Royalty Dispute: Peter Admits Jude Sent Him Six Years of P-Square Royalty Records

Singer Peter Okoye of the defunct music duo P-Square admitted before a Federal High Court in Lagos that his elder brother, Jude Okoye, sent him six years of the group's royalty records covering 2016 to 2022. Peter made the admission while being cross-examined by counsel to Jude, Clement Onwuewunor, SAN, in the ongoing trial of Jude and his company, Northside Music Limited, over alleged financial crimes. The singer had earlier claimed that it took Jude more than three months to provide the backend royalty records after he requested them in 2022. However, under cross-examination before Justice Alexander Owoeye, Peter was confronted with the assertion that he requested the records on October 16, 2022, and that Jude obtained and sent them to him six days later, on October 22. Peter disagreed, insisting that he had made the request earlier in 2022, but when asked to produce a text message, email, or other document showing the request, he could not.

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