There is a version of this week's P-Square story that starts in a Lagos studio in 2013, with Jude Okoye behind the camera and his twin brothers performing a tribute to Michael Jackson. There is another version that starts in a courtroom, with Jude answering questions about millions of naira in allegedly laundered funds. This week, both versions are the same story.
Since 30 July, Peter Okoye has used a multi-part tell-all video series to accuse his elder brother and former manager, Jude Okoye, of mishandling P-Square's royalty payments, according to a Pulse Nigeria timeline and Punch's reporting on 9 August. Seven installments in, he was naming his twin, Paul, too.
In the middle of it all, a clip resurfaced of Peter telling a very different story — about the song Akon once helped write for a Michael Jackson collaboration that never happened. The record that did get made, and that Jude directed, is now part of the case fans are building for one brother against the other two.
What Peter is actually alleging
The specifics, as they have accumulated across the series: by its seventh part, Peter was accusing both Jude and Paul of diverting money, putting the diverted royalties at more than $1.2 million, according to Pulse Nigeria and Citizen Digital's coverage of the feud.
More than $1.2 million in P-Square royalties allegedly diverted — Peter Okoye's claim by part seven of his tell-all series, per Pulse Nigeria and Citizen Digital.
Punch reported on 9 August that Peter's allegations go further still — that Jude secretly incorporated a company called Northside Music Limited to collect P-Square's royalty payments. Jude has denied the claims outright, calling them "blatant lies" and "manipulative tactics." Paul, notably, had issued no direct response of his own.
The paper trail already in court
This is not the first time Jude Okoye's handling of money has faced legal scrutiny. He was earlier arraigned over alleged money laundering totalling N1.38 billion, $1 million and £34,537.59, and in a cross-examination back in February 2026, Peter himself admitted to being a co-signatory on an account belonging to a separate entity, Northside Entertainment Limited, Punch reported.
Two similarly named companies, two different roles for Peter — accuser in one, co-signatory in the other — sit at the centre of a dispute that, on the numbers alone, is now worth well over a billion naira in disputed and allegedly laundered funds combined. It is worth being precise about which is which: Northside Music Limited is the company Peter says Jude used to quietly collect royalties; Northside Entertainment Limited is the account Peter has already admitted, under cross-examination, to co-signing.
The record that started as a tribute
As this site reported on Thursday, the feud has also dragged a much older story back into view: Peter's account of how Akon once helped write an Afrobeats song meant for an actual Michael Jackson collaboration — a project that died with Jackson in 2009, according to Legit.ng and TheNiche.
The song that did get finished is "Personally," P-Square's Jackson tribute, released on 21 June 2013 and shot in Lagos by Jude — credited as "Engees" Okoye — alongside director Clarence Peters. Jermaine Jackson thanked the pair on video the following month, and the record passed one million YouTube views within three weeks, according to MJ World Network and Wikipedia.
The brother who shot it, the brother now accused
That is the irony sitting at the centre of this feud. The brother Peter now accuses of quietly diverting royalties through Northside Music Limited is the same brother who, in 2013, stood behind the camera and helped direct the video that became P-Square's biggest tribute to their idol — a video good enough that a member of the Jackson family publicly thanked him for it.
Whatever else the courts and the timelines eventually sort out, that contradiction is doing real work in public opinion right now. The catalogue being fought over, including the goodwill "Personally" built, was assembled by the same hands now named in the allegations.
This is also why the Northside Music allegation cuts so deep. Royalties from a catalogue this culturally loaded were never just numbers on a spreadsheet — they were the shared proceeds of the moment that made P-Square global. If Peter's account holds up, money from the very record that built that crossover credibility was, in his telling, being quietly rerouted away from the brothers who made it.
It also complicates any tidy narrative about who the villain is here. Jude is the brother facing the allegations now, but he is also the brother whose direction made "Personally" land the way it did — timed, staged and shot well enough that a member of the Jackson family took notice. Whatever the courts eventually decide about Northside Music Limited, that earlier chapter of the story does not simply cancel out.
Where the fans have landed
Punch reported that fans have largely sided with Peter through the series, and are openly demanding that Paul break his silence and take a side. The engagement has followed him: Peter's Instagram following grew from around 11 million to more than 12 million over the course of the series, per Punch's 9 August report.
It is a very different kind of virality than "Personally" earned back in 2013. Then, a tribute video racked up views because fans wanted more P-Square. Now, allegations and a family rift are doing the numbers, and the same catalogue — the same royalties — is the prize in both stories.
For now, the fans doing the loudest talking are choosing sides based on video installments and old footage, not court transcripts. That is not necessarily fair to Jude or Paul, but it is what happens when one brother controls the camera and decides, seven parts in, to keep rolling.
Paul's silence is, at this point, its own kind of statement — read by some as neutrality, by others as complicity by omission. Until he speaks, or Jude's legal answer to the Northside Music allegations goes beyond a denial, the family war plays out the way Peter has framed it: one brother's camera, pointed at the other two. The same camera, in a different decade, once pointed at Michael Jackson.
