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Why I Married Peter Okoye Despite Our Age Differences – Wife, Lola Omotayo Opens Up

Peter Okoye, a member of defunct Nigerian music duo P-Square has been married to his beautiful wife Lola Omotayo for 9 solid years.

Their love story is one that inspires as tied the knot in November 17, 2013 after they fell in love.

Their marriage was subjected to many controversies as most Nigerians quizzed why Peter settled on a woman far older than her.

Why did she decide to marry someone who is like a junior brother to her?

Below is Omotayo stand on this issue of their age differences.

Lola Omotayo narrating how she met Peter and how they start their relationship.

She said, “my agency handles some British American tobacco and the P’ square was doing a show for us at one of our events in Enugu. Though I have met with peter a couple of times this time at the show, there was a kind of connection.

“He asked for my phone number, but I refused. I told him, if he really wants to know me, he should find it himself. He took it as a task and he found it. The rest is history.

According to Lola, she being in her 30s and Peter in his 20s wasn’t a disturbance to their relationship.

She added further,’ like I said peter is an old soul and he always tells me that I’m like a 23 years old. Age is just a number. It is nothing new in the world, you can see it around as people date people far older than them.

So we shouldn’t base it on the age factor. He doesn’t make me feel I’m older and he is younger than me.