An haifi Alhaji Abubakar Rimi a shekarar alif 1940 a kauyen Rimi dake karamar hukumar Sumaila a jihar Kano a Najeriya. A farkon shekarun alif 1960 ya halarci kwas na koyarwa a Cibiyar Gudanarwa da ke Zariya.
Ya samu takardar shedar ilimi a jami’ar Landan. A shekarar alif 1972, ya kammala karatun difloma a harkokin kasa da kasa a cibiyar kula da harkokin duniya ta Landan, sannan ya sami digiri na biyu a fannin hulda da kasa da kasa.
Ya yi koyarwa a Cibiyar Horar da Malamai da ke Sakkwato, sannan ya zama Sakataren Gudanarwa a Cibiyar Harkokin Kasa da Kasa ta Najeriya.
SIYASA:
Abubakar Rimi ya kasance dan takara mai zaman kansa a zaben majalisar tarayya mai wakiltar mazabar Sumaila a shekarar alif 1964 yayin da Musa Said Abubakar ya kasance dan takarar majalisar tarayya na NEPU mai wakiltar mazabar Sumaila sun fafata da Alhaji Inuwa Wada na jam’iyyar NPC amma duk sun janye wa Alhaji Inuwa Wada.
Ya kasance memba na Majalisar Mazabu a shekarar alif (1977 zuwa 1978). A watan Disambar shekarar alif 1978 aka zabe shi a matsayin mataimakin sakataren jam’iyyar PRP na kasa a babban taron jam’iyyar na kasa na farko a Legas.
Ya kasance dan takarar PRP a babban zaben shekarar alif 1979. An zabi Abubakar Rimi a matsayin gwamnan tsohuwar jihar Kano a matsayin dan takarar jam’iyyar PRP a jamhuriya ta biyu ta Najeriya, mukamin da ya rike daga Oktoba 1979 zuwa Mayu 1983.
Ya naɗa maƙarrabansa kamar su Alhaji Sule Hamma SSG, Alhaji Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila shi ne Sakataren Majalisar Zartarwa kuma Babban Sakataren Gwamna, (PS zuwa Gwamna) daga baya ya zama Manajan Kamfen din Rimi a zaben alif 1983, Tijjani Indabawa shi ne Babban Sakatare mai zaman kansa (PPS). ga Gwamna) kuma Sully Abu shine Sakataren Yada Labarai na Gwamna.
An ce ya kasance mai tasiri mai sassaucin ra’ayi, yana haɓaka ilimin manya. Ya kawar da haraji (haraji na mutum) da jangali (harajin shanu), abubuwan da aka yi amfani da su a lokacin mulkin mallaka lokacin da Turawan Ingila suka yi mulki ta hannun sarakuna a Arewa.
A shekarar alif 1980 ya ayyana ranar ma’aikata ta shekara. Ya dakatar da Sarkin Kano wanda hakan ya haifar da tarzoma a watan Yulin shekarar alif 1981, sannan aka kashe mai baiwa Rimi shawara kan harkokin siyasa, Dakta Bala Mohammed. A lokacin tashin hankalin an kona ofisoshin jaridun Triumph, Radio Kano da ma’aikatu da dama.
MUTUWA:
A ranar 4 ga Afrilu, 2010, Rimi ya shiga hannun ‘yan fashi da makami a lokacin da yake dawowa Kano daga jihar Bauchi. Ko da yake bai ji rauni ba, da alama ya sami bugun jini sosai kuma ya mutu jim kaɗan bayan haka.
Assalamu alaikum