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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the wife of late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Alaafin of Oyo, Olori Kafayat, has passed away.
This comes a few months after the death of her husband Oba Adeyemi III.
Details of the queen’s death are still sketchy. This news platform gathered that Olori Kafayat breathed her last on Friday night.
Olori Kafayat Adeyemi, who was the fourth wife of the late Oba Adeyemi III, was the mother of Prince Adebayo Adeyemi (D’Gov), the present Chairman of the Oyo State Local Government Pensions Board.
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, who died in April, lived his life to the fullest.
He was a boxer, gym enthusiast, a dandy dresser, quite energetic (he embarked on a three-hour road walk on his 82nd birthday) and boasted of some of the most beautiful queens in his harem.
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That his light-skinned oloris, all 18 of them, could pass for beauty queens was never in doubt.
Before her demise, she was popularly known as Iya Aguo or Iya Ibeji in the Oyo Kingdom.
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