By Elsie Appiah-Osei
Accra, Dec. 08, GNA-Parliament has officially notified the Electoral Commission (EC) of a vacancy in the legislature following a High Court order for a rerun of the Kpandai Parliamentary Election.
In a formal letter dated December 4, 2025, Mr Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, the Clerk to Parliament, informed Madam Jean Mensah, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), that the vacancy arose after the High Court in Tamale directed a rerun of the constituency’s parliamentary election.
The ruling, delivered on 24 November 2025, was part of a case in which the Clerk to Parliament was named the 4th respondent, referenced as Suit Number NR/TL/HC/E13/22/25.
Acting under Article 112(5) of the 1992 Constitution, the Clerk noted that the correspondence served as the official notification required to trigger the processes for conducting a new election in the Kpandai constituency.
The letter concluded with confirmation that the EC had been duly notified as mandated by law.
The High Court ruling, delivered on Monday, November 24, 2025, had annulled the entire Kpandai election and ordered a rerun within 30 days.
Mr Mathew Nyindam, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Kpandai, is now seeking a judicial review in the nature of certiorari to quash the judgment, as well as all processes and proceedings emanating from the allegedly invalid petition.
The MP has filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to quash the judgment of the High Court, Commercial Division, in Tamale, which annulled his parliamentary election victory.
Mr Nyindam, through his legal counsel, Mr Gary Nimako Marfo, argued that the High Court erred in assuming jurisdiction over the petition filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), candidate Daniel Nsala Wakpal, who challenged the December 7, 2024, parliamentary election results in Kpandai.
The petition, filed on Saturday, January 25, 2025, was submitted 32 days after the results were published in the Government Gazette on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, exceeding the 21-day statutory period prescribed under Section 18 of the Representation of the People Law, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284).
Mr Nyindam contended that the delay rendered Mr Wakpal’s petition invalid and that the High Court had no legal authority to entertain it.
The Parliamentary Election Petition filed by the 1st Interested Party on Saturday, January 25, 2025, in respect of the Parliamentary Election held at the Kpandai Constituency on Saturday, December 7, 2024, was invalid and could not have properly invoked the jurisdiction of the High Court, Commercial Division, Tamale,” Nyindam’s affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court states.
GNA
Edited by Linda Asante Agyei