Mr. P: One Named Peter | Vibe.ng Magazine October 2017 Issue | Page 9

We’ve lost it.
People will never understand but we’ve lost that
respect. Like I said in the open letter, we will
work in future but when we come back, it will be
from respect. There was no respect that’s why
there has been a back and forth. Aren’t you guys
tired of it? If I tell you that P-Square is back now,
people will say “You guys are tricking us”. Don’t
play with people’s minds.
I don’t have any problem. All I said is that, have
it at the back of your minds – P-Square is for the
fans. Peter, Paul. Jude and family, is family.
Whatever is out there, is what the fans need
to know. Last year, nobody knew what was
happening. “When are you guys releasing a
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song?” They did not know we were fighting but
we’d still go on stage and perform. All I wanted
was to keep the family together but what the
fans wanted was to have P-Square. We gave
you guys P-Square even though the family had
been ­fighting for about four years-even as of last
year that we claimed we were back. I cannot
even face the shame of making the fans feel that
we are okay. We are not okay. It’s not healthy. I
don’t have any problem with their own ­family. The
wives, everybody. I am cool with them. I don’t
know what’s wrong. I don’t know why it looks
as if the hatred is on my family. I’ve tried to ask
them what the problem is but nobody is telling
me ­anything.
People say why do I put my business on social
media? If I say I am not dealing with this manager
(Jude Okoye), it is for the public to know because
it is the public that will still call and book a show
with him.
It’s like saying Mr Charles and Mr James are
business partners and they own a beverage
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I give him my respect as an older brother. I don’t ­factory together. Mr Charles and his partner work
have a problem with that but when you disrespect together but Mr Charles doesn’t like his partner’s
me based on the job, then there’s a problem. One family. All the time, he insults the family. All the
thing I will never do when I come back to this life time, he says sh*t about the family. All the time
again is mix family with business.
he doesn’t attend the family’s functions. Do you
expect two of them to still be working together?
“You can’t remain in one place. People must Be honest with yourself.
expect and respect change.”
Now it looks as if the most important thing is for
Sometime in late September 2017, a letter of the 2 partners to be in the business while they are
termination from Peter Okoye hit the internet, fighting. They will come and smile to the people
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preceded by numerous subs and shades on that everything is fine. It’s not fine. There’s a way
social media, that pointed out the strife between you pinch someone; it will be painful at first and
the Okoye brothers. A video was also released of then later, you don’t even feel anything. I don’t
three of them arguing in the office of their lawyer feel it anymore.
Festus Keyamo, while Peter recorded. Though
he received a lot of backlash for releasing the What major lessons would you say you learnt
video, his reason was because he got tired of while in the group that will be applied to your
keeping up appearances and he wanted people brand as Mr P?
to know exactly what the situation was.
Don’t put yourself in a corner. Let no one ever
tell you “You cannot do it without me”. If there’s
Social media has indeed been utterly crazy. one thing I have learnt in all this, it is that being
Everybody has an opinion about this matter. a man is not just having 2 balls. Being a man is
How have you managed this intrusion?
about standing for your family. I cannot trade my