Fatai Okoya, the 66-year-old eldest son of industrialist Chief Razaq Okoya, has apologised publicly to his father in an open letter and a TikTok Live session this October. He says the 2 have been estranged for 30 to 40 years and needs peace whereas his father is alive.
What prompted the rift? By Fatai’s personal account, two issues.
As a younger man, he took a small sum from his father’s firm, the Eleganza (*30*), which he calls reckless and too small to purchase a automobile. The rift widened when he married a lady his father disapproved of.
The sharpest flashpoint got here at Chief Okoya’s 86th birthday on January 12, 2026. Fatai says he noticed his father, however his stepmother, Shade Okoya, turned him away earlier than they might speak, and that his father recognised him but stayed silent.
Family associates supply one other studying on-line: that Shade was shielding an aged man from stress, and that the feud started years earlier than she married him. Chief Okoya’s brother, reportedly current for the published, mentioned she ought to have dealt with it with extra tact.
Fatai says he desires no cash and no share of the household wealth. His daughter Zee, who additionally spoke, says she has by no means had a relationship together with her grandfather and alleges somebody has blocked their makes an attempt to achieve him. That declare is unverified, and nobody has been named.
One factor stays unspoken. Fatai says he’s the one youngster his mom had with the chief, but he has by no means publicly named her, and her view of the rift is unknown.
Chief Okoya has not responded to his son’s letter or broadcast, and Shade has not addressed the birthday declare, so the daddy’s account of the unique dispute is unknown.
Among these unknowns, the published host requested businessman Baba Ijebu, described as a good friend of Chief Okoya, to talk to him a couple of assembly. No assembly has been reported.
