Mustapha Saliu

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Born1 January 1973 (age 53)

StateIlorin, Kwara State

BirthplaceKwara State

OccupationPolitician

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Mustapha Saliu is a Nigerian politician from Ilorin, Kwara State. They have contested 1 election (1 win) across 1 party. Most recent: 2023 Nigerian Senate Elections as All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.

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Political Career

2023

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Biography

Saliu Mustapha (born September 25, 1975) is a Nigerian politician who is the senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District since 2023. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress and a former deputy national chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change, one of the defunct political parties that merged to form the All Progressives Congress. He is equally the Founder and Chairman of Saliu Mustapha Foundation. 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 was the first national publicity secretary of the Progressive Action Congress (PAC). He joined ANPP and became the national deputy chairman of the party in 2009. He held this position until the party merged and formed the All Progressives Congress.

He contested for the national chairman position of the All Progressives Congress (APC), but Sen. Adamu Abdullahi emerged as the consensus candidate of the party. He contested in the 2018 Kwara state's APC primary and got endorsed by the northern part of the state. He got disqualified midway into the election, and the National Working Committee of the party later apologized for the disqualification, citing it as unauthorized.

In 2022, during the All Progressive Congress (APC) primaries in Kwara State, Mustapha emerged as the candidate to represent the party in the Kwara Central senatorial election, defeating the incumbent senator Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe.

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.

Party Positions

Policy positions from All Progressives Congress (APC)'s manifesto.

Agriculture

Will encourage local farmers to form farm cooperatives, enabling them to pool resources for modern farming equipment, fertiliser, and access priority government agricultural assistance programs (extension services), with tax breaks and credits.

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Anti-corruption

Curb reliance on imported goods via luxury taxes, higher tariffs, and processing fees while incentivizing local manufacturing with tax credits/rebates.

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Economy & Trade

Reforms the Federal Budgetary Methodology to move away from oil revenue dependence and base spending on projected growth, establishing an inflationary ceiling to optimize fiscal policy without causing excessive inflation.

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Education

Introduces a new management system for federally funded primary and secondary schools via Boards of Education, reserving community representation in decision-making.

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Energy

Will increase Nigeria’s domestic crude oil production to **2.6 million barrels per day by 2027** and **4 million barrels per day by 2030**, while implementing a Special Enforcement and Monitoring Unit to deter theft, vandalism, and pipeline breaches using drones and aerial surveillance.

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Enterprise grant support

Provides tax credits, holidays, and reduced interest rate loans for businesses that hire a specified percentage of youth in their workforce and offer on-the-job training.

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Environment & Climate

Will **reduce Nigeria’s gas flaring** by removing it from the top 10 countries with highest flares, aiming to maximize sector benefits while eliminating environmental harm.

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Governance & Reform

Commits to amending Nigeria’s governance architecture through constitutional review and collaboration with the National Assembly and State Governments to grant States greater autonomy over critical matters like crime prevention, prisons, stamp duties, and taxation.

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Healthcare

Will strengthen primary healthcare infrastructure with incentive schemes, counterpart funding programs, and grassroots preventative care (vaccinations, cancer screening, blood pressure monitoring) in collaboration with state/local governments.

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Infrastructure

Launches a National Infrastructure Campaign to modernize national infrastructure by hiring millions of unemployed Nigerians through the fiscal flexibility gained from reforming budgetary methodology.

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Reliefs and scholarships

Provides **conditional income support** to very poor households, tied to human capital development goals like high-school attendance, healthcare, and nutrition.

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Security & Defense

Enhances compensation, medical care, housing support, scholarships, stipends, and health insurance for military personnel injured in duty and their families.

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