Rachel Kéké is a 48-year-old fighter who has achieved another victory. After standing up to the management of the Ibis Batignolles where she worked as a governess to defend her rights and those of her colleagues, here she is elected deputy in the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne, beating in the second round of the legislative elections former Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu (Together!). A woman with a rich background.
It is in a portrait that the newspaper Release devoted to her while she is a unionized cleaning lady in 2020 that we learn more about the private life of Rachel Kéké. She is the mother of five children, three boys and two girls, and is married to Bobby Yodé, “a loving man raising his children from a previous relationship“. Her family supported her in her fight against the Ibis, and also did so for her entry into politics. “They are proud of our fight. They try to protect me, worry about my health“, she explained daily.
With Bobby Yodé, notorious singer of Ivorian urban music zouglou, she married. “We met at a friend’s house. We were going to dance together. I seduced him!“, she confides not without pride. It is he who takes care of the homework for the children, her whose agenda, as a striker then as a politician, leaves her little respite. In a 2015 interview for AbidjanTV.net, he confided that he had had marital problems with his first partner who had trouble understanding his rhythm of life as an artist: “After her various failures, I took my troubles patiently and for a year, I met this lady named Rachel Kéké. I love her very much and she gives me the joy of living. She understands me and fights for the revival of my musical career.“
Today is victory time for the couple. “I will be an exemplary MP. I want to clean up the National Assembly. I want to clean it up. If you are a garbage collector or a maintenance worker, you can enter the Palais-Bourbon!“, she declared in front of the militants Sunday evening after winning the electoral duel with 50.3% of the vote.