PRINCESS OKAGBUE IS NEW DELTA SOAP QUEEN

It was a classy evening of pomp and ceremony as Orange Drugs Nigeria Ltd, announced Princess Sandra Okagbue, a princess from Ofala Okagbue family in Onitsha, Anambra State winner of its 2010 edition of Miss Delta beauty pageant.
The event which was held at the Muson Center, Lagos penultimate Friday recorded huge turn-out of celebrities and Nollywood star with Kate Henshaw and Olisa Adibua compering. It was the official launch of the company’s new product, Devcom soap which has Ghanaian actress Nadia Buari as the official face.
Chairman of Orange Drugs, Sir Tony Ezenna revealed that only 14 girls qualified for the grand finale out of 350. He also disclosed that as from next year, the competition would be called Orange Beauty Pageant , adding that the winner would be known as Miss Devon, the first runner-up as Miss Delta and the 2nd runner up known as Miss Passion.
The event feautured Infinity music group, Dance Na the Man Thing, Paul Play Dairo and Helen Paul who gave a good account of themselves.
Of the 14 girls who made it to the final, only 5 were left to fight for the crown after appearing in their traditional attires, evening and casual wears. The finalist, Miss Cross River, Miss Anambra, Miss Edo, Miss Abuja and Miss Lagos took questions from panel of judges headed by Data Okorodudu of JD7. The criteria for selecting them poise , skin glow, confidence, beauty as well as brains.
While Princess Okagbue who is also Miss Lagos emerged winner, Miss Edo was first runner-up, Miss Anambra the second runner-up, Miss Abuja third runner-up and Miss Cross River emerged the fourth runner up. Ongoing Miss Delta, Miss Lizzy Ezenna crowned the new queen, who took home N2.5 million, 10,000 dollars all expenses paid trip to the United States for any European country of her choice and a brand new SUV.
The first runner-up got N1.5 million, second runner-up, N1 million,third runner-up made up away with N.5million while the fourth runner –up got N250,000.
However, some curious guests had questioned the rationale behind choosing Princess Okagbue as winner of the beauty contest, saying that she did not deserve the crown having failed to answer some of the questions poised to her and that she is too fleshy.