Kabiru Sokoto was born on May 9, 1983 to the family of Umaru Jabbi of Gagi village, Sakata South Local Government Area of Sokoto State.

Upon the death of his father, he was adopted by his paternal uncle, Abubakar Dikko and renamed after him. He completed his primary education at Model Primary School, Gagi town in 1996. Although he enrolled for secondary education at the Ahmadu Bello Academy in 1996, he absconded shortly after and re-applied for admission as a fresh Junior Secondary School (JSS 1) student in Sultan Bello Secondary School, Sokoto South LGA, from where he eventually graduated in 2003.

In 2005, he gained admission into the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Sokoto.  At the school, Kabiru exhibited high level of truancy and extremist tendencies, a situation which accounted for his poor academic performance.

In mid-2007, he absconded again from the institution when he outrightly refused to resit some papers he failed in examination.  Kabiru was instrumental to the visit of the late National Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf to Gagi village in February, 2009, during which he was declared leader of the sect in Sokoto State.

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