ICHEOKU says he raised a harem, which, relatively speaking, nearly rivaled Biblical King Solomon's in this modern times. He was rich, flamboyant, a fashionista who also bleached his skin and dyed his hair, he had an eye for yellow skinned women and took many of them into concubinage.
Some of these women were too young for him and some were barely old enough that they could easily pass for his grand daughters. He lavished them with money and in turn ravished them. He was also very powerful and women love men with money and power, and they flocked to him in their numbers, literally begged and auditioned to be taken into his harem as one among many Iyoris or Queens of the palace.
Any man with power and money always became nectar to the bees and they flocked to him in large numbers. In short, he somewhat purchased many of these women, some of whom were young enough to pass for his granddaughters. But these women did not mind nor cared about the gaping age disparity between him and them. They call it culture and you wonder if a woman were to be the Aalafin whether she would be allowed to take many men as husbands?
These women also did not care that they had to share him with so many other women and they apparently did that with a straight face. What a life they lived in concubinage that even late Princess Diana's anguish that there were three of them in her marriage to Prince Charles did not deter them.
The late Aalafin was an embodiment of power, money, privilege and groin prowess. He was an evidential testimony that women sometimes do not really mind sharing a man with other women provided he provides them their needs, plus more. He was a fashionista who refused to acknowledge that time was doing a number on him as he bleached his skin, dyed his hair and was somewhat indifferent that such a day as this would come when he made his exit from this world.
Why any person, especially a man his age still dyed his hair is simply vanity defined. He was a boxer growing up and that possibly helped him with his heart health as his sexual exploits with his many wives or more appropriately captured, concubines, was legendary.
May the soul of the departed Aalafin now rest as the battle for his successor will soon rage on. Possibly too, some of his numerous wives especially those without personal income, will now seek another harem to join for their upkeep. What a life they chose, largely in part for the gold which they dug from him and not necessarily that they were in love with him nor would have shared him had he been a poor man without power.
But hey, it is what it is. Life goes on for the living as the king is now abandoned in his lonely, dark and dank cold grave to rot in order to complete his life's cycle. Aalafin of Oyo Lamidi Adeyemi was 83 years and died of old age related infirmities. Adieu His Royal Majesty.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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