Posted on: 06:56 Mon, 22 Feb 2016


If reports reaching us are anything to
go by, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan
Babatunde Adeyeye Ogunwusi is set to
take a new wife because his first
marriage to Adebukunola Ogunwusi
has allegedly crashed due to
irreconcilable differences.

The reported new wife is named
Wuraola Otiti Obanor.



According to sources who confided
in SDK, the handsome Ooni’s
relationship with his wife was
already so strained that both were
no longer in talking terms as at
when the Ooni ascended the
throne, and this explains the
reason why during his official
coronation on the 7th of December
2015 there was a distance between
him and his wife.



The source added that Adebukunola
never assumed the role of an Olori
and never moved to the palace.
They say she left Ile-ife town as
soon as the coronation was over
and has not been back there.

Perhaps this can explain the very
noticeable absence of Olori
Adebukunola in most of the Ooni’s
officlal functions and engagement.

From what has been gathered, the
alleged new Olori is from the Royal
Brass Casters guide family -Ine n’
Igun and her forefather Ezhoe is
from Oluyare compound, Ile Ife,
but is a native of Benin.

It is claimed that Wuraola is
relocating from her base abroad to
take on her role as wife and new
Olori to the Ooni of Ife.

Last month there were rumours
making the rounds that one
Princess Ronke Ademiluyi was
romantically linked to the Ooni,
but that rumour was shot down by
palace sources who said the Ooni
“was too focused for such”.