DEAD! Albert Ato Quainoo
Thousands of people including supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Tuesday trooped to the family house of the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency, Albert Ato Quainoo, to console the family members over his sudden death.
Present at the family house were NPP national executives, parliamentary aspirants from the region and other sympathizers of the party.
The delegation was led by the Central regional executives of the party who were there when they were briefed about the sudden demise of the parliamentary aspirant.
The 49-year-old educationist was pronounced dead after a short illness at about 2am yesterday, sources said.
Sources said he got diarrhoea and was rushed to the Our Lady of Grace Hospital at Breman Asikuma where 17 drips were administered to him, but he died.
Persons wearing black to signify the state of mourning over the sudden death of the parliamentary hopeful were in tears.
Economic activities in the town came to a halt as the area became like a ghost town, with majority of the people trooping to the house of the late Quainoo to ascertain the veracity of his death.
Most of the people DAILY GUIDE spoke to expressed shock about the news.
They described him as a humble man who could have won the parliamentary seat for the NPP.
DAILY GUIDE also spotted some of the aspiring parliamentary candidates of the NPP looking very dejected and devastated about the death of their colleague.
The former Central Regional Minister and former MP for the area, Isaac Edumadze, could not control his emotions as he wept uncontrollably.
It took the intervention of some party members to console him.
Quainoo left behind a wife and four children.
From Sarah Owusu-Darlington