#BBNaija Lockdown Day 24 – Musical chairs game, the chore war, moment to vent and more…

Nothing beats playing an exciting game of musical chairs, especially when you’re on Lockdown.

Today’s Task had the Lockdown Housemates playing the game of musical chairs.

First, Oppo Nigeria had them kitted fully for the Task ahead and you can always trust your Lockdown Housemates to put their swag into any merchandise and give us some fire looks.

After the Task brief was read by Erica, the Housemates were instructed by Biggie to go into the Arena for the first phase of the Oppo Challenge – the musical chairs game. This first activity in the Arena was played to determine the teammates for the main Oppo Challenge by playing the game of musical chairs.

The quest

As you know, the game of musical chairs is played by walking around chairs to music and when the music is turned off, the players find a chair to sit down on.

All Housemates were required to split into two groups of eight males and eight females in each group. There were seven chairs carefully arranged in the Arena. Once the song started playing, the female group began the game by dancing around the chairs. When the song stopped, the Housemate without a chair automatically became number one and was required to sit on the bench.

Again, the music then played and the remaining seven Housemates danced around the chairs until the music stopped. The Housemate still standing became number two and sat on the bench. This went on until all the Housemates in group one had their numbers. Once group one was done, the seven chairs were reset to the original position and it was the turn of the male group to play. Then this went on until all members of the group had a number.

Let’s dance, shall we?

As soon as the music started playing, the Lockdown ladies started dancing, while some were practically dragging their feet to align their bodies with the chairs. Cheater alert! Starting with Lucy, the ladies all dropped one by one out of the game and the chairs kept reducing in numbers. Then was Wathoni, Kaisha and the rest, until it was left with Vee and Nengi to go butt-to-butt in this game. Nengi came out victorious in this round.

As for the guys, let’s just say they were having fun with the Task and it was funny seeing Ozo and Neo fight for the chair to enable them play and end up being paired with their preferred partners. As luck (or not) would have it, cupid turned it’s arrow the other way around and Neo ended up winning this round which would make him automatically paired with Nengi, while Ozo with Vee. Or maybe not…

Our VAR caught some of the Housemates cheating intentionally just to make sure their numbers matched that of their resident baes. We see you Tolanibaj/Prince and Erica/Kiddwaya. Or should we just agree that it was a coincidence? Lol. Let’s see how Biggie judges this.

A moment to vent

Things are bound to get to you every now and then and it’s best you take a moment to vent about it to a close friend. Lucy did just that!

The overwhelming feeling of not being appreciated by the rest of the Lockdown Geng and not being particularly pleased with their approach to cleanliness in the House put Lucy in a state of despair and she chose to rant to a trusted friend. 

Feeling unappreciated

With the Wager Task drawing close and preparations in progress, Lucy voiced how hurt she felt that the other Housemates didn’t appreciate her contribution to the team. “The worst part is that you are doing stuff and people are not appreciating and it drives me crazy,” she said expressing her frustration to Prince. In his response, Prince told her that she lets her emotions get the best of her and that’s why she’s always on the defence because she feels everybody is out to get her. A notion, Lucy didn’t entirely share because she felt things would have been different if the rest of the Housemates saw eye to eye with her and paid attention to her ideas instead of shutting them down with theirs. Prince felt that reason most people didn’t see eye to eye with her ideas was because of how varied their background and thought processes were. “We all have different points of view, so sometimes, you can’t blame somebody for not seeing what you see,” he further explained to her. He did let her know she wasn’t a bad person or had a crappy attitude if those were the reasons she felt the rest of the Housemates weren’t appreciating her enough.

House Hygiene and defaulters

The conversation between Lucy and Prince soon moved to cleaning the House and how disappointed Lucy was with the rest of the Housemates disposition towards this. She complained about their complacency when it came to cleaning and she was also worried that her frequent complaints meant she might not be the viewers favourite. Prince reassured her that they would love her for who she is, and she should learn to ignore things she can’t change. He stressed that the differences in personality traits of people in the House meant they would do things differently even when it came to House sanitation. He cited how he liked to neatly fold his clothes while Neo takes it a step further by ironing every clothing even his briefs. Prince noted she had a compulsive disorder with seeing things clean and it was time she made peace with the situation. He suggested that she should try not to make these things upset her saying “I want to leave here and have no regrets because every single second we have here counts, so why are you stressing about these things?” He reminded her that if she had to do things in the House, she should do it out of the goodness of her heart and not worry about others.

It takes a lot to live with 15 other Housemates and it’s understandable if at some point they have issues with each other, but finding a suitable and amicable approach to solve these issues will go a long way in enabling cohabitation. Hopefully, the Lockdown Housemates find a solution that works.

The chore war

At this rate, the Lockdown Housemates need to take courses on how to stop fighting about House duties and get the cleaning done. So, who’s going to teach them? Experts only, please!

The issue of bickering over House chores is almost a constant morning routine for the Lockdown Housemates. So, this is it: wake up, workout, then argue about cleaning and other House duties. What makes it worse is the loud voices that are always the ringtone in such chore wars – yes, we’re talking to you Lucy and Praise.

For people that spend most of their Lockdown time cooking and eating, one would think they’ll maintain the same energy in cleaning the House; but with these Housemates, it seems anything outside of eating, partying and eating some more isn’t embraced.

This morning, Praise and Lucy had a little argument or should we say shouting conquest in the kitchen over cleaning duties. While Lucy maintained that the House hadn’t been mopped in days, Praise kept defending himself saying it’ll be done. At that moment, he was just trying to get his breakfast ready, so cleaning can come later. Belle must chop first now abi?

A major chore war was featured when Lucy was the Lockdown Head of House. Lucy was stern with her cleaning rules and maintained that the Housemates clean every morning immediately after their workout sessions. However, some Housemates didn’t agree with her, because why spoil their morning sleep right? Anyway, to her advantage, wearing the HoH crown that week meant that the House respected the head wearing the crown and followed it’s rules. It’s safe to say her rules helped keep up with the cleaning duties in the Lockdown House, but how well will they be able to maintain it, seeing that a fight is always featured once it’s cleaning o’clock?

Boo of the Booless?

While getting breakfast ready and still arguing about cleaning duties, Neo, Brighto, Praise and Kiddwaya had a brief chat. While Kiddwaya was playfully accusing Praise of not including him in his breakfast plans anymore, Praise told Kiddwaya, “…but that was when you were single, now you make breakfast for two.”

The other guys then chorused, “Booless gang” and Neo joined in the chant. Can someone call Vee please?

So Lockdown Housemates, when do we end this vicious cleaning and House chores cycle?

Exercise your power to keep your favourite Housemate in Biggie’s House by voting here. You can also download the MyGOtv and MyDStv apps for additional Votes. Stay tuned to Big Brother Naija on DStv channel 198 and GOtv channel 29