POLITICS

Abiodun appoints senior aides

&NewLine;<p>Ogun&NewLine;State Governor&comma; Prince Dapo Abiodun&comma; on Tuesday&comma; July 9&comma; approved the appointment&NewLine;of seven senior aides&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According&NewLine;to the Chief Press Secretary &nbsp&semi;to the State Governor&comma; &nbsp&semi;kunle Somorin&comma; the new appointees are&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Dapo&NewLine;Okubadejo &comma; Chief Economic Adviser&semi; &nbsp&semi;Hon&period;&NewLine;Tunji Egbetokun&semi; Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs&semi; Modele&NewLine;Sarafa-Yusuf&comma; &nbsp&semi;Special Adviser on&NewLine;Information&semi; Hon&period; Babatunde Olaotan&comma; Special Adviser&comma; Government House&semi; Mr&NewLine;Lekan Olude&comma; &nbsp&semi;Special Adviser on Job&NewLine;Creation and Youth Empowerment&semi; Jamiu Akande Omoniyi&comma; Special Adviser on&NewLine;Housing&semi; Emmanuel Ojo&period; &nbsp&semi;Senior Special&NewLine;Assistant on New Media&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;Chief Economic Adviser&comma; Dapo Okubadejo is a Partner &amp&semi; Africa Head of Deal&NewLine;Advisory &amp&semi; Private Equity at KPMG&period; He is an expert on Corporate Finance&comma;&NewLine;Mergers &amp&semi; Acquisitions &lpar;M&amp&semi;A&rpar;&comma; Project Finance&comma; Investments&comma; Private&NewLine;Equity and business transformation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;With about 28 years of professional&NewLine;experience&comma; he has acted as Corporate Financial Adviser to many foreign and&NewLine;local investors in Nigeria and across Africa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Dapo&NewLine;started his professional career in Arthur Anderson in 1992 and spent over a&NewLine;decade where he rose to the position of Senior Manager and consulted for more&NewLine;than 40 companies in oil &amp&semi; gas&comma; consumer goods and financial services on&NewLine;many projects in Assurance&comma; Business Strategy &amp&semi; Planning&comma; Financial&NewLine;Restructuring and Business Transformation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In&NewLine;2006&comma; Dapo was promoted to the KPMG partnership as an Equity Partner and rose&NewLine;to become the Head of Deal Advisory &amp&semi; Private Equity for West Africa and&NewLine;Africa in 2009 and 2012 respectively&period; He was elected to the KPMG Nigeria Policy&NewLine;Board in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He&NewLine;holds a 2nd Class Upper Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Obafemi Awolowo&NewLine;University&comma; Nigeria in 1990 &amp&semi; as a UK FCO Chevening Scholar&comma; holds a Master&NewLine;of Finance degree in International Finance with Distinction from the University&NewLine;of Glasgow&comma; UK in 2003&period; He is a Certified Valuation Analyst &lpar;CVA&rpar; from the&NewLine;National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts&comma; USA&period; He qualified as&NewLine;an Associate Chartered Accountant &lpar;ACA&rpar; of the Institute of Chartered&NewLine;Accountants of Nigeria in 1996 and became a Fellow &lpar;FCA&rpar; in 2006&period; He is also a&NewLine;Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria&period; He is an alumnus of&NewLine;the Global Executive Leadership program of INSEAD&comma; France as well as the Lagos&NewLine;Business School&comma; Gordon Institute of Business Studies &lpar;GIBS&rpar; South Africa&comma;&NewLine;London Business School UK and Harvard Business School USA&comma; where he attended&NewLine;several leadership and management development courses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs&comma; Hon&period; Tunji Egbetokun was Speaker&comma;&NewLine;Ogun State House of Assembly between 2008 and 2011&period; He had also served in the&NewLine;capacity of Senior Special Adviser&comma; Political and Intergovernmental Affairs&NewLine;between 2011 and 2014&period; Before then&comma; he was Secretary to the Obafemi Owode Local&NewLine;Government&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;new Special Adviser on Information&comma; Modele Sarafa-Yusuf&comma; is an award-winning&NewLine;media practitioner with a cumulative 32 years of experience in journalism and&NewLine;Marketing Communications&period; She has varied experience contributing to&comma; and&NewLine;leading&comma; corporate marketing and internal communications&period; Sarafa-Yusuf is a&NewLine;respected leader of sponsorships and public relations departments and a Concept&NewLine;developer and coordinator of marketing campaigns which effectively reinforce&NewLine;and build brand image&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Modele&NewLine;has a Bachelor&&num;8217&semi;s degree in English from the University of Ife&comma; now Obafemi&NewLine;Awolowo University and a Master&&num;8217&semi;s degree in Public Administration from the&NewLine;University of Lagos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Olalekan&NewLine;Adeniyi Olude &comma; an award winning entrepreneur and technocrat with expertise in&NewLine;building and backing enduring companies across African&comma; the new Special Adviser&NewLine;on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment started his career as a Technology&NewLine;Analyst with Goldman Sachs&comma; arguably the largest investment bank in the world&period;&NewLine;He holds an OND in Electrical Engineering at the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro&comma; a&NewLine;BSc in Computer Science and Engineering&period; Olude is an alumnus of Lagos Business&NewLine;School and the Wharton School&comma; University of Pennsylvania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;His&NewLine;forte is building pan-African businesses and his strength lies in maximizing&NewLine;outcomes for people&period; Until his appointment&comma; Olude was co-founder and Executive&NewLine;Director at Rovedana Limited&comma; a business process outsourcing company that&NewLine;provides employment to more than 2000 Nigerians across different industries and&NewLine;specializations by upscaling them and placing them into employment with over&NewLine;100 companies&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She&NewLine;was also a co-founder of Jobberman Limited&comma; the leading job site in sub-Saharan&NewLine;Africa and was a founding partner of the African Talents Company in South&NewLine;Africa – a pan African Executive Recruitment Company with offices in Nigeria&comma;&NewLine;Ghana&comma; Kenya and Tanzania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;new Special Adviser on Housing is 50-year-old Jamiu Akande Omoniyi&period; He is a&NewLine;fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria &lpar;FCA&rpar;&period; He started&NewLine;his working career with Berger Paints Nigeria PLC in 1994 where he rose to&NewLine;become Credit Controller&period; He was Regional Director &lpar;North&rpar; Abbey Mortgage PLC&period;&NewLine;In April 2009&comma; he resigned to float his business conglomerate C2Q Holding&period; The&NewLine;Estate development arm of his company has delivered homes to 5&comma;000 Nigerian&NewLine;families in Abuja and Lagos&period; &nbsp&semi; &nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Hon&NewLine;&lpar;Otunba&rpar; Babatunde Olaotan&comma; the Special Adviser &lpar;Government House&rpar; was born&NewLine;September 13&comma; 1972&comma; in Ilaro Ogun State&period;&nbsp&semi; He obtained a 1997 Ordinary&NewLine;National Diploma &lpar;OND&rpar; in Accounting at Federal Polytechnic Ilaro and Higher&NewLine;National Diploma &lpar;HND&rpar; from the same institution in 1999&period; After a brief stint&NewLine;at First Bank of Nigeria&comma; he was appointed by the Yewa South Local Government&NewLine;as Supervisor for Agriculture&period; In 2004&comma; Babatunde Olaotan was in Manchester&NewLine;College of Professional studies&comma; where he studied computer and information&NewLine;technology&period; He started his working career with NWSG Company in the United Kingdom&NewLine;&lpar;UK&rpar; before relocating to the United States of America in 2007&comma; where he&NewLine;studied Nursing at Camtech International College Newark Delaware USA&period; He also&NewLine;worked at Cadia Rehabilitation Wilinton and Regal Height Nursing Home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He&NewLine;became the Personal Assistant on Political matters to &nbsp&semi;Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola &lpar;Yayi&rpar; in&NewLine;August 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>HBO&NewLine;is also the Personal Assistant to the new Executive Governor of Ogun State&comma;&NewLine;Prince Dr Dapo Abiodun&period; He was the Deputy Director&comma; Contacts and Mobilization&NewLine;for Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organization&period; He served as the Chairman Transport&NewLine;committee for Prince Dapo Abiodun Pre- Inauguration activities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Emmanuel&NewLine;Adediran Ojo is a New Media expert with specialties in New Media Analytics and&NewLine;Digital Marketing&period; His extensive experience spans over nine years&period; He hails&NewLine;from Imeko&comma; in Imeko Afon Local Government area of Ogun state&period; A seasoned&NewLine;professional in the development and deployment of strategic media engagement&comma;&NewLine;Emmanuel Ojo has extensive knowledge of new media trends&comma; tools and analytics&NewLine;platforms and he often deploy same in strategic communication&comma; monitoring&comma;&NewLine;reporting&comma; digital analysis and social media landscape&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This&NewLine;unique skill facilitates his significant ability in tracking&comma; monitoring&comma; and&NewLine;analyzing public and personal reputation in a unique form&period; In his career so&NewLine;far&comma; he has worked with different online groups&period; He is a resourceful and savvy&NewLine;online specialist who is not only able to oversee various social media&NewLine;channels&comma; but is also able to contribute to its daily content offering and&NewLine;audience conversion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ojo&NewLine;was the Head of New Media department at Infostrategy Limited He was also part&NewLine;of the media intervention team for National Identity Management Commission&&num;8217&semi;s&comma;&NewLine;&lpar;NIMC&rpar; public sensitization on National Identity Number &lpar;NIN&rpar; project in&NewLine;2013&sol;2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He is&NewLine;a thoroughbred perception manager with proven skills in Public and Political&NewLine;Communication especially in the Ogun state political terrain&period; He once served as&NewLine;a member of PDP Presidential Online Media team in 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ojo&NewLine;holds a Higher National Diploma in Business Administration and Management Studies&NewLine;from the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic&comma; Abeokuta&period; He also bagged a Second Class&NewLine;Upper division Bachelor of Science &lpar;B&period;Sc&rpar; degree in Business Management from&NewLine;Crescent University&comma; Abeokuta&period; He has attended various Business development and&NewLine;New Media Marketing Trainings and Work Shops across the country and beyond&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Emmanuel&NewLine;Ojo is a recipient of 17 Awards of recognition from various social and&NewLine;professional bodies&period; In 2013&comma; he was invited into the Junior Chamber&NewLine;International&comma; Nigeria Noble House as a JCIN Ambassador&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Until&NewLine;his appointment&comma; he was the Assistant Media Director for Dapo Abiodun Campaign&NewLine;Organization &&num;8211&semi; DACO and also served as the Secretary&comma; Media and Publicity Sub&NewLine;Committee for the governorship inauguration ceremony&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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