Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has denied reports that she dropped out of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senatorial race.
NewsWatch Nigeria reports that Yesufu made the clarification in a post on her 𝕏 handle. She stated that she stayed to the end, adding that she does not intend to litigate a process that was never truly allowed to happen.
Speaking further, the activist argued that she came into politics with a deep conviction to drive the transformation of a better Nigeria, adding that it is not enough to complain from the outside, but one must step into the ring with convictions.
She wrote, “As the dust settles on the NDC Primaries, I want to set the record straight: I did not quit, I did not drop out of the race.
“I understood what I was getting into. I knew that the quality of our politics has not yet risen to the occasion, that values-based candidates do not easily emerge by merit in a system built to resist them.
“But I made a decision going in. I would not compromise my values. I would stand for what is right. I did not leave advocacy to go into politics. I took advocacy into politics.
“I ran a campaign I am truly proud of. Our ground game was on point. We had grassroots credibility, the kind you don’t manufacture in a backroom.”
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