Mr P claims late mother wanted apologies from brothers before she died

Nigerian singer Peter "Mr P" Okoye has claimed that his late mother, Josephine Okoye, kept asking his brothers, Paul and Jude Okoye, to apologise to him and his wife, Lola Omotayo-Okoye, about how they treated them. He said the apology never came before she passed away.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the singer’s mother died in 2012 in a hospital in India after heart surgery. Doctors first admitted her to St. Nicholas Hospital on Lagos Island before sending her abroad for more treatment.

Mr P shared this information in the latest part of his ongoing video series on social media. He has been talking about what led to the breakup of P-Square and the troubled relationship within the Okoye family.

The singer, who married Lola in 2013 after dating for several years, said his relationship with her faced strong opposition from Jude and sometimes Paul, even before their wedding. He said the tension continued after their first child was born, despite their late mother’s attempts to bring the family back together.

Mr P stated that only his eldest brother apologised after their mother stepped in. He said Paul and Jude never apologised before she died in 2012.

The 44-year-old said, "While our mum was still around, she felt my pain. She said, ‘Don’t worry.’ When I was telling her everything, I said, ‘Mum, look at it this way: you thought you were telling me some good news, that the child is mine, but see how everyone left.’ She said, ‘No problem, I’ll talk to your brothers, they will apologise to you.’ I said, ‘No problem.’ My mum went back to Jos, and after about a week, she called me.

"She asked me, ‘Have they apologised?’ I said, ‘Only the first son, our firstborn, has apologised.’ She said, ‘Don’t worry, they will all apologise.’ After a few more weeks, Henry apologised too, except Paul and Jude, the ones I live with; they never did. One month, two months, three months, four months, five months, our mum died, and the apology was never made. My mum told them to do it, but they never did."

Mr P also rejected his brothers’ claims that their late mother did not like his wife. He said his mother and Lola had a good relationship before she fell ill and had to go to the hospital in Lagos.

He explained that his mother had accepted Lola and often called her "our wife." He said, "When our mum was sick in Jos, we flew her all the way to Lagos; we took her to St Nicholas Hospital on the Island, we live on the Mainland. Our mum was admitted, and four of her pastors came all the way from Jos to be with her. Guess where they stayed? Lola’s house. Lola got up as early as six o’clock every morning to make food for them, breakfast, everything. By seven o’clock, she would take them to the hospital and stay there. We lived on the Mainland so that we would arrive around eleven. When we came, Lola would leave for work.

"We stayed with our mum in the hospital with the pastors. By around six o’clock, Lola would leave work; her office wasn’t far from St Nicholas, and she would come back to the hospital. As soon as she arrived, we would leave. She stayed at the hospital until midnight, then took the pastors back to their house. The next morning, the same routine was repeated for over two months. During that time, in that hospital, they still tried to create a narrative that Lola and my mum never had a relationship, even though before I married Lola, my mum was already addressing her as ‘our wife’,” said Mr P.

Mr P raised concerns that Jude was using his twin brother in what he called his "evil games." He insisted that he has never had problems with his brothers. He also claimed that Jude scheduled a show for him in Ghana the day before his wedding to Lola.

He said that even after giving Jude the fabric for the ceremony, Jude did not attend the wedding. He added, "When I had my own wedding, my elder brother, our so-called manager, never attended. Let me tell you how bad it was: the night before my wedding, Jude booked a show with Globacom in Ghana, and showed me a return ticket for the next day, my wedding day, on a 2 o’clock flight. I said no, and insisted until they got us a private jet. I was at my own wedding. I was trending online for the wrong reason; Jude had posted a picture of himself at Mavin studio with Wizkid, Dr SID, Phyno, Don Jazzy and the rest of them.

"Jude posted that picture and started trending. Someone commented, something like, ‘You didn’t attend your brother’s wedding.’ He responded along the lines of, ‘If our mum were alive, this wedding wouldn’t have happened’, or something like that. And people said Jude was with Don Jazzy, Dr SID, Wizkid and Phyno, but all of them still left that studio and attended the wedding. My own senior brother, my manager, refused. I even arranged a barber for him and everything."

Meanwhile, Rudeboy reacted to Mr P’s claims about their mother. He posted on his Instagram page that he regretted their mother was not alive to defend herself.

He wrote, "Unfortunately, you’re not here to defend yourself and us. Continue resting, mum."

As of now, Jude has not responded to Mr P’s latest claims.