A decently thick human wall formed across the streets of the NPP Headquarters to announce another round of protestation against the suspension of the NPP National Chairman Paul Afoko.

The party is going through a bitter divorce. An acrimonious annulment that has seen the party demonstrate against itself more than it has demonstrated against the government.

This bitter divorce ends the solemnization of political matrimony between Paul Afoko and the NPP delegates at an April 2014 Congress.

That political matrimony celebrated as the New Power Plan is already old even before it gets the chance to be tested at the polls for signs of anything new.

Those who engineered and endorsed Afoko's removal make arguments that conclusively suggests that Afoko is a detour in the desert of political opposition - not any serious journey to Cannan.

But their opponents say this conclusion is at best the figment of a lively imagination.

In truth, nobody expects Paul Afoko to go down without a fight. The party’s Communications Director Nana Akomea has conceded Afoko is no push-over or roll-over who will mull over his defeat with grace.

So here we are at the hot afternoon to a scene of protest that is already déjà vu. The journalists and cameras record events with some sense of boredom. Really there is nothing new about an old protest. Except if a protester threw a dirty punch and the police retaliate, the story will be drab for the journalists.

A leader of the demonstrators, Abu Usif read out a petition in a heavy accent from the north that is more likely to confirm the claim that these sympathisers were bused to Accra from the Upper West and Brong Ahafo regions.

He described the decision to suspend Afoko as "ïll-timed, disastrous and destructive". Strong adjectives. From the perspectives of the eight other NPP National Officers, strong adjectives are better than strong cutlasses.

Abu Usif gave the petition to an NPP Director of Protocol Kojo Antwi Agyei in a pretty courteous way. The last time a pro-Afoko group came here cudgels replaced courtesy.

But today, the giver and receiver of this new petition were civil.

Journalists and pro-Afoko supporters idle about at the Press Center

Of course, they both know it will take more than seven buses and a piece of paper to change a decision that bears all the marks of deliberate well-calculated coup détat.

But the Afoko group also knows too well that in politics, public protests and media attention are crucial in sustaining even the faintest flickering perception that a comeback stands a chance.