LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Vice Chairman, (Southeast) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Austin Umahi, has rejected the rumoured zoning of the 2023 presidential ticket of the party to the North. In a statement in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State yesterday, the PDP Vice Chairman pointed out that the decision on zoning of the presidential ticket…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the 2020 Edo State Governorship election is fast approaching, a civil society organization under the aegis of “No Sidon Look’ has thrown its weight behind the re-election of Edo State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, Mr Godwin Obaseki. In the organisation’s effort to ensure that Obaseki is re-elected…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to reports that its present National Chairman, Uche Secondus, will vacate the office and be replaced by Bode George. The Guardian Newspaper had published an article titled: “Southwest PDP Chairmen alleged plot to replace Secondus with George.” The story alleged that Governor Seyi Makinde of…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A towering babel of criticisms have greeted the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to use the official Council Chambers of the State House in Aso Rock, Abuja to host last Thursday’s meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), attended by party bigwigs, including governors and…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the Sept. 19 governorship poll, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has donated his 150 support groups to Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s governorship campaign organisation in Edo. Abubakar announced this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Saturday in Benin. The statement was signed by…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has nominated his deputy, Philip Shaibu, as running mate in the September 19, 2020 governorship election in the state. Announcing Shaibu’s nomination at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat in Abuja, yesterday, Obaseki said there was no need to change a winning team. Shaibu was a…
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 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has blamed the horrible spate of drug abuse among Nigerian youths to the ever worsening economic realities prevalent in the country, saying that a visible economic recovery will see a drastic reduction in the number of…