Kpandai court ruling sets dangerous precedent

The Minority successful Parliament has described the bid by the Tamale High Court for the rerun of the full parliamentary elections successful the Kpandai Constituency arsenic a atrocious precedent for aboriginal electoral chaos.

The caucus said the bid was not simply disproportionate, but it was an battle connected the sovereignty of the radical of Kpandai.

By specified reckless order, it said, the justice had sent an “unmistakable message” to each governmental mischief shaper and electoral saboteur successful Ghana to prosecute successful electoral unit to person their way.

“Create disorder successful a fewer polling stations, destruct materials, disrupt collision, trigger contention and you whitethorn beryllium rewarded with a afloat rerun.

This is not justice,” the radical said. 

Addressing the media successful Parliament successful absorption to the High Court bid for the rerun of the Kpandai Constitutuency parliamentary election, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, said, “This bid is simply a look for electoral anarchy.

“The justice has unwittingly weaponised disruption, and helium has created a perverse incentive: operation wherever chaos becomes strategy, wherever sabotage becomes litigation and wherever losing different posts tin inactive mean winning successful court, not done superior grounds but done superior disorder,” helium said  

Petition

The 2024 National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary campaigner for Kpandai, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, connected December 23, 2024, filed a petition astatine the court, challenging the Electoral Commission’s (EC) declaration of Mr Nyindam arsenic the MP-elect for the constituency.

He alleged that the results of the parliamentary elections, arsenic declared by the EC, were invalid owed to immoderate irregularities and inconsistencies contained successful immoderate of the pinkish sheets.

Recall

The Tamale High Court past Monday annulled the 2024 parliamentary predetermination results for the Kpandai Constituency successful the Northern Region.

The court, presided implicit by Justice Emmanuel Brew Plange, held that the predetermination was flawed with wide irregularities and, therefore, ordered a rerun of the predetermination wrong 30 days.

The spot is presently occupied by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP), Matthew Nyindam.

Non-compliance

After examining the evidence, the tribunal agreed with the petitioner, ruling that the level of non-compliance materially affected the result of the poll.

It subsequently ordered the EC to organise a caller parliamentary predetermination successful the constituency to find the rightful winner.

Following the ruling, lawyers for the suspect person filed for a enactment of execution pending the determination of an appeal.