Princess Folashade Ogunwusi-Fadairo, the elder sister of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has revealed that the monarch doesn’t like polygamy and never wanted to practice but he had no choice.
Ogunwusi-Fadairo revealed this during an interview with The Punch which was published on Saturday.
She said, “My opinion is that what you have to do, you just have to do it. Meanwhile, that’s his personal life, I can’t meddle in it. What I can say is that I don’t know if you were there during his wedding anniversary or so, if you heard the speech he made, it was very touching and it was something that personally he didn’t like but he had no choice, he had to do it.
“Where the Yoruba are coming from, polygamy is expected. And being the progenitor of the Yoruba race, inu e ni won bi wa si (we were born in it). For instance, my grandfather had eight wives, that’s paternal and my maternal grandfather had about seven or eight wives too. So, it’s something he had to do, although, I think he avoided it.”
Recall that within three months in 2022, the king married five women. He got married to Mariam Anako in September 6, 2022, and on the 9th of October, 2022, the monarch married Elizabeth Akinmudai; Tobiloba Philips, married Ashley Adegoke in October 14, 2022, Ronke Ademiluyi, October 20, 2022 and his sixth wife, Temitope Adesegun, October 24, 2022.
