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Original Post Date: 2010-04-05 Time: 22:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Auwalu Umar
Kano – Tragedy struck in Kano late last night when the Second Republic governor of Kano State and one of Nigeria’s best known politicians, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, died of complications from high blood pressure an hour after he had an encounter with armed robbers. He died just before midnight at the Malam Aminu Kano University Teaching Hospital, Kano. He was 69.
Rimi’s son Alhaji Nura Abubakar Rimi told Daily Trust last night that the funeral prayers for his late father would be held at 12 noon today. He said even though his father had an encounter with armed robbers, he apparently died of a heart attack and was not shot or beaten by the robbers.
Daily Trust learnt from family sources that Rimi was on his way back to Kano from Bauchi when he encountered the armed robbers at Garki village in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State at about 10pm last night. According to the family member, Rimi and his three-man entourage, which included his driver, his police orderly and his brother, Alhaji Sule Sa’a, went to Bauchi from Kano late on Friday to attend the turbanning ceremony of the new Sarkin Dass, Alhaji Othman Bilyaminu Usman.
After attending the ceremony on Saturday, he said, Rimi and his entourage travelled back to Bauchi and spent the night. Very late in the afternoon yesterday, they decided to leave Bauchi and return to Kano. The family member said Sarkin Nasarawa Dr. Hassan Ahmed II urged Rimi to wait until Monday morning, but the late politician insisted on returning to Kano yesterday.
At about 10pm, travelling in a Jeep, they were stopped at Garki village, very close to Kano, by a gang of armed robbers, who took away all their money and telephones. The robbers, who set up their own road block about two kilometres away from a road block set up by mobile policemen, had already stopped and robbed several cars before Rimi’s Jeep ran into them. A dispute apparently arose between the robbers and Rimi’s brother Alhaji Sule Sa’a, and the robbers used clubs and thoroughly beat Alhaji Sule, wounding him in the head.
The family member said Rimi, who had a history of high pressure pressure, suddenly felt very sick when he saw the injuries inflicted on his brother, and he urged his driver to drive fast towards the private Classic Clinic at Abbas Road, which he normally attends. At the Clinic, he was attended to by his doctor, Dr. Shittu, but by then his condition had so deteriorated that the doctor told them to proceed to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. However, doctors at the hospital certified Rimi dead on arrival.
At around midnight last night, his remains were evacuated in a Government House ambulance to his residence at Durbin Katsina Road in the Bompai GRA. Within an hour, the house was already full of people, prominent among which were former Labour Minister Alhaji Musa Gwadabe, deputy governor of Kano State Engineer Tijjani Abdullahi Gwarzo, former House of Representatives member Faruk Adamu Aliyu, Special Adviser to the Acting President Dr. Akilu Indabawa and many others. Governor Ibrahim Shekarau had travelled to the United States. Receiving condolences at the house were two of Rimi’s sons, Mohamed and Nura, and two of his daughters.
Alhaji Mohamed Abubakar Rimi, a diplomat in the First Republic and the Administrative Secretary of the Nigeria Institute for International Affairs in the 1970s, first shot into the political limelight as a very vocal member of the nascent Peoples Redemption Party [PRP] in 1978. He was initially fielded by PRP as a senatorial candidate, but following the disqualification of its Kano State gubernatorial candidate Alhaji Salihi Iliyasu by the Federal Electoral Commission [FEDECO] in 1979, PRP leader Malam Aminu Kano chose Rimi to fill the void. He won the election and was governor of Kano State from 1979 to 1983. In 1981, the PRP split into two factions, with Rimi and Kaduna State governor Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa belonging to Chief Michael Imoudu’s faction, while Malam Aminu Kano led the other faction. Rimi’s faction later merged with the Nigeria Peoples Party [NPP] and he contested the 1983 elections on NPP’s platform but lost to PRP’s Alhaji Sabo Bakin Zuwo. Rimi had earlier stepped down as governor in order to decamp to NPP.
He continued in politics to his last day, serving as a minister of Communications in the first Abacha regime in 1993-95. He was a chieftain of the SDP in the Third Republic and was a founding member of the PDP in 1999. He also contested the PDP presidential primaries against incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003 and lost.
Rimi would be remembered as one of the most flamboyant politicians ever produced in Nigeria, known for his flamboyant dressing, his sharp intellect, his fearlessness and his very sharp tongue.
In 2006, the Rimi family suffered a major tragedy when his wife Hajiya Saudatu Rimi was brutally murdered in their Kano home.
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Original date published: 5 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004051018.html?viewall=1