This follows attempts by some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) including Deputy Minority Leader Dominic Nitiwul, Nana Akomea, Sammy Awuku and Ursula Owusu to join the demonstration.
Members of the Coalition for the Defence of Equal Citizenship (CODEC), organisers of the demonstration, did not understand why the NPP members would join a demonstration being organised against their own member.
Osafo Maafo is deemed to have questioned why Ghana's natural resources were spread in only five regions and yet the president leading the country is not from any of those regions.
The alleged comments by the former Finance Minister were captured in a recording and leaked to the media.
Osafo Maafo has since denied making the comments, saying his words had been distorted.
But CODEC is not convinced with the explanation. On Wednesday, hundreds of the aggrieved members hit the streets to condemn the comments.
The demonstrators carried placards some of which read "Osafo Maafo don't destroy Ghana", "Nana why the silence," "One people, one Ghana."
Things however turned a bit chaotic when the NPP members decided to join the demonstration at some point of the demonstration Joy News' Kwakye Afreh Nuamah reported.
He said some of the demonstrators physically prevented the NPP members from joining the demonstration.
It took the intervention of some police personnel to restore peace.
The demonstrators then proceeded to the Hearts park in Accra where they were later addressed by Ministers of State, including Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
But the NPP group then diverted their course to Joy FM to protest alleged assault on them by the demonstrators.
MP for Ablekuma West Ursula Owusu Ekuful told Myjoyonline.com they were fascinated by the call for one people, one nation and decided to join the demonstration but did not understand why they were hounded and assaulted, as if they were not Ghanaians.
"We are all Ghanaians. Our diversity makes us unique," she stated.
She said all ethnocentric comments, irrespective of who is making them must be condemned.
She cited a case in which the President is said to have asked Northerners to vote for him because he is a Northerner, a comment, Ursula Owusu thought was equally ethnocentric.
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