Entertainment critic, Arnold Asamoah Baidoo has asked Ghanaian fashionista, Osebor, to stop protesting the ‘Nana Aba baby daddy’ tag as often used to refer to him by the media.
Arnold speaking in an interview on PeaceFM asked Osebor to accept and embrace the identity because it was very common practice in the media space.
He said it often made more sense to refer to the more famous person when talking about someone they may be associated with.
Citing Oprah Winfrey and her longtime boyfriend Stedman Graham, he said, though the couple has been together for decades and is wildly known, Stedman is still referred to as Oprah’s boyfriend in all news reports.
The comments of the entertainment critic come on the back of calls from Osebor for the media to stop referring to him as Aba’s baby daddy, especially since he now has an identity of his own.
“In everything then tag her to me, Nana Aba Anamoah’s baby father, don’t I have a name? …of course it worries me, the time I was Don Papa Richie, Nana Aba Anamoah is nobody,” Osebor said.
In reaction to that, Arnold Asamoah Baidoo said Osebor needs to stop complaining because it is a normal thing in news reporting.
“There’s a quote here that makes me laugh, he says when he was Don Papa Richie, Nana Aba was nobody, ah boss, that was then o, now Nana Aba is one of the most influential, most popular media personalities, so yes, old glory but we don’t know Don Papa Richie, all we know is Nana Aba Anamoah,” he said.
Arnold stated that he partly blames the media as well, who he believes should have educated him on the necessity of the tag.
“Let’s blame him a bit, because over the period how have his interviews been? Almost every time there is Nana Aba Anamoah’s name in the interview, so if I watch the video and I am going to do a report, you are the one mentioning her name so I have to bring her in,” he added.
