LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE Thursday dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may no longer be challenged in court by aggrieved members after all. The former NWC members have jettisoned their initial threat to go to court and have now resolved to work for the rebuilding of the party,the …
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After emerging winner of the Peoples Democratic Party’s primary election, having polled a total vote of 1,952 out of the 2020 votes cast, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Edo State Governor, has revealed that he almost quit the governorship race. Senator Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi State, who was the Election Committee Chairman while declaring…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday dissolved its national working committee, presidential aide Tolu Ogunlesi disclosed. “Major shake-up in Nigeria’s ruling party APC, as National Executive Council (NEC) meets at the State House,” Ogunlesi tweeted. “National Working Committee (NWC) dissolved.” Ogunlesi also disclosed that a “caretaker committee” will be put…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki on Thursday emerged the governorship candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state gubernatorial election. Obaseki emerged the party’s candidate after his closest rival to the PDP governorship election ticket Ken Imasaugbon stepped down from the race minutes into the primary election. With Obaseki’s emergence…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has refused to bar Godwin Obaseki, the Edo State Governor, from participating in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election slated for Thursday. Mr Obaseki was granted a waiver by the PDP recently after he joined the opposition party from the All Progressives…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Speaker of the Edo Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Adjoto, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Benin, said that he took the decision after deeply consulting…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A factional acting National Charman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Victor Giadom, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disregard the ongoing governorship primary election in Edo State. He made the appeal in a letter addressed to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and received by the electoral umpire…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governor cited injustice and other anti-democratic practices of the National Working Committee of the party as well as the governorship primary election committee that disqualified him from contesting the primary election. The governor was received by the state chairman of the PDP, Tony Aziegbemi, party chieftains including Matthew Urhoghide, Clifford Ordia…