I’ll reveal more secrets if Ooni keeps denying he’s my father, man says fed up with being kept a secret
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
“Oba Enitan Ogunwunsi is my father. He hid me with my mother with a clear instruction that I must not reveal myself,” says the man alleging in an online video the Ooni of Ife is his biological father, a claim the monarch has denied.
The man, who did not identify himself, claimed Ogunwunsi hid him and his mother and supports them with plenty of money, cars and a house, but he is frustrated and fed up with the luxurious trappings without being publicly acknowledged as a prince.
“Anytime I desire to come to the palace, he [Ogunwunsi] would stop me saying it was not yet time. Now is the time. My mum might not talk, but I will say the truth. The king is my biological father,” he said.
“Though I’m not suffering; there is a house, cars are there, there is money, but I’m no longer interested in them. I want to be known as the son of the king, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II.”
The man gave a two-month ultimatum to be invited to the Ife palace or he will spill more secrets.
Ogunwusi’s spokesman Moses Olafare on Thursday issued a statement which said the matter has been reported to the security agencies for further action.
“He is not a child of Ooni Ogunwusi as fraudulently claimed, but also never related in any way to any lineage of the Ogunwusi royal family and the Giesi Royal Compound of Ile-Ife at large,” Olafare insisted.
He urged the “impersonator” to stop engaging in or promoting the deception as the House of Oduduwa remains committed to preserving the cultural heritage of the Yorubas and will not tolerate any attempt to undermine or tarnish its legacy.
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