Founder of the Guinness Ghana DJ Awards, Merqury Quaye, has voiced his dissatisfaction with a remark made by Kojo Manuel, one of this year’s award recipients.
The YFM Accra radio presenter was named Best MC/Hypeman of the Year at the 2024 Ghana DJ Awards, held on Saturday, November 9, 2024, at the Palms Convention Centre in Accra, Ghana but he shared the award with MC Portfolio.
During a recent interview on 3 Music TV, Kojo stated: “I don’t believe there’s anything like a tie. I don’t think Ghana would have an election and say the NPP and NDC won. I never understand the notion behind the tie and I haven’t had any official statement from the Ghana DJ Awards on why that happened.”
Reacting to Kojo’s remarks on Hitz FM, Merqury Quaye, the founder of the Guinness Ghana DJ Awards, expressed his disappointment to host Doreen Avio regarding the YFM presenter’s statements on 3Music TV.
“I am very disappointed in Kojo Manuel for his output regarding his commentary on this. It is okay to register your displeasure about something but I think the tangent he is on, leaves a lot to be desired. I have heard him say that he doesn’t believe there is anything like a tie. It is very unfortunate for a person of his calibre to be saying something like this.
“I expect him to know a lot better than that. There is a tie in a lot of competitions. Even in football matches, you can have a draw. When it comes to award programmes, you can talk about the Grammys. There are ties in the Grammys. You can talk about BET. If you may recall, in 2015 and Wizkid had a tie but Sarkodie did not come out to rant like Kojo Manuel is doing,” Merqury said.
He questioned why Kojo Manuel had not raised concerns about the awards he received from the scheme in previous years.
“Aside that I think that he should get off his high horse it is the same programme that adjudged him the best MC and he was very proud of and he was mentioning on all the platforms. So he should remember that it is the same platform he is talking about. Why did he not come out to mention that he needed to understand why he won Best Hypeman last year? Why did he not come out to ask that the DJ Awards should come out and give him a break down of how he won the Hypeman last two years? So this is why I am disappointed,” he said.
The Guinness Ghana DJ Awards is organised by Merqury Republic.
