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Queen Silekunola Naomi, the wife of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has announced her separation from the monarch.
In a statement posted on her verified social media handles on Thursday, she said announced an end to the three-year marriage.
According to her, she tried to make the union work but said the monarch’s public identity is at variance with “his true self.”
Read statement below;
Oba Ogunwusi previously suffered a marital breakdown in 2017 when he split from Edo-born Zaynab Otiti-Obanor, whom he married as a monarch on March 16, 2016. Obanor’s marriage to the king lasted only 17 months.
He later married Silekunola in 2018 and the marriage produced a son, Tadenikawo.
The 47-year-old monarch also had a daughter with Omolara Olatubosun as a teenager. Olatubosun gave birth to Princess Adeola Ogunwusi but of recent, there have been counter-claims between the Ooni and Olatubosun over who was responsible for the upbringing of their daughter.