Matthew Nyindam, the Member of Parliament barred by the Tamale High Court from holding himself as MP for Kpandai, has boldly stated he is still the lawmaker for Kpandai until the Appeals Court decide.
According to Matthew Nyindam, his legal team noted that something was wrong with the NDC in Kpandai, already speaking about a rerun.
Speaking in an interview, Matthew Nyindam stated, “We realised that something had already gone wrong because a week before today, the NDC in Kpandai were all over talking about a rerun in Kpandai. Even this morning, before the judgment on the social media handles, they had already posted that there’s going to be a rerun in Kpandai”.
He boldly added, “We vehemently disagree with what we have seen. We have already filed our stay of execution and filed the appeal at the courts too”.
He further alleged that the NDC parliamentary candidate in the 2024 election attacked the coalition centre, forcing the police and military to intervene.
Matthew Nyindam,“He mobilised his supporters, brought them in a pickup, and they came and attacked the coalition centre. So, the police and then the military, and that particular plan advised that the EC should move to the regional office so that the declaration can be done”.
“If you take a police station where the verification is done, maybe 200 people, and then at the parliamentary level, the votes cast were maybe 199. They printed it out as an inequality, which means that the person might have voted for president and did not vote parliamentary elections,” he remarked.
He added, “I just want to let my people know that I am still the MP for Kpandai until the appeal court decides otherwise. We are fighting the case after this logical conclusion. It’s not that we are afraid of a rerun, but if it is a genuine rerun, we don’t have a problem. But this kind of rerun, we don’t even know where it is coming from. Nobody should be afraid. Let’s all stay together and see what God will do”.
Meanwhile, Matthew Nyindam has filed an appeal seeking a stay of execution against the ruling of the High Court in Tamale.
The Tamale High Court, today, November 24, 2025, ordered the rerun of the Kpandai parliamentary election within 30 days.
According to the High Court, the Electoral Commission has within 30 days from today to conduct the rerun.
His Lordship Emmanuel Brew Plange made this declaration following the legal challenge of the 2024 parliamentary election by the former Member of Parliament (MP) and the NDC, Daniel Nsala Wakpal.
The NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Kpandai alleged irregularities in the voting and collation processes that undermined the credibility of the outcome.
Daniel Nsala Wakpal filed the suit challenging the election of Matthew Nyindam as MP for Kpandai.
According to him, the parliamentary election held in the Kpandai in the 2024 election was invalid.
He cited “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”, reports suggest.
The NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Kpandai 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.”
Wakpal, therefore, sought an order setting aside the declared results affecting the 41 polling stations. He further requested: “An order directed at the 2nd and 3rd respondents to conduct a re-run of the parliamentary elections in the affected 41 polling stations out of the 152 polling stations in the Kpandai constituency on a date determined by the court.”
His Lordship Emmanuel Brew Plange, in his judgment, upheld the petition and ordered the Electoral Commission to organise a new election to determine the rightful winner of the Kpandai constituency election.
The legal team of Mr Nyindam is now seeking the court’s verdict and temporarily halting the execution of the rerun pending the outcome of the appeal.
Meanwhile, the NPP’s Matthew Nyindam in the 2024 elections secured 27,947 votes representing 53.47%, whereas the NDC’s Daniel Nsala Wakpal got 24,213 votes representing 46.33% with a third contestant, Donkor Eric Nipani of the APC, polling a meagre 104 votes representing 0.20%.
The gap between the NDC and NPP, the vote difference was 3,734.