The Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has described the order by the Tamale High Court for the re-run of the entire 152 polling stations of the Kpandai parliamentary election within 30 days as a bad precedent that will be exploited to create future electoral chaos.
The Minority caucus at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon [Nov 26, 2025] said the judge had sent an unmistakable message to every political mischief maker and electoral saboteur in Ghana to engage in electoral violence to have their way.
“Create confusion in a few polling stations, destroy materials, disrupt, trigger controversy, and you may be rewarded with a full rerun. This is not justice,” he said.
Recipe for electoral anarchy
Reacting to the Tamale High Court order for the re-run of the Kpandai parliamentary election, Mr Afenyo-Markin said “This order is a recipe for electoral anarchy”.
Judicial improvisation wrong
Mr Afenyo-Markin said the Tamale High Court judgment on November 24, 2025, could only be described as breathtaking in its reach and alarming in its implications. He said the judge, Justice Emmanuel Bart Plange Brew, had ordered nothing less than a wholesale re-run of the entire Kpandai parliamentary election.
That, he said, was not routine judicial intervention but something far more troubling.
Telling the people of Kpandai that Matthew Nyindam remained still the sitting MP for the Kpandai constituency, Mr Afenyo-Markin said no person, institution, or flawed judicial order could suspend the mandate they had freely and lawfully conferred on him.
He said, unless and until the appellate process was properly invoked and fully exhausted to run its lawful course, the MP would continue to serve the Kpandai people with dedication and dignity.
“The Minority will lawfully resist any attempt, whether subtle or brazen, to bar him from representing his people.
“We will not permit democratic legitimacy to be overturned by judicial improvisation,” he said.
Judicial irresponsibility
The Minority Leader said the order, with massive political, legal, and democratic consequences, was pronounced without the court’s full judgment.
He said there were no written reasons, no factual findings, no legal analysis, but just a naked directive issued into the public domain.
As a practicing lawyer of experience at the bar, he said he understood courts occasionally delivered rulings with reasons to follow, but such a practice was the exception, not the rule.
“And it is never an acceptable approach when the stakes are this high, when a parliamentary seat hangs in the balance, when constitutional rights are imperiled, and when the votes of thousands of citizens face enormous,” he said.He said that for a judge to casually void an entire constituency election without first ensuring that a complete reasoned judgment was prepared and published was not merely irregular, but it was judicial irresponsibility of the highest order.
The Minority Leader said rather than addressing the 41 challenged polling stations with a scalpel, the law required, the judge deployed a sledgehammer and demolished the entire constituency.
That, he said, was not law but judicial carelessness dressed up as electoral justice, similar to what a “Circuit court did in the Abronye case.
