A source at the palace of the late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, has revealed that the late traditional ruler desperately sought miraculous healing from a self-styled prophet of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC).
Late Ooni of Ife
SaharaReporters have revealed the late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade some days before his passing away in a London hospital sought spiritual help to stabilize his ailing health status. He reportedly consulted with a prophet of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) for assistance. The unnamed prophet took the Ooni to a river in Ile-Ife for some ritual rites but the act failed to improve the health status of the late monarch.
His health status deteriorated more shortly after his arrival in London. According to a source who spoke to SaharaReporters, the monarch's poor health status prompted the late Ooni to mandate one of his aides to contact the white garment man through a text message. The prophet visited the palace and prescribed a spiritual bath for him at a river. It was reported that the late Ooni's wish was to be healed to enable him attend his son’s wedding before returning to London for treatment.
But the source disclosed that the prophet’s intervention produced no result as the Ooni “left the river unable to stand up. Palace guards helped him physically to reach the palace.”
After the ritual bath, the prophet reportedly declared that the signs were not good.
The late Sijuwade was also realistic, regretting that he would be in no position to attend his son’s wedding when he could not even walk by himself.
The day after the failed ritual, the Ooni was flown out of Nigerian in an air ambulance.
On arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport, he was conveyed in an ambulance equipped with life support gadgets to a clinic at 20 Devonshire Place W1G 6BW, arriving at the hospital around 10.30 p.m. on Friday July 24, 2015.
The late Ooni was admitted into the Critical Care Unit on the 3rd floor of the London Clinic, with a medical team that included five specialist consultants monitoring him until his death at 7.10 p.m. on Tuesday July 28.
Oba Sijuwade owned a mansion in London that is a few minutes from Victoria train station and just yards away from the Buckingham Palace Gardens.
Sources said members of his family, including his many wives (called Oloris), were in the UK and by his bedside as he died.