{"id":120023,"date":"2015-05-28T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=120023"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:03:09","slug":"afoko-supporters-clash-with-club-wielding-npp-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=120023","title":{"rendered":"Afoko supporters clash with club-wielding NPP security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some supporters of the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) National Chairman, Paul Afoko, have clashed with the &#8220;Invisible Forces,&#8221; a security group guarding the party\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;5tWbLmsmIzYEitziOBzqNPdfeU31BcOg&#8221;]The Afoko supporters numbering over 20 stormed the party\u2019s headquarters around 12pm on Thursday to protest against attempts to remove the National Chairman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Franklin Badu Jnr. reported that the Afoko supporters\u00a0came to the head office chanting and singing songs in support of Paul Afoko.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were saying that chairman Afoko should remain the chairman of the party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But unknown to them, the Invisible Forces at the headquarters who were armed with clubs, stones and horse whips chased them away.<\/p>\n<p>According to Franklin Badu, &#8220;it was a brief commotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two persons were injured during the scuffle but about 15 police officers are presently at the headquarters to maintain law and order.<\/p>\n<p>There were no national executives present during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some supporters of the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) National Chairman, Paul Afoko, have clashed with the &#8220;Invisible Forces,&#8221; a security group guarding the party\u2019s headquarters. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;5tWbLmsmIzYEitziOBzqNPdfeU31BcOg&#8221;]The Afoko supporters numbering over 20 stormed the party\u2019s headquarters around 12pm on Thursday to protest against attempts to remove the National Chairman. Citi News\u2019 Franklin Badu Jnr. reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":118112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-120023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}