“It’s not death, it’s poverty,” Peter Okoye reveals his greatest fear
Invited on Nancy Isime’s show, Nigerian star Peter Okoye, aka Mr P, opened up about the anxiety that has haunted him since childhood. And the artist admitted he fears above all falling back into the poverty that shaped his beginnings.
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Nigerian star Peter Okoye, better known as Mr P, opened up about one of his greatest anxieties: poverty. A guest on Nancy Isime’s show, the singer explained that he does not fear death, but the prospect of sinking back into the destitution he experienced during his childhood.
Reflecting on a defining episode of his youth, Mr P recounted how the family’s modest apartment — a single room where his parents, siblings and he lived, divided only by a simple curtain — was abruptly demolished after the building was sold by its owner.
“I’m not afraid of death. The only thing that really scares me is poverty, of having nothing left,” he said. “I grew up in extreme hardship. We were eight living in a single room. One day, a bulldozer started demolishing our house while we were still inside. The owner had sold the entire complex and we didn’t even have time to move. “
An experience that, he says, shaped his determination and explains his deep fear of going through such destitution again.