Kemi Olunloyo, a polarizing media figure, has publicly disowned her family name and severed ties with the lineage of her late father, Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, a former Oyo State Governor and celebrated mathematician who passed away on Sunday, April 6, at age 89. Through a flurry of posts and videos on Facebook and TikTok, Olunloyo announced her exit from the Olunloyo family and refused condolences for her father’s death.
“I’m sharing video statements about my father’s passing on TikTok. I’m no longer part of the Olunloyo family, as I stated in 2024—I won’t return to Nigeria, even for my parents’ deaths,” she declared. “I’m not accepting condolences because I’m not offering any.” Though she claims to have forgiven her father, Olunloyo painted him as a dual-natured figure—charming to the public, but destructive at home. “He was one person to the world, another to us. He shattered our family, torturing us emotionally and physically as kids. He used me, exploiting my positive energy while portraying me as his favorite to the world—a lie.”
She further accused her father of dabbling in occult practices until a late-life conversion. “He was deep into ‘juju’ and the occult. I confronted him on his 80th birthday, after which he sought Pastor E.A. Adeboye to become born-again—and he did,” she said. Olunloyo also pointed to her father’s marriage to Aderonke Omololu Olunloyo (formerly Ronke Sonaike), whom he met during his 1983 campaign, as a breaking point. She alleged the union, and Aderonke’s subsequent pregnancy, devastated her mother and fractured the family. “My mother wed a brilliant man—a Ph.D. at 26—who turned polygamist. It’s not polygamy itself, but how it tore us apart.”
As of this report, neither the Olunloyo family nor the late governor’s representatives have addressed her allegations.
Part 1: My father's death
Victor Omololu Olunloyo
1935-2025#Drkemiolunloyo#Kemitalkslife pic.twitter.com/BFRo550N2R
— Dr Olukemi Olunloyo
(@DrKOlunloyo) April 9, 2025
