July 17, (THEWILL) – Following the drama that characterised her separation from the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ọjájá II as his third official wife, Silekunola Naomi seems to have embraced life with a new fervour and she is savouring her freedom with gusto. Gone is the holier-than-thou image that she projected when she was married to the Ooni and in its place is the image of a good girl gone bad. She has pushed aside everything that could possibly remind her of the past as a former queen.
She no longer wears white dresses, but prefers to explore with colours and various eye-popping and jaw dropping designs that are far removed from some of the more decent outfits she adorned as a queen and her favourite designer, Abiodun Folashade Tokunbo, aka CEO Luminee, is living up to the task of meeting her demand for different designs.
As for preaching the gospel, an act she was very fond of indulging in while still married to the Ooni, the frequency has long been reduced as she now prefers to listen and dance to ‘worldly’ music. Judging by her new disposition, it is obvious that the 29 year-old has no intention to return to the palace.
Prior to her marriage to the Ooni, Naomi was a prophetess who ran her own church, En-Herald Ministries, an interdenominational Christian Ministry based in Akure, Ondo State. Her marriage to the Ooni was greeted with a lot of condemnation as many expressed concerns on how an acclaimed Christian prophetess and the custodian of Yoruba tradition and culture could live together in peace amid differences in religious belief. Naomi was quick to shut down the concerns, insisting that what matters is the love she shared with the Ooni and never about their different religious beliefs or the fetish traditional practices she engaged in, which were at variance with her Christian belief.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
