A software engineer, Sidney Osahon, who was about being evicted by his landlady, has won himself N20m in a national lottery jackpot he played in Abuja.

The 35-year-old native of Edo State explained that he was contemplating selling his mother’s landed property  in the Federal Capital Territory, when he received information last Sunday that he is now N20m richer.

He said, “I owed my landlady a few months’ rents and she had been threatening to evict me. In fact, the day I received the news of my win, she had sent me an SMS in the morning that she was coming for a showdown over the arrears of rent.

“My mother was saying maybe we should sell her parcel of land in Abuja and use part of the proceeds to settle the rent, but I felt that was not a progressive thing to do. So, I prayed to God that I am tired of paying rent and that I would like to move into my own house, and God did it for me; I am now a landlord,” Osahon said jubilantly.