Yejide was a young girl whose beauty caught the eye of Prince Adefemi from Igbonla village who was passing through Ilukan village.
He had been attracted by her beauty even though she was a poor girl who was being maltreated by an unreasonable step mother following the step of her mother.
Prince Adefemi had run into her while returning from a town he had gone to visit. He met her on her way from the stream and her beauty captivated him.
He did all that he could to marry her despite refusal from her stepmother and then her father. But when the prince begged the Ilukan king to intervene, the old king Aderibigbe of Ilukan sent for the young maiden and her father. The king ordered her father to accept the prince as his in-law.
When Yejide's father got home and told his wife what the King had said, Yejide's step mother was not happy. She did not want her step daughter to be married to a prince because it would change the girl's status and fortune. She urged her husband not to accept.