Samaila Suleiman is the Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria. He is an All Progressive Congress (APC) member representing Kaduna North Federal Constituency of Kaduna State.

Having successfully obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2004, Suleiman moved to work with Kaduna Refinery between 2005-2006, and later did a transfer of service to Nigeria LNG between 2007-2008, Energy Commission of Nigeria in 2009-2010 and later resigned to join politics.

Suleiman was first elected into the public office as a local government chairman from Kaduna North in Kaduna State under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2008. He was the only politician to have won local government election under the CPC having shared the same constituency with the then vice president of Nigeria from the then ruling party People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

In 2015, Suleiman was first elected into the Lower Chamber of the House of Representatives of Nigeria. He replaced the immediate past Deputy Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Hon. Garba Mohammed Datti to become the 8th National Assembly’s 2nd Chairman of the House Committee on Solid Minerals after his rejection of the chairmanship of the committee offered to him by the Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s led administration.

In 2017 Africa Youth Awards named him among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, an initiative instituted to promote African youth movements and achieving and also restoring excellence in the works of young people across Africa