The controversial media figure, Kemi Olunloyo has distanced herself from the family of her late father, Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, the former governor of Oyo State, and renounced her family name.
At the age of 89, the former governor passed away on Sunday, April 6. He was a well-known politician and mathematician.
Olunloyo stated in a number of videos and post on her Facebook and TikTok pages that she no longer views herself as a member of the Olunloyo family and that she would not be acknowledging condolences for her father’s passing.
“I am uploading video statements on my father’s death on TikTok. I am not part of the Olunloyo family anymore and told you that in 2024 that I will never return to Nigeria even if my parents died,” she said.
She added, “I am not accepting anybody’s condolences because I am not condoling with anybody.”
While she said she had forgiven her father, she described him as “two different people,” alleging that he presented a different image to the public than he did at home.
“You don’t know what’s going on in my family, and I don’t know what’s going on in your family.
“My father, Victor Omololu Olunloyo, is two different people. He was one person to the world; he was another person to the family. “My father destroyed our family unit; my father tortured us as kids. He tortured us emotionally and physically. My father ruined the family unit.
“My father marketed me as his favourite daughter and child to the world; he also marketed himself to me as that. But I was far from being his favourite. My father used me for a lot of things. My father did a lot to all of us. When I said he used me, he took advantage of my own positive energies.”
Additionally, Olunloyo reported that the former governor engaged in occult activities until later in life that he became born again.
She added, “My father was into ‘juju’ heavily. My father was into occult practices, and I called my father out on his 80th birthday. After I called him out, he went to Pastor E.A. Adeboye that he wanted to become born-again, and he did.”
She claimed that her father’s connection with Aderonke Omololu Olunloyo, formerly known as Ronke Sonaike, whom he met during his 1983 gubernatorial campaign and eventually married, was a major cause of strife in the family.
Particularly after Ronke became pregnant, which she said grieved her mother, she said the union caused a breach in the family.
“My mother married an intellectual, a man who got his Ph.D at 26 years old. And he turned into a polygamist. Not that polygamists are not good, but the way it happened to my family,” she said.
Neither the family nor representatives of the late governor have publicly responded to her claims as of the time of filing this report.
