Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Saturday swore in Mr. Ayodeji Gbeleyi to replace Mr. Tokunbo Abiru who recently resigned from the State’s Cabinet as the Honourable Commissioner for Finance to take up a board appointment with First Bank of Nigeria Plc.

Mr. Gbeleyi, was until his recent appointment, the Special Adviser to the Governor on PPP, the agency driving the Government-to-Business (G2B) collaboration policy thrust for the acceleration of infrastructure delivery towards the actualization of the vision of making Lagos Africa’s model megacity.

Mr. Gbeleyi, is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School, the London Business School, Lagos Business School and an MBA holder from the International Graduate School of Management, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain.

Mr. Gbeleyi was a Co-Partner with African Advisors, a niche player consultancy boutique with focus on Telecoms, Infrastructure and PPP Advisory Services.

Mr. Gbeleyi had over a decade of distinguished banking career in senior positions of cross-functional responsibilities, Ayo Gbeleyi was the pioneer and only Chief Treasury Officer, Celtel Nigeria Limited who led the company’s USD 1.1 billion Project Finance that won the Euromoney’s Project Finance Magazine’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Telecoms Deal of the Year 2005.

The governor pledged to give the new commissioner all the needed support to do his job. The governor solicited the understanding of his family, saying the new responsibilities would demand more time out of home.

Gbeleyi thanked the governor for the confidence reposed in him with his appointment and promised to break new grounds for the financial sustainability of the state.

He promised to work with other members of the state cabinet, to bring more development to the people of the state.

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That's good.

This is better. Atleast, not a Doctor for Special Adviser on Media. Nigeria is moving forward.