The controversy surrounding the annulment of the Kpandai parliamentary election has boiled over into Parliament, with Dennis Miracles Aboagye, an aide to former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, launching a severe personal attack on Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin.
Aboagye accused the Speaker of lacking independence and exhibiting clear partisan bias in allowing the Kpandai seat to be declared vacant, labeling the entire ruling and subsequent parliamentary action the “most shocking and rogue ruling,” he has ever witnessed.
“I don’t comment on the speaker’s actions or inactions because the speaker is a politician, he’s a pure NDC man sitting there. He’s a politician, an NDC man – so rest assured he would never take a fair decision, never”
Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Aide to Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Aboagye’s comments followed the chaos that erupted in Parliament on Tuesday, December 9, after the Minority MPs demanded the immediate withdrawal of the letter notifying the Electoral Commission (EC) of the vacancy in the Kpandai seat.
This formal notification, issued by the Clerk to Parliament on December 4, 2025, complies with the Tamale High Court’s ruling of November 24, 2025, which ordered a rerun of the constituency’s parliamentary election.
The core of Miracles Aboagye’s critique is that Speaker Bagbin, a long-standing NDC figure, is fundamentally incapable of impartiality. He asserted that the Speaker’s conduct undermines public confidence in the parliamentary arbitration process, especially when a High Court ruling involves a New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP like Matthew Nyindam.
“He is not independent-minded,” Aboagye further alleged, claiming that Rt. Hon. Bagbin’s actions reflect deep-seated political bias rather than neutrality.
Aboagye argued that this ingrained partisanship renders any action taken by the Speaker on a politically sensitive matter immediately suspect. He maintained that Speaker Bagbin is simply “doing politics now,” just as he did in the past, giving a different ruling based purely on which party benefits from the outcome.
The Double Standard
Aboagye’s strongest evidence of bias centered on the alleged double standards displayed by the Speaker when dealing with similar legal challenges affecting the two major parties. He referenced the parallel case involving the Assin North NDC Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. James Gyakye Quayson.
In the Assin North matter, Aboagye claimed, the Speaker previously refused to declare the seat vacant, arguing that because Gyakye Quayson was still in court appealing and pursuing other processes, the judicial process was not over.
However, in the Kpandai dispute, despite the incumbent NPP MP Hon. Matthew Nyindam also having applied for a stay of execution and filed notices of appeal – actions that indicate the court process is not yet conclusive – the same Speaker permitted the seat to be declared vacant immediately.
This, in Aboagye’s view, is the ultimate proof of the Speaker’s political manipulation of due process.
“This is the same speaker who caused the similar chaos in parliament when Gyakye Quayson’s issue came up. The same speaker who said previously he couldn’t declare Gyakye Quayson’s seat vacant, is saying that he has declared Nyindam’s vacant”
Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Aide to Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
While the counter-argument is that the Clerk to Parliament, Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, acted strictly in compliance with an executable court order under Article 112(5), Aboagye insisted that this legal technicality is being misused for political gain.
He pointed out the significant legal risk created by the Speaker’s haste.
“Now let me ask this now that the speaker has declared the seat vacant, what happens if the court processes go through and are successful and he’s back? What do we do with the period that the seat was declared vacant?”
Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Aide to Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Aboagye concluded that the Speaker’s quick action, in disregard of the ongoing appeal process, creates unnecessary legal jeopardy and chaos for Parliament.
He maintained that until the Supreme Court finalizes the appeal – a hearing is expected on December 16 – the Speaker has deliberately chosen the partisan path, reinforcing the perception that he is “not fair, not just, and not independent minded,” making any comment on his actions “a waste of energy.”
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