Gluttony is the grand enemy of all peace. In politics, it ruins a man faster than the blades of power and neurotic lusts. In marriage, it spreads through the veins and corrupts it as medieval hemlock collapses the heart and destroys the innards in fatal pints and large gulps.
But for uncontrolled greed, Moshood Mustapha, the Special Adviser on Intra-Parliamentary Affairs to the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, would still be married to Taibat, his wife of many years. Sadly, Taibat walked out of her marriage with Mustapha recently.
Its often said, a wife is hardly a piece of artifact; trophy wife or not, no woman treasures been kept away like an article or household furniture but Mr. Mustapha was probably blind to that fact. Perhaps he wasn’t unaware of it, he simply chose to ignore it.
Moshood, however, paid the ultimate price for abandoning his pretty wife, Taibat, in a tastefully furnished apartment Abuja; he suffered a strain in their relationship and when the passion that brought them together could not hold their love anymore, she decided to dump him like a bad habit.
According to the story doing the rounds, Taibat, an indigene of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, sees no reason to stay in a marriage in which trust is a scarce commodity while Hon. Mustapha is said to have also claimed finding out many unsettling details about his wife.
Thus, the road split in two and Taibat moved out of her matrimonial home in Abuja for another place in the Federal Capital Territory, while Mustapha, a member of the House of Representatives in the 7th Assembly, seems to have accepted the reality of a broken home.
It was gathered that Mustapha newly clinched the post of Special Adviser on Intra-Parliamentary Affairs as a result of his technical know-how on issues relating to interaction among senators.
He once served as the Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), a position in which he was said to have performed creditably.
