Kpandai Parliamentary Seat Battle Heads to Supreme Court, Mathew Nyindam Appeals Rerun Order

• Kpandai MP Mathew Nyindam filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to reverse the successful election petition against him
• The National Democratic Congress Parliamentary Candidate for the region, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, filed the election petition
• Nyindam's lawyer, Gary Nimako Marfo, explained his team's strategy to fight the case to the media

The Kpandai MP, Mathew Nyindam, has filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to annul a High Court judgment that invalidated his 2024 election victory.

Nyindam is arguing that the High Court, Commercial Division in Tamale, did not have rightful jurisdiction over the case.

His argument is that the original election petition was filed outside the statutory time limit.

According to the MP's legal counsel, Gary Nimako Marfo, the results for the Kpandai Constituency election, held on December 7, 2024, were officially published in the Government Gazette on December 24, 2024.

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Ghana's electoral law, specifically Section 18 of the Representation of the People Law, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284), mandates that all petitions challenging parliamentary election results must be filed within 21 days of the gazette publication.

This means the petition was filed 11 days after the legal deadline had expired.

The petition delivered on November 24, 2025, annulled the entire Kpandai election results and ordered a rerun within 30 days. Kpandai was one of the constituencies under dispute after the 2024 election.

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.

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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.

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.

Minority fights Kpandai election petition verdict

YEN.com.gh reported that the Minority criticised the 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.

Speaking to journalists on November 26, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, assured that the caucus will challenge any move to remove the sitting Nyindam from Parliament.

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Source: YEN.com.gh