Parliament has formally declared the Kpandai constituency seat in the Northern Region vacant.
This comes on the back of the ruling of the High Court in Tamale for the Electoral Commission (EC) to rerun the 2024 parliamentary election.
Parliament, in a letter dated 4th December, 2025, signed by Clerk to Parliament Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, formally communicated the occurrence of a vacancy in the membership of Parliament to the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Adukwei Mensah.
“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 read.
Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 Parliamentary candidate, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, filed the petition at the High Court, citing various infractions.
The Presiding Judge, Maneul Bart-Plange Brew, in his ruling, asserted that the scale and nature of the irregularities uncovered in the pink sheets made it impossible to isolate the problem to just the contested stations.
He explained that the evidence presented by both sides showed numerical inconsistencies, conflicting tallies, illegible figures, unexplained cancellations, and discrepancies between the EC’s pink sheets and the petitioner’s copies—irregularities he said “went to the roots of the results.”
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has criticised the judgment both at the Regional and National levels. Similarly, the Minority in parliament at a news conference also questioned how a petition about 41 polling stations resulted in a rerun of 150 polling stations.
