Honourable Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development Hon. Mustapha Baba Shehuri was born on July 4th, 1966. He attended Gamboru Primary School, Maiduguri from 1972-1978 and Government Secondary School, Damagun, Borno from 1978-1983. He obtained an advance Diploma in Public Administration in 2002 from the University of Maiduguri where he later graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the same University in 2007. Honourable Shehuri served as a Councilor representing the Lamisula/Jabbamari Ward of Maiduguri Metropolitan under the old non-party electoral system from 1966 to 1997.
Honourable Shehuri also served as Council Chairman of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council under the defunct Grassroots Democratic Movement (GDM) from 1997 to 1998. Between 1999 and 2003, Hon. Shehuri was a member of the State House of Assembly representing the Maiduguri Metropolitan on the platform of the defunct of All Peoples' Party (APP). He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007; and got re-elected between 2007 - 2012, representing the Maiduguri Metropolitan Federal Constituency on the platform of the defunct ANPP. He was the Honourable Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing from 2015 to May 2019 and currently serving as the Honourable Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development.
