The Minority in Parliament has strongly objected to the Tamale High Court ruling that ordered a rerun of the entire parliamentary election in Kpandai, labeling the decision as an animal farm judgement, one that is “reckless” and defies constitutional propriety.
The Caucus leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, criticised the presiding judge for making that directive without a full judgement or reasoning for the decision.
Addressing the press in Parliament on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, Afenyo-Markin said Matthew Nyindam remains the lawful, elected member for Kpandai and no judge can change the status, especially when the disputed MP has appealed the ruling.
“Your Member of Parliament, Honourable Matthew Nyindam, remains the sitting MP for the Kpandai Constituency. He remains a full member of Parliament. He remains a proud and active member of the Minority Caucus.
“No person, no institution, and certainly no flawed judicial order can suspend the mandate you freely and lawfully conferred upon him. Unless and until the appellate process properly invoked and fully exhausted runs its lawful course, he will continue to serve you with dedication and dignity,” he stated.
The Effutu lawmaker noted that the Minority will lawfully resist any attempt to prevent Matthew Nyindam from representing the people of Kpandai.
“Let me state this emphatically and without equivocation: The Minority will lawfully resist any attempt, whether subtle or brazen, to bar him from representing his people. We will not permit democratic legitimacy to be overturned by judicial improvisation,” he added.
He questioned why the judge directed a rerun of election across the 152 polling stations when the applicant requested same for only 41 polling stations.
“What we have witnessed instead is not surgical intervention. It is judicial carpet-bombing. Rather than addressing the 41 challenged polling stations with the scalpel the law requires, the learned judge deployed a sledgehammer and demolished the entire constituency,” Afenyo-Markin noted.
The Minority described the High Court’s ruling as “whimsical, unlawful and manifestly unconstitutional.”
“This is not law. This is judicial carelessness dressed up as electoral justice,” he stressed.
He added that they are prepared to be jailed because they cannot sit idle for injustice to prevail.
‘They can invite us one by one for so-called contempt; we are ready to go to Nsawam’ – tonight, the Minority has described the Tamale High Court’s ruling on the Kpandai parliamentary election as shameful, reckless and an animal farm judgement, accusing the presiding judge of a biased decision that defies constitutional logic.
