There are strong indications that the newly formed ‘National Rescue Movement’ (NRM) might capture Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections.
This followed lingering crises within the state’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) .
The lingering crisis within the ruling APC has defied solution, despite the intervention of the party’s stalwarts both within and outside the state, a situation which many political observers believe could spell doom for the party’s chances of winning the next year’s general elections.
Impeccable source revealed that several attempts were made by prominent APC members as well as some personalities in the state to reunite the two factional groups of the party who have been at logger heads over primary elections, but could not record any meaningful success.
This unhealthy development has resulted into the party’s inability to conduct primary elections as well as to submit its candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission before the official deadline .
The PDP on the other hand is also faced with serious crisis that has forced the party to conduct parallel primary elections in the state.
The party is currently having two governorship candidates in the state, with both of them claiming to be the flagbearers of the party with none of the two candidates ready to withdraw from the governorship race.
Political observers are of the view that the crises within the two strong political parties could be a blessing to the newly-formed National Rescue Movement (NRM) where many believed that both aggrieved APC and PDP would finally defect to .
Reliable sources disclosed to The Point that negotiations are currently going on between officials of the National Rescue Movement and those who are planning to dump their party.
According to the source, NRM has already reserved certain sensitive positions for the incoming defectors, while arrangements are still on top gear to woo more supporters to the party.
Speaking to The Point correspondent in Gusau, the national president of the party, Senator Saidu Mohammed Dansadau, stated that his party has been receiving defectors from both APC and PDP in the aftermath of the parties’ primaries.
