LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Governor Ben Ayade-led All Progressives Congress (APC) takes over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Calabar, the Police have warned hoodlums to steer clear and not forment any trouble, in view of ongoing renovation work. However, some artisans, yesterday, who claimed to be renovating the PDP Secretariat, were painting it…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There is tension and palpable fear among the political class as All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat located at 42A Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar Municipality. This is coming barely three days after Governor Ben Ayade had defected to the ruling APC and commended his former party,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has finally spoken on the recent defection of the Governor of Ebonyi State from PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that such political dramas should not form the focus of Nigerians, when the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former State Coordinators of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), for Delta, Edo and Rivers States and chieftain of the APC, Hon. Joel-Onowakpo Thomas, has said that he was not contemplating defecting from the All Progressive Congress (APC) now or near future. Onowakpo spoke on Saturday following speculations making the round that he…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Imo State House of Assembly members have denied dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement yesterday, they faulted the Assembly speaker’s claim that they had decided to defect from their party to APC. The six lawmakers include the former deputy speaker, Okey…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is trouble in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party following former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s loss at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday, SUNDAY PUNCH reports. The development, it was gathered, has made some members of Board of Trustees of the PDP to travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A constitutional lawyer and president, Voters Awareness Initiative, Mr. Wale Ogunade, said on Monday that the gale of defections in the nation’s polity has exposed selfish politicians. Ogunade told the newsmen in Lagos that many of the defections were about personal interests and not in the interest of the people who elected…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With the publication of notice of polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last Friday, and the primaries coming up later this month, the countdown to the 2019 polls may have begun in earnest. With barely seven months to the 2019 general polls, permutations on their possible outcome have been the…