The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, has described the Tamale High Court’s ruling for a rerun of the Kpandai parliamentary election within 30 days as setting a bad precedent.

According to him, the court’s decision poses risks that could potentially undermine the country’s democracy.

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While speaking at the NPP’s launch of their amended constitution at the party headquarters on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, Kodua stated that the petitioner, NDC’s Daniel Nsala Wakpal, had challenged the results of 41 polling stations in the constituency.

He expressed surprise, however, that the court ordered a rerun for all 152 polling stations in Kpandai.

“… Mr Chairman, in law, it is said that you cannot go to court and get what you have not asked for. In this particular case, the NDC candidate somewhere on 25th January 2025, decided to file a petition at the High Court challenging 41 polling stations out of 152 polling stations.

“Mr Chairman, on 24th November 2025, the High Court judge gave a ruling and it was expected that the ruling was going to centre on the 41 polling stations that were before the court, but surprisingly, the High Court judge went beyond the 41 polling stations and annulled the results of 152 polling stations. Mr Chairman, this is very abysmal, disheartening to our democracy,” Kodua noted.

The NPP General Secretary further accused the NDC’s Wakpal of orchestrating chaos in the constituency upon realising that he had lost the election.

“Mr Chairman, on December 7, 2024, from all the 152 polling stations in Kpandai, results have been duly counted, announced and declared by the Electoral Commission. It is interesting to note that in line with the results from the 152 polling stations, the NDC parliamentary candidate, realising that he had lost the elections, decided to cause mayhem in Kpandai, just as they did in Techiman South, Dome Kwabenya, Ahafo Ano North, Ablekuma North, Okaikwei Central and Obuasi East.

"Due to the security threats at Kpandai, the Electoral Commission decided to move the coalition from Kpandai to Tamale,” Kodua said.

He rejected claims that the NDC’s parliamentary candidate did not have a representative present at the collation center where votes were declared, describing them as a “false impression.”

He rather said that contrary to the claims, the candidate did not show up at the collation center because he had lost.

“Mr Chairman, it is also important to note that after the coalition in Tamale, our candidate, Honorable Matthew Nyindam, won with 27,947 votes compared to NDC's 24,213 votes.

"Mr Chairman, it is important to state that contrary to the false impression created, which the court said that the parliamentary candidate of the NDC had no rep at the coalition centre or was not present, the regional secretary of the NDC was at the coalition centre. The NDC parliamentary candidate did not show up at the coalition centre because he knew he had lost,” he added.

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The Tamale High Court, on November 24, 2025, held that non-compliance with electoral regulations had materially affected the integrity of the vote.



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