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That fateful day, Aláàfin Majẹogbe needed to attend to some pressing issues in the palace after he must have done with bathing.
He loved using warm water, black local soap and sharp sponge to scrub his back which was done for him by one of his wives.
This daily back scrubbing on Aláàfin Majẹogbe was always done by his youngest wife who had taken it upon herself as daily responsibility for being the favourite amongst the other wives.
Aláàfin Majẹogbe stepped into the bathroom which was surrounded by hefty men to prevent prying eyes from seeing the royal nakedness.
In few minutes, Aláàfin Majẹogbe was almost done with bathing, he called on his youngest wife known as Olorì Segilọla to scrub his back for him.
Olorì Segilọla, the daughter of head of BATA drummers from Jabata clan, stepped into the bathroom and took the sponge from Aláàfin Majẹogbe and began to scrub his back gently.
Perhaps, out of excitement or curiosity or she was simply being under a spell, Olorì Segilọla, taunted Aláàfin Majẹogbe while he surrendered his back for her to scrub for him.
Olorì Segilọla, examined and tried to compare Aláàfin’s little body to the terror and fear it evoked in the public after the king must have put his kingly regalia on his little body.
Olorì Segilọla said jokingly: “Is it not amazing how little your body looks like a piece of meat yet dreaded by all and sundry! You are not even as agile as my father”.
Olorì Segilọla said jokingly as she scrubbed Aláàfin Majẹogbe’s back with sponge she held with her two hands.
Aláàfin startled but tried so hard to contain his rage over the careless utterances of Olorì Segilọla to ridicule him.
Aláàfin Majẹogbe was raged but struggled not to show it on his face.
Aláàfin Majẹogbe went into his closet, and he called two amongst his guards and began to whisper into their ears.
The two guards nodded their heads repeatedly as they tilted the upper parts of their bodies towards the position of Aláàfin’s mouth to listen to every instruction dictated by their lord to prevent possible eavesdropping.
The two guards went out hurriedly.
About an hour later, the two guards returned to the palace with a covered calabash held by one of the guards while the other held a sword that looked like it had just completed a task as it was obviously drooling fresh blood.
Aláàfin Majẹogbe, in the presence of the Ọ̀yọ́mèsì and other chiefs and everybody seated, called Olorì Segilọla to take a precious gift he had for her.
Olorì Segilọla took the calabash and tried to open it as her entire body began to shake for not knowing what exactly was in the calabash, she opened the calabash and her father’s head was seated comfortably in it.
“I did this to let you know that as little as I look in my body, I am mighty so much that I can do anything I like. That’s your father’s head in the container to let you know how powerful the man in this little body is”.
Aláàfin Majẹogbe boasted.
This incident led to the dethronement and execution of Aláàfin Majẹogbe by Bashọrun GA’A in the year 1774.
Ki alagbara se Jeje o,tori Kosi eni to m’ola.
Picture: The embattled Ọba Semiu Ogunjobi Olorile of Orile-Ifọ
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