An Ifa
priest, Yemi Elebuibon, has declared that any man who sleeps with the
estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, Zaynab Otiti-Obanor, faces death.
The Ifa devotee also noted that
the former queen must undergo some cleansing rituals with any man before they
can become intimate.
In addition, he said the cleansing
process is necessary to enable the Olori to regain a normal life.
Mr. Elebuibon, who is also an
actor, declared the consequence of a queen separating from a king in an
interview with The Sun.
The former Ife queen popularly
called Olori Wuraola Ogunwusi reverted to her maiden name in August after
confirming that her marriage to the Ooni has broken down irretrievably.
While noting that Ooni would not
be the first Yoruba Oba to be separated from his wife, Mr. Elebuibon said that
marriage breakup is not very common among Yoruba Obas.
He said, “The wife of the Oba will
be asked to consult Ifa and Ifa will give directions on how she will make the
necessary atonement for her cleansing. In Yoruba tradition, a woman who has
been married to a king cannot lay with any other man even if the marriage
breaks up. But when the right atonements have been made, there won’t be
any problem.”
On the kind of problems which an
Oba’s ex-wife might encounter if she refuses to undergo the traditional
cleansing rites, Mr. Elebuibon said: “For the woman, she might not really have
a problem but for any man who sleeps with a queen or marries an ex-queen
without the appropriate cleansing, the man may die prematurely, he may be
struck with sickness or there might be retrogression in his life.”
He
explained that if an ex-queen wants to remarry, she would have to do the
cleansing with her new husband.
”Both of them have to take part in
the atonement procedures so that they won’t have any future problem. Any
marriage she would be going into must not be elaborate. They should go far away
and avoid any flamboyant wedding,” Elebuibon warned.
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