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<\/p>\nThe new appointees are Chief Economic Adviser \u2013 Dapo Okubadejo; Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs \u2013 Hon, Tunji Egbetokun; Special Adviser on Information \u2013 Modele Sarafa-Yusuf; Special Adviser, Government House \u2013 Hon. Babatunde Olaotan.<\/p>\n
Others are Special Adviser on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment \u2013 Mr Lekan Olude;
\nSpecial Adviser on Housing \u2013 Jamiu Akande Omoniyi; and Senior Special Assistant on New Media \u2013 SF Emmanuel Ojo.<\/p>\n
A statement by Kunle Somorin, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, said Okubadejo is a Partner and Africa Head of Deal Advisory and Private Equity at KPMG.<\/p>\n
It added economic adviser is an expert on Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Project Finance, Investments, Private Equity and business transformation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith 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>\n
\u201cDapo started his professional career in Arthur Andersen 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>\n
\u201cIn 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>\n
\u201cDapo is a recognized expert on Africa business and investments landscape and has been invited as a resource person, faculty, panelist and moderator at many international conferences, seminars and fora such as the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School Africa forum, London Business School Africa, among others.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Tuesday, approved the appointment of seven senior aides. The new appointees are Chief Economic Adviser \u2013 Dapo Okubadejo; Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs \u2013 Hon, Tunji Egbetokun; Special Adviser on Information \u2013 Modele Sarafa-Yusuf; Special Adviser, Government House \u2013 Hon. Babatunde Olaotan. Others are Special Adviser on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,8395,391],"class_list":["post-134369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-dapo-abiodun","tag-ogun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}