By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Posted: The Chronicle Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Korle-Gonno beach in Accra went alive on Sunday when hundreds of people from all walks of life trooped to the area to celebrate the victory of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the just-ended Presidential elections.
Unlike other occasions, the day recorded a high turn-out with people of various age categories and sex, jamming to music provided by Happiness sounds. The people, most of whom were clad in colours of the NDC danced their hearts out.
Dubbed ‘Victory Jam’, the programme was put together by DJ Willie of ‘Top Radio’ to provide an opportunity for supporters and fans of the NDC to celebrate the party’s victory.
The show received massive publicity from ‘Radio Gold’, which did a huge promotion to attract people from all parts of the capital city, Accra, to the venue.
As early as 10am, people had started showing up at the beach, with some in their swimming costumes whilst others came with huge ice-chests filled with assorted drinks.
Traffic on the old Winneba road where the beach is located came to a standstill as vehicles and motors-bikes tried to make their way to the grounds.
At about 3pm, the traffic situation was getting out of hand as several people tried to make their way through to the place. The few private security and police present at the precincts could not control the traffic situation, since it turned out to be extremely difficult for them.
Matters got worse when the Master of Ceremony (MC) for the day, DJ Kwame announced the presence of ace hi-life and hip-life singer, Lucky Mensah -probably the only one of the few musicians who composed a couple of songs for the NDC, during the electioneering campaign.
There was massive applause with deafening cheers from the crowd when the artiste mounted the stage to perform some of the songs he personally wrote and composed for the NDC and the then candidate John Evans Atta Mills.
Other up and coming hip-life artiste including Poncho added colour to the occasion with their good rendition of music. The crowd could not but ask for more from event organisers when the curtain was drawing to a closure, with some even asking organisers of the event to organise another victory party again.
Most of the fans were practically drenched in sweat as the musicians took turns to perform tracks from their repertoire, sending the crowd reeling in pleasure.
The fact that no party executive or official did not grace the occasion, did not take anything away from the beauty of the occasion.
It was all fun and excitement from the beginning of the day to the end of the programme.
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