Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused Ghana’s judiciary of serving political interest after a ruling by Tamale High Court which annulled the parliamentary election in Kpandai constituency.
It can be recalled that on Monday, November 24, the Tamale High Court presided by His Lordship Emmanuel Brew Plange ordered a rerun in the entire 152 polling station in one month.
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.
The decision of the High Court was due to irregularities in the voting and collation processes that undermined the credibility of the outcome.
Addressing journalists in Parliament on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, the Minority leader described the conduct of the Judiciary as “shameful” and serving interest of certain paymasters.
“The judiciary must know that their actions and inactions to serve the interest of whoever their paymaster is has the tendency of destroying our peaceful Republic,” he stated.
The Effutu lawmaker noted that the Minority MPs are prepared to face jail term for contempt of court because they cannot sit idle for injustice to prevail.
“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. We will not sit aloof and allow them to undermine the very rule of law that they are to protect,” he added.
He continued: “How can a judge who calls himself a judge sit in court and misconduct himself in such a manner and expects the country to be quiet.”
Afenyo-Markin said His Lordship Emmanuel Brew Plange demonstrated “judicial irresponsibility” of the highest order for completely annulling the entire election with a complete reasoned judgement.
“For a judge to casually void an entire constituency’s election without first ensuring that a complete, reasoned judgment was prepared and published is judicial irresponsibility of the highest order,” he said.
The Tamale High Court has 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.
“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.”
TV3’s Northern Region correspondent Christopher Amoako reported that Counsel for Mathew Nyindam, Sylvester Esang, files a motion of appeal for stay of execution.
“We anticipated this judgment because of the things we heard prior to the judgment. We respect the decision of the court, but we disagree with the judgment. We are totally dissatisfied with the court ruling,” Sylvester Esang said.
