The Minority in Parliament has voiced significant dissatisfaction with Tamale High Court Judge, Justice Emmanuel Brew Plange, claiming that his management of the Kpandai election petition constituted judicial negligence.
In his decision on Monday, November 24, 2025, Justice Brew Plange invalidated the 2024 Parliamentary election in Kpandai, pointing to widespread irregularities, and mandated that a new election be held within 30 days.
Addressing reporters on Wednesday, November 26, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, remarked that the caucus intends to contest any attempt by the judiciary to implement what they refer to as an animal farm judgment to displace the incumbent MP, Matthew Nyindam, from Parliament before all legal avenues have been thoroughly explored.
“The ruling can only be characterized as astonishing in its scope and concerning in its consequences. His Lordship Justice Emmanuel Bart Plange Brew has commanded nothing short of a complete rerun of the entire Kpandai parliamentary election. This is not a standard judicial intervention. This is something significantly more alarming.
“For a judge to nonchalantly annul an entire constituency’s election without first ensuring that a comprehensive, reasoned judgment was drafted and made public is not just irregular. It represents judicial irresponsibility of the utmost degree,” he stated.
