Kpandai election battle just went nuclear! Nyindam drags the rerun ruling to the Supreme Court — says the petition was DEAD ON ARRIVAL!
Mathew Nyindam, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kpandai Constituency, has submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court in which he is asking for the decision of the High Court, Commercial Division in Tamale to be overturned. This decision had nullified his win in the election for the position of a member of parliament. In the opinion of Nyindam, represented by his legal counsel Gary Nimako Marfo, the High Court made a mistake by taking on the case that was submitted by Daniel Nsala Wakpal, a candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Daniel Nsala Wakpal filed the lawsuit to contest the results of the parliamentary election that took place on December 7, 2024, in Kpandai. On January 25, 2025, the petition was submitted. This was thirty-two days after the results were published in the Government Gazette on December 24, 2024, which was more than the twenty-one-day statutory limit specified in Section 18 of the Representation of the People Law, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284). Nyindam argues that the petition submitted by Wakpal is no longer legitimate due to the fact that it was submitted too late and that the High Court did not have the legal right to consider it. According to the affidavit that Nyindam submitted to the Supreme Court, “The petition for parliamentary elections that was submitted by the first interested party on the twenty-fifth day of January in the year 2025, in relation to the parliamentary elections that were conducted at the Kpandai Constituency on the seventh day of December in the year 2024, was not valid and, as a result, did not meet the requirements for properly invoking the jurisdiction of the Commercial Division of the High Court, Tamale.” The whole election for the district of Kpandai had been declared null and void, and a new election was ordered to take place within a period of thirty days. This verdict was handed down by the High Court on November 24, 2025. In order to overturn the ruling, as well as all of the procedures and processes that stem from the petition that is purportedly defective, Nyindam is now pursuing a judicial review of the case in the form of a writ of certiorari. It is anticipated that the Supreme Court will consider the issue on the eleventh day of December 2025, which is a Tuesday. The legal team representing Nyindam contends that the case brings up a significant matter of jurisdiction. They claim that the High Court’s ruling, if it is allowed to remain in effect, will undermine the administration of justice as well as the legislative restrictions that are in place for election petitions.
