{"id":132662,"date":"2015-07-08T14:17:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=132662"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:20:12","slug":"my-boys-were-not-armed-azorka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/my-boys-were-not-armed-azorka\/","title":{"rendered":"My boys were not armed \u2013 Azorka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Northern Region Chief Sofo Azorka has said his supporters\u00a0were not violent during the Talensi by-election.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Azorka explained that the only thing his men did was to prevent the New Patriotic Party (NPP) from sharing money to induce voters during the election.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”lbniusargQBAqyN0jRZnzOukH71xK19j”]\u201cOn the election day, the NPP went round sharing money to voters and we said we will not allow people to share money like that and because they [NPP] did not get the chance to share money they are angry and want to spoil our name,”he explained.<\/p>\n

Azoka added that his men were not armed when they prevented the NPP from \u201csharing money\u201d as earlier reports suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe security agencies there searched me thoroughly, but they did not find anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Vice chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay and his monitoring team were allegedly attacked<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>by some boys believed to be from Azorka\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

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Freddie Blay\u2019s vehicle, according to Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Upper East regional correspondent Fred Awuni was also vandalized.<\/p>\n

Afoko loyalists staged attack<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho alleged that attacks on Freddie Blay were staged by loyalists of Paul Afoko, National Chairman of the NPP.<\/p>\n

“\u2026When I did my checks apparently I found out that it was boys loyal to Paul Afoko who attacked Freddie Blay,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is this ongoing rift in the NPP and I learnt that the boys are upset that Freddie Blay is one of the reasons why Afoko cannot be the Chairman that he wants to be\u2026,\u201d he further alleged. Koku Anyidoho pointed out that one of the NPP bigwigs Addai Nimoh is also under heavy protection from the Police and the military because \u201csome known NPP boys have threatened to attack him.<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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