Not many viewers of this year edition of Gulder Ultimate Search will easily connect 21 years old, Delta state born Tonia Oduah with one of the leading contestants in the 2009 edition of Gulder Ultimate Search, Melvin Oduah.
Melvin had a strong fan base while on the programme due to a lot of factors principally, his good physique, smartness, endurance ability and at the end he missed the opportunity of becoming the last man standing by a whisker as he became the first runners up to the overall winner Uche Nwaezeapu.

The handsome Melvin had cultivated large audience of followership among the home viewers who were expecting him to be the last man standing. Notwithstanding, his coming second in the search was highly celebrated among his fans on his blog and at his Lagos home.

However, by a stroke of luck and coincidence, Melvin’s immediate younger sister, Tonia went through the whole rigorous regional screening in Lagos, without anybody’s noticing her relationship with Melvin, proved her mettle and got picked in an apparently transparent public selection process for the final 12 to participate in the 7th edition of Gulder Ultimate Search.Hope was high when she made it to the jungle; to an extent that other contestants were glaringly apprehensive about her inner strength which everybody believed probably runs in the Oduah family.

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