Tinubu appoints Ayodeji Gbeleyi as DG of the Office of Public Enterprises

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi as the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).Mr. Gbeleyi is a renowned financial expert and an award-winning Chartered Accountant. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).

He is also a graduate of management programs at the prestigious London Business School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Lagos Business School.

He has over 30 years of post-qualification experience in a variety of sectors including manufacturing, FMCG, investment and commercial banking, project finance, telecommunications, infrastructure and public administration.

He was the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) and Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State from 2013 to 2015.

In this role, the President expects the new director general to leverage his extensive experience and competencies to strengthen the agency as a national resource center for building capacity and sustaining reforms by promoting a competitive private sector-led economy that ensures social security, accountability and efficiency of public resources, and supporting effective corporate governance and fiduciary discipline in the public and private sectors.