He talked about how he met the lady and fell in love with her amidst other beautiful ladies humping around him.....hear him out yourself as culled from Encomium Weekly below after the page jump:
PETER OKOYE and LOLA OMOTAYO’s authentic love story
THE love story of Peter Obumneme Okoye of P-Square and Lola
Omotayo 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.
When Lola got pregnant for Peter Okoye in 2008, ENCOMIUM
Weekly was the first journal to break the good news. In Lola’s word, the world
was told how their affair started, how they are getting on and their plan. Back
then, marriage was never in the picture.
In an interview with ENCOMIUM Weekly in April 2008, the then
Business development Director, FK:G2 (a top marketing outfit) poured out her
heart thus:
“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 the journal of record, 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 for 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.
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