For years, many fans believed the worst was over. After one of the most public breakups in African music, P-Square’s reunion in 2021 appeared to signal the end of years of family disagreements. Peter Okoye (Mr P) and Paul Okoye (Rudeboy) were back on stage together, performing across Africa and beyond, while their elder brother and former manager, Jude Okoye, remained largely out of the spotlight.
But behind the sold-out concerts and nostalgic performances, Peter now says the reunion was never what fans believed it was.
In recent weeks, the singer has pulled back the curtain through a series of lengthy videos, describing the reunion as “fake” and offering his own account of the disagreements that, according to him, continued long after the brothers reunited. Across five parts, Peter has revisited old business decisions, management disputes, royalty payments, company ownership, property sharing and the events he believes eventually destroyed the trust between him and his family.
His claims did not go unanswered.
Jude Okoye publicly defended himself, rejecting Peter’s version of events and offering his own explanation of what happened behind the scenes. The exchange soon drew wider attention, with Jude’s wife also sharing a message on Instagram after finding herself mentioned in the ongoing conversation. Peter then returned with another video, insisting there were still parts of the story that had not been told.
At the centre of the public dispute are two very different versions of the same history.
Peter argues that the conflict was never simply about money, but about honesty, transparency and trust. Jude, on the other hand, disputes key parts of Peter’s narrative, maintaining that the public is not getting the complete picture.
With every new video and response, the conversation has grown beyond a disagreement between brothers. It has become a public battle over the history of P-Square itself. How one of Africa’s biggest music groups rose to extraordinary success, why it fell apart, why its reunion did not last, and who should be believed when telling that story.
To understand the latest round of revelations, it is important to return to where this chapter of the family feud began.
How It All Started Again
The latest chapter in the Okoye family’s long-running feud did not begin with Peter Okoye’s five-part video series. It started with a controversy that had nothing to do with P-Square.
In July, Peter, popularly known as Mr P, came under heavy criticism after describing Nigerian languages as “useless” on X. His comments sparked widespread debate online, with many accusing him of disrespecting indigenous languages and culture.
As the backlash grew, his twin brother, Paul Okoye (Rudeboy), shared a post on X that many interpreted as a subtle response.
“100% proudly Igbo. 100% proudly Nigerian. I’m a ‘nobody’, I repeat!! A nobody!!, without the culture, native language.”
Although Paul did not mention Peter by name, the timing of the post fueled speculation that it was directed at him.
Feeling the need to explain why their relationship had remained strained despite P-Square’s reunion, Peter announced that he would finally tell his side of the story.
That promise led to Part 1, released on July 30, in which he made the startling claim that the widely celebrated 2021 P-Square reunion was “fake.”
According to Peter, he and Paul reconciled as brothers after Paul visited his home to seek forgiveness while Peter was away in Atlanta. Peter said he accepted the apology and embraced his brother, but made it clear from the beginning that he was only interested in restoring their relationship as family not reviving P-Square.
However, he claimed that almost immediately after the reconciliation, discussions shifted from healing the family to reopening the business. Peter alleged that meetings were organised with Jude Okoye, where plans were discussed for new bank accounts, concert bookings, management structures and how a reunited P-Square would operate.
In Part 2, released on August 1, Peter expanded on those meetings, explaining why he rejected the proposal for Jude to return as the group’s manager. He said he instead proposed a new structure that would place him and Paul on equal footing through a new company, Square Root Entertainment, with both brothers sharing ownership, signing authority and decision-making equally.
Peter also claimed that while fans celebrated P-Square’s comeback, he later learnt of an alleged disagreement between Paul and Jude that happened shortly before the reunion. According to him, that revelation changed how he viewed the reconciliation and prompted him to question whether the reunion was truly driven by a desire to rebuild the family.
Those questions, he said, eventually led him to examine P-Square’s business affairs more closely, setting the stage for the allegations about royalties, company ownership and financial transparency that formed the focus of Parts 3, 4 and 5.
The Revelations That Reopened Old Wounds
As Peter’s video series continued, one message remained consistent: in his view, the conflict within P-Square was never caused by a single incident. Instead, he said it was the result of years of decisions that slowly eroded trust within the family.
According to Peter, the disagreements went far beyond the music itself. He said they involved who controlled the business, who had access to the group’s finances, and how important decisions were made on behalf of P-Square.
One issue Peter repeatedly returned to was Northside Entertainment, the company that managed the group’s affairs. He questioned how the company was operated and who exercised control over its finances, saying those questions eventually pushed him to start seeking answers.
Peter explained that his suspicions deepened after he began making enquiries about the company’s accounts. Because he did not operate accounts with Zenith Bank or Ecobank, he said he reached out to his account officer at FCMB to help him understand some of the financial records he had become aware of.
According to him, although the officer could not hand over confidential banking documents, he was shown enough information to make him believe there were transactions that required explanation.
One transaction, Peter claimed, particularly stood out. He alleged that after P-Square’s 2017 split, royalty payments continued to enter Northside Entertainment’s account. He specifically referred to a payment of about $25,000, claiming the money was allegedly shared between Jude and his twin brother, Paul.
Peter stressed that the amount itself was not what troubled him.
“This is not about the money,” he maintained in the videos. “It’s about trust.”
He said discovering those transactions made him question whether he had been fully informed about how P-Square’s royalties were being managed.
Rather than immediately taking legal action, Peter said he first sought professional advice. According to him, his lawyer initially prepared a petition naming both Jude and Paul, but he instructed the lawyer to remove their names. Peter said he wanted the complaint to focus on Northside Entertainment as a company instead of accusing members of his family personally.
He maintained that his objective was to understand how the business had been run, not to criminalise his brothers.
Peter also claimed investigators later looked into the company’s operations for several months before inviting those connected with Northside Entertainment for questioning. According to him, investigators concluded that the company belonged to Jude and his wife, a development he said raised even more questions for him about ownership and accountability.
Peter further alleged that Paul was also invited during the investigation and was asked questions about the ownership of the company.
Away from the investigation itself, Peter said another discovery left him even more unsettled.
He explained that after P-Square’s music catalogue was eventually moved to the same distribution company handling both his solo music and Rudeboy’s catalogue, he began receiving royalty payments directly in US dollars for the first time.
According to Peter, those payments immediately made him wonder why similar royalties had not reached him earlier.
He claimed he confronted both Jude and Paul, asking who had been collecting the royalties before then. Peter alleged that Jude responded by telling him to meet the South African company that had previously handled parts of P-Square’s business if he wanted answers.
Peter, however, disputed that explanation. He claimed the South African company later provided documents indicating it had never collected those royalties because it had allegedly been denied access.
For Peter, each answer only created more questions. By the end of the fourth video, he insisted that what many people had dismissed as a disagreement over money had, in his view, become a much deeper issue involving transparency, accountability and trust within one of Africa’s biggest music families.
Part 5: Peter Says a 2015 Property Dispute Changed Everything
In Part 5 of his video series, Peter shifted the conversation away from royalties and Northside Entertainment, arguing that many of the events that unfolded years later only began to make sense after revisiting a dispute he said happened in early 2015.
“This incident that happened in early 2015… is now beginning to make sense to me,” Peter said, adding that information he later received during investigations made him look at the episode differently.
Peter recalled that after P-Square’s first split, the family’s jointly owned properties were divided among himself, Paul and their elder brother, Jude. According to him, the assets included an apartment in the United States and the well-known Squareville property in Omole, Lagos.
He said the three brothers agreed to divide the properties equally, even though he believed Jude, as the group’s manager rather than a member of P-Square, was not entitled to an equal share.
Peter also rejected claims that Jude financially built P-Square from the beginning, insisting that Jude “was just a student like us” when the group started. Instead, he credited their eldest brother, Henry Okoye, with supporting the family during their early years.
According to Peter, lawyers prepared a formal resolution stating that while three new houses were still under construction, he would temporarily own the apartment in the United States, Jude would occupy one wing of the Omole property and Paul would occupy the other. Because Peter’s property was considered slightly more valuable, he agreed to pay Paul about ₦30 million to balance the allocation.
Peter said everyone signed the agreement and he believed the matter had been settled. Peter claimed the situation changed after the value of the US property increased following the rise in the exchange rate.
According to him, while returning from a trip to Turkey, where he had spent several weeks with former Cameroonian football captain Samuel Eto’o, he received a message from the caretaker of the apartment in the United States asking why the property had been put up for sale without her knowledge.
Peter said he was surprised because he had not authorised any sale. When he arrived in Lagos for a scheduled performance, he said he immediately asked Paul whether he knew anything about the development. According to Peter, Paul said he knew nothing about it.
Peter then confronted Jude backstage. He claimed Jude responded angrily and threatened to slap him before attempting to physically confront him. Peter said other artistes and people backstage stepped in before the situation escalated further.
The incident, according to Peter, was the final straw.
“I said, ‘Guy, you are fired,’” Peter recalled, saying he immediately announced that Jude was no longer P-Square’s manager before walking away from the event without performing.
Peter also alleged that shortly afterwards, Jude shared a photograph on social media in which Peter had been edited out and replaced with a recording studio, a move he interpreted as payback.
The ₦30 Million and the Document Peter Refused to Sign
Peter said he later sought legal advice from Festus Keyamo, who advised him to pay Paul the agreed ₦30 million so ownership of the US property could be finalised.
According to Peter, Jude refused to release the money from P-Square’s accounts despite the group having substantial funds at the time.
Unable to access the money, Peter said he turned to his wife, Lola, who eventually persuaded her father to provide the ₦30 million needed for the settlement.
However, Peter claimed another surprise awaited him when the brothers later met at their lawyer’s office.
Instead of receiving documents confirming the property’s transfer, Peter alleged he was presented with papers stating that he had relinquished his shares in Northside Entertainment and that his position would be taken over by Jude’s wife, Ifeoma.
“I said, ‘I’m not going to sign it,’” Peter recalled.
He further alleged that while the dispute continued, construction work on his own house suddenly stopped, even though, according to him, the other houses being built with funds from Northside Entertainment continued receiving financing.
Peter said he informed his lawyer that he would not sign any document removing him as a shareholder.
According to Peter, the disagreement intensified after the property managers handling the apartment in the United States recognised him as the rightful owner based on the earlier agreement signed by all three brothers.
He alleged that Jude suggested waiting until everyone moved into their new homes so the original resolution would lapse and ownership could be revisited.
Peter said he rejected the idea and insisted he would simply move into his own property instead. It was during that conversation, Peter claimed, that Jude threatened him.
“If you come to my house, carry your coffin,” Peter quoted Jude as saying.
Peter said he immediately pulled out his phone and began recording the exchange, asking Jude to repeat the statement on camera. According to Peter, while he was recording, his twin brother, Paul, slapped the phone out of his hand.
Peter said he left the meeting but was later persuaded by his lawyer to return and collect the property documents.
Peter Links the Incident to the Present Dispute
Looking back, Peter argued that the events of 2015 explained why he believes attempts were made to remove him from Northside Entertainment.
He claimed that had he signed the documents presented to him at the time, he would have lost his stake in the company. Instead, he alleged, a separate company named Northside Music, was later created with Jude’s wife becoming a shareholder.
“Today, I won’t have anything to say,” Peter remarked, adding that refusing to sign the documents was one of the most important decisions he made.
For Peter, Part 5 was not simply another chapter in his account of P-Square’s breakup. It was his attempt to explain why he believes the disagreements over property, company ownership and management were all connected, and why, in his view, they continue to shape the family’s dispute today.
Jude Okoye Responds: “There Is More to the Story”
Peter’s videos quickly generated widespread debate online, but they also prompted a detailed response from Jude Okoye, who disputed key parts of his younger brother’s narrative.
In his response, Jude said it was “unfortunate” that the family had found itself in another public dispute, noting that the last major breakup of P-Square happened in 2017.
Rather than dismiss Peter’s allegations outright, Jude addressed one of the biggest claims raised in Part 3, about the royalty payment of about $25,000 that Peter said had been split between Jude and Paul.
Jude acknowledged that the payment was made into Northside Entertainment’s account and admitted that he and Paul shared the money.
“Yes, he was right,” Jude said. “The money was paid by Iroking into Northside Entertainment’s account. And yes, I and Paul split the money in two.”
However, he argued that Peter had left out the events that led to that payment arrangement.
According to Jude, the issue dated back to June 1, 2016, when Iroking, one of P-Square’s digital distribution partners, circulated an email regarding outstanding digital royalties.
Jude said the email followed separate conversations with both him and Peter.
Reading from what he said was the email, Jude claimed iROKING explained that Peter had instructed the company to pay his own share directly to him, while management had instructed that the remaining payments should continue to be made into Northside Entertainment’s account.
Jude also referred to another email from iROKING founder Jason Njoku, which, according to him, stated that P-Square had outstanding digital earnings of $38,673.
He said the email proposed that Peter receive $12,891 directly, while $25,782 would be paid into the Northside Entertainment account for Jude and Paul.
According to Jude, the arrangement was not secret but was communicated to everyone involved.
He explained that he initially wanted all royalty payments to continue going through Northside Entertainment because that was the account already registered with iROKING.
However, Jude said the disagreements within the group eventually led iROKING to suggest splitting the payment instead, allowing Peter to receive his own share directly while the remaining amount was paid into the company’s account.
“That was what was in the email,” Jude insisted, arguing that the transaction Peter highlighted in Part 3 could not be viewed in isolation because the email trail explained exactly why the payment was structured that way.
Jude’s response marked the first detailed attempt to challenge Peter’s recent allegations with documents and his own recollection of events, presenting a different interpretation of the same royalty payments that Peter cited as evidence of deeper problems within P-Square’s business affairs.
Jude’s Wife Breaks Her Silence
As Peter’s videos and Jude’s response continued to dominate conversations on social media, the dispute widened even further when Jude Okoye’s wife, Ifu addressed the controversy through an Instagram post.
Unlike Peter and Jude, she did not directly respond to the specific allegations surrounding royalties, company ownership or property sharing. Instead, she chose to speak broadly about truth, silence and faith.
“There comes a time when silence is no longer about fear, but about entrusting the truth to God,” she began.
She said she had become aware of stories that had been “twisted and manipulated” to drag her into disputes she neither created nor wished to be part of.
“I will not respond by trading accusations or fueling public conflict,” she wrote, adding that she had chosen to “let God be my witness” because, in her words, He knows “every conversation, every intention, and every truth hidden from human eyes.”
In the post, she referenced the biblical story of Ananias and Sapphira, saying that while people might deceive others for a time, “no one can deceive God.” She described God as the righteous judge who weighs every motive, exposes falsehood and upholds the truth in His own time.
She also said she had no desire to defend herself before people “committed to misunderstanding” her, expressing confidence that the truth would prevail without manipulation.
Rather than calling for judgment, she ended her message with a prayer.
“My prayer is not for judgment, but for mercy,” she wrote, asking God to bring conviction where it was needed, healing where there was brokenness, peace where there was unrest, and to lead everyone involved towards truth, humility, repentance and love.
Although she did not mention Peter by name or address any of the specific issues raised in the videos, her statement became part of the wider public conversation surrounding the Okoye family’s ongoing dispute.
More Than Money: A Family’s Fight Over Trust, Legacy and the P-Square Story
Although much of the public conversation has focused on royalties, bank accounts, properties and business decisions, both Peter and Jude have framed the dispute as something much bigger.
Throughout his five-part video series, Peter repeatedly insisted that his grievance was not simply about money. Instead, he argued that the real issue was trust.
Even when discussing the royalty payment that became one of the biggest talking points in Parts 3 and 4, Peter maintained that the amount involved was not his concern. According to him, what troubled him was discovering transactions that he believed should have been explained to him much earlier.
For Jude, however, Peter’s account leaves out important context.
In his response, the former P-Square manager acknowledged that some of the transactions Peter referenced did take place, but argued that they were carried out based on agreements and email exchanges involving all the relevant parties. By presenting emails and explaining how royalty payments were structured at the time, Jude sought to show that the financial decisions Peter questioned did not happen in secret.
The exchange left fans with two sharply different versions of the same events.
Peter believes years of unanswered questions about management, company ownership, royalties and property sharing exposed deeper problems within the family.
Jude, on the other hand, maintains that many of Peter’s claims cannot be understood without considering the wider circumstances surrounding the group’s business operations.
As both brothers continue to tell their stories publicly, the debate has gradually shifted.
For years, fans asked why P-Square broke up. Today, many are asking a different question: whose version of that history should they believe?
That question may prove even harder to answer.
Unlike previous disagreements that played out through brief interviews or social media posts, the latest fallout has unfolded through hours of detailed videos, public responses and personal statements. Each side has offered documents, timelines, personal recollections and explanations in an attempt to convince the public that their account is the accurate one.
Whether these revelations eventually bring clarity or deepen the divisions within the Okoye family remains to be seen. What is certain is that the conversation has moved beyond music. It has become a public examination of family, business, trust and the difficult relationship between personal memories and public history.
Conclusion
The story of P-Square has always been one of extraordinary success, remarkable talent and an undeniable bond between two brothers whose music shaped a generation.
But the latest exchange between Peter and Jude Okoye shows that, even years after the group’s breakup and reunion, many of the issues that divided the family remain unresolved.
Through five videos, Peter has shared what he says is his account of the events that led to the breakdown of trust within the family. Jude has responded by challenging key parts of that narrative, arguing that important details have been omitted and offering his own explanation of the decisions that have come under scrutiny. Jude’s wife has also spoken publicly, choosing to address the controversy with a message centred on faith, truth and silence rather than the specific allegations.
Whether the brothers eventually reconcile or continue to tell competing versions of the past, one thing is clear: the conversation is no longer just about why P-Square broke up. It is now about how the story of P-Square will ultimately be remembered and who gets to tell it.
