Nana Yaa Akyempim Jantuah, a Presidential Staffer and former General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has expressed shock at Minority Leader Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin’s criticism of the Tamale High Court ruling ordering a rerun of the 2024 Kpandai parliamentary election.
She noted that the ruling was based on evidence presented in court and questioned why Afenyo-Markin, a lawyer, would resort to name-calling.
Jantuah made these comments on the BigIssue segment of the NewDay morning show on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
“I’m surprised at the vituperation of Afenyo-Markin. The way Afenyo-Markin is going on if we don’t check him, it will be very problematic. There is a court ruling, you’re a lawyer yourself. Every court ruling is based on evidence. Auntie Esaaba (former Chief Justice) said the law is the law. So if the law is being used to adjudicate a matter to come to a certain judgement and conclusion, you say it’s a kangaroo,” she stated.
Nana Yaa maintained that the decision of the court stemmed from the available evidence, explaining that some of the things that happened are a misconduct.
“How did the court decide? The court [decided] based on evidence. Some of the polling stations, even the collation of the results, how the collation centre was changed, that alone is a misconduct.”
Nana Yaa’s comments follow concerns by a section of the public, particularly the Minority in Parliament, that the presiding judge on the matter should have rather declared for the affected stations to be rerun, instead of the entire constituency.
The Tamale High Court on Monday, November 24, 2025, upheld a petition filed by the NDC parliamentary candidate for Kpandai, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, who argued that the December 7, 2024, election was marred by significant irregularities. The court subsequently ordered a rerun within 30 days, a ruling that has sparked fierce reactions from the Minority.
Leader of the caucus, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, addressing journalists in Parliament on the matter Wednesday, November 26, 2025, attacked the entire judiciary, accusing it of doing the bidding of political actors.
He described the court’s conduct as “shameful,” insisting judges were serving the interests of their “paymasters.”
“The judiciary must know that their actions and inaction to serve the interests of whoever their paymaster is have the tendency of destroying our peaceful republic. We will not mince words. They can conspire to call us one by one for a so-called contempt of court.
“We are criticising their shameful conduct. We are not afraid. We are ready to be in Nsawam for their so-called contempt. The world will see their disgraceful conduct,” he said.
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