A strong ally of Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Aisha Yesufu, rejected the offer of a House of Representatives ticket.
This revelation was made by the National Leader of the NDC, Senator Seriake Dickson, in an interview. He said Aisha insisted on being offered the Senate ticket.
Prompt News Online reports that Yesufu and other allies dumped the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the NDC alongside Peter Obi.
But, rather than being offered the senatorial ticket, another aspirant, Amanda Pam got the ticket, leading to Yesufu alleging irregularities.
Dickson said the NDC had made genuine efforts to accommodate prominent figures but was met with resistance.
He disclosed that the party leadership approached Yesufu with an opportunity to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives as part of its efforts to strengthen its electoral chances.
“We offered Aisha Yesufu a House of Representatives ticket, but she said it was too small for her.
“Anybody who believes in (Peter) Obi becoming president should not be talking down on the NDC or the leadership. You’re hurting yourself,” he said.
Reacting to the interview, Aisha Yesufu faulted the interview granted by Dickson, saying he should have focused more on promoting the party’s candidates ahead of 2027 elections.
In a series of posts on X, she wrote, “Your first one-on-one interview after the primaries, and instead of selling your candidates and giving confidence to people on how set the road to winning the 2027 election was, you made it about yourself.
“While I took my time to properly address your allusion to me not playing by the rules, which I consider very disingenuous seeing how I followed the process, and even when you had insisted there would be no primaries for the Senate, I let things go and asked my teeming supporters to focus on the bigger picture,” Aisha Yesufu said in a series of posts on her X handle.
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