Lawyers for Matthew Nyindam, the Kpandai MP who is challenging the order for a rerun of Kpandai elections have expressed gratitude to the Supreme Court for ordering a suspension of all arrangements for the December 30 rerun.
In court on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, the Supreme Court 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 also granted an order for substituted service to the NDC candidate, Daniel Wakpal after lawyers for Matthew Nyindam said they were unable to serve the NDC candidate.
Nyindam is asking the Supreme Court to review and quash the High Court’s judgment which annulled the elections.
Speaking to the media after the court ruling on Tuesday, the lawyers said “Also, the honourable court has ordered that we serve the Mr. Nsala Wakpal, the NDC parliamentary candidate by substituted service through his WhatsApp message, the Tamale High Court notice board, at the Supreme Court and also at his residence in Kpandai.
“So, we are most grateful to the Supreme Court and we look forward to making our case in the subsequent sitting of the court set on January 13, 2026.”
The Supreme Court subsequently adjourned the matter to January 13, 2026, for further hearing.
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.
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.”
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.
