Kpandai rerun: Supreme Court orders EC to suspend all arrangements

The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to suspend all arrangements being made for the rerun of Kpandai elections pending the determination of all processes before the court.

The court made the order on Tuesday, December 16.

Earlier, lawyers for Kpandai MP Matthew Nyindam notified the apex court that it had been unable to serve the NDC candidate, Daniel Wakpal and prayed for an order for substituted service.

Nyindam is asking the Supreme Court to review and quash the High Court’s judgment. His lawyers had argued that the High Court wrongly assumed jurisdiction in the election petition.

The Supreme Court subsequently adjourned the matter to January 13, 2026, for further hearing.

The Electoral Commission announced that it will re-run the parliamentary election in the Kpandai Constituency on December 30, 2025.

This was contained in a press release dated December 10.

“The Electoral Commission will hold a rerun of the Parliamentary Election in the Kpandai Constituency on Tuesday, 30th December, 2025,” the press release signed by Mr Fred Tetteh, Deputy Director, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department indicated. It explained that “…following the Tamale High Court’s ruling on Monday, 24th November, 2025, ordering a rerun of the “Kpandai Constituency Parliamentary Election within thirty (30) days” and upon receipt of a letter from the Clerk to Parliament on Tuesday, 9th December, 2025, formally notifying the Commission of the occurrence of a vacancy in the Membership of Parliament, the seat of the Constituency in Parliament has become vacant.”

The Tamale High Court had ordered a rerun of the Kpandai parliamentary election within 30 days from today Monday, November 24. The decision of the High Court judge, His Lordship Emmanuel Brew Plange, was due to irregularities in the voting and collation processes that undermined the credibility of the outcome.

The petition alleged irregularities in the voting and collation processes that undermined the credibility of the outcome.

The former Member of Parliament (MP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Kpandai, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, filed the suit challenging the election of Matthew Nyindam as MP.
According to Wakpal, the parliamentary election held in the Kpandai constituency on December 7 was invalid. He argued 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 — Pink Sheet) for 41 polling stations out of the 152 polling stations in the constituency.

He stated: “The parliamentary election held in the Kpandai constituency on 7th December 2024 was not conducted in compliance with Regulations 39 of the Public Elections Regulations, 2020 (CI 127) and the principles laid down by Regulations 39, and that the said non-compliance affected the results of the elections.
“The declaration and publication of the parliamentary election results held in the Kpandai constituency on 7th December 2024 were not made in compliance with Regulations 43 of the Public Elections Regulations, 2020 (C.I 127) and the principles laid down by Regulations 43, and that the said non-compliance affected the entire results of the parliamentary elections in the Kpandai constituency.”

Lawyers of Nyindam filed notice of appeal and a stay of execution against the decision of the High Court ordering a rerun of the parliamentary elections.