He is equally the Founder and Chairman of Saliu Mustapha Foundation.[4]
Early life and education
Mustapha was born on September 25, 1972 in Ilorin, Kwara state. He attended Bartholomew primary school in Zaria for his primary education and then proceeded to Command Secondary School in Kaduna for his secondary education. He studied mineral resources engineering at the Kaduna polytechnic.
Political career
Mustapha was the first national publicity secretary of the Progressive Action Congress (PAC).[5][6] He joined ANPP[7] and became the national deputy chairman of the party in 2009.[8] He held this position until the party merged and formed the All Progressives Congress.[9] He contested for the national chairman position of the All Progressives Congress APC, the position which Sen. Adamu Abdullahi emerged as a consensus candidate of the party.[10]
2018 Kwara state primary election
He contested in the 2018 Kwara state's APC primary and got endorsed by the northern part of the state.[11] He got disqualified from participating midway into the election.[12] The National Working Committee of the party later apologized for the disqualification citing it as unauthorized.[13]
In 2022, during the All Progressive Congress (APC) primaries in Kwara State, Mustapha emerged as the candidate to represent the party in Kwara Central senatorial election defeating the incumbent senator Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe[14]
When the Senate unveiled its standing committees for the 10th Senate on 8 August 2023, he was appointed Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture Production Services and Rural Development.[15]
