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.
Working experience
He joined the Katagum Native Authority in 1949, and became Katagum Native Authority Treasurer in 1957, thereafter transferred to the Federal Government in 1962. He was under Dr.
Pius Okigbo, the then Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister.
His pupilage in budget and national planning techniques under Dr. Edwin Ogbu, the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Finance who later became Nigeria’s permanent representative to the
United Nations.
The rigorous drills he regularly had in financial discipline and management in the hands of
Abdul Aziz Atta the Permanent Secretary Fed. Min. of Finance and later SGF.
The induction he went through in contract negotiations, preparation and its administrative supervision under Engr. S.O. Williams Perm. Sec. Min. of Communication who later became the federal minister of Communication.
Appointments held
Secretary to the Government of the Federation
Head of Federal Civil Service.
Federal Minister of Industries
Federal Minister of Finance
Federal Minister of Defence
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Communication.
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Trade.
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defence.
He had presented many papers to a number of bodies such as
Paper presented to an induction course of Fed. Perm. Sec. and Directors General under the chairmanship of Prof. A A Adedeje, a paper on Budgeting the Nigerian Experience.
Presented a paper to annual conference of Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers Kaduna on Energy Development.
Presented a paper at the 50th Anniversary of Katagum Student Association (KSA)
Presented a paper at the 2008 Annual Dinner of Nigerian Society of Engineers Bauchi.
Death
He died on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at the Federal Medical Centre,
Azare. Due to a failed emergency surgery.