THIS WILL SHOCK YOU ABOUT POPULAR MYSTIC PROGRAMME PRESENTER, OTUNBA YEMI ODUNODU

If you are an ardent listener to Faaji 106.5 fm, Lagos, you should be familiar with a mystic programme titled "Mimi Aye" (Vicissitudes of Life) which airs on the Daar Communications owned radio station every Friday night between the hours of 10pm and 12am. And naturally, you should know the name of the eerie presenter of the programme is Otunba Yemi Odunodu.

Of course, Otunba Yemi Odunodu is no stranger to presenting such programme which dwells on the ills of evil doers in the society by bringing their wickedness to the fore through the penetrating power of the radio into different homes, especially, and sometime, through the visual dimension of the television across the south-western part of the country. After the demise of one of the pioneers of mystic programmes on both radio and television, Kolawole Olawuyi, the late presenter of "Iriri Aye" (Life and its Mysteries), Otunba Yemi Odunodu was his first substitute who went by the name Arole Kolawole Olawuyi (Kola Olawuyi's surrogate) and anchored the popular radio programme for some time to immortalized and keep the legacy of Kola Olawuyi alive.

But when things fell out between Otunba Yemi Odunodu and the management of Kolbim Communications, the producers of "Iriri Aye" which was being run by the wife of the late charismatic presenter, Otunba Yemi Odunodu went on to create his own mystic programme, the gospel of which he has taken to different electronic media where Yoruba language is allowed for programming and presentation.

It would shock you to know that contrary to the general misconception that because of the nature of the programme he presents, Otunba Yemi Odunodu should be occult himself in other to be able to ward off any evil targeted against him by some of the devilish people he exposes with his programme, Otunba Yemi Odunodu, as recently confirmed by this blogger is a devout Muslim whose Muslim name is actually, Tajudeen. Though, as suggested by his surname, Odunodu (the Odu which is the last part of the name when the first part, Odun, is removed means "the communication symbol of the Ifa Oracle") he is originally from the lineage of Ifa worshipers.

The presenter who usually wears big red beads around his right wrist which apparently is more of an insignia of his Otunba chieftaincy title rather than being an amulet, not only observe the five daily prayers in Islam but also knows how to pray well in the Islamic way.

And wait for this, the man who looks more like he is just in his mid forties or just nodding at fifty, is actually in his sixties and about three years gone beyond sixty. But not many are aware of that fact, even amongst his close associates, most of whom address him by his first name as if they are within the same age bracket!

You can take the pieces of information above to the bank because they were extracted first hand over last weekend in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, where this blogger had a one on one interaction with the mystic man who is a very warm and interesting personality to relate with.