The Man Who Spent a Year Accusing His Brother of Hiding Royalties Just Admitted, Under Oath, That He Also Hides Royalties

Let's rewind this one properly, because the irony needs the full runway.

For the better part of two years, Peter Okoye has been telling anyone who'll listen, Instagram, X, a seven-episode video series, and eventually a federal courtroom, that his elder brother Jude secretly set up a company called Northside Music to quietly collect P-Square royalties without telling anyone. Jude got detained, got bailed for ₦50 million, and is currently facing a ₦1.38 billion money laundering charge over it. Peter, meanwhile, positioned himself as the wronged party who broke his silence after "20 years plus" of staying quiet for the sake of family.

Except here's the twist nobody saw coming: under cross-examination this week, Peter himself admitted he personally received over $800,000 in SACEM royalties across a decade and simply never shared a cent of it with Jude. His reasoning? "The money was for the artistes", meaning him and Paul, since Jude wasn't a performing member. Which is, structurally, the exact same defense you'd expect from someone accused of quietly keeping royalty money for themselves. He just said it about himself first.

To make it messier, Jude's own camp has separately claimed that banking records show it was actually Peter who instructed his royalty share be paid straight to his personal account, while Jude and Paul's went through the shared company. And the EFCC's own lawyer admitted in an earlier hearing that the commission doesn't even have documentation to prove Peter's original $800,000 misappropriation claim against Jude.

So, to summarize where we are: a man built a public prosecution campaign against his brother for quietly keeping royalties, and in the process of testifying, confirmed he does the exact thing he's suing over. Paul, watching all this from the sidelines, still not speaking to Peter, might genuinely be the only Okoye brother who comes out of this looking merely "complicated" instead of "self-defeating."