2027 GENERAL ELECTION: Aisha Yesufu Denies Dropping Out Of FCT Senatorial Race

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Human Rights activist, Aisha Yesufu has denied dropping out of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senatorial race under the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), for the 2027 general election.

In a long post on her verified X handle, Yesufu said she stayed to the end, stating that she did not intend to litigate a process that was never truly allowed to happen.

She said that she came into politics from a deep conviction to drive the transformation they hope to see, adding that it is not enough to complain from the outside but one must step into the ring with convictions.

“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,” she wrote.

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