LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he will never contest for the Presidency of the country again. He said he would be diminishing himself if he should decide to begin to lobby people and campaign for election again. Jonathan said this in an interview published in a book, ‘My Time As Chaplain…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indications have emerged that former president Goodluck Jonathan may be called upon to intervene in the face-off between the five opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. It was learnt yesterday that some party leaders were mulling a high-powered meeting with Jonathan following the intractable crisis….
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the National Assembly to consider a law mandating governorship and presidential aspirants to contest primaries as a pair in order to reduce friction between themselves and their deputies. He decried the frosty relationship between governors and their deputies which made it impossible for many governors…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan was not screened by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential screening committee. The chairman of the seven-man committee and former APC National Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun disclosed this on Friday at the party Secretariat. Oyegun spoke after submitting the report of his committee to the party. He disclosed…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan is not on the list of presidential hopefuls expected to be screened by the All Progressives Congress (APC). In April 2022, after supporters besieged his Abuja residence to ask him to contest the 2023 presidential election, Jonathan had not given a definite response. “You are calling me to…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barring last-minute changes, Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has agreed to attend the National convention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), slated for May 29, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, SaharaReporters has learnt. Top sources said this was one of the highlights after the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, visited the…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan last night “rejected” the expression of interest and nomination forms bought for him to contest the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The purported rejection was announced by his media office hours after a group called Nomadic Pastoralists and the Almajiri Communities led by one Ibrahim…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the rumoured defection of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC is yet to abate; leaders of the main opposition party, Tuesday, spoke on the development in a chat with this medium. Jonathan, who was elected President of Nigeria…