The Ooni of Ife, HRM Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, is set to welcome two more wives after taking in two women into his palace.
The two new wives of the Ooni are Tobi Philips and Ashely Adegoke and will enter the palace before his 48th birthday.
Recall the monarch married another wife Opeoluwa barely 24 hours after his marriage with Mariam Anako.
The prominent traditional ruler tied the knot with Anako, about nine months after then Queen Naomi Silekunola announced her separation from the first-class monarch.
Tobi Phillips is a graduate of Marine Science from the University of Lagos and a former Beauty Queen.
It was initially speculated that she would be replacing Olori Zainab Wuraola who walked away from her marriage to the Osun monarch.
The Ooni eventually married Prophetess Silekunola Naomi, but the marriage ended in December 2021.
Ashley on the other hand, is a princess, a chartered accountant and currently runs an NGO that caters to less privileged kids and widows through the Ashley Adegoke Foundation.
She has a master’s in accounting and finance from the University of Greenwich, and currently runs her businesses in the United Kingdom.
It has been reported that Queen Ashley who is from the Lafogido royal house, allegedly has a child with another man. Her late father, Jacob Adebiyi Adegoke was a Prince of the source.
Then Queen Naomi had on December 23, 2021 announced her separation from the monarch in an Instagram post and ended the three-year union that produced a son, Tadenikawo.
Though some Yoruba monarchs tried to intervene, the reconciliation efforts were unproductive.
In 2008 before his coronation, Ooni was married to Adebukola Bombata but the marriage did not work.
After his coronation in 2016, he married Zaynab-Otiti Obanor from Edo State but they separated after 17 months.
The monarch, who married Naomi in 2018, also had a daughter, Princess Adeola Ogunwusi, with Omolara Olatubosun.
Oba Adeyeye is an engineer and a real estate developer. His business interests span across various countries.
He has been involved in engineering, procurement and construction locally and abroad for over 12 years.
He is also actively involved in the development of over 2,500 housing units with various consortia of developers/promoters over eight years in Nigeria.
He facilitated strong trade relationships in over 200 member countries across the globe using the Association for International Business presence, an organization he set up in Nigeria.
One of the key achievements of this body is the trade facilitation between the United Arab Emirates (Jebel Ali free Trade Zone Development) and the Nigerian government through the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission.