Deputy Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Rashid Tanko-Computer, has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to withdraw from the upcoming Kpandai by-election following the Tamale High Court’s decision to annul the 2024 results.
According to him, the court’s ruling has confirmed the NDC’s claims that the original declaration was tainted by irregularities.
The Tamale High Court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Brew Plange, nullified the results and ordered a fresh election within 30 days after the NDC’s candidate, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, petitioned the court.
The petition cited inconsistencies in 41 of the 152 polling stations and violations of the Public Elections Regulations (C.I. 127) during voting and collation.
The declaration of NPP’s Matthew Nyindam as the winner has thereby been set aside and the Electoral Commission has been given 30 days to organize a by-election.
Speaking to the media outside the court on November 24, Dr. Tanko-Computer expressed appreciation to the court.
“We’re grateful to the court for having done Justice to the good people of Kpandai.”
He stressed that the ruling confirms the NDC’s warnings about compromised electoral officers.
“We said it time and again the the seat of Kpandai was a seat for the NDC. They rigged the election and we’ve been saying that we’ll continue to expose crooked electoral officers,”
“We will stop them. We will make sure that the NDC will prevent such rigging machinery of the the NPP and their crooked collaborators in the electoral commission.”
He explained that Regulation 43 of C.I. 127 spells out the collation process clearly, insisting that the NPP sidestepped it.
“They just organized themselves, run to Tamale, cooked some results and announced Anyidam as the parliamentary candidate elect,”
He noted that the NDC strictly stuck to the lawful process in pursuing the annulment.
“The NDC is the most lawful political party in Ghana. We didn’t use lawless means to get this verdict”
Tanko-Computer then issued a direct call to the NPP to step aside in the upcoming rerun.
“We’re appealing to our opponents the NPP. They shouldn’t come for the by-election. Because we will hand them some heavy defeat”
“If they still want to have some kind of respect to the good people of Ghana, they should chicken out how they chickened out on tamale central,”
The NPP previously declined to contest the Tamale Central seat, which became vacant following the death of MP Dr. Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed in the tragic helicopter crash on August 6, 2025.
Tanko Computer expressed confidence that the NDC will reclaim the CI ratified h, saying, “They’ve given us 30 days. We are ready even tomorrow. We are going to make sure that the seat will return to NDC.”
