IGBINEDION And OBA's Family Resume Hostility, Dissolve The Marriage Of Their Children



The Embattled Couple: Gabriella and Aven

 Two celebrity star families in the Benin Kingdom of Edo State - the Iginedions and that of the Oba of Benin - have once again put on their boxing gloves. This time, the victims are their daughter and son - Gabriella Onosede Igbinedion and Prince Aven Akenzua respectively -  who got married a couple of years ago.
Star Weekly! gathered that residents of Edoyaye Avenue off Osawe Street, Etete, GRA, Benin City, were thrown into panic when armed mobile policemen, said to be acting on the order of the Esama stormed the palatial mansion of his in-law (Aven) in two lorries to evacuate his daughter’s belongings.

Aven is a son to Enogie Uyieken Akenzua, the younger brother of the Oba of Benin, His Royal Highness, Oba Erediauwa and had against the wish of the Benin palace forged ahead and got wedded to Omosede, the eldest daughter of Lady Cherry Igbinedion.
The marriage produced a baby boy in 2009 and was widely celebrated by the house of Igbinedion in a grand style.
A palace source who craved anonymity said the marriage probably crashed on the ground that the ancestors as epitomised by the Oba of Benin never gave their support and blessings as required by Benin tradition.
In what appeared to be a total disregard to the apparently disapproval of the Benin monarch to the marriage, Chief Igbinedion and Enogie Uyieken gave their son and daughter in an uncommon colourful royal traditional/church wedding on December 31, 2008 and January 5, 2009 respectively.
Consequently, the marriage was said to have triggered unprecedented vexation in Benin Kingdom as Oba Erediauwa eventually drew a battle line against his younger brother for daring to discard his advice.
The travails of Igbinediion, who has since been stripped of his Esama title by the Benin Traditional Council, started when without recourse to the Benin monarch, the traditional custodian of beads, single handedly gave out traditional beads to JP Patterson, former Prime Minister of Jamaica and co-visiting Aghantehene of Kumasi.