June 13, (THEWILL)- It doesn’t look like the drama that trailed the exit of Queen Damilola, one of the estranged wives of 83-year-old Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, will end soon as older family members of the beautiful mother of twin boys are hell bent on ensuring that she returns to the palace.
However, the former queen has remained resolute in her decision not to return to the palace. She reportedly walked out of her almost five-year-old marriage in 2020, a year after another wife of the monarch, Queen Anu, left the palace under very controversial circumstances. Not many people were initially aware of Queen Damilola’s exit until she took to her social media page a few months later to accuse the king of constantly threatening and harassing her. The 24-year-old also claimed that the king was planning to kidnap her, adding that her life and that of her family was in danger. Although the former queen has said that she decided to quit the marriage because she did not want to continue to live in bondage, the elders in her family will have none of that. They have ordered her to return to the palace and pleaded with the monarch for forgiveness on her behalf.
The elders have also said that all the allegations leveled against the monarch by the queen borders on falsehood. They blame her decision to leave the king on youthful exuberance and wrong counsel from false friends who are jealous of her marriage. They insist that the monarch has been good to her and kind to her immediate and extended family members who have benefited immensely from him. Oba Adeyemi, the elders noted, had done a lot of good to her family, from changing the life of their daughter to sending her siblings to school and getting a new apartment for Damilola’s mother, among many other acts of kindness. But, in spite of all that the elders have said, Damilola has vowed never to return to the palace.
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