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…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The High Court of the FCT has reaffirmed and extended its order making Chief Victor Giadom, the acting National Chairman of the APC following the Appeal Court’s approval of the suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole from the party and office. The High Court also ordered Comrade Mustapha Salihu, the party’s National Vice…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the confusion in the APC, the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who was disqualified by the party from contesting its June 22 governorship primary met with the governors of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Wednesday night. It was learnt that Obaseki met the PDP governors to perfect his…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, said on Tuesday that his party will go to court to challenge Governor Godwin Obaseki’s certificates if he is fielded by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September governorship election in Edo State. Governor Obaseki formally resigned from the APC…