The aspirational adrenaline of ambitious consumers hopeful of going to Dubai is at an elb all high altitude. It’s already one month into what many have described as the deal of the year: The Legend Real Deal National Consumer Promotion.

Of the 25 consumers whom Legend Extra Stout has pledged to take to Dubai and back, 17 have emerged in two separate raffle draws held in Lagos and Port Harcourt.

While on the all-expense paid trip to Dubai, the Legends toured important Dubai landmarks and shop for gift items worth N1 million at one of the city’s biggest shopping malls.  The first raffle draw held at De Dems Bar, Egbeda, Lagos produced nine winners. Of these nine, seven have gone to Dubai and have returned richer.

James Nweke from Kano State and Aghedo Cyril Sadiq Ehinoria from Lagos could not make the first trip. They however joined the second batch of consumers that emerged at the second raffle draw held at the Lesukaa Events Centre, Port Harcourt. The eight lucky consumers are: Ozioko Ikechukwu, Kogi, James Nweke and others.

They recently returned from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where they shopped for items worth N1 million in 60 seconds. They left Nigeria on Friday, May 31 and returned on Monday, May 3, 2013.

Twenty – Eight year old Nweke is a professional security bouncer that recently relocated to Kano from Onitsha. Speaking on his emergence, he said: The very day I bought the Legend beer that won me the Dubai Trip was a boring day for me. I then decided to stroll down to International Hotel, along Enugu Road to have a drink.

Getting there, I saw that a promo was on, and I instantly ordered for Legend Stout. I became upset when I didnft win any of the instant prizes, but a lady sitting close to me persuaded me to send the code on my crown cork, and I just gave it to her to assist me. To be honest, I didn’t expect to win, as I was already planning to go back to my home state – Anambra State. I was shocked when they called me that I had won a trip to Dubai. I could not hold my excitement.

Incidentally, the Dubai trip, courtesy of Legend Extra Stout, was Nweke’s first time outside Nigeria. He also got his first international passport and visa courtesy Legend Extra Stout. He further remarked: I neither had an international passport, nor money to procure one, not to talk of traveling abroad.

Nigerian Breweries made provision for all our travel documents without collecting any dime from me. If not for Legend, there is no way I could have been what I am today, because all this happened when I was at the verge of losing all hopes.

James further said he will remember Legend for a lot of things. He said: One, the beer has given me a better life and exposed me to the international world for the very first time in my life. I shared views with tourists from different countries, wined and dined in some of Dubai’s most expensive restaurants. “This is too much for a bottle of beer.”

“To my friends that discriminated against me, Legend shut their mouth, and I became the first to embark on a foreign tour in our group. Please help me roll the drums for Legend.”

Same goes for other winners;  Ayodele Ishalaiye, 24, resident in Lagos, is a Youth Corper currently serving in Ebonyi State. Oritsuwa Okotie, from Delta State, has had a good stint of international travel across some of the African countries. Yet, he described his trip to Dubai as eye-opening. Wilson Osah, an aluminium fabricator from Port Harcourt, said he is yet to wake up from the dream.