{"id":216882,"date":"2025-12-16T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-supreme-court-suspends-kpandai-election-rerun\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:31:51","slug":"ghana-supreme-court-suspends-kpandai-election-rerun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-supreme-court-suspends-kpandai-election-rerun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Supreme Court Suspends Kpandai Election Rerun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">By a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday halted the upcoming parliamentary re-run election in Kpandai, Northern Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The court presided over by Justice Gabriel Scott- Pwamang said it has to determine a pending certiorari application filed by Matthew Nyindam, the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary candidate before the election could be conducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Supreme Court also directed the legal team of Matthew Nyindam to serve Court processes on the National Democratic Congress candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512160575.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday halted the upcoming parliamentary re-run election in Kpandai, Northern Region. The court presided over by Justice Gabriel Scott- Pwamang said it has to determine a pending certiorari application filed by Matthew Nyindam, the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary candidate before the election could be conducted. The Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6185,3119,4508,4509,36420,257,14068,254,9498,10452],"class_list":["post-216882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-election","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-kpandai","tag-news","tag-rerun","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-suspends"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}