It’s obvious that Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) is the biggest awards scheme in Ghana at the moment. For the past 15 years, Charter House (organizers of VGMAs) have been awarding outstanding Ghanaian musicians, as well as other African artistes.

One thing that the organizers have not been able to run away from is the hullabaloos surrounding the whole awards scheme. At least one musician would have some grievances to voice out each year.

One of such musicians is the reigning VGMA artiste of the year – Shatta Wale. Last year, Shatta Wale did not make it to the conference center where the award was held because Charter House could not come to terms with him on the amount he wanted as performance fee.

This resulted in a whole lot of uproars in the Ghanaian media. This has pushed the self-acclaimed dancehall king to inform Charter House that he does not want to be part of the award scheme this year.

Ghana’s finest rapper, Sarkodie, was also in the news few days ago. According to him, Charter House had used his name to promote the award when they had not paid him the performance fee he had requested.

Even though the VGMAs is taking place tonight, Shatta Wale is also organizing a beach party today at the Shatta Beach – a beach in Accra named after him.

According to Shatta Wale’s manager, Bulldog, Sarkodie is also billed to perform at the beach with Shatta. He confirmed this on Happy FM’s Showbiz Xtra this morning. As he made it known, the Shatta Wale beach party is going to be the biggest event in Ghana today. As to the number of people who will make it to the Shatta Beach, Bulldog said they are expecting all Ghanaians to be there.

According to him, if all Ghanaian artistes are able to team up and organize shows like what Shatta Wale is doing, event organizers cannot cheat them.

He also pointed it out that since Shatta Wale is for the masses, they will only be charging a fee of GH¢ 10.

The question is, is Shatta Wale and Sarkodie trying to sabotage tonight’s VGMAs? Even though these two musicians have huge fan base in Ghana, will they be able to pull a substantial number of crowd to the beach party when VGMAs is also taking place today?