{"id":238622,"date":"2012-12-13T21:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/news\/2012\/12\/28-year-old-commits-suicide-after-akufo-addo-defeat\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:39:25","slug":"28-year-old-commits-suicide-after-akufo-addo-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/13\/28-year-old-commits-suicide-after-akufo-addo-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"28-Year-old Commits Suicide After Akufo-Addo Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/4500550764187_629243.jpeg.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">A 28 year old man has committed suicide after his preferred candidate in the 2012 presidential elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was declared loser of the December 7 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Manu aka Zack reportedly warned his close friends and relatives prior to the election he would kill himself if the NPP candidate did not win the election.<\/p>\n<p>He hanged himself with a sponge in his room near Dot\u2019s Spot at Teshie, a suburb of Accra. He is unmarried but has a child. A friend of the deceased told listeners of Adom FM\u2019s Dwaso Nsem that Zack had been drinking heavily since the election results were announced, having banked his hopes on an Akufo-Addo victory.<\/p>\n<p>He had very harsh words for E.C. Chairman Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, who he accused of helping to rob his candidate of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Adom News&#8217; Kofi Assan stasted that relatives and friends of the deceased are still agonizing over what they see as a needless death.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28 year old man has committed suicide after his preferred candidate in the 2012 presidential elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was declared loser of the December 7 poll.Stephen Manu aka Zack reportedly warned his close friends and relatives prior to the election he would kill himself if the NPP candidate did not win the election.He hanged himself with a sponge in his room near Dot\u2019s Spot at Teshie, a suburb of Accra. He is unmarried but has a child. A friend of the deceased told listeners of Adom FM\u2019s Dwaso Nsem that Zack had been drinking heavily since the election results were announced, having banked his hopes on an Akufo-Addo victory.He had very harsh words for E.C. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>28-Year-old Commits Suicide After Akufo-Addo Defeat - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/13\/28-year-old-commits-suicide-after-akufo-addo-defeat\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"28-Year-old Commits Suicide After Akufo-Addo Defeat - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A 28 year old man has committed suicide after his preferred candidate in the 2012 presidential elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was declared loser of the December 7 poll.Stephen Manu aka Zack reportedly warned his close friends and relatives prior to the election he would kill himself if the NPP candidate did not win the election.He hanged himself with a sponge in his room near Dot\u2019s Spot at Teshie, a suburb of Accra. 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