Controversial artiste, Shatta Wale has said though his popular song, ‘Mahama paper’ was inspired by President John Mahama’s missing speech incident during his address to ECOWAS heads of state in Accra last year, he did not intend to flatter the president with the song as has been interpreted.
President Mahama addressing a gathering a summit last year as the ECOWAS Chairman suddenly stopped in the middle of his speech and announced that some pages of his address were missing.
“Where is my speech…I am missing certain pages in my speech…,†he said, at first to himself, and then to the audience before receiving a massive applause from the audience.
Explaining the rationale behind the song in an interview with BBC, Shatta, as he is widely called, said he was watching television the day the incident.
“I didn’t do that song for a political purpose, I wrote it out of love. I didn’t do it because of my President. One day I was watching TV and the president was speaking at the Conference Centre and he was like ‘where is my page 13, I can’t find it,’ and I was like Mahama too why, where is his speech,†the self-acclaimed is reported to have said.
The song has been played severally at rallies and other gatherings with President Mahama in attendance and Shatta Wale who says he is surprised the song has become such a hit, has had to come out clearly to deny 'selling the song' to President Mahama and the ruling NDC.Â