Saliu Mustapha

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Saliu Mustapha
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Senator for Kwara Central
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13 June 2023
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Website https://www.mustaphasaliu.com

Saliu Mustapha (born 25 September 1972) is a Nigerian politician who is the senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District since 2023. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress [1] and a former deputy national chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change, [2] one of the defunct political parties that merged to form the All Progressives Congress. [3]

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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]

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