Career
He was elected on the platform of the People"s Redemption Party. In February 1982 Pope John Paul II visited Kaduna. Rimi officially opened IBBI Nigeria, now a leading brewery in Northern Nigeria, on 27 March 1982.
After General Mohammadu Buhari seized power in a coup on 31 December 1983, he arrested most of the former governors.
On 28 March 1985 a Special Military Tribunal sentenced Rimi to 21 years in jail for corruptly enriching 96 legslators of the State House of Assembly by N500,000. Rimi said he had given the money to the legislator "for keeping the law and order in their constituencies".
Rimi worked in sales and marketing for various multinational companies such as UAC, NTC and Great Britain OLLIVANT. He later became a director of African Circle Pollution Management. In October 1998 Rimi became the special advisor on political affairs to the military head of state Abdulsalam Abubakar during the transition to civilian rule with the Nigerian Fourth Republic.
As early as June 2003, he was an aspirant to be PDP presidential candidate in the 2007 elections.
