Fatai Okoya, who identifies himself as the first son of billionaire industrialist Chief Razaq Okoya, has publicly appealed to his father for forgiveness after decades of estrangement.
Fatai made the appeal during a TikTok Live session on Monday with blogger Yeye Kudi Court Room, where he spoke about the disagreement that he said had kept them apart for about 40 years.
He attributed the family rift to a financial dispute involving his father’s company and his decision to marry a woman his father reportedly disapproved of.
According to Fatai, the disagreement began after he took money from his father’s company. He maintained that the incident did not warrant the decades-long separation that followed.
“I did not embezzle much money. If it was much, I would have built a house and bought planes and cars,” he said in Yoruba.
Fatai said he had made repeated attempts to reconcile with the businessman but had yet to achieve the outcome he wanted.
“I have tried to make peace for 40 years,” he said.
He also alleged that he was prevented from approaching his father during the businessman’s 86th birthday celebration, an experience he said left him disappointed.
“But my father did not have anything to say. So I had to turn back and go and sit down in my chair,” Fatai recounted.
Insisting that his appeal was not motivated by money, Fatai said he wanted an opportunity to rebuild his relationship with his father and restore his place within the family.
“I’m begging my father. To err is human, to forgive is divine. He should please overlook all my behaviour then as a child,” he said.
He further appealed to the businessman to approach the matter with the wisdom that comes with age and allow the family to resolve the disagreement.
“He should please see that I, too, am a grown man. He should use his elderly wisdom to embrace us and bring us back to the family so that the issue can be settled once and for all,” he added.
Fatai’s daughter, Zee, also expressed her desire to help reunite her father with his grandfather, suggesting that reconciliation would mean a great deal to the family.
During the session, the host appealed to Chief Kesington Adebutu, the billionaire businessman popularly known as Baba Ijebu and a friend of Razaq Okoya, to intervene and help resolve the longstanding dispute.
Neither Razaq Okoya’s response to the latest appeal nor an independent account of the circumstances surrounding the family disagreement was included in the report.
Fatai’s public plea has brought renewed attention to the reported family rift, with his central message being that he wants forgiveness and reconciliation rather than financial assistance.
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