When the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi found a replacement
for his former queen, Wuraola Otiti, it was a welcome relief.
Then, the new queen, Oloori Silekunola Naomi, who was ushered into
the ancient palace in October 2018, was said to be a
20-something-year-old virgin. Also, the pretty and young queen of
Yoruba’s origin of culture and tradition, is an evangelist/prophetess.
That didn’t pose any problem for the monarch, who also attends church
programmes whenever he was invited. As a matter of fact, when he
welcomed his queen into the palace after all the rites, he put up a post
on Instagram:
“I waited patiently upon the Almighty the King of kings, he
eventually did it in the midst of many trials. Silekunola, Moronke,
Naomi; the greatest Arsenal you can apply on this highly revered throne
with many rules and regulations in the midst of undiluted tradition,
heritage and culture is the ‘Fear of God in You’, which is the beginning
of your wisdom on this throne of Oduduwa. You are welcome home my
beautiful and adorable queen.”
Well, 18 months after this auspicious welcome, the queen is yet to produce an heir to the highly revered throne of Ile Ife.
Though Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has a daughter who is in her 20s
and studying abroad, his first marriage to Adebisi Adebukola nee Bombata
didn’t produce any children. They were married for eight years before
the marriage crashed.
Though Adebukola was with him when he was installed the Ooni, the
marriage could not sustain whatever pressure it faced and after the
coronation, she dumped him and travelled abroad.
This crash made him seek the hands of Benin-born Wuraola Otiti in marriage. Wuraola became a full-fledge Ile Ife Queen in 2016.
That became his second marriage.
Though they looked the perfect pair, the marriage crumbled like badly stacked cards in 2017 amidst much drama on social media.
Oloori Wuraola, who was said to have had kids before she met Oba
Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, did not have any child before she dumped him
and also packed out of the palace.
With two failed marriages which didn’t produce any heir, the whole of
Ile Ife waited with bated breath for the new queen to make the gods
happy.
“Though the king has a daughter while he was a young man, there is
the need to have an heir and more children in the palace. The people
want an heir to the throne. Nobody prays for the Ooni to die young, he
shall rule till he is 100 years but there is much joy when we see kids
running around in the palace and when the people know that there is an
Aremo (heir).
“He has been good to the people of Ile Ife and everyone prays that
Queen Naomi becomes a mother soon and produce heirs to the throne. She
is young, godly and very unassuming. The palace staff love her and hold
the royal couple in high esteem. We pray they start a family soon,” a
palace staff revealed to Kemi Ashefon.
Meanwhile, queen Naomi goes about her ministry as a prophetess in
Akure and Ile-Ife respectively. The beautiful queen was initiated into
ministry at 18 years and she also sings.
With a youth empowerment scheme in place, her ministry, En-Heralds,
is an interdenominational ministry which is headquartered in Akure, the
Ondo State capital.
She also extended her religious programmes to hold in the palace
where praise and worship sessions are held to lift up the name of God.
Still her beautiful self, the 27-year-old queen was rumoured to have
been pregnant in 2019 but her recent outings didn’t indicate any baby
bump.
“God is the creator of all good things including children. We can
only try but God has the final say. We pray the royal couple to be
fruitful and multiply soon. It is the wish of the people and also that
of the king,” the palace source reiterated.
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