Saints and scoffers and princes and paupers all are vulnerable to the dictates of love. Thus, even the exalted father of Ikateland, Oba Alayeluwa Saheed Ademola Elegushi, Kusenla III, is susceptible to love’s cuddles and love’s kisses. Because Elegushi is amiable to a fault, one might have assumed that he loves and favours everyone equally—and then Queen Hadiza came along.
Queen Hadiza Elegushi, the happy wife and mother of the Crown Prince of the Ikate-Elegushi lineage, has become the queen after the king’s heart. People say that nothing is more attractive like a wife committed to her husband’s purpose and duties, and so Queen Hadiza is up there with such people.
If folks ever doubted that Elegushi had begun to favour Queen Hadiza beyond perfunctory embraces, they had to think again after the 40 Days Fidau of Alhaji Umar Saro. During that event, Elegushi openly showed Queen Hadiza enough love to satisfy Solomon’s harem. Moreover, Queen Hadiza was also unceasing in her efforts to show that this royal father, this man of utmost nobility and gentleness, is her husband and king.
Of course, such public displays of affection are nothing compared to what goes on in their privacy. It is obvious that neither party spares anything in their devotion to one another, and so they have to limit it to whispering ‘sweet nothings’ and finding excuses to touch hands in public, or the whole of Ikateland would blush furiously for a year and a half. But Queen Hadiza has earned this much.
Just a few weeks ago, it was Queen Hadiza who was running up and down to make sure that Elegushi’s 45th birthday and commemoration of 11 years on his fathers’ throne was such a colourful event. More so, the proud mother would have to keep both eyes on the Crown Prince, her son, whenever Elegushi is unable to. Who will teach him (the Crown Prince) how to admire and appreciate his own wife when the time comes? Best that he learns it from his mother’s laps and in his father’s presence.
And that is love for you, unclutching a king from the typical sombre disposition and giving him something to warm his heart. Indeed, Elegushi and his queen, Hadiza, are lucky to have each other
