The estranged queen of Ooni of Ife, Queen Silekunola Naomi Ogunwusi has opened up on why she can not reunite with the revered monarch after splitting up in December 2021.
she explained that it is not in her plan to return to the Ife palace not even after the monarch had married six wives.
Silekunola, who recently turned 30, dashed hopes of her returning to the palace in an interview with PUNCH published on Saturday.
“As I have been speaking to you for the past one hour, do I look like someone who can survive in the midst of six mature and strong women? No! She is but a soft, strong, gentle woman and I can’t be a square peg in a round hole,” she said.
Silekunola said she is a perfectionist who is full of innocence, adding that while growing up she ward off men by going around with her family.
She said, “I was always going in company with people, especially family members. I had older siblings and I had my mum. Every time I went out to minister or see people, you would never see me alone. It was like that and it was so difficult that people wondered, ‘Who’s going to marry her?’ Because, how are you going to approach me? You’re never going to see me alone.”
The former Ife queen noted that she would talk about her experiences in the palace at a later time.
Recall that Silekunola announced her separation from Oba Ogunwusi just two days before Christmas in December 2021 when she wrote on Instagram that she tried to make the union work but added that the Ooni’s public identity is at variance with “his true self”.
The queen bore a son for Ooni of Ife, Prince Tadenikawo Ogunwusi, who turned 2 last November.
