The Clerk to Parliament, Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, has officially informed the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensah, of the vacancy of the Kpandai parliamentary seat following a recent ruling by the Tamale High Court.
Under the authority of Article 112(5) of the 1992 Constitution, as amended, the Clerk formally declared the seat vacant after the court ordered a rerun of the Kpandai parliamentary election. The ruling, handed down on November 24, 2025, requires the Electoral Commission to organize fresh elections in the constituency. This notification came after the court order was served on the Clerk, who was the Respondent in the legal case numbered NR/TL/HC/E13/22/2S.
The declaration initiates the process for the Electoral Commission to prepare and conduct the rerun in compliance with the constitutional and judicial mandate.
Meanwhile, the embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for Kpandai, Mathew Nyindam of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the High Court’s invalidation of his 2024 election victory.
Nyindam’s appeal contends that the High Court, Commercial Division in Tamale, lacked jurisdiction to hear the election petition because it was filed outside the statutory deadline set by Ghanaian electoral law. The challenge focuses on a procedural error regarding the timing for filing election petitions.
According to Nyindam’s legal counsel, Gary Nimako Marfo, the official results of the December 7, 2024, Kpandai parliamentary election were published in the Government Gazette on December 24, 2024. Ghana’s election law, specifically Section 18 of the Representation of the People Law, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284), requires that any petition contesting parliamentary election results be filed within 21 days of that publication.
However, the petition filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, was submitted on January 25, 2025 — 32 days after the gazette publication and 11 days beyond the legal filing deadline.
Nyindam’s affidavit to the Supreme Court highlights the jurisdictional flaw, stating: “The Parliamentary Election Petition filed by the 1st Interested Party on 25th January 2025, in respect of the Parliamentary Election held at the Kpandai Constituency on 7th December 2024, was invalid and could not have properly invoked the jurisdiction of the High Court, Commercial Division, Tamale.”
The November 24, 2025 ruling by the High Court annulled the Kpandai election results entirely and ordered a rerun within 30 days. Nyindam is therefore seeking a judicial review through certiorari to quash the judgment and all related court processes stemming from the allegedly invalid petition.
His legal team warns that allowing the ruling to stand would undermine justice and violate the statutory limits that regulate election petitions.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to review this crucial jurisdictional issue on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. This hearing is expected to have significant implications for the Kpandai parliamentary seat and set an important precedent on electoral dispute procedures in Ghana.