{"id":6211,"date":"2023-01-16T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/16\/bbnaijas-mercy-eke-finally-addresses-her-age-controversy-reveals-her-new-age\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:25:27","slug":"bbnaijas-mercy-eke-finally-addresses-her-age-controversy-reveals-her-new-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/16\/bbnaijas-mercy-eke-finally-addresses-her-age-controversy-reveals-her-new-age\/","title":{"rendered":"BBNaija&#8217;s Mercy Eke finally addresses her age controversy, reveals her &#8216;new&#8217; age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Big Brother Naija \u2018Pepper dem\u2019 winner, Mercy Eke has finally addressed her age controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Kemi Filani reported over the weekend, that the reality star\u2019s real age was exposed after she posted her Voters Card.<\/p>\n<p>The Reality Show Diva had on Saturday posted her Voters Card and informed her fans that she was ready for the 2023 Nigerian general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Although she covered her date of birth and address, a follower of hers had to go the extra mile to dig up the details of the Card, exposing Mercy Eke\u2019s real age as 32.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy had a few months ago, celebrated her 29th birthday in grand style but in reality she\u2019s 32.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou covered your date of birth and left VIN that shows everything about you. Does this make sense to you?. Anyway, I\u2019m here to inform your that I just found out that you are 32 years of age. Don\u2019t come here 29th Sept and claim 25 years o. Have a nice day,\u201d the follower wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mercy Eke addresses her age controversy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking to her Twitter page, Mercy Eke sarcastically addressed it. Unbothered with the draggings, Mercy Eke informed Nigerians to collect their PVC and vote.<\/p>\n<p>She added that Nigeria will be great again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollect your PVC. Nigeria be great again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter exchange with a critic, Mercy Eke revealed her new age.<\/p>\n<p>The ex girlfriend of Ike, claimed to be 52.<\/p>\n<p>The critics tweeted, \u201cBut you\u2019re close to 40 yrs old why you dey lie for us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Eke replied, \u201cI\u2019m actually 52\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CeeC shades Mercy Eke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recall that Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Cynthia Nwadiora, popularly known as CEE had reacted to Mercy Eke\u2019s age falsification.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Double Wahala\u2019 housemate had subtly Mercy Eke for altering her age.<\/p>\n<p>CeeC shared beautiful photos of herself on her verified Instagram and hinted that she\u2019s too pretty to be 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy pretty girl era. It\u2019s like I go reduce my age oh. 30 years no just fit me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mercy-Eke-sarcastically-addressed-her-age-controversy-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Mercy Eke age controversy\" class=\"wp-image-2741127\" data-=\"\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mercy-Eke-sarcastically-addressed-her-age-controversy-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Mercy Eke age controversy\" class=\"wp-image-2741127\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mercy-Eke-reveals-she-is-52-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Mercy Eke age controversy\" class=\"wp-image-2741128\" data-=\"\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mercy-Eke-reveals-she-is-52-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Mercy Eke age controversy\" class=\"wp-image-2741128\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>));\/**\/<\/script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Brother Naija \u2018Pepper dem\u2019 winner, Mercy Eke has finally addressed her age controversy. Kemi Filani reported over the weekend, that the reality star\u2019s real age was exposed after she posted her Voters Card. The Reality Show Diva had on Saturday posted her Voters Card and informed her fans that she was ready for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBNaija&#039;s Mercy Eke finally addresses her age controversy, reveals her &#039;new&#039; age - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/16\/bbnaijas-mercy-eke-finally-addresses-her-age-controversy-reveals-her-new-age\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBNaija&#039;s Mercy Eke finally addresses her age controversy, reveals her &#039;new&#039; age - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Big Brother Naija \u2018Pepper dem\u2019 winner, Mercy Eke has finally addressed her age controversy. 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