“I Am Alone in This” Nigerian Idol Season 2 Winner, Mercy Chinwo Yet to Receive N7.5m Recording Contract

It has been over a year since Port-harcourt born singer, Mercy Chinwo was crowned winner of Nigerian Idol Season 2 and now the singer is voicing out that she is yet to be given her N7.5m recording contract.

In an interview with Encomium Weekly she lamented  ‘As I speak to you, I’m one-man standing. I am not in any record label, I am alone. I have to say the truth. I am not or was never tied to nay record label”.  However she confirmed that she received the N7.5m cash prize. Franchise owners of Nigerian Idol, Optima Media Group (OMG) announced that the winner of the talent show will bag the overall prize of a recording contract, an SUV and a whopping cash of prize of $100,000 (N7.5m).

According to Thenet.ng, Season three winner, Moses Obi-Adigwe assured the magazine that his case was different and everything OMG promised has been delivered. ‘Yes I got the money and my contract, everything is okay‘, Moses told Nigerian Entertainment Today in a telephone chat. The singer says he has received his N7.5m cash prize and has released three new singles.