23. The Dishonest Wife (Afigbasoyun)

Feyida’s excessive desire to have a child will lead to the most incredible and extraordinary developments.

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Feyida’s excessive desire to have a child will lead to the most incredible and extraordinary developments.

Feyida, one of the two remaining wives of the Oba of Mabayi, is proud of her status as the first and favourite wife.  The Oba, despite his wealth cannot have a child by any of his wives, who have left him except Feyida and a young girl, Asake, his last wife.  Feyida does all she can to get pregnant, spending a lot of money. Believing fervently that she will have a baby soon, she is devastated and excessively jealous when she discovers that Asake is pregnant.  When Asake does not lose her pregnancy as Feyida has hoped and planned, thinking that this development will put her to shame, she decides to fake her own pregnancy with the help and collaboration of her doctor.  To achieve this, the doctor devises an intricate, well-thought-out plan that fools everyone right to the end, and Feyida takes possession of Asake’s baby.  Asake confronts Feyida who refuses to give up the child, and the Oba in trying to find out the true mother of his child is faced with the most extraordinary and shocking revelations, and a strange occurrence.

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