Human rights activist Aisha Yesufu has said claims that she dropped out of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senatorial race under the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) for next year’s general elections are false, insisting she stood till the end.
She made the clarification recently in a now-trending post she shared on her official X (formerly Twitter) page.
In the lengthy post, Yesufu, however, stated that she did not intend to litigate a process that was never truly allowed to happen.
She went on to say she came into politics from a deep conviction to drive the transformation she hoped to see, adding that it is not enough to complain from the outside but one must step into the ring with convictions.
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While insisting that she will not compromise her values, she noted that she “did not leave advocacy to go into politics” but “took advocacy into politics”.
Speaking via her verified handle, Yesufu said: “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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