Matthew Nyindam, the previously declared winner of the Kpandai parliamentary election, 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.
According to the Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the appeal was filed at 10:04 am, immediately following the court’s announcement.
Speaking to Channel One TV, Haruna Mohammed stated, “Before the proceedings began, I was there along with the other lawyers. Immediately, the computer was opened, and the judgment was already there. I was surprised because we had not even argued the case in court. What we saw outside was all the bigwigs of the NDC jubilating before the judgment came out”.
“All the pink sheets had been signed by all party agents, and there were no issues with the remaining polling stations aside from the 41. If anything, the rerun should only cover those polling stations,” he noted.
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.