That lightning never strikes in one place twice is a popular saying. However, for some people, it can strike three times.
While marriage is a journey of bliss when there is love between the parties involved, there comes a time when a change in priorities makes a couple seek fresh attractions. Indeed, this is true of the Arole Oduduwa Olofin Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife.
As far as the elitist monarch is concerned, he has walked the path of matrimony trice. Indeed, lightning has struck trice for the monarch. Life situation saw him falling out at an early age with Omolara Olatunbosun, the mother of his his daughter, Princess Adeola.
Then, he found love with Olori Zaynab Otiti-Obanor, his first queen as the Ooni of Ife. That did not last, as many rumoured that it was because she could not conceive for the monarch that she was forced out of the palace. Having kicked the fair-complexioned woman out of his palace, he announced and unveiled another queen in Olori Silekunola Naomi, but like his first queen, she also was sent packing following issues beyound reconciliation. This was despite the fact that she bore him an heir to his throne, Prince Tadenikawo. There were rumours that Ooni Adeyeye had accused his queen of having a lovechild without informing him at the beginning of their relationship, hence the marriage crashed.
Speculations that the couple had made peace with each other faded into the air, as talks of an elaborate ceremony that would usher her back into the palace eventually diffused like air. It just never saw the light of the day.
The exit of Olori Silekunola paved the way for the entrance of yet another Olori into the palace, as there needed to be a queen in the palace.
This time, the woman who has taken the office of the First Wife in Ife kingdom is; Olori Mariam Ajibola Ogunwusi.
The latest Olori Ajibola Ogunwusi was officially welcomed into the palace on Tuesday, September 6.
The new queen was ushered into the Ile Oodua Palace in Ile-Ife at about 8pm by her mother and other members of her family from Kogi and Kwara States.
She was first received by members of Ife Traditional Council led by the Obalufe of Ife, Oba Idowu Adediwura and Lowa Adimula of Ife, High-Chief Adekola Adeyeye who after necessary traditional and spiritual rites performed by the Isoros (Chief priests)
presented to the Ogunwusi family and her husband.
Olori Mariam Ajibola Ogunwusi is a mixed blood as her late father hailed from Ebira ethnic part of Kogi State while her mother hails from Erin-Ile, an ancient Yoruba town in Kwara State. All hail the queen.
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