The Tamale High Court Commercial Division presided over by his lordship Emmanuel Brew Plange has scheduled December 18 for ruling on the application for stay of execution filed by lawyers of embattled Kpandai MP, Mathew Nyindam.
Lawyers for both Mathew Nyindam and Daniel Nsala Wakpal were in court for proceedings.
On Monday November 24, Lawyers for embattled Member of Parliament for Kpandai Constituency, Mathew Nyindam, filed a motion for stay of execution challenging the decision by the Tamale High Court ordering a rerun of parliamentary election for the Kpandai constituency within 30 days
Lawyer for Wakpal, George Kodzo Adabadze, speaking to 3News.com, said he is confident the ruling will favor them based on their arguments in court.
“The appellant motion for stay of execution pending the appeal was effectively heard and we made our point that the appellant Mathew Nyindam has not been able to make any serious legal point to warrant the stay of execution in the judgement pending the determination of the appeals court and so we are confident that my Lord will exercise his ruling in our favor,” he said.
“The law is clear that unless an application of stay of execution is granted, nothing bars the EC from going ahead to rerun the elections. Politics is different from law and the law is clear,” he added.
On January 30, 2025, the NDC parliamentary candidate in the 2024 parliamentary election, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, filed a petition at the Tamale High Court, to challenge the declaration of New Patriotic Party’s Mathew Nyindam as Member of Parliament-elect for the Kpandai Constituency
According to the petition, the results of the parliamentary election as declared by the Electoral Commission was invalid due to some irregularities and inconsistencies contained in some of the pink sheets.
In the suit filed at the High Court, the former Kpandai lawmaker stated that forms 8A (regulation 32 (7) and 39(2) ) for 41 out of a total of 152 polling stations contained some inconsistencies and irregularities.
According to him, the December 7 election was inconsistent with regulation 39 of the public elections regulations 2020 (CI 127) as well as the principles laid down by regulation 39 thus affecting the outcome of the election.
The former MP, Daniel Nsala Wakpal was seeking an order from the Tamale High Court to set aside the declared results in the affected polling stations and mandate a re-run of the election in those areas.
Following the ruling, lawyers for the defendant immediately filed for a stay of execution pending the determination of appeal.
