The Majority in Parliament has told the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to declare the Kpandai seat vacant following the Tamale High Court’s annulment of the 2024 parliamentary election results of the constituency.
According to the Majority Chief Whip, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, precedent was set and laid by how Honourable Gyakye Quayson was treated following a court ordering a rerun in his constituency.
Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor highlighted that Kpandai MP Matthew Nyindam must also step aside from parliamentary duties until the rerun of the election is concluded.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Majority Chief Whip, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, stated, “Mr Speaker, I’m not raising these matters whimsically because precedent will guide us. Mr Speaker, when the Honourable Gyakye Quayson was ordered by the court that he should go through re-run, Members of this side at the time, mainly led by the now Minority Leader, spoke vociferously against the fact that the Honourable Gyakye Quayson cannot be entertained in this house.
“Eventually, he had to leave. This is a path that we have travelled. Precedent has been set and laid. Nobody can tell us in this house today that the Honourable Nyindam must have a voice today. It won’t happen,” he said.
His remarks follow the Tamale High Court’s, on November 24, 2025, ordering 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.
Also, Matthew Nyindam has filed an appeal seeking a stay of execution against the ruling of the High Court in Tamale.
Meanwhile, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader, has launched an attack on Ghana’s judiciary following the Tamale High Court’s decision to annul the 2024 parliamentary election in the Kpandai Constituency.
The minority leader addressing journalists described the court’s conduct as shameful, accusing the judges of serving the interests of their paymasters.
Speaking to journalists in Parliament on Wednesday, November 26, Mr Afenyo-Markin detailed, “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.
The minority leader added, “How can a judge who calls himself a judge sit in court and misconduct himself in such a manner and expect the country to be quiet? This order, with massive political, legal, and democratic consequences, was pronounced without a full written judgment.
“There were no written reasons, no factual findings, no legal analysis, just a naked directive issued into the public domain. And now the whole constituency is being told there must be a rerun.”
“I am a practising lawyer of experience at the bar. I understand that courts occasionally deliver rulings with reasons to follow. But such a practice is the exception, not the rule. And it is never acceptable when the stakes are this high.”