The Northern Region’s Kpandai constituency seat has been officially declared vacant by Parliament.
This follows the Tamale High Court’s decision to order a repeat of the 2024 parliamentary election by the Electoral Commission (EC).
In a letter dated December 4, 2025, written by Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, the Clerk to Parliament, Parliament formally informed Jean Adukwei Mensah, the Chairperson of the EC, that there was a vacancy in its membership.
“In exercise of the power conferred and the duty imposed on the Clerk to Parliament by Article 112(5) as amended, of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, as amended, I, Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, the Clerk to Parliament, do hereby formally notify you of the occurrence of a vacancy in the membership of Parliament, occasioned by the Order of the High Court, Tamale, for a rerun of the Kpandai Parliamentary Elections, given on the 24th day of November, 2025” the letter stated.
Daniel Nsala Wakpal, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 Parliamentary candidate, submitted the appeal to the High Court, citing a number of violations.
In his decision, Presiding Judge Maneul Bart-Plange Brew claimed that it was impossible to confine the issue to the disputed stations due to the scope and character of the anomalies found in the pink sheets.
He clarified that the evidence put up by both parties revealed abnormalities that “went to the roots of the results,” including numerical inconsistencies, contradicting tallies, unreadable figures, unexplained cancellations, and differences between the petitioner’s copies and the EC’s pink sheets.
The ruling has drawn criticism from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on both a regional and national level.
At a press conference, the minority in parliament also questioned how a petition concerning 41 polling places led to a rerun of 150 polling places.
Source: newsthemegh.com