Ghanaian songstress Wiyaala, has rendered an apology to dancehall artiste Shatta Wale for implicating him in an unfortunate incident that happened to her at the SummerStage Festival in New York on August 13, 2022.
Wiyaala, after the concert, took to social media to allege that Shatta Wale’s team obstructed The Bronx Borough President, Vanessa L. Gubson from presenting a Citation of honour to her.
According to the Lioness of Africa who was the first to perform at the event, she was promised by the organizers to be awarded her Citation after the entire show, only to have been told later that she had to take it backstage.
She said she got furious and rejected the backstage presentation of the citation.
She also unfollowed Shatta Wale on Twitter afterwards.
Later, the Chairman of the African Advisory Council to the Bronx Borough President’s office, Mohammed Mardah made a Facebook post to take responsibility for the hiccup in the presentation of Citation to Wiyaala at the SummerStage festival.
“I want to state categorically and emphatically that! The Bronx Borough President bears NO RESPONSIBILITY for what happened last night at Summerstage 2022. Shatta Wale bears NO RESPONSIBILITY for what happened at Summerstage 2022 in the Bronx.”
”That was MY fault. So, I am hereby rendering an unqualified apology to Wiyaala and her team,” he added.
In her new Facebook Live monitored by ghanaweekend.com, Wiyaala said she had apologised to Shatta Wale and promised to follow him back on Twitter.
According the singer, her confirmation from Shatta Wale and the statement by Mohammed Mardah caused her to thrash out the issue with Shatta Wale and make peace eventually.
“Mr Mohammed Mardah came out and wrote an apology letter to myself and my whole team, that it was his fault that the things went the way they went so he is taking responsibility for that,” she said in the video.
“From our camp, we say we have accepted the apology,” she added.
She mentioned that Shatta Wale also called her and said he knew nothing about the mishap and that if he did, he would even had gone backstage to help her solve the issue.
“…and on that note, I’ll say sorry to Shatta,” Wiyaala apologised.
That notwithstanding, she has still not taken the Citation from the Bronx Borough.
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By: Kwame Dadzie | Ghana Weekend
