[2] After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was then appointed to committees on Public Accounts, Labor (vice-chairman), Power & Steel and Water Resources.

"Amusa," as he was called as a child, which is the Yoruba domestication of the Islamic name Hamzat, attended Saint Michael's Primary School, Ilobu in today's Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State.

Adebayo Salami studied accounting at Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin between 1972 and 1974, and obtained the OND (Ordinary National Diploma).

[citation needed] The ambitious young man, Adebayo, later left National Freight Company to set up Aolat Nigeria Limited, a civil engineering and construction firm there in Kaduna.

[6] Bayo Salami from that electoral attempt became a known name and face in the politics of Osun.If he lost so narrowly to Isiaka Adeleke when he belonged to the less popular NRC party in the then South West, he could do better if he joined the Progressive Group of Politicians.

At various times he was a member on the senate committees on Public Accounts, Oil and Gas, Defense, Population, and the Federal Capital Territory.

[citation needed] Senator Adebayo Salami was also the chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Osun State before his death in January 2021.