Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First, his Cromwell, George the Third—’Treason,’ then certainly Governor Dapo Abiodun has his Modele Sarafa-Yusuf. There is no gainsaying the latter is currently in the news for the wrong reasons, like the proverbial destitute who bit the finger that fed her.
If she were livestock, Modele Sarafa, would probably be a peafowl; like the wingless bird, the former broadcaster is so stuck up on ego, that she may have begun to overestimate her own worth.
Modele’s abandonment of Governor Dapo Abiodun, who plucked her from impendent obscurity, resuscitated her comatose repute in public circuit by appointing her as a media aide, is a final, gratuitous shame that she could have avoided.
But Modele would not heed that. The former Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to Governor Abiodun has undoubtedly drank water from an unknown stream. Thus her insolent moves against her former boss.
Modele’s recreant offensive against Abiodun brings to mind the parable of the proverbial slatternly woman who would pawn her repute and intelligence for a bottle of champagne; many more would cheerily shun the disquieting nudge of the forelock against the dishonorable dance of folly – if they can’t stand for something, they’d fall for anything.
In truth, there is no dignity in the life of a woman living on a leash of another person’s cash. She will forever remain a sad excuse for woman, a glorified errand girl whose lustre eventually extinguishes in the glitter of her benefactor’s wealth.
Just recently, Modele resigned from her appointment with Governor Abiodun and announced her interest in the governorship seat of Ogun State.
She took to her twitter handle and wrote: “Today, I threw my hat into the ring and formally declared my intention to run for the office of Governor of Ogun State on the platform of our great party, the All Progressives Congress.”
She would have attracted no flak perhaps if she had simply declared her interest in the race, without hurling insults at her former principal, argued pundits.
Modele cast decency to the winds and enacted what has been widely decried as a lethal act of misjudgment by speaking of her former boss in uncomplimentary terms.
Modele, on Wednesday, dismissed consternation about her decision to run for the governorship seat of Ogun state against her former boss, arguing that Governor Abiodun has not yet declared his interest formally in reelection.
Modele, true to stereotype about every other politician, has shown that no man can be a pure politician without being in the strictest sense a dupe.
Although she makes a show of being driven by a patriotic desire to serve the people of Ogun State, it is an open secret that Modele has submitted herself as an incendiary tool in the devices of disgruntled politicians, against Governor Abiodun.
Modele, while fielding questions from newsmen inside the Osoba Adire Kamapala International Market, Asero Abeokuta, shortly after declaring her ambition for the governorship office in 2023 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said she wants to serve Ogun State and provide an enabling environment that would provide jobs to her burgeoning youths population, empower women and revitalise the economy.
“I want to be a transformative and inclusive leader and to make Ogun the state of choice for people to live, work and play because of the educational, economic, and cultural opportunities; safety, livability, vibrancy, and connectedness,” she said.
Modele, to the consternation of fellow top stalwarts in the All Progressives Congress (APC), chose to challenge the influence of her benefactor by rebelling against him to sate her abject lust for power and inducements from the anti-Abiodun camp.
While she frantically seeks justification for her action, sources within the party allege that Modele possesses no moral right to grandstand against a man who was solely responsible for her emergence against all odds, as a special adviser on his cabinet.