George Akume breaks no-go-area myth as he marries Ooni’s ex-Olori Zaynab

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Akume and Zaynab

Lasun Alagbe

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, seems to have broken the belief that no one dare have intimate affairs with an ex of a monarch like the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi.

He has taken to the altar Olori Zaynab,  an ex-wife of the monarch.

Oba Adeyeye had a peculiar marital history as some three women had been in and out of his home, including popular Naomi.

He has, however, since replenished his palace with a bevy of oloris.

Each time the royal couple became estranged and the woman left, controversy does arise concerning whether she could remarry.

The pervasive submission was that no one dare cross the thigs of a woman who had matrimonially pass through a palace.

They were wives of the gods, the myth raged.

Based on Akume’s secret but open move, however, the story may have changed and feelers online support this.

The debate is not harsh on him as some netizens believe he has the carriage to break the  myth.

With the development, some commentators said, the coast may have been clear for Naomi too as she is not known to have remarried.

In one of the posts greeting the Akume-Zainab ‘YES’, editor and prolific commentator, Bamidele Johnson, wrote on Facebook:

Congratulations to Chief George Akume on his marriage to Zaynab, former olori and now just Mrs Akume. May their union be fruitful. Spectacularly so. Twins. Triplets. A small football academy, if possible.
Akume should have no right to still have a mother, let alone one strong enough to be available for omugwo. Zaynab might. Biology, after all, is not sentimental.
Now, you may whine, howl, and clutch your pearls till they crack, but it won’t repeal the Akume’s right to have more than one wife. He’s African. That clause predates your outrage and will survive it.
There’s a deeper reason for collective joy. This marriage grinds into fine dust the persistent superstition that calamity must befall any man who dares to have an affair with a woman once married to an oba. See? MKO seemed to have done it with an Ijesa oba’s wife, but that wasn’t legit. Akume’s is stonewall legit.
Brotherhood is proud of Brother George. Long may he prosper and may the myth makers find a new hobby.

 

 

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