Green James Rose of Ecobank King Jaja branch in Bonny, Rivers State at the weekend emerged winner of the grand prize in the Ecobank ‘Win Big’ promo that ended in December.
The Ecobank customer, who won a Nissan SUV, emerged from amongst 1,519,340 who qualified for the grand prize. Also, Margaret Omisakin of Ile-Ife Branch won a Nissan Salon car, which was the star prize for the fourth ‘win big’ draw that was also held same day.
Addressing customers and guests at the event which took place in Lagos, Head, Domestic Bank Products, Ecobank, Funwa Akinmade, said the financial institution had kept faith with its customers by rewarding them monthly since October 2012 through the promo. Previous draws were held in Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos.
He emphasised that the campaign was part of the bank’s way of encouraging people to be diligent in saving for the rainy day.
“It has been wonderful to hear the pleasure and happiness in customers’ voice as they are informed of their winnings. We encouraged old and new customers to open or grow their accounts with Ecobank and be rewarded for it,” he said.
Winners in other categories included Luqman Amolegbe and Okeke Sunday, both customers from Olojo and Alaba International Market branches respectively. They won 2.5kva generators each. Winners of two 32 LCD television sets were Adeniyi Peter and Dr. Aikhondare, while Akingbade Remi (Ejigbo branch) and Otubanjo Adegboyega (Ahmadu Bello, V.I. branch) both from Lagos emerged winners of Blackberry phones.
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