A one-time governorship candidate of the National Conscience Party in Ogun State, Ogbeni Lanre Banjo, has accepted to serve the people of Ogun State under His Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, as a Director of Glanvill Enthoven Company (GEC) of Nigeria, one of the companies in the Oodua Investment Group of Companies. GEC is a leading Insurance and Reinsurance Broker in Nigeria. It handles all classes of general insurance and, through wholly owned subsidiary companies, also handles Reinsurance, Life and Employee Benefit Insurance.
Banjo contested the governorship seat in 2003, 2007 and 2011. He became a Certified Public (Chartered) Accountant in the United States of America in 1986. He obtained his Masters in Finance from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1987 and Bachelor of Business Administration with concentration in Accounting from the University of the District of Columbia in 1984.
Prior to establishing his own accounting firm, he managed financial, performance and compliance audits of numerous state and local governments, nonprofit and for-profit entities in the US. He provided accounting support services, internal control, efficiency studies, compliance reviews, and consulting.
He also participated in a large engagement of US federal agencies, where he provided financial statement support and assisted in the implementation of automated financial management system.
Ogbeni Banjo has all embracing experience in performing financial audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued the by the Comptroller of the U.S. and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133. OMB is the largest component of the Executive Office of the President and the implementation and enforcement arm of the U.S. Presidential policy government-wide. The core mission of OMB is to serve the President of the United States in implementing his vision across the Executive Branch. .
He worked for the Government of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC for 22 years and rose to be the Accountant General of the University of the District of Columbia. Prior to being promoted to the position of Director of Accounting operations (Accountant General) at the University of the District of Columbia, he was the Acting Director of policy and procedures in the Government of the District of Columbia, the US nation’s capital. As the Director of Policy and Procedures for the government, he provided oversight and guidance for policy and procedures manual operations for all agencies of the District of Columbia Government. He served as a resource to the Government on governmental accounting rules and operations. He was also a high level official member of the team that prepared the District of Columbia Comprehensive Financial Report for eight years. This report is required by law to account to the citizens of the District of Columbia and the Congress of the United States how appropriations of approximately $5 billion are spent annually
Politically, he was appointed by Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, DC to serve as a Commissioner on the Commission on African and Caribbean Affairs in 1994. He was a treasurer to several elected officials’ campaign, including that of the US Representative, Charles Moreland, and Councilmember Sandy Allen, and Mayor Marion Barry in 1996. As an activist, he was one of the leaders that sued the US Government so that the District of Columbia could be offered the status of a State. After acquiring a wealth of experience both in government and on the political field in the United States of America, he joined hands with his leader, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, to form the National Conscience Party and was elected as the Director of International Mobilisation and Coordination of the party.