GN People’s Choice Awards still on for March 21

The maiden show of the most publicized
entertainment awards show, The GN Bank People’s
Choice Awards billed for the 21st March 2015 at the
Accra Conference Center remains as scheduled.
Spyderlee Entertainment, organizers of the show
disclosed this in a press statement issued on
Friday, 27th February 2015 to debunk claims that
the program had been cancelled due to a court
injunction slapped on it.
The statement expressed grave concerns over the
false publications targeted at undermining the
painstaking efforts of the company and the awards
board to unveil the prestigious honors event in the
country. Setting the records straight over the legal
controversy revolving round the name of the
program, the statement explained that
”Spyder Lee Entertainment had successfully and
legally registered People’s Choice Awards as a
business at the Registrar General’s Department and
subsequently registered GN Bank People’s Choice
Awards as a trademark yet had been embroiled in a
legal tussle with Evolution International over the
ownership of the name People’s Choice Awards”.
The statement further added that,
“In April 2014, Spyder Lee Entertainment in a two
week media campaign massively publicized the
introduction of the awards and went on to launch
the awards in November 2014. Surprisingly, weeks
after the launch event, Spyder Lee Entertainment
was notified of the registration of Peoples Choice
Awards by Evolution International and a request to
desist from the use of the name People’s Choice
Awards which resulted in a law suit.”
At the hearing at the Fast Track High Court on
Thursday 26th February 2015, the presiding judge,
Justice Anthony Yeboah, placed an injunction
restraining both parties from using the name
‘People’s Choice Awards’ until the case is settled
between both parties but this does not in any way
affect the event.
The organizers assured all nominees, industry
players and the public to disregard the rumors and
gear up for what promises to be a huge and eventful
ceremony par excellence and international standard
“we assure all nominees and the general public of
our commitment to work within the framework of
the laws governing the Republic of Ghana to ensure
that the awards night comes off as planned amidst
all the pomp and pageantry as expected”.
The statement also disclosed the massive public
response to the nominee campaigns so far and the
swelling expectations of industry watchers of the
upcoming GN PCA AWARDS along “the massive
celebrities’ endorsements of the event”.
Journalists seeking further clarification are being
urged by the press release to contact Spyderlee
Entertainment offices especially “when in doubt
before going ahead to make such publications in the
spirit of professional journalistic practice”.
Signed
Edwin Kweku Edinkrah
CEO, Spyder Lee Entertainment