Datti Sadiq Abubakar ya kasance gwamnan soja na jihar Anambra a Najeriya daga Yuli 1978 zuwa Oktoba 1979 a lokacin mulkin soja na Janar Olusegun Obasanjo . Ya yi karatun digiri a Kwalejin Rumfa, Kano . A watan Yulin shekarar 1966 Laftanar Datti Abubakar, mai suna Recce, ya kasance a kurkukun Abeokuta lokacin da aka kashe yawancin jami'an Igbo, suna taka rawar gani a juyin mulkin da suka hambarar da Manjo-Janar Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi . An nada Abubakar gwamnan soja na jihar Anambra a watan Yulin 1978, ya rike wannan mukamin har zuwa watan Oktoba 1979. Ya sanya makarantun a ƙarƙashin ikonsa ta hanyar kwamiti na dubawa tare da manyan iko akan manufofi da ma'aikata. Bayan manyan rikice-rikice na addini a jihar Kano a 1980, ya kasance memba a Kotun Binciken Rukunin Kano don bincika dalilai da bayar da shawarwari. kum ya kasance musulmi mazauin garin Kano.