<p>Ogun
State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday, July 9, approved the appointment
of seven senior aides.</p>



<p>According
to the Chief Press Secretary  ;to the State Governor,  ;kunle Somorin, the new appointees are;</p>



<p>Dapo
Okubadejo , Chief Economic Adviser;  ;Hon.
Tunji Egbetokun; Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs; Modele
Sarafa-Yusuf,  ;Special Adviser on
Information; Hon. Babatunde Olaotan, Special Adviser, Government House; Mr
Lekan Olude,  ;Special Adviser on Job
Creation and Youth Empowerment; Jamiu Akande Omoniyi, Special Adviser on
Housing; Emmanuel Ojo.  ;Senior Special
Assistant on New Media. </p>



<p>The
Chief Economic Adviser, Dapo Okubadejo is a Partner &; Africa Head of Deal
Advisory &; Private Equity at KPMG. He is an expert on Corporate Finance,
Mergers &; Acquisitions (M&;A), Project Finance, Investments, Private
Equity and business transformation.</p>



<p> ;With about 28 years of professional
experience, he has acted as Corporate Financial Adviser to many foreign and
local investors in Nigeria and across Africa.</p>



<p>Dapo
started his professional career in Arthur Anderson in 1992 and spent over a
decade where he rose to the position of Senior Manager and consulted for more
than 40 companies in oil &; gas, consumer goods and financial services on
many projects in Assurance, Business Strategy &; Planning, Financial
Restructuring and Business Transformation.</p>



<p>In
2006, Dapo was promoted to the KPMG partnership as an Equity Partner and rose
to become the Head of Deal Advisory &; Private Equity for West Africa and
Africa in 2009 and 2012 respectively. He was elected to the KPMG Nigeria Policy
Board in 2017.</p>



<p>He
holds a 2nd Class Upper Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Obafemi Awolowo
University, Nigeria in 1990 &; as a UK FCO Chevening Scholar, holds a Master
of Finance degree in International Finance with Distinction from the University
of Glasgow, UK in 2003. He is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) from the
National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts, USA. He qualified as
an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Nigeria in 1996 and became a Fellow (FCA) in 2006. He is also a
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He is an alumnus of
the Global Executive Leadership program of INSEAD, France as well as the Lagos
Business School, Gordon Institute of Business Studies (GIBS) South Africa,
London Business School UK and Harvard Business School USA, where he attended
several leadership and management development courses.</p>



<p>The
Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Hon. Tunji Egbetokun was Speaker,
Ogun State House of Assembly between 2008 and 2011. He had also served in the
capacity of Senior Special Adviser, Political and Intergovernmental Affairs
between 2011 and 2014. Before then, he was Secretary to the Obafemi Owode Local
Government. ;</p>



<p>The
new Special Adviser on Information, Modele Sarafa-Yusuf, is an award-winning
media practitioner with a cumulative 32 years of experience in journalism and
Marketing Communications. She has varied experience contributing to, and
leading, corporate marketing and internal communications. Sarafa-Yusuf is a
respected leader of sponsorships and public relations departments and a Concept
developer and coordinator of marketing campaigns which effectively reinforce
and build brand image.</p>



<p>Modele
has a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in English from the University of Ife, now Obafemi
Awolowo University and a Master&#8217;s degree in Public Administration from the
University of Lagos.</p>



<p>Olalekan
Adeniyi Olude , an award winning entrepreneur and technocrat with expertise in
building and backing enduring companies across African, the new Special Adviser
on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment started his career as a Technology
Analyst with Goldman Sachs, arguably the largest investment bank in the world.
He holds an OND in Electrical Engineering at the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, a
BSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Olude is an alumnus of Lagos Business
School and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.</p>



<p> ;His
forte is building pan-African businesses and his strength lies in maximizing
outcomes for people. Until his appointment, Olude was co-founder and Executive
Director at Rovedana Limited, a business process outsourcing company that
provides employment to more than 2000 Nigerians across different industries and
specializations by upscaling them and placing them into employment with over
100 companies. ;</p>



<p>She
was also a co-founder of Jobberman Limited, the leading job site in sub-Saharan
Africa and was a founding partner of the African Talents Company in South
Africa – a pan African Executive Recruitment Company with offices in Nigeria,
Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.</p>



<p>The
new Special Adviser on Housing is 50-year-old Jamiu Akande Omoniyi. He is a
fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). He started
his working career with Berger Paints Nigeria PLC in 1994 where he rose to
become Credit Controller. He was Regional Director (North) Abbey Mortgage PLC.
In April 2009, he resigned to float his business conglomerate C2Q Holding. The
Estate development arm of his company has delivered homes to 5,000 Nigerian
families in Abuja and Lagos.  ;  ; ;</p>



<p>Hon
(Otunba) Babatunde Olaotan, the Special Adviser (Government House) was born
September 13, 1972, in Ilaro Ogun State. ; He obtained a 1997 Ordinary
National Diploma (OND) in Accounting at Federal Polytechnic Ilaro and Higher
National Diploma (HND) from the same institution in 1999. After a brief stint
at First Bank of Nigeria, he was appointed by the Yewa South Local Government
as Supervisor for Agriculture. In 2004, Babatunde Olaotan was in Manchester
College of Professional studies, where he studied computer and information
technology. He started his working career with NWSG Company in the United Kingdom
(UK) before relocating to the United States of America in 2007, where he
studied Nursing at Camtech International College Newark Delaware USA. He also
worked at Cadia Rehabilitation Wilinton and Regal Height Nursing Home.</p>



<p>He
became the Personal Assistant on Political matters to  ;Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola (Yayi) in
August 2015.</p>



<p>HBO
is also the Personal Assistant to the new Executive Governor of Ogun State,
Prince Dr Dapo Abiodun. He was the Deputy Director, Contacts and Mobilization
for Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organization. He served as the Chairman Transport
committee for Prince Dapo Abiodun Pre- Inauguration activities.</p>



<p>Emmanuel
Adediran Ojo is a New Media expert with specialties in New Media Analytics and
Digital Marketing. His extensive experience spans over nine years. He hails
from Imeko, in Imeko Afon Local Government area of Ogun state. A seasoned
professional in the development and deployment of strategic media engagement,
Emmanuel Ojo has extensive knowledge of new media trends, tools and analytics
platforms and he often deploy same in strategic communication, monitoring,
reporting, digital analysis and social media landscape. </p>



<p>This
unique skill facilitates his significant ability in tracking, monitoring, and
analyzing public and personal reputation in a unique form. In his career so
far, he has worked with different online groups. He is a resourceful and savvy
online specialist who is not only able to oversee various social media
channels, but is also able to contribute to its daily content offering and
audience conversion.</p>



<p>Ojo
was the Head of New Media department at Infostrategy Limited He was also part
of the media intervention team for National Identity Management Commission&#8217;s,
(NIMC) public sensitization on National Identity Number (NIN) project in
2013/2014.</p>



<p>He is
a thoroughbred perception manager with proven skills in Public and Political
Communication especially in the Ogun state political terrain. He once served as
a member of PDP Presidential Online Media team in 2015.</p>



<p>Ojo
holds a Higher National Diploma in Business Administration and Management Studies
from the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta. He also bagged a Second Class
Upper division Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in Business Management from
Crescent University, Abeokuta. He has attended various Business development and
New Media Marketing Trainings and Work Shops across the country and beyond.</p>



<p>Emmanuel
Ojo is a recipient of 17 Awards of recognition from various social and
professional bodies. In 2013, he was invited into the Junior Chamber
International, Nigeria Noble House as a JCIN Ambassador.</p>



<p>Until
his appointment, he was the Assistant Media Director for Dapo Abiodun Campaign
Organization &#8211; DACO and also served as the Secretary, Media and Publicity Sub
Committee for the governorship inauguration ceremony.</p>

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