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Peter Obumneme Okoye of P-Square and Lola Omotayo’s love story is
compelling and amazing.
The couple have been in a relationship for over
eight years before they finally tied the knot on Sunday, November 17, 2013.
In an interview with ENCOMIUM Weekly in April 2008, the then Business
development Director, FK:G2 (a top marketing outfit) had poured out her
heart about her relationship with Peter:
My agency handles some of British American Tobacco brands and P-Square
was doing a show for us at one of our events in Enugu. Though I had met
Peter a couple of times before then, at the show there was some
chemistry.
He asked for my number and I refused giving it to him. I told him if
you really want to know me, you have to find my number. So he took it as
a task and found my number and the rest is history.”
Lola, said to be 35 back then, and the popular singer in his 20s, was not disturbed by the age difference.
Her defence:
Like I said, Peter is an old soul and he always tells me that I’m like a
23-year old. Age is just a number. Right now, you can see it around the
world. Demi Moore, Usher and some known people. Even in Nigeria here,
they are dating people far older than their age. So, we shouldn’t base
it on the age factor. He doesn’t make me feel like he’s younger than
me.”
On the future of their relationship, Lola who now has two children for
the music super star had also told ENCOMIUM Weekly, she is not really
particular about marriage.
The truth is I’m not particular about marriage. Marriage is not something you rush into. To me, it is over rated in Nigeria.
Here, they say marriage completes a woman, but I don’t believe in that.
There is so much that completes a woman and marriage is not it. I’ve
never focused on that. I’m not the little girl who dreams of her wedding
day. I’m not afraid to be alone.
I pray, I am not going to end up alone for the rest of my life, I want a
life partner. But the tag, marriage is not something I think is the
ultimate. I would take my time rather than rush into marriage only to
later discover that it is not what to expect.
And Peter, as well, is dealing with his own career and he wants to focus
on that. And you know, may be in a year’s time, I would be ready to get
marriage and if he’s not ready then, we get to go our separate ways.
The truth of the matter is that marriage is not in the picture for me
right now.”
Lola further narrated how she was struck by cupid’s arrow: she confessed
they were friends for a while before they got intimate:
“Not that long. He was too fine, so I had to kiss him. In the beginning,
we were coming from different walks of life and there were later
adjustments. When I’m into something, I’m into it, 100 percent. People
just look at the social status thing. He’s an entertainer, she’s a
career girl, but it’s not about that. He’s not the first artist I’ve
dated, not a Nigerian though. He was an international act.”
Peter of P-Square had always told his family and friends it is either
Lola or nobody. Even when a former beauty queen and a struggling rapper
allegedly got romantically involved with him, he had to disown her for
the sake of his love for Lola Omotayo.
Despite their different cultural backgrounds and career paths, the
popular artiste’s love for Lola did not wane. Even when she got pregnant
with their first baby, he didn’t shy away from his responsibility.
“The pregnancy is mine and nothing on earth can make me deny it. After
all, I didn’t impregnate a street girl. The person carrying my baby is
an independent and responsible lady who I love with all my heart. So,
the baby is mine and I’m proud to be the father. As for marriage, I
don’t have plans for it yet.”
Pretty Lola Omotayo, a native of Osogbo in Ifelodun local government of
Osun State has obviously got more than she bargained for from her more
than eight year romance with the Anambra-born Peter Okoye.
From leisure trips to exotic car gifts, the half-caste in her late 30s
has been pampered far beyond her dreams by the singer whose songs are
the toasts of many in Nigeria and beyond.
And now they have consummated their union the traditional way, their
family, fans and associates are wishing them everlasting marital bliss.