A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Farouk Aliyu says the 2027 presidential race is not about Nigerians but an “elite contest”.

In an interview on Arise TV on Monday, Aliyu stated that the coalition of opposition leaders plotting to unseat President Bola Tinubu will not succeed.

According to him, the opposition leaders, who recently adopted the African Democratic Congress as an official platform to run the 2027 election were members of the ruling party.

He said, “The coalition is merely a group of former APC members who have left the party.

“While they may not pose a threat to democracy, they certainly don’t pose a threat to the APC either. These individuals are simply aggrieved with the party.

“The coalescing of people against Tinubu and the APC will not succeed, as 2027 is a different political landscape compared to 2015. This fight is not about Nigerians, it’s an elite contest”.

OSUNDAILY NG reports that key opposition figures from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and aggrieved members of APC had on Wednesday last week adopted ADC as a platform to kick the ruling party out of the State House.

Yinka Theisen has disclosed that she started a relationship with Linc Edochie after he told her that his estranged wife cheated on him.

OSUNDAILY NG reports that Linc Edochie got married to his estranged wife, Amaka Paula, in December 2010, and they shared two children together.

In May 2025, Linc Edochie got engaged to his new partner, Yinka Theisen.

A month after their engagement, Linc broke up with Yinka for getting involved in Queen May and Yul Edochie’s divorce drama on social media.

However, reacting to the controversy in an interview with actor Uche Maduagwu, Yinka Theisen narrated that she started a relationship with Linc after he accused his ex-wife of cheating on him and smoking weed.

“What Linc did to me, I’m shocked. I can’t lie to you, I’m shocked. This is a man a lot of people don’t know, the family (Edochie) had a tragic event recently. And I was there for him. I came to stay with him in Lagos, I supported him. I will just leave it at that because it’s a sensitive thing, and I don’t want to bring out a family secret that a lot of people don’t know about.

“I started a relationship with him after he told me a very, very sad thing about how his wife was sleeping around in Abuja with all the Alhajis, all these things I have text messages of and that she’s a weed head. She smokes weed every day, and that she withdraws the medication of their last child that had seizures.

“So we became very close in the sense of just emotionally supporting him because I couldn’t believe that a woman would repeatedly cheat on such an awesome man.”

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Troops of 6 Brigade, Nigerian Army, and Sector 3 of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have raided bandit hideouts and disrupted a meeting allegedly convened by a notorious bandit leader in the southern part of Taraba State.

Army authorities said the operation, carried out on 5 July 2025, targeted remote areas in Wukari Local Government Council believed to be strongholds of Liamdoo Douglas Adekpe, popularly known as Bajor.

In a statement made available to journalists in the state on Monday by the Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Captain Olubodunde Oni, the feat was achieved based on intelligence information.

“Acting on intelligence, the troops launched a swift offensive, forcing the criminals to flee and abandon several items,” the army said.

The raid, according to the release, led to the destruction of key camps used by the syndicate for planning attacks and hiding weapons.

Five operational motorcycles, suspected to be used for raids and swift movement, were said to have been recovered at the scene.

Overwhelmed by the development, the Commander of 6 Brigade and Sector 3 OPWS, Brigadier General Kingsley Chidiebere Uwa, said Bajor and his gang narrowly escaped but are being tracked by security forces.

He reassured residents of the Army’s determination to eliminate criminal networks threatening peace in Taraba State and the surrounding region.

Brigadier General Uwa urged locals to continue providing timely information to security agencies to aid ongoing operations, emphasizing the Brigade’s resolve to deploy both kinetic and non-kinetic strategies to secure lasting peace.

The operation, as made known by him, is part of a broader clearance campaign aimed at flushing out criminal elements from the nooks and crannies of the state.