NPP MPs Attack Judge Who Ordered Rerun of Kpandai Election: “Judicial Irresponsibility”
- The New Patriotic Party MPs have criticised the judge who handled the successful Kpandai Election Petition
- The National Democratic Congress Parliamentary Candidate for the region, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, filed the election petition
- The ruling party politician was challenging the election victory of Matthew Nyindam
The Minority in Parliament has criticised Tamale High Court Judge, Justice Emmanuel Brew Plange, for his handling of the Kpandai election petition.
The Minority said his judgment amounted to judicial irresponsibility.
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In his ruling on Monday, November 24, 2025, Plange annulled the 2024 Parliamentary election in Kpandai.
He cited extensive irregularities and ordered that a new election be conducted within 30 days.
Speaking to journalists on November 26, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, said the caucus will challenge any move by the judiciary to deploy what they describe as an animal farm judgment to remove the sitting MP, Matthew Nyindam, from Parliament.
“The judgment can only be described as breathtaking in its reach and alarming in its implications. His Lordship Justice Emmanuel Bart Plange Brew has ordered nothing less than a wholesale rerun of the entire Kpandai parliamentary election. This is not routine judicial intervention. This is something far more troubling.
“For a judge to casually void an entire constituency’s election without first ensuring that a complete, reasoned judgment was prepared and published is not merely irregular. It is judicial irresponsibility of the highest order,” he said.
Haruna Mohammed, Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, previously said he also believed the judgment was predetermined.
“Before the proceedings began, I was there along with the other lawyers. Immediately, the computer was opened, and the judgment was already there. I was surprised because we had not even argued the case in court. What we saw outside was all the bigwigs of the NDC jubilating before the judgment came out."
After the result was announced, Nyindam filed notices for an appeal and a stay of execution against the judgment.
So far Ablekuma North and Akwatia have been two seats that dealt with eligibility issues and subsequently had to have a rerun and by-election, respectively.
Call for Kpandai seat to be made vacant
Meanwhile, the Majority in Parliament has called on the Speaker to declare the Kpandai seat vacant.
According to the caucus, Nyindam must step aside from parliamentary duties until the rerun of the election is concluded.
They argue that both the MP and Parliament have been duly served with the court’s ruling ordering a fresh election following a legal challenge, and therefore Nyindam should not continue to participate in the House’s proceedings.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Majority Chief Whip, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, referenced past events and called for the MP to be removed from the chamber.
Who filed the Kpandai Election petition?
The National Democratic Congress candidate, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, sued to challenge the election of Nyindam as the Member of Parliament for the constituency.
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The election petition argued that irregularities during the voting and collation processes affected the credibility of the outcome.
Wakpal held that there were irregularities and inconsistencies in FORM 8A (Regulation 32 (7) and 39 (2) statement of polls for the office of Member of Parliament for 41 polling stations out of a total of 152 polling stations in the constituency.
Adansi Askokwa election petition unsuccessful
YEN.com.gh also previously reported that the election petition filed by Kobina Tahiru Hammond, popularly known as K.T. Hammond, had been dismissed by the Obuasi High Court on August 20.
Justice Kwabena Twumasi, the presiding judge, struck out the case, describing the petition, which challenged the victory of Godwin Animli Dorgbadzi Dorani in 2024, as a 'waste of the court's time'.
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