Saliu Mustapha

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.

Mustapha's political career started in the early 21st century when he became the first national publicity secretary of the Progressive Action Congress (PAC), a defunct political party that contested in the 2003 Nigerian presidential election.[5][6] He became a member of the ANPP[7] and was devoted to the presidential ambition of Muhammadu Buhari.[8] In 2009, when a breakaway faction of the ANPP led by Muhammadu Buhari formed the Congress for Progressive Change, Mustapha became the national deputy chairman of the party.[9] He hreld this position[10] until the party merged and formed the All Progressives Congress. He contested for the national chairman position of the All Progressives Congress APC,[11] the position which Sen. Adamu Abdullahi emerged as a consensus candidate of the party.[12]