[1] At the time of the coup of 27 August 1985, when General Ibrahim Babangida came to power, Captain Musa Shehu played a supporting role as second in command of the Recce Battalion in Jos.
[2] While governor of Plateau state in 1999, Shehu received N200 million to clean up pollution from tin mining.
In 2001, he was among former military administrators who formed the United Nigeria Development Forum, a political pressure group.
[4] In December 2009 he was among Northern leaders who opposed the transfer of power to vice-president Goodluck Jonathan during the illness of president Umaru Yar'Adua.
[5] In 2010 Shehu was Secretary General of the Arewa Consultative Forum, an influential group of Northern Nigerian leaders.