The General Overseer, Egbe Emere Onitesiwaju (Progressive Peers of Heaven Society), Priestess Oyelola Elebuibon, has tasked members of the society not to leave their healthcare issues with herbalist alone, but to consult with medical doctors if the need arises.

She also stressed the need for Nigerian women to embrace polygamy as a way of life, saying it strengthens the extended family system common to the African society.

Speaking at the 2025 annual anniversary of the society in Osogbo on Wednesday, Elebuibon said spiritual attacks do not only require spiritual solutions, but also require traditional, herbal or Orthodox solutions.

She said many spiritual attacks manifest in different types of diseases and after appeasing the gods to stop such attacks, one still needed to consult with either traditional healers or medical experts to restore normalcy in their body system.

“When the spirit is unwell, it can manifest in our physical body. It is not all sickness that is spiritual, that is why we must take care of our health needs with the required wisdom. If we feel unwell, let us seek help both from traditional herbalists and Orthodox experts.

“Spiritual attacks manifest in the physical body, hence even after the necessary spiritual cleansing, we still need to consult traditional medical and Orthodox expert to ensure that the body system is fully recovered,” she said.

On the issue of polygamy, she urged members and women across the country to stop the act of killing themselves or husband because of a second wife, stressing that marrying more than a wife is part of the African culture and should be sustained by the present generation.

“Polygamy is an exclusive part of African culture. Women should desist from killing themselves or their husbands because of another woman. We must not denigrate our culture in order to pace way for Western civilization,” she said.

Also speaking, the Yeye Bobajiroro of Oyotunji, USA, Mrs. Olajide Ojefomola, said African women should not only discover their inner spirit to live in harmony with their physical body but should also realize that polygamy is African and must be preserved rather joining to preserve the Western culture of “one wife, one husband.”

In his remark the President, Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, Osun State, Dr. Oluseyi Atanda, charged women not to shy away from identifying their spiritual being and nurture it, rather than being influenced by foreign religions about their spiritual well-being. (Vanguard)