Life, inexplicably, doles out different shades and colours of challenges to every individual. And with equanimity, you can’t just help but continue to carry yours.
For a powerful and influential first class traditional ruler in the South West, the heavy cross he’s been carrying for quite some time now is one of his sons, Ade. The young man, according to what YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine gathered, was recently bundled to Aro Psychiatric Hospital, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. And the reason is his unusual and abnormal behaviour! Or to put it more succinctly: the guy has a mental issue.
A source who is very close to the family told us that he is so reckless with money, drinks and smokes heavily and also fights at the slightest prompting. “His destructive tendencies are just out of this world, and I guess that must have prompted his father to take him there. Perhaps to see how that could be remedied and salvaged.
“He scales the palace fence, threatens to beat his elders up and engages in all manner of untoward behaviour. As would be expected, his father is so, so sad about this. He has talked and talked, and preached and preached. But Ade just wouldn’t listen. Which I guess prompted his being taken there – perhaps as Kabiyesi’s last resort”.
Interestingly, all the guy’s other siblings are well behaved. Yet the father is still not happy because he can’t imagine his son misbehaving this much. The traditional ruler plays in the A-list. He has alphabet A beginning one of his names and is widely respected, both home and abroad.