Bawumia’s aide dies in Wa
An aide to Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, the running mate to the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) vice presidential candidate, was found dead in his hotel room in Wa yesterday morning after the party’s Upper West Regional rally in the capital.
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Mr Kobina Boadu was said to have been pronounced dead on arrival at the regional hospital after he was found lying motionless in the bath after calls to his phone went unanswered.
Boadu, said to be the press secretary of Dr Bawumia, was part of a travelling contingent of the party’s campaign team that had toured the Volta, Eastern, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.
The Upper west Regional Vice Chairman of the
NPP, Mr Hafiz bin Salih, confirmed the news to Daily Graphic on phone.
Tears and sympathy
Dr Bawumia, who had set off from Wa before the news got to him, returned to Wa where the sight of him and others at the regional hospital provoked tears and wider sympathy.
A source said Boadu and others who lodged at the Jam Guest House in Wa complained about the electrical system in their lodging place when they first arrived there on Wednesday afternoon.
The source said staff of the lodging base assured them of fixing the electrical problem by the time they returned from the rally, which ran beyond dusk.
That, the source said, was the only complaint they heard from him before the shocking news.
The team, including presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; Dr Bawumia, and former minister of state, Mr Alan Kyerematen, was scheduled to leave for Kumasi to participate in the one-week celebration of the death of Asantehemaa.
But Boadu seemed to have stayed too long in his room, and when calls were made to his cell phone, they went unanswered.
The source said there was no responses where his door was knocked on was seen through a back window lying motionless.
He was rushed to the regional hospital immediately, but was pronounced dead soon after.
