Ghanaian actress-Yvonne Nelson has been trending this morning—and as usual, it’s for the wrong reason. Fortunately for some us and unfortunately for her, everyone seems to be on her backside this time, saying, her comment was below the belt…
A few days ago, President John Dramani Mahama in an interview talked about Ghana’s showbiz and he mentioned Shirley Frimpong Manso, John Dumelo, Lil Win and several names as his favourites in their various spheres of entertaining career.
Subsequently, Yvonne Nelson in an interview stated that “John Dumelo supports him [President Mahama] publicly so I mean it is cool. I believe he has got his favourite, everyone has their favourite and if you are in the entertainment industry and you are putting Ghana on the map, the president should love you because you are doing something for Ghana. We are all putting Ghana on the map so I believe the President should love all of us because we are all trying for Ghana.”
She added, “For me, I want to see Ghana there and that’s a cool thing…the President should mention more names to encourage us.”
“He should mention names like Sarkodie, Jackie Appiah, Myself, Majid Michel, John Dumelo. These are people putting Ghana on the map. We need that kind of encouragement from our leaders,” the actress stressed.
Every reasonable person who understands ‘the concept of having a favourite’ would know that, we all have our favourites in life—even when it comes to every day things like food. Some people love Banku and others like “myself” have Waakye as our favourite—this does not in any way means that, Kenkey is inferior. It just means that, our favourite is our favourite and others are equally allowed to have their own favourites too.