Kemi Olunloyo, daughter of former Oyo State governor Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, has said she will not accept condolences following her father’s death on 6 April.
The controversial social media personality posted on Facebook, distancing herself from the family and accusing her late father of damaging their lives.
“I am not part of the Olunloyo family anymore,” she said, adding she had previously vowed never to return to Nigeria, even for her parents’ funerals.
In a video, Olunloyo claimed her father “destroyed” their family, alleging emotional and physical abuse. She said he presented a false image to the public while mistreating them privately.
“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 for all of us. When I said used me, he took advantage of my own positive energies.
“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 (EA) Adeboye that he wanted to become born-again and he did.”
She further stated that, “I know that I’m special and I know what God brought me here for. They wanted to kill my story but they didn’t but they killed Tayo; they killed my brother’s child. My brother that died at 51 who was in the ‘Ali Must Go’ car with me; remember he lost about half of brains and was paralysed for 43 years and lived with seizures and no livelihood. Tayo was buried after he died in 2021. Tayo would have been a great Mathematician. They ruined his destiny.”
Though she said she had forgiven him, she accused him of occult practices before his conversion to Christianity. She also blamed family conflicts on his marriage to a former campaign worker, Ronke Sonaike, alleging infighting and poisoning attempts.
“When Ronke came into our family, my father started all manners of occult things. It’s too long. It’s too painful.” She further alleged that her stepmother tried at a point to poison her mother which nearly claimed her life but landed her in the hospital.
For her mother’s part, she also recalled a time she put a miniature coffin under Ronke’s son, Olumide’s bed when he was living with the father at Molete. “Ronke said it’s my mom that put it there.”
Her father, a mathematician and politician, served as Oyo governor in 1983. He was 86.
