Barely four days after an Abuja Federal High Court affirmed the emergency convention that produced the Edozie Njoku-led National Working Committee (NWC) as the authentic leadership of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), the party has attracted many erstwhile faithful of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
 
Recall that last Wednesday, the Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Obiora Egwuatu, held that the January 17 emergency national convention of NRM is valid, ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to regularise the leadership in its records.

Justice Egwuatu, while ruling on suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/45/2025 instituted by NRM, dismissed INEC’s refusal to monitor the convention, declaring that the party met the mandatory 21 days’ notice.
   
But, speaking to reporters in Abuja after the party’s meeting at the weekend, the NRM National Chairman, Njoku, disclosed that not long after the party pegged its expression of interest and nomination forms at N5 million and N20 million, respectively, the NRM secretariat has been inundated with applicants.
   
He regretted that the litigation slowed NRM down in its preparations for the Anambra State governorship poll, noting that the order of mandamus on INEC granted by the Federal High Court could not have come at a better time.
   
Despite speculations that the NRM was being prepared as the platform of choice for the national coalition of opposition parties, Njomu denied any such plans, pointing out that the aggrieved members of APGA and PDP in Anambra and other states that joined the party decided to do so on their individual volition.
   
However, the founding father of the NRM, Saidu Dansadau, expressed hope that Njoku’s emergence as the party’s National Chairman has given the party the much-needed federal character to give the Nigerian electorate a credible alternative platform for national rescue.
    
While declaring his support to the NWC, Dansadau said the journey to retooling the party for the future has begun, stressing that “Njoku’s emergence as national chairman marks a significant positive tide in the life of NRM.”