In a statement posted on her verified Instagram handle and Facebook page on Thursday, she said announced an end to the three-year marriage.
According to her, she tried to make the union work but said the monarch’s public identity is at variance with “his true self”.
She wrote, “I did my best to endure and make it work; many times, I smiled through the struggle, but I have finally realised I had just one assignment, my son, and when God is done, He is done. He chose Saul to be king, and when He was done, He told the prophet Samuel I have moved on. Religion was never an issue between us; please refer to my interview on News Central TV. Instead, His Majesty has a picture he would love the world to see and perceive him as and another one which is his true self.”
The evangelist then declared, “Today I announce the beginning of a new dawn and the close of a chapter. Today, I am a mother to God’s unique gift. I am no longer a slave to my thoughts of perfection. I, at this moment, announce that I shall no longer be referred to as wife to the Ooni of Ife or as Queen of Ile-Ife but as the Queen of the people and mother of my adorable Prince.”
Responding to some allegations, Silekunola said that her “decision to move on did not come because his majesty is married to another queen”.
She further explained, “As many would love to assume, throughout our life as a couple, I was the only married wife to him. There were side attractions, but it was never an issue.
“I never approached him with any revelation of any sort, as many believed he contacted me first and made his proposal known several months later.
“The marriage was not an arranged one, as many have misconstrued. I never knew the prophetess said to have introduced me to him. Instead, he introduced her to me after I agreed to marry him. I was only being polite out of respect for him.
“I have never been pregnant all my life before Tadenikawo; my son is my first ever pregnancy with medical reports to back it up. The girl who is said to be my daughter is my niece.”
The Ooni previously suffered a marital breakdown in 2017 when he split from Edo-born Zaynab-Otiti Obanor, whom he married as a monarch on March 16, 2016. Obanor’s marriage to the king lasted for 17 months before the separation.
He later married Silekunola in 2018 and the marriage produced a son, Tadenikawo.
The 47-year-old monarch also had a son with Omolara Olatubosun as a teenager. Olatubosun gave birth to Princess Adeola Ogunwusi but of recent, there have been counter-claims between the Ooni and Olatubosun over who was responsible for the upbringing of their daughter.
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While I was a teenager in Lagos. I was a student at Nawair ud deen elementary school in Idi oro. At this tender age, I always wondered about how two opposite sex from a different background would be living together with different mind set. When I came back to Lagos safely after i participated in the country civil war. My resentment to marriage was more pronounced. Due to lackadaisical attitude towards their respective partners by both parties. I choose to aquire a grown up baby from a motherless home in Olorisa bus stop, mushin. After much thought into this precarious relationship between two opposite sex. I decided to get married. Mind you. The marriage produced two children within a space of four years. I have to get on with my life and took custody of my first child at a tender age of 3 years and 7 months. She’s now over 50 years. While I took thecustody of the baby of the marriage at a tender age of 2 years. She’s now 47 years plus. Since then I have nothing to do with ladies. And I live happily in the last 46 years. It scandalous to say that a common person is happily married when those who have what it takes to protect their marriage are always fallen by the way side. Could it be that marriage is a scandalous affair?
While I was a teenager in Lagos. I was a student at Nawair ud deen elementary school in Idi oro. At this tender age, I always wondered about how two opposite sex from a different background would be living together with different mind set. When I came back to Lagos safely after i participated in the country civil war. My resentment to marriage was more pronounced. Due to lackadaisical attitude towards their respective partners by both parties. I choose to aquire a grown up baby from a motherless home in Olorisa bus stop, mushin. After much thought into this precarious relationship between two opposite sex. I decided to get married. Mind you. The marriage produced two children within a space of four years. I have to get on with my life and took custody of my first child at a tender age of 3 years and 7 months. She’s now over 50 years. While I took thecustody of the baby of the marriage at a tender age of 2 years. She’s now 47 years plus. Since then I have nothing to do with ladies. And I live happily in the last 46 years. It scandalous to say that a common person is happily married when those who have what it takes to protect their marriage are always fallen by the way side. Could it be that marriage is a scandalous affair?