Badaru Abubakar was born on September 29, 1962 at Babura town in Jigawa State, Nigeria. He holds a B.Sc in Accounting from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. He also attended the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, Jos. He served as an Auditor with the Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Kano State, in 1987 and resigned in 1991 to establish his business outfit Talamiz Company. In April 2015, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar, under the umbrella of All Progressive Congress (APC) ran for the post of the governor of Jigawa state. He won and was declared winner of the elections. He was sworn in on May 29, 2015