A world renowned Ifa priest, Chief Yemi Elebuibon, has given conditions for Olori Wuraola, the estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, to remarry.
Wuraola, whose real name is Zaynab Otiti Obanor, last week confirmed her separation from Oba Ogunwusi.
Daily Independent quoted Elebuibon said saying that there are appropriate traditional cleansing process Wuraola must undergo for her to get married again.
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 problem.”
Elebuibon said Wuraola must undergo the cleansing with her new husband to be, adding: “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.”
On the kind of problems which an Oba’s ex-wife might encounter if she refused to undergo the traditional cleansing rites, 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.”
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