Aminu Saleh | |
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Secretary to the Government of the Federation | |
In office 18 November 1993 – 17 October 1995 | |
President | Sani Abacha |
Preceded by | Mustafa Umara |
Succeeded by | Gidado Idris |
Personal details | |
Born | Azare, Northern Nigeria, British Nigeria (now Azare, Katagum, Bauchi State, Nigeria | 6 November 1933
Died | 22 July 2015 Azare, Katagum, Bauchi State, Nigeria | (aged 81)
Aminu Saleh GCON CFR (6 November 1933[1][2] – 22 July 2015) was a Nigerian administrator, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, former Finance Minister of Nigeria, and permanent secretary in the Nigerian ministry of Defense.[3] He became the chairman of the National Qu'ranic Recitation Committee in 2006.[4]
He is an indigene of Bauchi State and has served in various capacities at both the state and the federal level.[5] He served Obasanjo's regime in the 1970s and Abacha's beginning in 1993.
Saleh is also the owner of a Nigerian beverage known as "Brahma and Tandi Guarana"[6] and a shareholder in various Nigeria-based industries. He led the creation, establishment, funding and running of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). He was a member of Vision 2010.
Born in 1933 in Azare, Katagum LGA, Bauchi State, Sale attended elementary school in Azare 1941-44, Bauchi middle school 1944-49, attended clerical training college Zaria, 1950-51 attended institute of administration Zaria for diploma in accounting 1956-57. He was on an evening university degree course in University of Lagos 1963-67, he had attended post graduate course in management in University of Wisconsin in the United States.