Ooni’s Interesting Shift From Deeper Life To Polygamy – Sister

Princess Folashade Ogunwusi-Fadairo, an elder sister of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwunsi has revealed the strict Christian upbringing he had in Deeper Life Bible Church among other denominations and the constraints that moved him to become about the most famous and adventurous polygamist in Nigeria’s royal cadre.

Princess Ogunwusi-Fadairo speaking in an interview said that the family was brought up in Ibadan under strict parents who guided them in the Christian faith.

She said in an interview with Saturday Punch:

“We were Christians, very strict Christians. We went to Deeper Life (Bible Church) and you know how Deeper Life church is. You know that they are very strict. You know the issue of not watching TV in Deeper Life. My dad was a broadcaster and he monitored news through the TV and the radio.

“He started with WNTV (Western Nigeria Television), the first television station in Africa. But the doctrine of the Deeper Life then was that they should do away with TV; I don’t know if they still do that now. We were so angry about it,” she said of the early days of the Ooni in the Deeper Life Bible Church.

“My parents were initially Anglicans before they joined Deeper Life and then  they later joined the Redeemed (Christian Church of God). We were brought up in a Christian home. We were just one humble family in Ibadan. We knew we are from a royal lineage but we really didn’t bother about what was happening at the palace in Ife.

“My brother (Oba Adeyeye) wasn’t groomed or prepared for the throne at childhood. We just grew up like every other children. Our parents sent us to school like every other normal children. It wasn’t even in our head that we are royalties. We lived our normal lives,” the Ooni’s sister said in reminiscing on the upbringing from the Deeper Life Bible Church and other Christian denominations.

Asked how the Ooni’s upbringing in Deeper Life resonated with his recent spate of marriages, 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.”

Source: Saturday Punch

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