Wahhab was born in East Pakistan, (now Bangladesh) and arrived in the United Kingdom at the age of eight months.
After working as a journalist in the national press for three years, in 1991 he set up his own PR firm which specialised in food, drink and restaurants and then in 1994 he launched Tandoori Magazine.
[3] From 2012, Wahhab became chair of the Department for Work and Pensions' Ethnic Minority Advisory Group,[4] set up to discuss ways to reduce ethnic minority unemployment levels; he sat on a task force with six ministers to formulate policies to this end.
In 2012, he was invited to Gordon Ramsay's Bad Boys Bakery lunch at Brixton Prison.
[5] From 2018 to 2021 he was chairman of the EQUAL advisory group that aims to address race inequality in the UK criminal justice system.