Muktar Ahmed Mohammed Aruwa was a Nigerian senator.
14 Facts About Mohammed Aruwa
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Mohammed Aruwa was first elected to the senate in 1999 as a representative of Kaduna State for the All People's Party.
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Mohammed Aruwa was re-elected in 2003 as a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, the successor to the APP.
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Mohammed Aruwa was involved in a dispute over committee appointments, claiming unfair play by the senate leadership.
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Mohammed Aruwa's name was dropped from the ANPP party list for the 2007 election.
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Muktar Ahmed Mohammed Aruwa was elected Senator for the Kaduna Central constituency of Kaduna State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party platform.
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Mohammed Aruwa was reelected on the All Nigeria People's Party platform for a further four-year term in 2003.
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In May 2005, Mohammed Aruwa was appointed to an ad-hoc Senate committee on media relations, formed to present the Senate position to the public if President Olusegun Obasanjo insisted on reviewing the budget after it had been signed into law.
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In November 2005, the Senate President Ken Nnamani announced that Mohammed Aruwa had been dropped from the National Assembly Joint Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, which was considering the possibility of allowing President Obasanjo to run for a third term.
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Mohammed Aruwa was a contender to be the ANPP candidate for governor of Kaduna State in 2007, winning the primaries, but the party replaced him with Sani Sha'aban on the list submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
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In May 2007, following the election but before the new government had assumed its duties, Mohammed Aruwa moved for a review of the conduct and outcome of the elections, but later withdrew the motion before it was debated by the Senate.
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Mohammed Aruwa was buried the next day at Unguwar Sarki Cemetery with Islamic rites.
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Mohammed Aruwa was survived by his wives and eight children, two sons and six daughters.
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Mohammed Aruwa died on 10 December 2018, after a brief illness.