P-Square Split : Life Lessons After Bitter 2017

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Written by Pharis Kinyua

Five years of a nasty separation gave P-Square twins Peter and Paul Okoye a sense of financial management. 
Speaking in a recent interview with Larry Madowo on CNN, the award winning Nigerian artists maintained that they now make better financial decisions. 
Paul said that they are so focused on plowing back their music earnings into their private businesses.  They no longer spend heavily on luxury items like they did before they separated. 
“Now that we are back together, as more money is coming in I know where I am putting it. But then it was just wristwatches, chains. But now it is different,” Paul said. 
P-Square always maintain that family issues were behind their separation and it had nothing to do with their music. 
At the centre of their dispute was their elder brother Jude Okoye who doubled up as their manager. 
P-Square had a dispute over Jude’s role in their music career and it was one of the things that Peter says were family issues that led to their separation. 
Besides, the brothers, at some point flirted with the idea of going solo and Paul went Solo as ‘Rudeboy’ after their split in 2017. 
Following their reunion in 2021, P-Square say that all things happened by God’s design and not their own. 
“We didn’t decide (to come back together) God made it happen. It became normal. We always going to look for that wind of change. Sometimes when things happen, always take the positive part of it and drop the negative parts,” Paul adds.