Alhaji Abdu Dawakin Tofa (1932– 2003) wani masanin harkar noma ne kuma mataimakin Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi wanda ya yi gwamnan jihar Kano a taƙaice daga Mayu da Oktoba 1983 a lokacin Jamhuriya ta Biyu ta Najeriya. Abdu Dawakin Tofa ya samu babbar difloma daga Makarantar Aikin Gona, Samaru, Zariya. Daga 1954 zuwa 1960, ya kasance mai taimakawa aikin gona a tsohuwar Lardin Borno. Tofa ya kasance babban malami a makarantar Audu Bako ta aikin gona, Dambatta lokacin da aka nada shi Kwamishinan Noma na jihar Kano a 1979. Daga baya ya zama Kwamishinan Ayyuka na Musamman a cikin majalisar gwamna Muhammad Abubakar Rimi. Lokacin da aka tsige Mataimakin Gwamna Ibrahim Farouk, Tofa ya maye gurbin sa. Jam'iyyar sa ta Ƙungiyar fansar mutane (PRP) ta kasu kashi biyu zuwa Santsi (Imodu) da Tabo Faction. Ya zama shugaban jam'iyyar na Kano Directorate Immodus Faction yayin da Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila ya kasance Sakatare-Janar na kungiyar na Fice na jihar Kano. Lokacin da Rimi ya sauya sheka daga Jam’iyyar Redemption Party (PRP) zuwa Jam’iyyar Jama’ar Najeriya (NPP) bayan rashin jituwarsa da mai ba shi shawara kan harkokin siyasa, Aminu Kano, a shirye-shiryen zaɓen 1983 ya yi murabus daga mukaminsa.