What would have been a major royal fatality was averted earlier today when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adewusi Adeyeye, got stuck in the lift of Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
According to a viral video, staff and guests could be seen running around frantically to rescue the youthful king who was on his way from his suite to the ground floor when the lift got stuck.
However, it was gathered that minutes later, the Ooni emerged, seemingly unruffled, from the basement of the hotel with his palace bards and emissaries. He was seen waving to guests who stood around in shock.
Meanwhile, social media commenters averred that the lift had been problematic for a while.
A fashion model and winner, Face of Zaron 2017, said, “This miserable Intercontinental lift got me asking Jesus Christ for forgiveness and almost confessing my sins out loud that year I got stuck in it. Chaii, e bad.” To which another respondent, @alterpete, said, “And they’ve not bothered to work on it. They made me go on YouTube to watch ‘how to survive a crashing lift’ after my experience.”
Meanwhile, neither the management of the hotel nor the Ooni has commented on the mishap.
Thelagostimes gathered that the InterContinental Hotel was commissioned for business in September 2013 by Babatunde Fashola, a former Lagos State governor and current Minister of Works and Housing, who was later rumoured to be the owner.