King Solomon Of Africa : Simon Odo , The Nigerian Herbalist Who Married 68 Wives , Has 200 Children

Chief Simon Odo, a 69 year old herbalist, who married an 18
year old girl, Chidinma, as his 68th wife last year now says
he won’t marry again.
Odo, also known variously as Onuwa, King Solomon of
Africa or King of Satan was married to 68 women but some
of them had earlier died. Augustina Odo (nee Asogwa) and
Virginia, nee Mogbo from Oraifite were among the dead
ones.
Odo spoke in an interview with the South East Voice at his
palatial home at Aji, Enugu Ezike in Igboeze North Local
Government Area of Enugu State.

Onuwa who was armed with an Onward note book where
names of his wives and over 200 children
were listed according to their dates of birth said that his
first son, Emeka was born on December 15, 1969.
Hear what Simon Odo told Vanguardngr:
“I was born in 1947 on the day they had an eclipse of the
sun and the moon. There was darkness in the afternoon on
the day I was born. I was the only son of my parents. “I
was baptised as a Christian in the Catholic Church and I
even became a mass servant under Rev Father Desmond
McGlade.
I however became a herbalist because of circumstances
beyond my control. As I said, I was the only son of my
parents but because some of his relations wanted to take
over his landed property, they poisoned me. I contracted
tuberculosis and had to be treated for years.
At a point, I was even unable to walk for about five years
because I became lame. I ran to Ondo State in the South
West, where I trained to become a herbalist at the age of
15, before returning to the village.
I married 15 wives when my father was alive and the
situation prolonged his life. He died in 1992 at the ripe old
age of over 90 years. My first son has seven children and
four grandchildren. Any of my children who chooses to
become a Christian is free to do so, provided he/she must
become a Catholic. I don’t like the Pentecostal churches.”
Meanwhile, it was learnt that although Onuwa abhorred
seeing his children attend churches other than the Catholic
church, seven of them were ordained pastors at the Lord’s
Chosen Church. Hitherto, some of them attended Catholic
and Anglican churches while many of them took after their
father in his business.
However, the ordination of the pastors brought about a
radical Christian awakening in the extra-large family of
Chief Odo. In the past four years, there had been a
simmering misunderstanding between the pastors and
their father regarding his herbal practice.
The pastors were said to be mounting heavy pressure on
him to repent and turn to Jesus, a demand the herbalist
spurned.