian in-laws, Tanzanian friends, a Tanzanian household. Affection for Tanzania is not a crime — it is the natural fruit of the life she has chosen. Nobody is asking her to divorce her husband’s homeland.
But there is a difference between loving your husband’s country and campaigning harder for it than its own citizens are.
The Word They Are Using Is Hypocrisy
Nigerians have not been gentle. The word “hypocrisy” is trending under her name, and the accusation is specific: that she has never once mounted this kind of campaign for a Nigerian delegate. Not for a Miss Universe Nigeria. Not for a Miss Grand Nigeria. Not for any of the queens who have carried this flag. Not one rallying cry, not one repost, not one “tell a friend to tell a friend” for the women representing the country that made her famous.
And the moment Tanzania needs votes? A full mobilisation. Detailed instructions. Website link. Story repost. A closing prayer for Africa.
If you can organise like this for Tanzania, then the question is unavoidable: why can you not organise like this for home? That is not hate. That is arithmetic.
Where Is the Other Side of the Energy?
Here is the part that makes the whole thing sit badly. If this were a genuine two-way cultural love affair, we would expect to see some reciprocity. We would expect the Tanzanian side to be matching her fire — to be out there in equal measure, drumming up support for Jihan Dimack with the same passion Priscilla is bringing.
Instead, from what has reached Nigerian timelines, the energy has been strikingly one-sided. Her husband, Juma Jux, is a son of Tanzania. He has the platform, the voice, and the audience. Yet we have not seen him mounting a campaign of this weight for his own country’s queen — at least not in any form that has crossed our screens.
So a Nigerian woman is doing the heavy lifting for Tanzania, and Tanzania’s own son has been comparatively quiet. Read that again. If it sounds off, it is because it is off.
Meanwhile, Nigeria Has a Queen on That Stage
While all this noise was happening, let me remind you what Nigeria actually has in the fight.
Ifeoma Uzogheli is carrying our flag at Miss Grand International 2026. She walked the National Costume segment in a piece titled “Ulioma,” a tribute to the strength, resilience, and nurturing spirit of mothers. She stunned in a hand-painted blue-and-silver architectural evening gown with dramatic wing details in the Preliminary Evening Gown competition. She sat before the judges in the closed-door interview and spoke about business leadership, opportunities for children, and her personal non-profit foundation. She is in the official People’s Choice voting bracket right now, fighting for a title that would mean everything for her and something for all of us.
She is doing her part. Quietly. With dignity. Without a Nigerian celebrity megaphone behind her.
That is the part that stings. Not that Priscilla chose Tanzania — but that Ifeoma, at this very moment, is fighting alone.
Nobody Is Asking Her to Pick a Side
Let me be clear about what I am not saying. I am not saying Priscilla must abandon Tanzania. I am not saying she should not love her husband’s people. I am not even saying she should not support Jihan Dimack — the woman is a worthy delegate, and Pan-African solidarity is a beautiful thing when it is genuine.
What I am saying is this: a woman with her reach, her platform, her name recognition, built entirely on Nigerian soil and Nigerian love, owes this country at least the courtesy of the same energy she is giving elsewhere. Ten seconds of “Let’s go Ifeoma” would have cost her nothing.
Instead, she gave Tanzania a full mobilisation and Nigeria a blank page. And the internet, as it always does, kept the receipt.
To Every Nigerian Reading This
Forget Priscilla for a moment. The real work is in front of us.
Miss Grand International voting is live. Ifeoma Uzogheli is competing in the People’s Choice challenge right now. Go and vote. Share her pictures. Repost her national costume. Put her in your stories. Do for her exactly what Priscilla just did for Tanzania.
Tell a friend to tell a friend. And this time, let it be for our own.
That is the rebuke, and it is not a harsh one. It is simply this: home first. Always.
NAIJA TV stands with Ifeoma Uzogheli. Vote Miss Grand Nigeria 2026.
Report By: Abolade Ishola Fajebe, Editor-in-Chief, NAIJA TV Channel
