Supreme Court to Rule Jan 28 on Kpandai MP Case (Fate of Annulled 2024 Election Hangs in Balance)
The Supreme Court will decide on January 28, 2026, whether to overturn the High Court’s decision that threw out the 2024 parliamentary result for Kpandai in the Northern Region. Justices Gabriel Pwamang, Omoro Tanko, Yonny Kulendi, Samuel Asiedu, and Henry Anthony Kwof made up a five-member panel that heard an application asking the Court to use its supervisory power to overturn the High Court’s November 24, 2025, decision. Gary Nimako Marfo, the applicant’s lawyer, said that the High Court was wrong to take up the parliamentary petition filed on January 25, 2025, because it was outside the 21-day period set by Article 99 of the Constitution and Section 18 of PNDC Law 284. He said, “The law sets the time limits for filing a petition and for the High Court to have jurisdiction, that is 21 days after the official results are published.” Sika Abla Addo, the first interested party’s lawyer, argued against the application by saying that the applicant was only using certain gazette notifications, pointing to two gazettes from December 24, 2024, and January 6, 2025, and saying that the January 6 gazette justified the High Court taking jurisdiction. Justin Amenuvor, the Electoral Commission’s lawyer, said that previous election cases used online gazette publications. He said that he got the right gazette for the Kpandai case from the Assembly Press. The case has been put off by the Supreme Court until January 28, 2026, when it will make its decision.
