AMAA, Ghanaian body fight over Omotola's role

 In a bid to spot errors in the AMAA awards, a Ghana Awards GMMA has criticised AMAA for nominating Omotola for a supporting role in a movie which she already won an award for in GMMA.
AMAA was swift to respond in a release.
AMAA's response:
The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) welcomes all discussion on African film and its awards, but would like to set the record straight in response to yesterday’s article on Ghana MMA, ‘AMAA 2012 nominations full of errors.’



The Ghana MMA author raised a number of concerns, which Shaibu Husseini, the chair of the AMAA screening committee, will respond to in turn.
The author wrote, “Omotola Jalade did not play supporting role in the movie Ties that Bind. She played lead with other characters such as Ama K. Abebrese and Kimberly Elise. Omotola Jalade won best actress in a lead role with the movie – Ties that bind (Ghana Movie Awards, 2011) – so how can the same person become a supportingcast for another movie awards? There’s no logic in that.”
Shaibu says, “The AMAA board of jurors is not obliged to decide nominees just because one other award body has nominated a talent previously. Different juries will always see things slightly differently – that’s healthy. We disagree that there would have been ‘logic’ only if we had nominated Omotola in the leading actress category just because she won in that category in the Ghana Movie Awards. As far as we are concerned, the story of Ties that Bind revolves round the medical doctor who returns torevive the village clinic and encounters two other women with situations that bound them. The filmmaker may have intended for all three ladies to play lead, but in terms of the ‘weighting’ of the roles played by each character, Ama K is lead while the others, including Ebbe Bassey (the woman with the daughter that was defiled and infected), assist in advancing her story.”