Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Davies Opuku Ansah popularly known as OPK, denied the claims but argued there was nothing wrong with what the protesters did.<\/p>\n\u201cThese are constituency officers of our party, front line soldiers…these are people who have come from across the country to express themselves and to petition the party and make their grievances known to the party leadership. And I think we need to give them that kind of respect. It\u2019s insulting to say that I went to mobilize them. These are people who have served the party for close to 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Davies Opoku, he was in a meeting with some constituency officers at the Press Centre at the time the protest was taking place and was never close to the party head office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are officers of the party I\u2019ve been dealing with all the time. These are officers I have visited in their constituencies on a number of times. And if any of them is in Accra and calls that they want to talk to me and people see everything wrong with it…I\u2019m not shy of my constituency officers. I\u2019m very proud of them and what they are doing and I know that they will deliver victory for the party in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davies Opoku also opined that, the constituency officers sought to relay the problems \u00a0caused by Mr. Afoko’s suspension in their various constituencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor all you know, the supposed suspension of Paul Afoko is causing a lot of problems in the constituencies. Let us not create that impression that constituency officers coming to visit us in Accra is a challenge. We should be proud. The statement they are getting from the grassroots of the party, is what they are presenting in the form of a petition to the party telling the party that the decision that was taken was detrimental and that we should accept it and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n