The 10th Alaafin of Oyo was a female “King” who reigned.

The Oyomesi insisted that Oyo had never had a female king. They told Princess Orompotoniyun that they could not crown her as the king and would rather use either of the young princes, Ajiboyede or the toddler Tella Abiipa, as the Alaafin of Oyo.

Princess Orompotoniyun felt offended and told the Oyomesi that she would show them that she was “male” and brave, not illegitimate and female as they claimed. She promised to demonstrate why she was entitled to the throne and asked them to meet her at the palace in seven days.

From that day, Princess Orompotoniyun began dressing and acting like a prince.
On the seventh day, when the Oyomesi arrived at the palace, Princess Orompotoniyun removed the “male” agbada she wore. The Oyomesi were not surprised that she had little or no breast at all. They simply hissed and said, “It’s not new seeing a lady with a very small chest. That does not make you entitled to the throne; you are still a female. Even dressing and acting like a royal prince doesn’t change anything. You remain a princess, and a princess has never been crowned in our history. It won’t happen now.”
Orompotoniyun just smiled and removed her trousers. To their surprise, they saw not only what looked like a penis but also a scrotum sack with two scrotum balls dangling below the penis. It’s why she used to eulogize herself thus: “Emi Ajiun, a ri òbò sẹgun ọtẹ”.

Terrified, the Oyomesi immediately prostrated before the princess, eulogizing her and chanting, “Kabiyesi o.” She was immediately crowned Alaafin of Oyo.

Ruling from the town her predecessor and brother, Alaafin Egungun Oju, founded (near Igboho), the female “king’s” valor and leadership laid the foundation for the powerful “Old Oyo Empire,” uniting the entire Oduduwa race as a Yoruba nation and subjugating various towns up to Togo and Dahomey (now Benin Republic) with the Alaafin as the emperor.