Sore loser … Yemi Alade takes BET loss bitterly

When Yemi Alade was announced as one of the nominees for the Africa category of this year’s BET Awards, she didn’t complain. She was definitely happy at the nomination and definitely hoping to win. A lot of fans also hoped that she would win and become the category’s first female winner. Alas, the award ceremony held last weekend, and she didn’t win. She however turned out to be a sore loser and lambasted the organizers after her loss. According to her, BET is humiliating Africa with the category and they should scrap it. “By the way, BET, Africa is not a country,” she wrote in an online post. “It is wrong to nominate huge African stars and publicly try to humiliate Africa. Why on earth is the African category of the awards held hours before the main event? “If African artists are not worthy in your sight, please by all means cancel, delete, omit the Africa category out of this glorified award. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. Please next time, credibility over paddy, paddy.” Now, the only problem with Alade’s observation is that it came after she lost, not before. It has been public knowledge that BET doesn’t honour the Africa category winners on the main stage, so she might as well have declined her nomination. And her criticism now only makes it obvious that she’s bitter she didn’t win. Well, Yemi, there’s always another year, so work harder, and you might still win the BET.