Things To Know About Trusted Companion Of President Tinubu Friends Call “Wales”

He is one of the very trusted companion of President Bola ahmed Tinubu.

Checks by SocietyNow.Ng revealed that they have enjoyed close ties before the President was elected the Governor of Lagos state.

Tinubu who was sworn-in as President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023 was the Governor of Lagos state from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2007.

Married to a Ghanaian, Amy Adwoa Edun (née Appiah), he is dubbed a financial wizard by friends and associates.

And he has footprints in the sand of time that speaks to this assertion in different circles.

The holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from University of London and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Sussex, England, Wales he has over twenty-five years experience in merchant banking, corporate finance, economics, and international finance to his name.

Identified as personal friends to notable high net-worth professional in politics, he was at the World Bank/IFC in Washington DC, USA where he handled economic and financial briefs for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, plus the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, and Indonesia and not leaving out India in the Far East.

“Wales” is a funky adoption of his name from childhood.

Included in his international experience are stints at Wall Street firms Lehman Brothers and Chase Manhattan Capital Markets Corporation in New York, USA.

Wales is one the co-founders of Stanbic IBTC Plc (formerly Investment Banking & Trust Company Limited) where he served as Executive Director is prominently known as a friend to Gbenga Daniel.

A stronger advocate of Youth Development, he is an International Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation and Chairman of Lagos Boxing Hall of Fame.

He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Ogoni Trust Fund, an environmental clean-up initiative in the Niger Delta.

Over the years, SocietyNow.Ng gathered that he has enjoyed robust and thickening ties, unaffected by the dark sides of politics, with President Tinubu.

Wales is Wale Edun, the former Head of Treasury and Deputy Head of Corporate Finance at Chase Merchant Bank and two-term commissioner for Finance in Lagos state under the administration of Bola Tinubu.

First appointed the Special Adviser to the President on Monetary Policies, he has been named a ministerial nominee by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.