NDC: Aisha Yesufu offered House of Reps ticket but rejected it – Dickson + Video

National President of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Seriake Dickson, has claimed that he and the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, earlier offered activist Aisha Yesufu an opportunity to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives, but she turned it down.

Dickson made the disclosure during an NDC stakeholders’ meeting and a subsequent interview that its clips went viral on Friday.

He explained that Yesufu was offered the House of Representatives ticket because the FCT Senate ticket had already been presented to a long-standing party member.

According to Dickson, the activist declined the offer, insisting on running for the Senate and allegedly stating she was “too big” for the House of Representatives.

“Do you know that Peter Obi and myself offered Aisha House of Reps? You, the public, you don’t know. And she turned it down,” Dickson said. “House of Representatives that people are fighting for. But she’s too big,” he added.

This comes following the recent internal political wranglings within the party. Yesufu, who recently joined the NDC from the African Democratic Congress (ADC), was aiming for the FCT Senatorial seat.

Her senatorial bid ended after the party allegedly opted not to conduct a transparent primary election, instead clearing another aspirant, Amanda Pam.

Following the development, Yesufu stated on her X handle that Dickson was making interviews about himself and “fighting a war no one is waging against him”.

In a statement, the activist urged her supporters to remain focused on the larger political objective ahead of the 2027 general election despite the setback.

She maintained that she was unwilling to sacrifice her principles for political gain. “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,” she said.

“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.”

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