NPP Faces Uphill Battle in Kpandai Rerun as Supreme Court Halts Preparations
Solomon Owusu, who serves as the United Party’s Director of Communications, has asserted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) stands no realistic prospect of prevailing in the Kpandai parliamentary election rerun, claiming the party’s apparent lack of self‑assurance is evident in its legal efforts to challenge the High Court’s directive for a fresh poll; in remarks on TV3’s New Day – The Big Issue on December 17, he argued that holding the vote now would produce a decisive win for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and accused the NPP of resorting to what he termed “legal contortions” by contesting the judiciary’s actions and seeking both a stay of execution and a certiorari, while also suggesting that NPP candidate Matthew Nyindam’s prospects seem uncertain given his conditional assertions of victory and pointing to the party’s loss in a similar rerun in Assin North as context; concurrently, Ghana’s Supreme Court has directed the Electoral Commission to pause all rerun preparations ahead of the December 30 date until the case is resolved, granted substituted service on NDC contender Daniel Nsala Wakpal, and rescheduled further proceedings for January 13, 2026, following a Tamale High Court order for a rerun due to irregularities in voting and tallying after Wakpal’s challenge to Nyindam’s original election — a decision that Nyindam’s legal team is appealing with an application for a stay of execution.
