Singer Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, has reacted after his twin brother, Peter Okoye, also known as Mr P, alleged that their late mother, Josephine Okoye, mistreated his wife, Lola, during a family meeting years ago.
Rudeboy shared a brief message on his X account on Friday, a day after Mr P made the allegations in the latest episode of his ongoing video series detailing the prolonged feud within the Okoye family.
“Unfortunately, you’re not here to defend yourself. Continue resting, Mum.”
Mr P made the claims in the eighth episode of his tell-all series released on Thursday, where he recounted events surrounding a family meeting held at his Omole residence shortly after the birth of his son.
According to him, his late mother, alongside his brothers, Jude, Paul and Tony, as well as some pastors, confronted him and his wife over their relationship.
He said, “When we moved into Omole, our mom came to visit. My son was about five or six months old. When my mom visited, I gave her the master bedroom and moved into Jude’s room. I was expecting my mom to ask, ‘How is your new baby?’ My mom didn’t ask. She just said, ‘How is Lola? I hope she’s fine.’ She said, ‘Can you tell her to come?’ I said, ‘Okay, do you want to see the baby?’ She said, ‘No. Let her come first.’
“Then Lola was living on the Island. How do you expect me to tell Lola my mom wanted to see her and ask her not to come with the baby? I had to lie to Lola not to come with the baby because we had fumigated the house.”
Mr P said that after Lola arrived at the house, both of them were ushered into the master bedroom, where the family meeting was already underway.
He alleged that neither he nor his wife was offered a seat during the gathering.
“Everybody was seated… I went to call Lola. When she entered the room, nobody stood up or said, ‘Lola, sit down.’ Nobody even bothered to welcome her properly. Lola and I just sat on the floor.”
Mr P alleged that their mother then told his wife, “Young woman, we the Okoye family have decided that you should leave our son alone.”
He continued, “I said, ‘What is going on?’ A few days earlier, Lola and I had had a small quarrel, so she looked at me thinking maybe I had planned this to evict the relationship. She said, ‘Babe, what’s going on?’ I asked my mum the same thing. Next thing, Jude said, ‘Leave our brother alone.’ I looked at Jude’s face.”
The singer further claimed that Jude later picked up a photograph of his infant son and made a derogatory remark in Igbo, which Lola understood to mean the child was a “bastard.”
“Lola started crying. The pastors tried to calm her. They pushed Lola out of the house,” he alleged.
Mr P also alleged that before the confrontation, Jude and Rudeboy opposed Lola’s pregnancy and circulated an anonymous email questioning the paternity of his unborn son.
“Nothing that Jude and Paul didn’t do for Lola to take that pregnancy out,” he alleged.
He further claimed that their late mother later acknowledged that the child was his biological son and instructed his brothers to apologise, but said the apology never came before her death.
Mr P also dismissed claims that Lola had a poor relationship with his late mother, insisting they remained close until her passing.
“When my mom was sick… Lola stayed with her in the hospital till midnight and took the pastors back home every day for over two months,” he said.
The singer also claimed that before her death, their mother asked Paul and their elder brother, Jude, to apologise to him, but they never did.
