The National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye (Nana B), has intensified the party’s criticism of the Tamale High Court’s decision to annul the 2024 Kpandai parliamentary election, accusing the judge of committing what he called an “act of judicial fraud.”
Speaking during a press conference at the NPP headquarters at Asylum Down, Accra on Tuesday, December 9, Nana B argued that the court’s ruling defied logic, law, and basic mathematics.
According to him, the NPP’s Member of Parliament, Matthew Nyindam won the Kpandai seat by a decisive margin of 3,734 votes, a gap he described as “clear, overwhelming, and mathematically unassailable.”
“Consider the undeniable numbers, our Member of Parliament won the elections with a decisive margin of 3,734 votes, not double digits, not triple digits. This is a commanding margin,” he said.
He noted that the petitioners’ own case challenged results from only 41 polling stations, involving approximately 500 votes in dispute.
“Five hundred votes cannot conceivably overturn a margin of 3,734 votes, this is primary school arithmetic. Yet the judge brazenly voided the entire election. How? By what calculation?,”he added.
Nana B accused the court of ignoring the legal standard requiring that irregularities must be significant enough to affect the final outcome.
He referenced the elections manual and Supreme Court precedent to support the principle that elections should not be invalidated when the majority’s will is evident.
“Our elections manual is explicit, where proven irregularities cannot change the results, the election must stand. The Supreme Court affirmed this, an election is not to be invalidated where the outcome manifestly reflects the will of the majority,” he stressed.
Nana B insisted that the judge “discarded these sacred principles,” leading to what he described as a troubling and legally unsupported ruling.
The NPP has vowed to challenge the decision and defend what it says is a legitimate and undisputed victory in the Kpandai Constituency.
Source: happyghana.com
