The Ooni of Ife weds Opeoluwa Elizabeth Akinmuda on Saturday

  • The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi will on Saturday may 20th 2023 wed with his second wife, Opeoluwa Elizabeth Akinmuda in an elaborate wedding.

    The occasion will be preceded by the Queen’s ceremonial arrival into Ile-Ife’s old Ife Oodua Palace, today Thursday, May 18th 2023.

    Recall that the monarch picked six women including Elizabeth as wives in 2022. His wedding to the women came after his marriage to Olori Naomi crashed. Prior to Olori Naomi, the monarch was married to Queen Wuraola who also divorced him.  

    He married six women between September and October 2022, starting with Mariam Anako, an Ebira from Kogi State, on September 6, 2022. Then, on September 7, 2022, he married Elizabeth Opeoluwa Akinmuda, an Ondo native. On October 9, 2022, he married Tobi Phillips, a native of Okitipupa, Ondo State, as his third wife. The monarch went on to pick Ashley Afolashade Adegoke, an Ile-Ife Princess, as his fourth wife on October 14, 2022 and then on October 20, 2022, he married Ronke Ademiluyi, another Ile-Ife Princess, as his fifth wife. On October 24, 2022, the monarch tied the knot with his sixth wife, Princess Temitope Adesegu.

    See pre-wedding photos of the Monarch and Olori Elizabeth below