Kwamishinan ’Yan sanda (mai ritaya) Alhaji Usman Faruk (an haife shi a shekara ta 1932) shi ne Gwamnan Soja na farko a Jihar Arewa-maso-Yamma a Nijeriya daga shekara ta 1967 zuwa shekara ta 1975 bayan ya balle daga tsohuwar Jihar Arewa a lokacin mulkin soja na Janar Yakubu Gowon . Janar Murtala Mohammed wanda ya karbi mulki a juyin mulki a ranar 29 ga Yulin shekara ta 1975 ne ya kore shi daga mukaminsa, sannan kuma ya ƙaddamar da binciken da ya same shi da laifin wadatar kansa ba bisa ka'ida ba lokacin da yake kan mulki. Daga baya gwamnatin Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida ta mayar da shi bakin aiki bayan an wanke shi daga dukkan tuhume-tuhumen da ake masa, kuma an ba shi cikakken albashi da muƙamin ritaya.[ana buƙatar hujja] ya bar mulki jihar ta rabu zuwa jihar Neja da jihar Sokoto . Ya wallafa wata kasida a shekarar 1988 wanda ya kai hari kan shirin kayyade yawan jama’a na kasa da gwamnatin mulkin sojan Najeriya ke yadawa. A cikin ta ya ce "Babu wani musulmin kirki da zai yarda da duk wani umarni na mutum wanda ya saba wa dokokin Allah."