I watched Peter Okoye’s recent video and, after looking into the history of the issues surrounding the P-Square family, I was left with one strong impression: Lola Omotayo may have been seriously misjudged and unfairly portrayed in the public space.
At the height of P-Square’s highly publicised family crisis, Lola, Peter Okoye’s wife, became a trending name for many of the wrong reasons. She was repeatedly dragged into the disagreement surrounding Peter, his twin brother Paul and their wider family, with some people portraying her as part of the problem.
But when the available facts are examined more carefully, a different picture emerges.
Lola Omotayo was not simply a woman who became famous because she married a P-Square star. Public biographies identify her as a business executive and marketing professional, with experience in event management and business development. She studied in the United States and later worked in Nigeria before becoming Mrs Okoye.
There have also been repeated reports about her family's business background. Available sources identify her late father as Oladipo/Dipo Omotayo, an oil-and-gas businessman associated with drilling and completion services. Lola has subsequently been identified with the family’s business interests, while the official Nosco Oil & Gas website currently lists her name and describes the company as operating in Nigeria’s energy sector.
This is important because it challenges the simplistic narrative that Lola was somehow a woman who entered Peter’s life because of money or celebrity status.
Peter and Lola’s relationship also predates their marriage by several years. The couple eventually married in 2013 and have two children, Cameron and Aliona.
So why did Lola become such a controversial figure during the P-Square crisis?
The answer appears to lie largely in the complicated family dynamics surrounding one of Africa’s biggest music families. P-Square’s disagreements were not simply about music. Reports over the years have pointed to disagreements involving family relationships, management, business and personal differences. The brothers’ 2017 split, for instance, was linked to disagreements involving their older brother and manager, Jude Okoye, while later accounts continued to expose deeper family tensions.
What particularly stands out to me is Lola’s repeated public attempts to promote peace within the family.
In 2021, after Peter and Paul reconciled, Lola publicly celebrated the development and expressed happiness that the brothers had allowed love to guide them. In 2022, she again celebrated both twins and prayed that they would never turn their backs on each other.
Even more telling, in 2018, amid accusations that she was somehow responsible for the P-Square crisis, Lola publicly celebrated Paul’s children and urged them to maintain their bond as siblings.
And in April 2026, reports again showed Lola maintaining affection for Paul and Anita Okoye’s children despite the continuing tensions between the brothers.
For me, these actions raise an important question: If Lola was truly determined to destroy the Okoye family, why would she repeatedly encourage reconciliation, celebrate the children and publicly promote family unity?
I am therefore disappointed by the way Lola has sometimes been represented in the media.
Family disputes are complicated, and outsiders rarely know the complete story. It is unfair to turn one person into the villain simply because she married into a famous family or became associated with a highly publicised disagreement.
Whatever may have happened behind closed doors between members of the Okoye family, Lola deserves to be judged on evidence rather than speculation.
She is a wife, a mother, a businesswoman and, above all, a human being who has had to navigate the extraordinary pressure that comes with being connected to one of Africa’s most famous musical families.
After watching Peter’s video and reviewing the history surrounding the controversy, my conclusion is simple: perhaps Lola Omotayo was not the problem people made her out to be. Perhaps she was simply caught in the middle of a family crisis that was much bigger and more complicated than the public ever understood.
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