Nii Ayi Solomon is a Ghanaian playwright
Ghanaian playwright, Nii Ayi Solomon, has expressed that the pairing of Foster Romanus and AJ Sarpong as co-hosts of the Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMAs) was not a successful choice.
Speaking on Joy FM, Nii Ayi Solomon made it clear that the pairing did not work as expected.
“First of all, I’ll talk about Foster Romanus and AJ Sarpong. I think that pair didn’t work. It didn’t work,” he said.
According to him, Charterhouse, the organisers of the event, should have thought more carefully about the combination.
“If you ask me, I would rather put AJ-like person, two of them to host that part of the show or bring another comedian to be with Foster Romanus,” he proposed.
He further explained that AJ Sarpong appeared too focused on delivering her lines, while Foster Romanus was trying too hard to be funny, which created an imbalance.
“Because there were things Foster was saying that I was thinking that AJ Sarpong could have just added something to make it fun. She would just laugh small and just move on,” he explained.
Nii Ayi also noted that AJ Sarpong seemed to treat the show as a professional task and was focused on doing what was expected of her. In contrast, Foster Romanus was overly focused on making jokes, many of which didn’t land well with the audience.
“AJ’s idea is I’m here to make sure I present whatever I need to present and I’m doing the job for my paymasters and that is it. Foster too was here to make all the jokes about everything. Some of them not necessary. The jokes were not also clicking,” he added.
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