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Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu (born 12 December 1973) is a Nigerian activist and businesswoman. She co-founded the #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brings attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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It is just unbelievable how we tend to reward incompetence and punish competence.
“All citizens are asking for is electronic transmission, real-time. I do not see any reason why that is a problem.”
“Right now, Nigeria as a whole is a glitch. There is nothing working, whether economically or in terms of security.”
“There is no coronation in Abuja. It is the people who make those choices.”
“Primary and secondary education is more beneficial to the state than the people. The cost of an uneducated populace is too high for a State.”
“Nigeria has everything it needs to be great.”
“Activists make demands, while politicians are supposed to solve problems based on those demands.”
"Women and Youth must be in the midst of decision-making and not as afterthoughts in the form of tokenism.”
“Hunger that is deliberately inflicted has made many lose their capacity to think.”
“We must unlock the spirit that has been starved — the Nigerian can-do spirit.”
“No country has the right to call itself civilized if it allows 219 of its citizens to be kidnapped with no repercussions.”
“Nigeria is a glitch on its own; it’s at a standstill.”
There are some people who have said they are going to take over Abuja and all of that. We want to give people a viable option that they can be proud of and passionate about.
“If you do something, we must stand by our word. I’m not even asking for a level playing ground; I’m asking for a ground.”
"There is no government in Nigeria. Terrorists have a field day!”
One thing I have learnt, is that, sometimes you need your opponent to do so badly and make you a choice.
“I’m not leaving activism. I’m not leaving advocacy. I’m taking advocacy into politics.”
“This party is more than who wins, we need to follow a process that is transparent,”
"To Nigerian Politicians, 8 years is FOREVER! Little do they know!”
“I need your word on this. I know you had said it before. I want you to repeat it. Is it true you’re going to do just one term?”
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