Posted by Samuel on Wed 03rd Dec, 2025 - tori.ng
Recounting a childhood experience, he said his family’s rented one-bedroom apartment was demolished after the landlord sold the property.
Peter Okoye, the famous Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Mr P or Mr P-Square, has disclosed that his greatest fear is poverty.
Speaking on a recent episode of the Nancy Isime Show, Mr P said he is not afraid of death, but of being poor.
Recounting a childhood experience when his family’s rented single-room apartment was demolished after the landlord sold the property, the singer said he does not wish to return to poverty.
He said: “I am not afraid of death. The only thing I am afraid of in this life is poverty, of being broke.
“I have tasted it [poverty] before. I have been in our house with my parents and siblings and a bulldozer came and demolished it.
“We were living in a boys’ quarter, me, my mum, my dad, all of us. The whole family, six boys and two girls living in a one-bedroom apartment.
"They had to divide the room with a curtain. So, the landlord had sold the compound, we were trying to plead to get some time to plan our relocation and then a bulldozer came and started demolishing the house while we were still in the building.”