The twice-married Emmanuela Ropo, once linked with the Ooni of Ife is in the news again.
She is getting married to a popular top Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as Kwam 1, today.
Pre-wedding photos have gone viral fueling controversies about the lifestyles of the couple.
Emmanuella was twice married with children. Her first marriage was to one Joshua Adewale, an oil dealer, and it produced two girls, and thereafter she hooked one Femi, and had her third child – a boy
Kwam 1, aka K1 De Ultimate, for the umpteenth time, is being romantically linked with women associated with royalty.
Recall that he was recently accused of dating one of the wives of the Alaafin of Oyo, Iku Baba Yeye, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III.
Although Kwam 1 denied this allegation in a statement issued by his media adviser, Kunle Rasheed, but the revelation reportedly led to the sack of the 22-year-old Olori (Queen) Badirat Ajoke Adeyemi, who was the Alaafin’s 9th wife, from the palace on grounds of infidelity with Kwam 1.
Olori Badirat, a mother of three, has a twin for the traditional ruler.
The controversial report came shortly after Oba Adeyemo installed Kwam 1 as the Mayegun of Yorubaland.
Kwwm 1 had insisted that report linking him romantically with Alaafin’s Olori was fake news, stating then that he could not have brought disrepute to Yoruba culture and tradition by his alleged actions.
Not strange to controversies, Kwam 1 has face allegations of infidelity, including his alleged affair with the daughter of another Fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma, and his wife’s impregnated cousin.
Kwam 1 popularized a brand of the fuji genre of music based on the work of the fuji creator, Ayinde Barrister, known as Talazo fuji.
His first album titled Iba with the special track ‘Abode Mecca,’ was released in 1980, and thereafter, his most successful album Talazo ’84, in 1984. He has won many titles and several music awards.
