Controversial media personality Kemi Olunloyo has publicly renounced her family name and severed ties with the family of her late father, former Oyo State Governor and renowned mathematician, Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo, who passed away on Sunday, April 6, at the age of 89.
In a series of emotionally charged posts and videos shared via her Facebook and TikTok accounts, Kemi declared that she would not be mourning her father’s death and has completely distanced herself from the Olunloyo family.
“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 further stated, “I am not accepting anybody’s condolences because I am not condoling with anybody.”
Although she claimed to have forgiven her late father, Kemi portrayed him as having led a double life—one publicly admirable and the other privately abusive.
“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.”
Olunloyo also alleged that the late governor was deeply involved in occultism before converting to Christianity in his later years.
She said, “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.”
Another major source of family discord, according to her, was her father’s relationship with Aderonke Omololu Olunloyo, formerly known as Ronke Sonaike. Kemi claimed that the late governor met Ronke during his 1983 governorship campaign, married her, and had a child with her—a development she said shattered her mother.
“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.
